The Forrest City times., 1890-04-12

seconded. What triumphal proccsalon never did for . street. what an orasorio mover did for an academy what m orator never did for . brilliant auditory, what obelisk never did for king, Resurrection morn will do for all the cemeteries.
 This Easter tells us that In Christs resurrection. our resurrection If we aro His, and the resurrec- tion of all the pious dead, Is assured, for He was ''tho first fruits of them that slept" Renan says He did not rise. but five hundred and eighty witnesses, sixty of them Christ's enemies, say He did riso, for they saw Him after he had risen. If He did not rise how did sixty armed soldiers let him get awayf Surely sixty living soldiers ought to be able to keep one dead mani Blessed be God He did get away. After His resurrection Mary Magdaleno saw Him Cleopas saw Him. Ten disciples in an upper room at Jerusalem saw Him. On a mountain tho eleven saw Him. Five hundred at once saw Him. Professor Ernest Renan, who did not sec Him, will excuse us for taking the testi- mony Of the five hundred and eighty who did sec Him. Yes yes he got away. And that makes mo sure that our departed loved ones and we ourselves shall get away. Freed Himself from tho shackles Of clod, He is not going to leave us and ours in the lurch. There will be no door-knop on the inside of the family sepulchre. for we can not come out of ourselves but there is door knob on the outside, and that Jesus shall lay hold of, and opening will say; 'Good morningi You have slept long enoughl Arise Ariset' And then what tiutter of wings, and what flashing of re- kindled eyes, and what gladsome rushing across the family lot, with cries of Father, is that youi' "Mother, is that youP My darling, is that youf' "How you all have changodi' The cough gone, the croup gone, the consumption gone, the par alysis gone, the wearinoss gone. Come, let us ascend together The older ones first, tho younger ones nextl Quick now. get into line The skyward procession has already started Steer now by that embankment of cloud for the nearest gatels And as we ascend, on one side the earth gets smaller until 1t is no larger than mountain, and smaller until it is no larger than a palace, and smaller until it is no larger than ship, and smaller until 1t Is no larger than wheel, and smaller until it is no larger than speck. Farewell, dis solving earth. But on the other side. as we rise, heaven at first appears no larger than your hand And nearer 1t looks like t and nearer it looks like star and nearer It looks like n sun, and nearer it looks like universe. Hail, sceptres thut shall always wavel Hall, anthems that shall always roll Hail, companion ships never again to Do broken, mud friend ships never again to part That Is what Resurrection Day will do for all the cemete- ries and graveyards from the Machpelah that was opened by Father Abraham in Hebron to the Machpelah yesterday cunse- crated. And that makes l .ady Huutington's immortal rhythm most opposite:
 When Thou, my rig hteous Judge, shalt come To take Thy ransomed people home,
 Shall l among them standt
 Shall suct wor thless worm us l,
 Who sometimes am afraid to die,
 Be found tt Thy right hands
 Among Thy saints let me be found,
 Whene'er tn archange's trump shall sound,
 To sec Thy smiling face;
 Then londcst of the thronr fil sing,
 While heavens resougding arches ring
 With shouts of sovereign grace.