The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-04-24
AROMATICs FOR EASTER.
Sermon by Rev. T. Dewitt Tai.
mage, d. d.
The Eioqucnt Divine Talks About the De-
hghtfui Perfumes OF the joyful HoII-
day-Tho Marys at the Tomb
OF Christ.

ence, and many could not gain an entrance.
DR.. Talmage preached on the subject "Aro-
matics for Easter" taking for his texts,
Luke xiv. ! bringing the spices which
they had prepared;" and !. Corinthians Nv.
&: "The trumpet shall sound" He said:
Enchanting work have before me this
Easter morning. for, initiating hese women
Of tho text, who brought aromatics to the
mausoe m Of Christ, am going to unroll
frankincepee and balm and altar OF roses
and cardamon from the East Indies, and
odors from Arabia, and when we can In
hale 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,
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 q door OF rocks all
bounded by the flowers and fountains
OF Joseph's country seat Then O
bright immortal having descended from
Heaven, quick and flashing as falling
meteor, picks up the door OF rock, and puts
1t aside as though 1t were chair, and sits
on 1t. Then Christ unwraps himself OF his
mortuary apparel, and takes the turban from
his head, and folds IL up deliberately, and
laws II down In one place, and then puts the
shroud in another place and comes out and
finds that the soldiers who had been on
guard are lying around, pallid and 10 dead
swoon, their swords bent and useless. Tho
illustrious prisoner OF the tomb Is dis
charged, and five hund~e people see him at
once An especial congress Of ecclesiastics
called pay bribe 10 the resuscitated SOL
diers to say that there was no resurrection
and that while they were overcome Of slum-
Der the Christians had played resurrection
ists and stole the corpse. The Marys are at
the tomb with aromatics.
Why did not these women OF the text
bring thorns and neitles, for these would
more thoroughly have expressed the pierre
ing sorrows Of themselves and their Lordi
Why did they not bring some ns ional en-
sign. such as that OF the Roman eagle,
typical Of conquestl No, they bring aro
mates suggestive TO me OF the fact that
the gospel Is TO sweeten and deodorize tho
world. The word d has so much Of putre-
faction and malodor that Christ Is going TO
roll over II waves OF frankncense and
sprinkle II all over with sweet smelling
myrrh. Thousands OF years before this
Solomon had said that Christ was lily and
Isaiah had declar d that under the Gospelt Q
desert would bloom like a rose, but tho
world was slow 10 take the floral hint And
30 now the women of the text bring hands
full and arms full OF redolence and per
haps unwittingly confirm and emphasize the
lesson OF deodorization. When ChrIst's
gospel has conquered the earth the
last offense 10 the olfactories will have left
the world; sweet, pure air will have blown
through every home and churches viii be
freed from the curse Of liberalization and
the world viii become two great gardens,
the empurpled and emblazoned and empara-
dised hemiSpheres. Sin Is a brZzard, holt.
ness Is dove. Sin Is nightshade, holiness
Is flower. II you are trying TO reform tho
world open the windows OF that tenement
house and pour through II draught Of
Gods pure atmosphere aud set geranIum
or q heliotrope on the window sill; clesDse
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 physiognomyi To
prove how He himself loves aromatics
bring the fact that there are millhns
Of flowers on prairies and In mountain hst-
nesses the fragrance OF which no human be-
Ing ever breathes, and He must have grown
them there for His own regaement. And for
the compliment the world paid Christ by
giving him sepulcher In Joseph's garden
he will yet make the whole earth garden.
Yes, he expressed his delight with fra
GRANGE In the drst book Of the Bible, when
he said: "The Lord smelled sweet sa-
vor;" 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 rancidty and the last
noisomeness and tho last mephitic gas.
Glad am that though the world had chiefly
spikes for the Saviour's feet and thorns for
the Saviour's brow, the magi put franklin
ceuse upon his cradle and tho Marys brought
frankincenSe for his grave.
Notice also that Christs mauS oleum was
opened by concussion. II was great earth
quake that put its twisted key into the In
volved and labyrinthine lock OF that tomb.
Conclusion That Is the power that opens
all the tombs that are opened At all. Tomb
Of sourand tomb OF nations. Concussion be.
tween England and the thirteen colonies,
and forth comes free government In Amer
lea. Conclusion between France and Ger
many, and forth comes republicanism for
France. Conclusion among the rocks on
Mount Sinai, and on two Of them was left q
perfect law for all ages Conclusion among
the rocks around Calvary. and the crucinx.
lon was made the mo overwhelming. Con.
cussion between tho United States and Mex.
leo, and avast area OF country becomes ours.
Cencussion between England and France,
and most OF this continent west Of the
Mississippi becomes the property OF the
American Union. Coucussion between ice
berg and iceberg, between bowld r and
bowlder and a thousand concussions put
this world In shape for mans residence.
Conclusion between David and his enemies,
and out came the Psalms, which otherwise
would neverhave been written. Conclusion
between Gods will aud mans will, and,
ours overthrown, we are new creatures In
Christ Jesus. Conclusion OF mis- sfortune
and trial for many OF the good, and out
comes their especial eonsecration. Do not
therefore. be frightened when you see the
great upheavals, the great agitations, the
great earthquakes, whether among the
rocks or among the naticns or In Individual
experience. Out Of them God will
bring the best results and most mag.
nihcent consequence Hear the crash
all round the Lords sarcophagus
and see the glorious reauimatiou OF is dead
inhabitant. Concussionl II ever general
European war, which the world has been
expecting for the Last twenty years, should
come, concussion so wide and conclusion
80 tremendous would not leave q throne In