Democratic messenger., 1889-04-27
cd sailors preacher, rolled back the stone
aud sat upon II.
4 RESURRECTION MORN.

IL ~ DOunu tO 80 you Oniy tug away NJ ".
II not before, then think about l2 o'clock
noon Of resurrection day you will see
something worth seeing. The general i'm
preston Is that the resurrection will take
place In the morning. The ascent to the
skies will hardly occur Immediately. II
will take some hours to form the process.
ion skywar,l and we will all want TO take
a look at this world before we leave II for
ever and see the surroundings Of the
couch where our bodies have long been
sleeping. On that Easter morning, tho
marble whether Il lay flat upon your grave
or stood up In monument, will have TO I've
iosile,l and shaken and rolled aside by the
angel of Resurrection, aud while waiting
TOR your kindred to gather and the pro-
ccssion To form your rcsurrcc,cd body may
sit in holy triumph upon that chisclcd
stone which marked the place of your
protracted slumbcr. On that day what II
fragile thing will he Aberdeen granite aud
column Of basalt aud the mortar which
will rattle out OF the wall OF vaults that
have been seated thousand years, and
the Tai built for queen in India, sep.
ulchrc a75 feet high, aud made OF jasper
and cornclian and turquois and lapis-lazull
and amethyst and onyx and sapphire and
diamond, and which shall that day lain
into glitering dust on groves of banyan
and bamboo and palm! And all under
what power: Ponderous crowbars wicld-
cd by giants. No. Thundcrbolt clcaving
asundcr the granite. No. Battcring ram
swung against the walls of cemeteries !?
No. Dynamite drilled under the founda-
ton of ccno,aph and abbey: No. 1t will
be done by music. Nothing but music,
sweet but MI penetrating music. The
trumpet shall sound. You say that is
liguratiyc; how do you know? But whcth-
cr literally or figurativcly, IL means music
anyhow. The trumpet, that stirring, in
cisive, mighty instrument, with a natural
compass from q below the staff to +
above, blown above Sinai when the law
Was given, blown around Jericho when
the walls tumblcd, blown when Gideon
discomiitted the Midianitcs, blown when
the ancient lsraclitcs were gathered for
worsliip,,o be blown for the raising of The
dead in the last great Easter. The mother
who, when the child must be awakened
kisses It's eyes awake does well.
AWAKENED nY MUSIC.
But the trumpet which, when the dead
are To he aroused, kisses the ear and awake,
does better. BE not surprised IL the dead
are to be awakened by music. Why, that
is the way now we raise the dead. Take
the statistics, If you can. of the millions
of souls that have been raised from the
death Of sin by hymns, by psalms, by solos,
by anthems, by flutes, by violins, by or
gans, by trumpcis. Under Cod. what
hosts have been rcsnrrccicd by Ira ID.
Sankcy. by Thomas Hastings, by William
d. bradbury. hy Lowell Mason, by moth.
crly lullabics. by church doxologics, by
oritorios. II we raise the dead now by
music, he not surprised that on the last
day the dead are to he raised by music.
The trumpet shall sound And that in
s,rumcnt shall have plenty of work 10
do on The day mentioned. 1t will have 10
sound through all the pyramids, which
are only names for scpulchrcs. and libcr-
ate the buried kings. And through hypO-
scan graves which were built in mounds
and the hypogcan graves which were dug
in rocks and through the 300 winding miles
If caiacnmhS under and around the Ro
man campagna. where over 1.0O0.0OO hu-
man beings sleep. And through all the
crystal sarcophagi of Atlantic and Pacific
and Mediterranean and Caspian and Black
sea dccps And over all the battle. fields
Of continents. until all the fallen troops Of
English and French and Italian and Ger.
man and Russian anh Persian and Amer.
can and the worlds battlc-iields answer
the call Marathon, come up! Agincourt,
come ur Blcnhcim, come up. Acre, come
up, llohcnlin,lcn. come up. Sedan, come
up! Gettysburg, come up. Near Sharps.
burg during our civil war, when was
with some others under auspices Of the
Christian commission looking after the
wounded, Federal aud Confederate. one
moonlight nigh, | was where could look
down upon the tents Of the sleeping army
oh wha, an imposing spectacle. But
my subject calls us Ia look down upon
miehiicr host of soldiers slumbcring
their last sleep in the bivouac of the dust ;
the 100000 slain in the Crimcan war, the
sO0. 900 slain In our American war, the
l5.00O,O00 slain in the wars Of Scsostris,
the 2'J,OO0,OO0 slain in Jewish wars. the
~ ,OOO.0 900 slain In wars of Ghengis Khan.
the s0,OO0, 900 slain in the wars Ofthc Cru.
saders, the sO,OOO, 900 slain In the Roman
wars. Aye, according To DIR. Dick, the
dead In war. IL each one occupied four
feet Of ground. would make enough
graves 10 reach ii2 times around the
earth
The most Of people are dead. The
world Is house Of two rooms, base
mcni aud room above ground. The
basement has two tn one. three To one,
four 10 ono more occupants than the SUI
pcrstructure. Sickness and war and
death have hccn stacking their harvest
for near 5000 years. Where ARE those
who saw the Pilgrim Fathers embark, or
the Declaration of Independence signed,
or Franklin lasso the lightning, or Warren
Hastings tried, or Queen Elizabeth In her
iriumphal march To Kcnilwor,h, or vii
liam. Prince of Orange, land, or Gustavus
Adolphus crowned. or Jerome Of Prague
burned at the stake. or Tamerlana found
his empire. Gone! Gone!
TnE CATACoMns.
hit the trumpet shall sound. Music Ia
raise the dead. oh. how much the
world needs Il. lou take torch and |