Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-28
bare poles to the corner pew. Then j
hove TO and came 10 anchor.
NAUTICAL SFRMON.


NAUTICAL SERMON.
''The old man, DR.. Griffin, was just
naming his text. Pretty soon he UNI
furled the mainsail, raised the topsail,
ran UP the pennants to free breeze and
/ tell you the old gospel ship never
sailed more prosperously. The salt
spray few in every direction, but more
especially did it run down my cheeks.
Satan had TO strike sail, his guns were
dismounted or spiked, his various
crafts by which he led sinners captive
were all beached and the captain Of
the Lords hosts rode forth, conquer
ing and to conquer" Before that
sailor boy was poverty, but he con-
quered it; and orphanage, but he con-
quered it; and ignorance, but he con-
quered it; and the scott Of the world,
but he conquered it; and he rose till
every sailors bethel in the world
blessed him and great anniversary
platforms invited him, and Daniel
Webster and Charles Dickens and
Frederika Bremen and poets and ora
tors and senator's sat electrified nj his
feet, and his gospelizing influence will
90 on until the last jack tar is con-
verted and the sea shall give up its
dead. All the obstacles of his life
seemed gathered iiso one great bowl
der, but Edward T. Taylor, the world
renowned sailors preacher, rolled back
the stone and sat upon il.
Yet do not make the mistake that
many do of sitting on it before it is
rolled away. II is bound TO 70 if you
only tug away at it. II not before,
then | think about ~ o'clock noon
of resurrection day you will see
something worth seeing. The general
impression 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 procession skyward and
we will all want to take a look at this
world before we leave il forever and
see the surroundings of the couch
where our bodies have long been
sleeping. On that Easter morning
the marble, whether it lay fiat
upon your grave or stood up in
monument will have to be jostled
and shaken and rolled aside by the
angel of Resurrection, and while wait
ing for your kindred to gather and
the procession TO form your resurrect-
ed body may sit in holy triumph upon
that chiseled stone which marked the
place of your protracted slumber. On
that day what a fragile thing will be
Aberdeen granite and column of ba-
salt and the mortar which will rattle
out of the wall of vaults that have
been sealed a thousand years, and the
Tai. built for a queen in India, a sep
ulcher two hundred and seyenty-five
feet high, and made of jasper and cor
nelian and turquois and lapis-lazuli
and amethyst and onyx and sapphire
and diamond, and which shall that
day rain into ~glittering dust on
groves Of banyan and bamboo
and palm. And all under what
powers Ponderous crowbars welded
by giantsl No. Thunderbolt cleaving
asunder the granted No. Gathering
ram swung against the walls of GENE
teriesl No. Dynamite drilled under
the foundations of cenotaph and alb
bey2 No. 1t will be done by music.
NIshing but music, sweet but all pen
Grating music. The trumpet shall
sound You say that is f~igurative;
how do you knowl But, whether lit
eral or ~figurative, il means music any
how. The trumpet, that stirring, in
cisiye, mighty instrument, with a nat
ural compass from g below the staff
to + above, blown above Sinai when
the law was given, blown around Jeri-
cho when the walls tumbled, blown
when Gideon discounted the INDIAN
ties, blown when the ancient Israel
ties were gathered for worship, TO be
blown for the raising of the dead in
the last great Easter. The mother,
who, when the child must be awak-
ened, kisses its eyes awake, does well.
THE GREAT RESURRECTION.
But the trumpet, which when the
dead are TO be aroused kisses the ear
awake, does better. Be not surprised
if 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
organs, by trumpets. Under God what
hosts have been resurrected by Ira ID.
Sankey, by Thomas Hastings, by Will
liam ID. Bradbury, by Lowell Mason,
by motherly lullabies, by church dox-
ologies, by oratorios. II we raise the
dead now by music, be not surprised
that on the last day the dead are TO be
raised by music.
The trumpet shall soundl And that
instrument shall have plenty of work
TO do on the day mentioned. 1t will
have to sound through all the pyra.
mids, which are only names for sepul-
chers, and liberate the buried kings.
And through hypogean graves which
were built in mounds and the hypo-
gean graves which were dug in rocks
and through the nine hundred wind
ing miles of catacombs under and
around the Roman Campagna, where
over eve million human beings
sleep. And through all the crystal
sarcophagi of Atlantic and Pacific and
Mediterranean and Caspian and
Black sea deeps. And over all the
battle fields Of continents, until
all the fallen troops Of English
and French and Italian and German
and Russian and Persian and Ameri-
can and the worlds battle fields an.
swer the call. Marathon, come upl
Agincourt, come upl Blenheim, come
upl Acre. cona uni Hohcnlinden.