The Penn's Grove record., 1889-05-11
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
Anomalies for Easter.

bringing the species which they had pre-.
pared" Luke A:l.
eth trumpet shall sound" l Cor. Is p.
Enchanting work have l before me
this Easter morning, for, Initiating
these women of the text, who brought
lar0matics to the ma soleum of Christ,
I am going to unrOll fr%anklncense and
balm and altar Of roses and cardimon
from the East Indies, and odors from
ARABIA, and, when we can inhale no
more Of the perfume, then we will take
to sweet sounds and hear from the
music that shall wake the dead. Hav-
ing on other casters described the
whole scene, l need only in four or five
sentences say: Christ wa lying fiat on
his back, l~ifeless, amidst sc~ulptured
rocks-rocks over him, rocks under
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 falling meteor, picks
up the door of rock and puts 1t aside as
though it were a chair and sits on 1t.
Then Christ unwraps Himself of his
mortuary apparel, and takes the turban
from His head and folds it up deliber-
ately and lays 1t down in one place, and
then puts the shroud In another place,
and comes out and finds that the SOL
diers who had been on guard are lying
In a dead swoon.
THE INDUSTRIOUS PRISONER
of the tomb is discharged, and five
hundred people see Him at once. An
especial congress of ecclesiastles called,
pay a bride to the resuscitated SOL
diers to say that there was no resur-
rection, and that while they were over
come of slumber the Christians had
rlayed resurrectionists and stolen the
corpse. The Marys are at the tomb
with aromatics. Why did not these
women of the text bring thorns and
nettlesp for these would more
thoroughly have expressed the piercing
sorrows of themselves and their Lord.
Why did they not bring some national
ensign, such as that OF the Roman
eagle. typical Of conquest Ne, they
bring aromatics, suggestive TO me of
he fact that
THE GOSPEL Is TO sWEETEN
and deodorize the world. The world
has so much of putrefaction and malo-
dor that Christ is going to roll over it
waves OF frankincense, and sprinkle 1t
all over with understanding myrrh.
Thousands of years before this Solomon
had said that Christ was a lily, and
Isaiah had declared that under the gos-
pei the desert would bloom like a rose;
but the world was slow to take the
floral hint. And 30 nOw the women of
the text bring hands full and arms full
Of redolence, and perhaps unwittingly
confirm the lesson of deterioration.
When Chrfst's gospel has conquered the
earth the last offence to the OlfactOries
will have left the world; sweet, pure
air will have blown through every
home, and churches will DO freed from
the curse of i'll ventilation, and the
world will become two great gardens,
the empurpled and emblazoned and
emparadlsed h~emispheres. Sin is a buzz
card, holiness is a dove.
SIN is NIGUTsHADE,
holiness is a flower. If you are trying
to reform the world. open the windows
of that tenement house and pour
through it a draught of Gods pure
atmosphere, and sat q geranium or
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 proml-
nent feature in human physiognomy?
To prove how He Himself loves arc
mates. l bring the fact that there are
millions OF flowers on prairIes and in
mountain Businesses the fragrance of
which no human being ever brea'hes,
and He must have grown them there
for His own regalement. And fer the
compliment the world paid Christ by
giving Him a sepulchre In Joseph's
garden, 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 filed the air OF the an
Gent tabernacle and temple with sweet
incense; and there are small bottles OF
perfume 10 heaven, described in Re-
velation as golden walls full of odors.
| preach an amoros:al gospel which
will yet extirpate from the world all
| foulness and rancidity, and the last
no.someness and the last mephltic gas.
Glad am / that, though the world had
chiefly spikes fol- the Saviour's feet and
thorns for the S%avlOuT's brow, the
Maai put frankinceIs SO upon His era
die and the Marys brought franklin
cense for his grave.
Notice, also, that Christ's mauso-
leum was opened By concusSion. 1t was
a great earthquake thai put its twisted
key into tho involved and labyrinthine
lock of that tomb. C%opcussionl That
is the power that opens all the tolubs
that are opened at all. Tomb of soul,
and tomb OF nations. Conclusion be-
tween England and the thirteen colo
niles, and forth comes free government
in America. Conclusion between
France and Germany, and forth comes
IrepublIcanlsm for France.
CONCLUSION AMONG TIE RocAs
on Mount Sinai, M on two of them
was left a perfect law for all ages.
lConcussion among the rocks around
calvary, and the Crucitixlon Vas made
1.-THE more overwhelming. Conclusion
between the United States and Mexico,
and a vast area of couat.y becomes
lours, Conclusion between England
land France, and most of this continent
west of the Mississippi becomes the
property of the American Union. Con-
lcussion between iceberg and iceberg,
between bowlder and boWideF, and a
Thousand coacussiOns put this world
Into shape for mans residence. Con-
lcussion between David and his enemies,
and out came the Psalms, which other
wise would never have be3n written.
lConcussion between Gods will and
maps will. and. ours overthIown
we are new creatures in Christ
Jesus. Conclusion of misfortune and
trial for IpanY OF the good, and out
comes their conservation.
Do not therefore DO frly hteaed when
you see the great upheavals, the great
lagitations, tie great earthquakes.
whether among the rocks, or among
the nations. or in individual expert
fence. Out of them God Will bring
best results. and most magnificent con
looonopnas Haa- the crash all round