Milford chronicle., 1889-04-26
AR0MATlCS FOR EASTER.
DR.. TALMAeE DESCRIBES SCENES
OF cHRIsT's RESURRECTION.

The Adonments of the ToEnb-The In
Vulnerable Hosts of the Dead-The Clio
ries of the Resurrection Of the Right
eous-The Life Beyond the Tomb.
Brooklyn, April sl.-A vast multitude
attended the Easter services at the Brooklyn
! Tabernacle this morning. The pews, the
aises and all the adjoining rooms were
thronged and multitudes in the street could
not gain an entrance. Rev. 7. De Witt Tai
mage, D. D., preached on the subject Arc
MATES for Easter" The pulpit and galleries
of the church had elaborate floral decora-
lions. The congregation 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.. Talmago took two texts, Luke xiv, 1;
bringing the spices which they had pre-
| pared" Corinthians Ky, 81; 1.-THE trumpet
shall sound" He said;
Enchanting work have l before me this
Easter morning. for, initiating these women
of the text, who brought aromatics to the
mausoleum of Christ, aL 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 music that
shall wake the dead Having on other East
srs described the whole scene, need only in
, four or five sentences say; Christ was lying
fat on his back lifeless, amidst sculptured
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 it
aside as though it were a chair ard sits
on it. Then Christ unwraps himself
Of his mortuary apparel and takes the
turban from his head and folds it up deliber-
ately and laws 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 a
dead swoon, their swords bent and useless
The illustrious prisoner Of the tomb is dis
charged and five hundred people see him At
once. An especial congress of ecclesiastics
called pay bride to the resuscitated soldiers
to say that there was no resurrection, and
that while they were overcome Of slunber the
Christians had played resurrectiouists and
stolen the corpse The Marysare 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 expressed the piercing sor-
rows Of themselves and their Lords Why
did they not bring some national ensign such
as that of the Roman eagle typical Of con-
questl No, they bring aromatics suggestive
to me of the fact that the Gospel is to sweeten
and deodorlze the world. The world has 50
much of putrefactiOn and malodor that
Christ is going to roll over it waves Of frank
incense and sprinkle it all over with sweet
smelling myIrh Thousands of years before
this Solomon had said that Christ was a lily
and Isaiah had declared that under the Cos
pei 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 per-
haps unwittingly confirm and emphasize the
lesson of deterioration When Christ's Cos
pei has conquered the earth the last olfense
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 i'll ventilation and the world will
become two great gardens, the empurpled
and emblazoned and emparadised henis-
pheres Sin is u buzzard holiness is a dove.
you are trying to reform the world open the
windows Of that tenement house and pour
through it a draught of Gods pure atmOs-
phere and set geranium or heliotrope on
the window sill; cleanse the air and you will
help cleanse the soul How dare the world
so often insult Tat 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 on
prairies and in mountain businesses the fra
GRANGE 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 sepulcher 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 ancient tabernacle and temple
with sweet incense and there are small bottles
of perfume in heaven described in Revelations
as golden vials full of Odors preach an am
brOsial gospel which will yet extirpate 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 for the Sayiours feet and thorns for
the Saviour's brow, the magi put franklin
cense upon his cradle and the Marys brought
frankincense for his grave
ORDER OUT OF DIsCoRD.
Notice also that Christ's mausoleum was
opened By conclusion. 1t was great earth
quake that put its twisted key into the in
volved and labyrinthine lock Of that tomb
Concussionl That is the power that opens
ali 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 repubicanism for France
Conclusion among the rocks on Mount Sinai
and on two Of them was left a perfect law for
ell 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. Concus
sion between England and France, and most
Of this continent west of the mississippi be
comes the property Of the American Union
Conclusion between iceberg and iceberg, be
tween bowlder and bowlder, and thousand
conclusions put this world into shape for
mans residence. Conclusion between David
and his enemies, and out came the psalms
winch OLlerWlSe WOulu never nave UGH WIZ
ten. Conclusion between Gods viii and
mans will, aud ours overthrow, we are new
creatures in Christ Jesus. Conclusion Of
misfortune 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 asitations,
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 magnificent consequences.
Hear the crash all round the Lords sarcoQa-
agus and see the glorious termination Of its
dead inhabitant Concussionl II ever gen
eral European war, which the world has been
expecting for the last twenty years, should
come, a conclusion so wide ard conclusion
so tremendous would not leave a throne in
Europe standing as it now is. The nations of
the earth are tired of having their kings
born TO ,heul, and they would after while
elect their kings, and there would be
an Italian republic and a German re
public and a Russian republic and an