Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13

beautifully parterred the family grounds.
we want them ali broken up by tie Lori of
the resurrection. The forms that We laid
away with orr broken hearts must rise
again. Father and mother-they must
come out. Husband and wife-they must
come out. Brothers and sis;ers-they
must come out. Our darling children
| they must come out. The eyes that with
trembling fingers we closed must open in
that we folded in denth must join ours in
embrace of reunion. The beloved voice
that was hushed must be returned. The
beloved form must come up without its in
tirmities, without its fatigucs-it must
come up.
Oh, how long it seems far some of YOU.
Waiting-wating for the resurrection.
How long! how long! I make for your
broken hearts to-day a cool, soft bandage
Of Easter lilies. Last night we had come
in the mails beautiful Easter carbon
the top of it q representation Of that ex-
quisite flower called the trumpet creeper,"
shall sound, and the dead shall be raised"
I comfort you this day with the,thought Of
resurrection.
When Lord Nelson was buried in st.
Paul's Cathedral in London, the hear OF
all England was stirred. The procession
passed on amid the sobbing of nation.
There were thirty trumpeters stationed at
the door of the cathedral, with instru-
ments of music i'll hand, waiting for the
signal, and when the illustrious dead ar
rived at the gates of st. Paul's Cathedral,
these thirty trumpeters gave one united
blast, and, then all was silent. Yet the
trumpet did not wake the dead. He slept
right on.
But have to tell YOU what thirty trump
eters could not do for one man one trump
eter will do for all nations. The ages
have rolled on, and the clock of the
worlds destiny strikes nine, ten, eleven,
twelve, and time shall be no longer'
Behold the archangel lowering. He
takes the trumpet. points it this way, puts
its lips to his lips, and then blows one
a.ing and resurrectionary blast. Look!
Look! They rise! The dead! The dead!
Some coming forth from the
family vault. Some from the city cem-
etery. Some from the country graveyard.
Here spirit is joined to its body, and
there another spirit is joined to another
body, aud millions of departed spirits are
asserting the bodies and then reclothing
themselves in forms now radiant for as
cension.
The earth begins to burn-the bonfire
OF great VICTORY. All ready now 1or the
procession of reconstructed humanity!
Upward and away! Christ leads and all
the Christian dead folloS, battalion after
battalion, nation after nation. Up, up!
On, On! Forward, We ranks of God AL
mighty! Lift up your heads, We everlast-
ing gates, and let the conquerors come in!
Resurrection! Resurrection!
And so I twist all the festal flowers of
this church with all the festal flowers of
chapels and cathedrals of all Christendom
into one great chain, and with that chain
bind the Easter morning of 1883 with the
closing Easter of the worlds history-Res-
direction! May the God of peace that
brought again from the dead our Lord Je-
sus, that great Shepherd Of sheep, through
the blood of the everlasting covenant,
make you perfect in every good work to do
His will.