Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03

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| nu,n~rab,e Hosts Of the dead - TIL.
| Glorjex of thu. I,crurreciion of tlse Right.
! eou.-Thc Life Beyond the Tomb.
| A vast multitude attended the Easter
services at the Brooklyn tabernacle last
Sunday. The pews. the aisles and all
the adjoining rooms were thronged and
multitudes in the street could not gain
nm entrance. Rev. T. De Witt Talmaee,
ID. D., preached on the subject Arc
mates for castor.
Dr.. Talmage took two texts, Luke
xiv, 1: Bringing the spices which
they had prepared l Corinthians XIV,
So: The trumpet shall sound" He
said: :.
Enchanting work have l before me
this Easter morning, for. initiating these
women of the text. who brought nromat-
les to the mausoleum of Christ, am
going to unroll frankincense and balm
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 musicithat
shall wake the dead Having on other
Easters described the whole scene,
need only in four or five sentences BAY:
Christ was lying fat on his back, life
less. amid sculptured rocks, rocks over
over him, rocks under him, and DIOR
of rocks all bounded by the flowers And
fountains of Joseph's country seat:
scended from Heaven. quick and fash
ing as falling meteor. picks up the
door of rock and puts it aside ms though
it were chair and sits on it. Then
Christ unwraps himself of his mortuary
apparel and takes the turban from his
head and folds it up deliberately 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 nre laying around, pallid
and in dead swoon, their swords bent
and useless. The illpstrious prisoner
of the tomb is discharged and five hum
dred people see him at once. An especial
congress of ecclesiastics called pay q
that there was no resurrection. and that
while they were overcome eff slumber
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
piercing sorrows of themselves and the il
Lord? Why did they not bring some
national ensign such as that of the Ro-
man eagle, typical of conquest? No,
they bring aromatics suggestive to me of
the fact that the Gospel is to sweeten
and deodorize the world The world
has SO much of putrefactioa and malo-
waves of frankincense and sprinkle it
all over with sweet smelling myth.
Thousands of years before this Solomon
had said that Christ was lily and Isaiah
had declared 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 AIMS full of
redolence and perhaps unwttingly con-
firm and emphasize the lesson of deodo-
rization. When Christ's Gospel has
conquered the earth the las offense to
the olfactories will have left the world;
sweet, pure air will have blown through
every home and churches will be freed
| from the curse of ill ventilation and the
world will become two great gardens,
the empurpled and emblazoned and en-
paradised hemispheres. Sin is a. buzz
card, holiness is dove. Sin is hight
shade, holiness is flower. If ych are
trying to reform the world open the
windows of that tenement house, and
pour through it a draught of Gods pure
atmosphere and set geranium or Hello
trope on the window sill; cleanse the air
and you will help cleanse the soul. How
dare the world SO often insult that feat
ure Of the human face which God has
made the most prominent feature in
human physiognomy? To prove he Nv he
himself loves aromatics bring the fact
that there are millions of fowert 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 regalement. And
for the compliment the world paid
Christ by giving him a sepulcher in
Joseph's garden He will yet make the
whole earth garden. Yes, He expressed
his delight with fragrance in the first
book of the Bible, when He said, "The
Lord smelled sweet savor;" 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 Revelations as
golden walls full of orders. preach an
ambrosial gospel which will vet extir-
pate 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 fol
the Saviour's feet and thorns for the
Saviour's brow, the magi put franklin
cense upon his cradle and the Marys
brought frankincense for his grave.
Notice also that Christs mausoleum
was opened by conclusion. It was a
great earthquake that put its twisted
key into the involved and labyrinthine
lock of that tomb. Concussion? That
is the power that opens all the tombs
that are opened at all. Tomb of soul
and tomb of nations. Conclusion be-
tween England and the thirteen colonies,
and forth comes free government in
America. Conclusion between France
and Germany, and forth comes repub-
licanism for France. Conclusion among
the rocks on Mount Sinai and on two Of
them was left perfect law for all ages.
Conclusion among the rocks around
Calvary, and the crucifixion was made
the more overwhelming. Conclusion
between the United States and Mexico,
and 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
between iceberg and iceberg, between
bowlder and bowlder, and Thousand
conclusions put this world into shape
for mans residence. Conclusion be-
/ tween David and hic apamior o,a ,,,+