Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-05-01
SOUND OF The TRUMPET.
DIR. TALMAeE's SERMON SUNDAY, APRIL 81

DRooKLYN, April 21-A vast multitude
ID attended the Easter services at the
Brooklyn tabernacle this morning The
pews, the aisles and all the adjoining room
were thronged, and multitudes in the street
could not gain an entrance. Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, DID,, preached on the sub
iect, "Aromatics for Easter" The pulpit
aud 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 and is now gone above.
DR.. Talmsge took two texts, Luke xiv.
/; "Bringing the spices which they had
prepared" Corinthians XIV SO: "The
trumpet shall sound" He said:
Enchanting work have before me this
Easter morning, for, initiating these wo-
men of the text, who brought aromat1cs to
the mausoleum of Christ. am going to un
roll frankincense and balm and ottar OF
roses aud 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 sculptured rocks. rocks over him,
I rocks under him, and a door OF rocks al
bounded by the flowers and fountains oi
Joseph's country seat. Then bright i'm
mortal, having descended from heaven,
quick and flashing as falling meteor, picks
up the door of rock and puts it aside as
though it were chair and sits on it. Then
Christ uuwraps himself of his mortuary ap
parel and takes the turban from his head
aud folds it up deliberately and lays it down
in one place and then puts the shrOud iu
another place and comes out and finds thai
the soldiers who had been on guard are ly-
ing around, pallid and in a dead swoon,
their swords bent and useless. The illus
trious prisoner of the tomb is discharged
| and five hundred people see him at once :
An especial congt ess of ecclesiastics called
pay bribe to the resuscitated soldiers &!
say that there was no resurrection aud thai
while they were overcome of sumbar tbs
Christians had played resurrectionists snc
ard stolen the corpse. The Marys are al
the tomb with aromatics.
Why did not these women of the tex
bring tborns and nettles, for these would
| more thoroughly have expressed the pierc
| ing sorrows of themselves and their Lord
Why did they not bring some national en-
cal of conquest? No, they bring aromatics
suggestive to me of the fact that the Gospel
is to sweeten and deodor,zs the world. The
world has so much of putrefaction and NAL
odor that Christis going to roll over it waves
of frankincense and sprinkle it all over with
sweet smelling myrrh. Thousands of years
before this Solomon bad said that Chris
was lily, and Isaiah had declared that un
der the Gospel the desert would bloom lik,
the rose, but the world was slow to take tn,
floral hint. And 80 now the woule n of thu
text bring hands fall and arms f,ll of redo
lerce and perhaps unwittingly con firm an,
emphasize the lesson of deodorizatio n. Whel
| Christ's Gospel has conquered th Q cart
| the last offence to the olfactories ill hav
left the world; sweet, pure air wi II hav
blown through every home, and hurche
| will be freed from the curse of ill vel itilatio
| and the world will become two gr sat gar
dens, the empurpIed and emblazoi led an
emparadised hemisrheres. Sin is a buz
| zard, holiness is dove. Sin is nigh tshade
holiness is flower. If you are tr. wing t
reform the world open the windows of tina