The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-02
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
rhe Gladness of Eastertids and Its
Beautiful Lessons.
The Frankincense and Balm OF the Sweet,
pcre Gospel Give Encouragement
to souls IN Gloom-Rol ing
Away the stone.

TIDE sermon, delivered at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle. He took two texts, as fol-
lows:
bringing spices which they had prepared
Lake xiv, I.
The trumpet shall sound.-I Corinthians, xv.,
b2.
Enchanting work I have before me this
Easter morning, for, initiating these
women of the text, who brought aromatics
10 the mausolcam Of Christ, am going to
uuroll fraukincense, and balm, and altar
0f roses, and cardamon from the East
Indies, and odors from Arabia, and,
when we can iuhale no more of the per-
fume, then we will talk Of sweet sounds,
and hear from the music that shall wake
the dead. Having on other casters de-
scribed the whole scene, | need only, in
four or five sentences, say: Christ was
lying fat on His back, lifeless, amidst
sculptured rocks, rocks over Him. rocks
under Him, and door of rocks ali bound
ed by the flowers and fountains OF Jo-
seph's country seat. Then bright i'm
mortal, having descended from Heaven,
quick and flashing as fall
ing meteor, picks up the door OF
rock and puts it aside as though
it were q chair and sits on it. Then Chris t
uuwraps Himself of His mortuary apparel
and takes the turbau from His head and
folds il up deliberately and lays it down
in one place and then puts the shrOul in
another place and comes out and finds
that the soldiers who have been on guard
are lying around, pallid and in a dead
swoon, their swords bent and useless.
The iliustrioas prisoner Of the tomb is
discharged AMI five hundred people see
Him at once. An especial congress of &C.
Cle>iostics called pay bride to the resuS-
Citated soldiers 10 say that there was no
resurrection, and that while they were
overcome Of s1umber the Christians had
played rcsurrectioEists and stolen the
corpse. The Marys are at the tomb with
arumatics.
Why did not these women Of the tent
bring thorms and ucttlcs, for these would
more thoroughly have expressed the
piercing sorrows Of themselves and their
Lord: Why did they not bring some ma
tioual ensign, such as that of the Roman
eagle, typical of conquest? No, they
bring aromatics, digestive to me OF the
fact that the Gospel is to sweeten and de-
odorize the world. The world has so
much of putrcGactiou and malodor that
Christ IS going to roll oyer it waves of
fraukinccnse and sprinkle it sll over with
sweet smelling myrrh. Thousands of
Years before this Solomon had said that
Christ was lily, and Isaiah had declared
that under the Gospel the desert would
bloom like the rose, but the world was
slow to take the floral hint. And SO now
the women of the text bring hands full
and arms full of redolence and perhaps
uuwittingly confirm and emphasize
the lesson OF deterioration. When
Christ'5 Gospel has cong Iered the earth
the last offen-e TO the olfactorics will
have left the world; sweet pure air will
have blown through every home, and
churches will be freed from the curse of
i'll ventilation and the world will become
two great gardens, the empurpled and
emblazoned and emparadised hemi-
spheres. Sin is a buzzard, holiness is a
dove. Sin IS night shade, holiness is q
flower. If you are trying to reform the
world open the windows of that tenement
house and pour through it draught oil
Gods pure atmosphere and set a g"rauiunl
or a heliOtrope on the window sill
cleanse the air and you will help cleanse
the soul. How dare this world so often
insult that feature of the human face
which God has made the most prominent
feature in human physiognomy? To
prove how He Himself loves arOmatics |
bring the fact that there are millions of
flowers on prairies and in mountain
Businesses, the fragrance of which no hu-
man being ever breathes, and He must
have grown them there for His own re-
galement.
And FOR the compliment the world paid
Christ by giving Him a sepulcher in Jo-
seph's garden He will yet make the whole
earth a garden. Yes, lie expressed His
delight with fragrance in the first book of
the Bible, when He said: "The Lord
&mclled a sweet savor;" aud He file the
air Of the ancient tabernacle and temple
with sweet incense; and there are small
bottles OF perfume il Heaven described
in Revelation as golden walls full of odors.
preach an ambrosial gospel which will
yet extirpate from the world all fOulness
and Tancidity and the last noisomenes5
and the last mephitic gas. Glad am that
though the world had chiefly spikes for
the Saviour's brow, the magi put franklin
ceuse upon His cradle, and the Marys
brought frankincense for His grave.
Notice also that Christ's mausoleum
was opened by concession. 1t was a great
earthquake that put its twisted key into
the involved and labyrinthine lock of that
that opens all the tombs that are opened
at ALL Tomb OF soul and tomb Of nations.
Conclusion between England ana the
thirteen colonies, and forth comes free
government in America. Conclusion be-
tween France and Germany, and forth
comes repubicanism for France. Con-
CussiOn among the rocks on Mount Sinai,
and on two of them was left perfect law
for all ages. Concession among the rocks
around Calvary, and the crucifxion was
made the more overwhelming. Concus-
sion between the United States and
Mexico, and a vast area of country be-
comes ours Conclusion between En-
gland and France, and most of this
continent west of the Mississippi be-
comes the property of the American
Union. Conclusion between iceberg and
iceberg, between bowlder and bowlder,
and a thousand conclusions put this world
into shape for mans residence. Concus-
sion between David and his enemies, and
out came the Psalms which otherwise
would never have been written. Concus-
sion between Gods will and mans will,
and, ours Oyerthrown, we are new Great
ures to Christ Jesus. Conclusion of mis-
fortune and trial for many of the good,
and out comes their especial consecra-
ton. Do not, therefore, be frightened
when you see the great upheavals, the
great agitations, the great earthquakes,
whether among the rocks or among
the nations or in individual expert
ence. Out of them God will bring
best results and most magnifi-
cent consequences. Hear the crash
all around the Lords sarcophagus and