Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-22
FLOWERS FOR EASTER
WOMBN BROUHT AROMATICS TO THE NAU-
S0LBUM OF CHRIST.
Dr. Ialmagss Eloquent Sermon Yesierday-Ths
Lesson Of the OrucifXiOD, Tomb and Resur-
rechOn-Ths Stone Will be
Rolled Away.
ipeeial Tlegram to he Reglsier.

DNCShi+ANi Apti 81 a VAST muitlNuue
attended the Easter services at the Brook
lyn Tabernacle this morning. The pews,
tie aisles and all the adjOining rooms were
throDged, and multitudes in the streets
cold not gain an entrance. Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, D. D. preached on the sub
ject, "Aromatics for Easter" The pulpit
and galleries of the church had elaborate
floral decorations. The congregation sang
the opening hymn;
We praise thee, o God, for the Son OF thy love,
For Jesus who died aud is now gone above
DIR. Talmage took two texts, Luke xiv,
1; Bringing the spices which they had
prepared" I Corinthians XIV, 50: "The
trumpet shall sound" He said:
Enchanting work have | before me this
Easter morning, for, initiating these
women of the text, who brought aro-
MATES to the mausoleum of Christ, I am
going to unrOll frankincese and balm and
Ottar of roses and cardamon from the East
Indies and odors from Arabia, and, when |
we can inhsle 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, l need only in four or
five sentences say: Christ was lying fiat |
on his back, hfeless, amidst sculptured |
rocks, rocks over him, rocks under him, |
and door of rocks all bounded by the |
flowers and fountains Of JOseph's country |
seat. Then q bright immortal, having |
descended from heaven, quick and Aash-
ing as falling meteor, picks up the doOf |
Of rock and puts it aside as though it were |
chair and sits on it. Then Christ un-
wraps himself Of his mortuary apparel |
and takes the turban from his head and |
folds it up deliberately and lays it 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, pallid and in dead
swoOn, their swords bent and useless |
The. illustriOus
PRISONER OF THE TOMB
is discharged aud five hundred people zee |
him at once. An especial congress of &C.
clesiastics called pay bribs to the resus- |
citated soldiers to cay that there was no
resurrection and that while they were over
come of slumber the Christians had played |
resarrectiOuists 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 sorrow of themselves and their |
Lord? Why did not they bring some ma.
tiOnsl ensign, such as that of the Rom an
eagle, typical of conquest? No, they bring |
arOmatics suggestive 10 me of the fact that |
the Gospel is to sweeten aud deOdorizs the
world. The world has so much of
putrefactiOn and malOdOr that Christ !
is going to roll over 1t waves Of frank in
cense and sprinkle it all over Sith sweet |
smelling myrrh. Thousands of years be |
| fore this Solomon had said that Christ was |
lily and Isaiah had declared that under |
the Gospel the desert would bloom like |
the rose, bat the world was slow to take |
the floral hint. And so now the women |
of the text bring hands full and arms full |
OF IedOlence and perhaps unwittingly con- |
! firm and emphasizs the lesson of deOdorizs- |
ton. When Christ's Gospel has con-
quered the earth the last Offerse TO the OIL |
/ factories 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 emblszOned and emparadised hemi- |
spheres.
HOW THE AfAT sOLEUM OPENED.
Notice also that Christs mausOlum was
opened by conclusion. 1t was greVt
earthquake that put its twisted key into |
the involved and labyTinthine 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 between England and the thir-
teen colonies, and forth comes free govern |
ment in America. Conclusion between |
France and Germany, and forth comes re-
publicanism for France. Conclusion |
among the rocks on Mount Sinai, and on
two of them WAS left a perfect law for all |
ages. Concusssion among the rocks around |
Calvary and the crucifxion was made the /
more overwhelming. Conclusion between |
the United States and Mexico, and vast |
area of country becomes ours. COncus-
sion between England and France, |
and most of this continent west OF
the Mississippi becomes the property oi
the American Union. Conclusion between
/ iceberg aud iceberg, between bowlder ana
! bowlder, and thousand concessions put
this world into shape for mans residence
Conclusion between David and his enc
mies. and out came the psalms which 9th |
erwise would never have been written. |
Concussion between Gods will and mans
will. and. ours overthrown, we are new
creatures in Christ Jesus. Conclusion OF
misfortune and trial for many of the good,
and outcomes their especial conservation.
Do not therefore be frightened when on
see the great upheavsls, the great agits-
tious. the great earthquakes, whether
among the rocks or among the nations or
in individual experience Out OF them
God will bring best results and most mag |
niicent consequences.
USE FOR THE STONE.
Noties also what the angel did with the
stone after he had rolled 1t away from the |
mouth of the SsviouI's mausoleum. Ihe
hook says he rolled away the stone from
the door and sat upon it. All of us min
istsrs have preached sermon about the
angels rolling away the stone, but we did
NOT remark upon the sublime fact that he
sat upon il. Why Certainly not be-
csnse he was tired. The angels are IA
tieueless race, and that one could have
sbouldered every rock around that tomb
and carried it away and not been be-
sweated. He sat upon it, 1 think, to
show Won aud to show me that we may
make every earthly obstacle throne
of triumph. The young men
who get their education easy seldom
amouut TO much. These who had to
slru0ele for it come out atop. There Is
no end of the story of studying by pine
knot lir ats and reading while the mules
n the towpath were resting and of going
hungry and patched and barefoOted and
admitting to all kinds of privation to get
scholastic advantages. But the day OF
Graduation came and they took the
dinlomss with hand nervous from night
stady and pale from lack of food and put
their academic degrees in the pocket OF
threadbsre coat. Then starting for an
ether career of hardship they entered
nrofession or business where they found
pisntv of disheartenment and no help. Yet
saving. TI will succeed; God help me,
for no else will" tney went on and up
until the world was compelled to &C.
knowledge and admire them
4 FREQUENT MISTAKE.
vat do not make the mistake that many