Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-06

the wind pesseth over it and 1t Is gone.
O: you will quote from Issiah: "All Hast
is grass, and the goodness thereof is as
the flower Of the field" Or you will
quote from james the Apostle: Gas ~.
| @ over of the grass, so he passeth aHsy !"
What graphic Bible symbolism
All the cut lowers of this Easter dag
| will soon be dead, whstever care you
take of them. Though morning and
night you baptizs them in the name OF
| the shower, the baptism will not be TO
| them q saving ordnance. They have
been fatally wounded with the knife that
cut them. They are bleeding their life
away: they are dying now. The fra
GRANGE In the air Is their departing and
ascending spiri 8.
Oh, yesi flowers are almost human.
Botanists tell Us that flowers breathe,
they take nourishment, they eat, they
drink. They are sensitive. They have
their likes aud dislikes They sleep, they
wake. They live In families. They have
their ancestors and their descendants,
their birth, their burial. their cradle, their
grave. The zephyr rocks the one, and
the storm digs the trench for the other.
The cowslip must leave its gold, the lily
must leave Its silver, the rose must leave
| it's diamond necklace OF morning dew.
Dust to dust. So We come up, we pros
per, we spread abroad, We die, as the
fower-as the flower.
Change and decay on all around see;
o Taou who chsngest not, abi1e with mel
Flowers also afford mighty symbolism
| OF Christ, who compared himself
TO THE ANCIENT QUEEN,
| ho i1lu and the mnr4rn OuetQ, the rose.
when He said: 81 am the rose of Sharon,
and the lily Of the valleys" R.dolent
Ike the one, humble like the other. Like
both, appropriate for the sad who want
sympatnizers, and for the rejoicing who
want oapqueters. lowering over the
marriage ceremony like wedding bell,
or folded like q chsplet on the pulseless
heart of the dead.
| Oh, Christ! let the perfume Of thy
rame be w5f ed oil around the earth
lilv and rose, lily and rose-until the
wilderness crimson into garden. and the
round earth turn into one great bud of
immortal beauty laid against the warm
heart of God. Snatch down from the
worlds banners eagle and lion, and put
on lily and rose, lilv and rose.
| But, my friends, f1wers have no grand
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celebrate the resn'm ,tion Of Christ from
the catacombs. Ali the flowers OF to day
spell resurrection. There is not nook
or corner in sill the building but is
| touched with the incense. The women
carried spices to the tomb Of Christ and
they dropped spices all around about the
TOMB and from those spices have grown
all the flowers of Easter morn. The two
| 10 hcS gtnnl
away from the door Of the tomb hurled 1t
with such violence down the hill that 1t
crashed in the door Of the worlds sepul-
shall come forth.
However labyriuthisn the mausoleum,
however costly the sarcophsgus, however
INTELLECTUALLY grand the metropolis,
however beautifully psrterred the s.mily
grounds, we want them all broken up oy
| THE LORD OF THE RESURRECTION.
| The forms that We lsid away with our
broken hearts must rise again. Father
and mother-theY must come out. dus'
band and wife-they must come out
Brothers and slsters-.hey must come
out. Our darling children-they must
come out. The eyes that with trembling
fingers we closed must open In the lustei
Of resurrection morn. The arms that we
folded in death must join ours in en-
brace OF reunion. The beloved voice thai
Was hushed must be returned. The be
loved form must come up without Its in
frmities, without its fatigues-it mus
come up.
! On, how long 1t seems for some OF you
withdrawing for the resurrection
How long-how longi make for you
broken hearts to-day cool, soft bandsg'
Of Easter lilies. Last night We had com'
/ in the malls beautiful Easter csrd-ol
the top Of It representation Of that ex
: quisite NsWer called the sstrumpet creep
J r." and under It the inscription: 9TH
Il trumpet shall sound md the dead shall b