Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-04
A@ROMATICSFOR EASTER
Easter Morning Services at
the Brooklyn Tab
ernacle.
And Ottar Of Roses and Cardamon
to the Multitude Who
Crowded the Pews
and nisles.

the aisles and all the adjoining rooms
were thronged, and multitudes in the
street could MOI gain an entrance. Rev.
T. De Witt Talmage, ID. 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:
We praise Thee, . God, for the Son OF thy
love,
For Jesus who died and Is now gone above.
DR.. Talmage took two texts, Luke
xiv, I: Bringing the spices which they
had prepared" | Corinthians XIV, 81:
The trumpet shall sound" He said:
Enchanting work have / before me
this Easter morning, for, initiating these
women of the text. who brought aromat-
les TO the mausOleum OF Christ, | am
going TO unroll f~rankincense and balm
and ottar Of roses and Carfamon from
the East Indies and odors 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 n other
casters described the whole scene, | need
only in four or five sentences say: Christ
was lying flat on his back, ~lifeless, amidst
sculptured rocks, rocks over him, rocks
under him, and u door OF rocks all
bounded by the flowers and fountains Of
Joseph's country seat. Then a bright
immortal, having descended from heaven,
quick and flashing as n falling meteor,
picks up the door Of rock and puts it
aside as though il were 4 chair and sits
on it.. Then Christ unwraps himself OF
his mortuary apparel and takes the tur-
ban from his bead and folds it up delib-
erately and lays il 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,
pall.id and in a dead swoon, their swords
bent and useless. The illustrious pris-
oner of the tomb is discharged and 500
people see him at once. An especial
congress OF ecclesiastics called, pay a
bribe TO the resuscitated soldiers 10 say
that there was no resurrection and that
while they were overcome of slumber the
Christians bad 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, for these would
more thoroughly have expressed the
piercing sorrows of themselves and their
LordY Why did they not bring some
national ensign, suck as that Of the
Roman eagle, typical Of conquest? No,
they bring aromatiCs Suggestive to ne of
the fact that the gospel is to sweeten and
deodoriZe the world. The world has so
much of putrefaction and malodor that
Christ is going u roll over it waves Of
frankincense and sprinkle it all over with
sweet smelling myrrh. Thousands Of
years before this solomon mad said That
Christ was u lily and Isaiah had declared
that under the gospel the desert would
bloom like "a rose, but the world was slow
TO take the floral hint. And SO Low the
women Of the text bring hands full and
arms full of redolcnce and perhaps unwit-
tingly confirm and emphasize the lesson
of deod0rization. When Christ's gospel
has conquered the earth the last OtlenSe
TO the olfaCtOries Will have eft the
world; sweet, pure al VIII have blown
through every home, II churches Will
be freed from the curse of III ventilation
and the world will become two great gar.
dens, the empurplcd and embiaEoncd and
emparadised hemisphcres. Sin - u buzz
zard, holiness is q dove. Sin ls night
shade, holiness is 6 flower. II you are
trying to reform the world open the
windows Of that tenement house and
pour through il q draught OF Gods pure
atmosphere and set a geranium 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
l..,ool lo,nc orpv,o,ioc | hrtnn tho foot
that there are millions Of flowers on
prairies and in mountain Businesses the
fragrance of which no human being Eve
breathes, and he must have grown them
there for his own regalement. And for
the compliment the world pad Christ by
giving Him a sepulcber in Joseph's gar
den He will yet make the whole earth a
garden. Yes, He expressed His delight
with fragrance in the first book of the
Bible. when He said: The Lord smelled
a sweet %savor;'' and He filled the air of
the ancient tabernacle and temple with
sweet incense: and there are small bot
ties of perfume in heaven described in
Revelation as golden walls full Of odors.
/ preach an ambrosial gospel which will
vet e~xtirpate 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 Saviour's feet and thorns for the
Sav;ous's brow, the magi put franklin
cense upon His cradle and the Marys
brought frankincense for his grave.
Notice also that Christ's mausoleum
was opened by concu sion. 1t was a great
earthquake that put its twisted key into
the involved and labyrinthine lock OF
that tomb. Conclusion! That is the
power that opens all the tOmbs that are
opened at all. Tomb of eoul and tomb OF
nations. Conclusion between England
and the thirteen colonies, and forth
comes free government in America.
Conclusion between France and Ger
many. and forth comes republican
ism for France. Conclusion among
the rocks on Mt. Sinai, and
on two of them was left a perfect law for
all ages. Conclusion among the rocks
around Calvary and the crucitixion was
made the more overs %helming. Concus-
sion between the United States and Mex
leo, and a vast area Of country becomes
ours. Conclusion between England and
France, and most Of this continent west
of the Mississippi becomes the property
Of the American union. Conclusion be-
tween iceberg and iceberg, between
bowlder and bOwlder, and q thOusar q