Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-28
iAROMATICS FOR EASTER.
N TALMAee DESCRIBES THE SCENES
or cHRlsT's RESURRECTION.

~ Adornments Of the Tomb-The Innu-
aerable Hosts Of the Dead-rhe Glories
- the Resurrection Of the Righteous.
NJ Life Beyond the Tomb.
BROOKLYN, April 21.-A vast null
titnde attended the Easter services at
fhe Brooklyn tabernacle this morning.
The pews, the aisles and all the ad-
joining rooms were thronged, and
mnltitudes in the street could not gain
an entrance. Rev. 7. De Witt Tai
mage. ID. d., preached on the subject,
..Aronatics for Easter" The pulpit
and galleries Of the church had elab-
crate floral decorations. The congre-
cation sang the opening hymn;
We 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, /: 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
aromatics 10 the mausoleum of Christ,
l am going 10 unroll frankincense and
hahn and ottar of roses and cardamon
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 on other casters described the
whole scene, | need only in four or
five sentences say: Christ was lying
fiat on his back, ~lifeless, amidst sculpi
tured rocks, rocks over him, rocks un-
der him, and a 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 a
failing meteor, picks up the door of
rock and puts il aside as though
it were a chair and sits on
it. Then Christ unwraps himself
of his mortuary apparel and takes the
tnrban from his head and folds it up
deiberatelyand lays it down in one
place and then puts the shroud in an
other place and cones out and finds
thatthe soldiers who had been on guard
are lying around, pallid and in a dead
swoon, their swords bent and useless.
The illustrious prisoner of the tomb is
discharged and five hundred people see
him at once. An especial congress of
eoclesiastics called pay a bribe 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.
SYMBOLISM OF THE FLOWERS.
Why did not these women of the
text bring thorns and %nettles, for
these would more thoroughly have ex-
pressed the piercing sorrows of them
selves and their Lordi 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 10 sweeten and deodorize the
world. The world has so much of
putrefaction and malodor that Christ
is going TO roll over il waves of frank
incense 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 10 take the floral
hint. And so now the women of the
text bring hands full and arms full of
edolence and perhaps unwittingly
confirm and emphasize the lesson of
deodorization. When Christ's Gospel
has conquered the earth the last offense
10 the o~lfactories will have left the
world; sweet, pure air will have blown
through every home, and churches
will be freed from the curse of i'll
ventilation 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 flower. II you are
trying to reform the world open the
windows of that tenement house and
pour through il a draught Of Gods
pure atmosphere and set q geranium
or a heliotrope on the window sill;
cleanse the air and you will help
cleanse the soul. How dare this world
20 often insult that feature Of the
human face which God has made the
most prominent feature in human
physiognomyl To prove how he him
self loves aromatics / bring the fact
that there are millions of flowers on
prairies 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 Joseph's garden he will
yef make the whole earth a garden.
Yes, be expressed his delight with fra
GRANGE in the first book of the Bible,
when be said, THE Lord smelled a
sweet s%avor;" and he filed the air of
. the ancient tabernacleand temple with
sweet incense; aud there are small
bottles of perfume in heaven described
in Revelation as golden walls full Of
doors. | preach an smbrosial gospel
which win yet extirpate from the
world all foulness and rancidity and
the last noisomeness and the last me.
phitic gas. Glad am | that though
the world had chiefly spikes Tor the
6aviours feet and thorns for the Sa-
viour's brow, the magi put franklin
N upon his cradle and the Marys