The morning news., 1889-04-22
AROMATICS FOR EASTER
THE FEsTAL DAY SERMON IN THE
BROOKLYN TABBRNAOLE.


DIR. Talmage Takes Two Texts for the
Subject of His Discourse-The Church
Thronged to It's Utmost Capacity,
and Many Unable to Gain Entrance.
BROOKLYN, April 2l.-A vast multitude
attended the Easter services at the Brook
lyn tabernacle this morning The pews,
the aisles aud all the adjoining rooms were
thronged. and multitudes in the strest
could not gain entrance. Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage d. D., preached on the subject,
"Aromatics for Easter" The pulpit aud
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 aud is now gone above
DIR. Talmage took two texts, Luke xiv,
/: bringing the spices which they had pre-
pared" |. Corinthians xv., SO: THE trum-
pet shall sound" He said,
Enchanting work have before me this
Easter morning, for, initiating these women
of che text who brought aromatics to the
mausoleum Of Christ am going to unrol
f-ankincense and balm and ottar of roses
and cardamon from the East Indies and
odors from Arabia, and, when we can in
hale no more of the perfume, then Wa will
talk of sweet sounds, and hear from the
music that shall wake the dead. Having
on other casters described the whole
scene, 1 need only in four or five
sentences say; Christ was lying fat
on his back, lifeless, amidst sculp-
tured rocks, rocks over him, rocks under
him. aud door of rocks all bounded by
the flowers and fountains of Joseph's coun-
try seat. Then bright immortal having
descended from heaven, quick and flashing
rs "A falling meteor, picks up the door Of
rock and puts it aside AS though IL were n
chair and sits on IL. Then Christ unwraps
himself of his mortuary apparel and takes
the turban from his head and folds 10 up
deliberately and lays it down in one
place and then puts the shroud in an
other place and comes out and finds
that the soldiers who had boon on guard
are lying around, pallid and in dead
swoon, their swords bent and useless. The
illustrious prisoner of the tomb is dis
charged and five hundred people SEQ him at
once An especial congress Of eccesiastios
called pay bribe TO the resuscitAted sol
diers to say that there was no resurrection,
and that while they were overcome Of slum-
ber the christians had played resurrection
lists 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 pierre
ing sorrows Of themselves and their I,ords
Why did they not bring some national
ensign, such as that of the Roman eagle,
| typical of oonduesti No, they bring aro-
matics suggestive to me of the fact that
the gospel is to sweeten and deodorize the
world. The world has so much of putre-
faction and malodor that Christ is going to
roll over it waves OF frankincense and
sprinkle it all over with sweet
smelling myrrh. Thousands of
years before this Solomon had said that
Christ NVaG Hiy and Ianinh bah
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 unwit-
tingly confirm and emphasize the lesson Of
deodorizatiou. 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 ba
freed from the curse of III
ventilation and the world will become two
great gardens, the empurpled and em-
blazoned and emparadised hemispherea.
Sin is a buzzard, holiness il a dove. Sin is
nghtshade, holiness Is flower. IL you are
trying to reform the world open the win
dows of that tenement house and pour
through it draught Of Gods pure atmos-
phere and set 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
physiognomyl To prove how he himself
loves aromatics bring the fact that there
are millions of flowers GU praiTies and in
mountain businesses the fragrance OF which
no human being ever breathes, and he must
have grown them there for his own regale-
ment And for the compliment the world
paid Christ by giving him a sepulcher in
Josephs garden he will yet make the whole
earth garden. Yes, he expressed his de-
light with fragrance in the first book Of the
Bible, when he said: "The Lord smelled a
sweet savor;o and he filled the air OF
the ancient tabernacle and temple with
sweet incense; and there are small bottles
OF perfume in heaven described In ReYela-
tions golden vials full Of odors preach
an ambrosial gospel which will yet extir.
pate from tho world all foulness and rancid
ity and the last noisomeness and the last
mephitic gas Glad am i that though the
world had chiefly spikes for the Saviour's
feet and thorns for the Saviour b ow, the
magi put franklncense upon his cradle and
the Marys brought frankincense for hla
grave.
Notice, also, that Christ's mausoeun was
opened by conclusion. It was a great earth
quake that put its twisted key into the in-
volyed and labyrinthine lock OF that tomb.
Concussoni That is the power that opens
all Llo JOinDs thhJ are opened al all. IOmD
Of soul and tomb of nations. Conclusion
between England AID the thirteen colonies,
and forth comes free government in
America. Conclusion between Francs
and Germany. and forth comes re-
publicansm for France. Conclusion
among the rocks on Mount Sinai, aud
on two Of them was loft perfect law for
ali ages. Conclusion among the rocks
around Calvary and the crucilxion was
made the more overwhelming. Concus-
sion between the United States and Mexico,
aud a vast area Of country becomes ours.
Conclusion between England and Franco,
and most Of this continent west of the Ms
sissippi becomes the property Of tho Amer-
can union. Conclusion between iceberg aud
iceberg, between bowlder and DO wider,
and n thousand conclusions put this
world into shape for man's residence. Con
cusson between David and his enemies
and out came tho Psalms which otherwise
would never have been written Conclusion
between Gods will and mans will, and,
ours overthrow, we are new creatures in
Christ Jesus. Conclusion OF mistortdns
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 agitatiols. the
great earthquakes, whether among the