The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-01
RISING FROM THE TOMB.
THE TABERNACLE EASTER SERIES.
The Rev. DIR. Talmage Graphically Describes
the Scene of the sepulcher-Ths Power
That Has Shifted Governments and
Overcome All Obstacles.

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rooms were thronged, and multitudes in
the street could not gain an entrance.
| The Rev. i. Dewitt Talmage, d. D.,
preached on the subject; "Aromatics for
Easter" The pulpit and galleries OF the
church had elaborate floral decorations
The congregation sang the opening hymn
| ave praise thee o God for the son of thy love,
| For Jesus who died and is now gone above"
DR.. Talmage took two texts-Luke. xiv
1: bringing the spices which they have
prepared" /. Corinthians, XIV, 50: 'The
trumpet shall sound" He said:
Enchanting work have 1 before me this
Easter morning, for, initiating these wo-
men of the text, who brought aromatics
| to the mauseleum of Christ, 1 am going
| to unroll frankincense, and balm, and at
/ tar of roses, and cardamon from the East
| Indies, and adOrs from Arabia, and when
we can inhale no more OF the perfume
then we will talk of sweet sounds and
hear from the music that shall wake the
dead. Having on other casters described
the whole scene l need only IN four or
five sentences say: Christ was lying fiat
on his back, hfeless, amid sculptured
rocks, rocks over him, rocks under him,
and door of rocks all bounded by the
flowers and fountains of JOseph's coun-
try seat Then a bright immortal, hav-
ing descended from heaven, quick and
flashing as a falling meteor, picks
M the door OF the rock and
puts it aside as though it were a chair and
sits on it. Then Christ unwraps himself
OF his mortuary apparel, and takes the
turban from his head and folds il up de-
liberately and lays it down in one place,
and then puts the shrowd in another
place, and then comes out and finds that
the soldiers who had been on guard are
living around, pallid and in dead swoon,
their swords bent and useless. The illus
trious prisoner of the tomb is discharged
and 500 people see him at once. An
especial congress Of ecclesiastics called pay
a bride to the resuscitated soldiers to say
that there was no resurrection, and that
while they were overcome of slumber
the Christians had PLAYED resurrectionists
and stolen the corpse. The Marys are at
the tomb with aromatics.
Why did not these women of the text
bring thorns and nettles, Tor these would
more thoroughly have expressed the pierre
ing sorrows of themselves and their Lord
Why did they not bring some national
ensign, such as that OF the Roman
eagle, typical of conquest? No, they
bring aromatics suggestive to me of the
fact that the gospel is to sweeten an deo-
derize the world. The world has so much
of putrefaction and malador that Christ is
going to roll over it waves OF franklin
cense and sprinkle it all over with sweet
smelling myrrh. Thousands of years
before this Solomon had said that Christ
was a 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 per-
haps unwittingly confirm and empha-
size The lesson Of deodOrizatiOn. When
Christ's gospel has conquered the earth
the last Offense to the OlfactOries will have
left the world; sweet, pure air will have
blown through every home, and churches
will be freed from the curses of ill-ventila-
ton, and the world will become two great
gardens, the empurpled and emblazoned
and emparadised hemispheres. Sin is a
buzzard, holiness is a dove. Sin is night
shade, holiness is a flower. Ii you are
trying to reform the world open the
windows of that tenement-house
and pour through it a draught of
Gods pure atmosphere and set geranium
or heliotrope on the window-sill; c eanse
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 l bring the fact
that there are millions OF flowers on
prairies and on mountain Businesses the
fragrance of which no human being ever
breathes, and He must have grown them
there for his own regalement. And for
the compliment the world paid Christ by
giving him a sepulcher in Josephs garden
he will yet make the whole earth gar
den. Yes, he expressed his delight with
fragrance in the first book of the bible,
when he said. 'The Lord smelled sweet
savor;" and he filed the air of the ancient
tabernacle and temple with sweet incense;
and there are small bottles of perfume in
heaven described in revelation as golden
vials full of odOrs. preach an ambrosial
gospel which will yet extirpate from the
world all foulneSs and rancidity and the
last noisomenesS and the last mephitic
gas. Glad am | that, though the world
had chiefly spikes for the Savior's feet and
thorns for the SaviOr's brow, the magni
put frankincense upon his cradle and the
Marys brought frankincense for his grave
Notice also that Christ's mausolem was
opened by conclusion. 1t was a great
earthquake that put It's twisted kew into
the involved and labyrinthine lock of that
tomb Concussionl That is the power
that opens all the tombs that are opened
at ALL Tomb of soul and tomb of nations.
Conclusion between England and the
thirteen colonies, and forth comes free
government in America. Conclusion be-
tween France and Germany, and forth
comes republicanism in France. Con-
eussion among the rocks on Mount
Sinai, and on two of them was
left a perfect law for all ages Concus-
sion among the rocks around Calvary and
the crucifxion was made the more over
whelming. Conclusion between the
United States and Mexico and vast area
OF country becomes ours. Conclusion be-
tween England and France aud 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 1000 conclusions put this world into
shape for mans residence. Conclusion
between David and his enemies and out
came the psalms which otherwise would
never have been written. Conclusion be-
tween Gods will and mans will, and,
ours overthrOwn, we are now crea-
lures in Jesus Christ. Conclusion of
misfortune and trial for many of the good,
and out comes their especial conservation.
Do not, therefore, be frightened when you
see the great upheavals, the great agita-
tons, the great earthquakes, whether
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