Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-04

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Che general impression is that the resur
%rection will take place in the morning.
The ascent to the skies will hardly occur
Immediately. 1t will! take some hours &c
form the procession skyward and we will
all want TO take a look at this world be-
fore we leave it forever and see the sur
roundings of the couch where our bodies
have long beer 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 waiting for
your kindred to gather and the procession
to form your resurrected body may sit in
holy triumph upon that chiseled stone
which marked the place of your pro.
tracted slumber. On that day what q
fragile thing will be Aberdeen granite
and column Of basalt and the mortar
which will rattle out of the wall of vaults
that have been sealed q thousand years,
and the Tai, built for a queen in India, q
sepulchre 275 feet high, and made of IS
per and comedian and turquois and lapis-
laZuli and amethyst and onyx and sap
phire and diamond, and which shall that
day rain into glittering dust on groves Of
coh oh 3h Wv oll anu Ill
under what power? Ponderous crowbars
welded by giants? No. Thunderbolt
cleaving asunder the graniteY No. Bat
tering ram swung against the walls of
cemeteries? No. Dynamite drilled un-
der the foundations of cenotaph and alb
hey? No. 1t will be done by music.
Nothing but music, sweet but all pene-
trating music. The trumpet shall sound
You say that is figurative; how do you
know2 But. whether literal or figura-
tive, it means music anyhow. The trum-
pet, that stirring, incisivc, mighty instru
ment, with a natural compass from G be-
low the staff to K above, blown above
Sinai when the law was given, blown
around Jericho when the walls tumhled.
blown when Gideon discounted the Mid
ianites, blown when the ancient Israelites
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 awakened, kisses its
eyes awake, does well.
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 trumphets.
Under God what hosts have been resur-
rected by Ira ID. Sankey, by Thomas
Hastings, by William ID. Bradbury, by
Lowell Mason, by motherly lullabies, by
church d~oxologies, by oratorios. If we
raise The dead 10Y by music, be not sur
prised 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 pyramids,
which are only names for %sepulchers, and
liberate the buried kings. And through
the hypogean graves which were built in
mounds and the hypogean graves which
were dug in the rocks and through
the 900 winding miles of
Roman C~ampagna, where over
zoo. 900, 600 human beings sleep.
And through all the chrystal sarcophagi
of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterra-
mean and Caspian and Black sea deeps.
SAiIi v III bhb ANlNAo va 1Dl-
~tinents, until all the fallen troops English
and French and Italian and German and
Russian and Persian and American and
the worlds battle fields answer the call.
Marathon, come up, Agincourt, come
up Blenheim, come up! Acre, come
up! Hohenlinden, come up, Sedan,
come up, Gettysburg, como up! Near
Sharpsburg during our civil war, when |
urao urith COM nthava ,tp1tr tho o,,c,,;
ces of the Christian commission, looking
after the wounded, Federal and Confed-
crate, one moonlight night / was where |
could look down upon the tents IF the
sleeping army. On, what an imposing
epectaclel But my subject calls us back
to look down upon a mightier host of
soldiers slumbering their last sleep in the
bivouac Of the dust; and the 1850 coo
slain in the Crimean war, the 500 600
slain in our American war, the Is, 600,
600 slain in the wars Of Sesostris,
the 50, 000, 600 slain in Jewish
wars. the 30 coo. coo slain in
wars Of Ghengis Khan, the 50, 000, 600
slain in the wars of the crusaders, the
$50, 000, 600 slain in the Roman wars.
Aye, according 10 DR.. Dick, the dead in
the war, if each one occupied four feet
OF ground, WOUiu Wah' enough pTdNcS
to reach 442 times around the earth.
The most Of people are dead. The
world is a house Of two rooms, a base
ment, and a room above ground. The
basement has two to one, three TO one,
four to one more occupants than the
superstrHcture. Sickness and war and
death have been stacking their harvests
for near G, 900 years. Where are those
who saw the pilgrim fathers embark, or
the declaration Of independence signed,
or Franklin lasso the lightning, or War
rem Hastings tried, or Queen Elizabeth in
her triumphal march 10 kenilwOrth. or
William, prince of Orange, land, or Gus
tavus Adolphus crowned, or Jerome of
Prague burned at the stake, or Tanner
land found his empireY Gone! Gone!
But the trumpet shall sound. Music
to raise the dead. Oh, how much the
world needs it. You take a torch and |
will take a torch and we will 90 through
some of the aisles of the Roman cata-
combs and see the expectant epitaphs on
the walls and right over where the de-
parted sleep. You know that these cata
combs are fifty or sixty feet underground,
and if oneloses the guide or his torch is
extinguished, he never finds the way out.
So let us stay close together and with our
torches, as we wander along a small
part of these 900 miles of under
ground nasaapps 600 tho ipaorip-