The morning news., 1889-04-22

ana an Austrian republic, di-u Out VI Iho
cracks and crevices and chasms of that con-
cussion would come resurrection for all
Europe. Stagnation is deathful: concusslon
is Messianic.
Notice also what the angel did with the
stone after he had rolled it away from Ine
mouth of the Saviour's manusoleum. Inc
book says he rolled away the stone from
the door and sat upon it. All of us minis
ters have preached sermon ABOUT Ine
angels rolling away the stone, but we dld
not remark upon the sublime fact that he
sat upon it. Why? Certainly not because
he was tired The angels are fatigueless
race. and that one could have shouldered
every rock around that tomb and carried 1t
awav and not been besweated. He sat upon
it. think, to show you and to show me that
we NAV make every earthly obstacle
throne of triumph. The young men
who get their education easily seldom
amount TO much. Those who hat to strug-
gle for it come out atop. There is no end
Of the story Of studying by pine knot lights
and reading while the mules of the tow
path were resting, and of going hungry
and paeched and barefoot and submitting
to all kinds of privation to get scholastic
advantages But the day Of graduation
came and they took the diplomas with
hand nervous from night study and pale
from lack of food, and put their academic
degrees in the pocket of threadbare coat.
Then starting for another career of hard
ship, they entered a profession or busi-
ness where they found plenty of disheart-
enment and no help Yet saying: II VIII
succeed; God help me, for no one else will"
they went on and up until the world was
compelled to acknowledge and admire them.
The fact was that the obstacle between
their discouraging start and their complete
success was rock Of fifty tons, but by res
olution, nerved and musculariZed and re-
enforced by Almighty God, they threw
their arms around the obstacle and with
the strength of a supernatural wrestler,
rolled back the stone. and, having become
more than conquerors, they sat upon 1t;
Men and women are good and great and
useful Just in proportion as they had to
overc 0me obstacles. You can count upon
the fingers of your one hand all the great
singers, great orators, great poets, great
patriots and great christians who never
had a struggle. That angel that made
throne of the bowlder at Christ's tomb
went back to heaven, and | warrant that,
having been born in herven and always
had an easy time, he now speaks Of that
wrestle with the rock as the most interest
ing chapter in all his angelic lifetime. .
men and women with obstacles in the
way, tell you that those obstacles are
only thrones that you may after while sit
on Is the obstacle in your way sickness'
Conquer it by accomplishing more for
God during your invaiidism than
many. accomplish who have never
knowd an ailment. Are you perse-
cuteds By your uprightness and cour-
age compel the world TO acknowledge your
moral heroism. Is it povertys Conquer it
by being happy in the companionship of
your Lord and Master, who in all his life
owned but sixty-two cents, and that he got
from a fish's mouth and Immediately paid
it all out in taxes 10 the Roman assessor,
and who would have been buried in
potters field had not Joseph of Arimathea
contributed a place, for he who had not
where to lay his head during his life had
borrowed pillow for the last slumber.
There is no throne that you are sure TO
keep except that which YOU make ont of van
quished obstacles. An ungTateful republic
at the ballot box denied Horace Greeley the
highest place at the national capital, but
could not keep him from rising from the
steps of a New York printing office on
which he sat on one chilly morning waiting
for the boss printer to come that he might
get Job, until he mounted the highest
throne of American journalism. lie rolled
back the stone and sat upon it. A poor
orphan boy, picking up chips at Richm ond,
Va. ,accosted by passing sea captain and in
vited TO come on board his vessel, drops the
chips and starts right away and is tossed
from DOGJ 10 1OTJ anu, uOlileltSS anu IIlouu-
less, wauders one day along fremont street.
Boston, and sees Park Street church open,
and speaking of it afterward on a great oc-
casion and using soilors' vernacular, as was
usual with him, he says: Il put in, L up
helm, unfurled sail and made for the gal
lery and scud under bare poles TO the cor
ner pew. Then | hove to and came to
anchor.
1.-THE old man, DR.. Griffin, was just
naming his text. Pretty soon ne unfurled
the mainsai, raised the topsall ran up the
pennants to free breeze, and [ tell you the
oil gospel ship never sailed more prosper
ously The salt spray few in every direc-
ton, but more especially did it run down
my cheeks. Satan had to strike sail; his
guns we're dismounted or spiked; his various
crafts by which he led sinners captive were
all heached, and the captain of the Lords
hosts rode forth, conquering and to con-
Quer.n Before that sailor boy was poverty,
but lie conquered it; and orphanage, but he
conquered it; and ignorance, but he CON
Quered it; and the scof of the world, but
he conquered it; and he rose till every
sailors bethel iu the world blessed him, and
great anniversary platforms invited him,
and Daniel Webster and Charles Dickens
and Frederika Bremen and poets and
orators and senators sat electrified at his
feet, and his gospelizing Influence will go
the sea shall give up its dead. All the OBJ
stacles of his life seemed gathered into one
great bowlder, but Edward T. Taylor, the
world-renowned sailors, preacher, rolled
back the stone and sat upon 1t.
Yet, do not make the mistake that many
do Of sitting on II before IL Is rolled away.
1t is bound to 20 if you only tug away at 1t.
II not before, then | think about u o'clock
noon OF resurrection day you will see some
thing worth seeing The general impress
sion is that the resurrection will take place
in the morning. The ascent TO the skies
will hardly occur lmme eiately. 1t will
take some hours to form the procession sky
ward, and we will all want to take a look
at this world before we leave it forever aud
see the surroundings of the couch
where our bodies have long beeu
sleeping. On that Easter morning
the marble, whether it lay Hat upon your
grave or ood up in monument, will have
to be jostled aud shaken and rolled aside by
the angel Of resurrection, and while wait
ing for your kindred to gather aud the pro-
cession TO form, your resurrected body may
sit in holy triumph upon that chiseled
stone which marked the place Of your pro-
tracted sumper. On that day what a
fragile thing will be Aberdeen granite and
column OF basalt and the NOR ar which will
rattle out Of the wall Of vaults that have
been sealed a thousand years, and the
Tai built for queen in India, sep
ulcher 275 feet high, aud made Of 1aSpsr
and cornelian and turquois aud aps-lazull
and amethyst and onyx and sapphire aud
diamond, and W hich shall that day rain in
to gllttering dust on groves Of bauyan and