The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-11
EASTER SUNDAY SERMON
come, SEE THE PLACE WHERE
THE LORD lay"

cred ON Sunday. March 80, by the
Rev. t. De Witt TalInase-TitIe of the
sermon. ''The Split sIausoleum''
NEW YORK. March 29-Dr Talmage
Preached an Easter sermon to his two audi
snces today. Both at the morning service
In Brooklyn and at the Christian Herald
service in New York in the evening the
Academies of Music were bright with
profusion of flowers, Easter lilies being
conspicuous. A selection of music appro-
PIRATE to the festival was beautifully rem
dered at each service. The text of the
preachers discourse was Matthew xviii 6.
Come, see the place where the Lord lay"
visiting any great city, are not salts
ned until we have also looked at it's ceme-
terry We examine all the styles of ceno-
taph, mausoleum. sarcophagus, crypt and
sculpture. Here lies buried a statesman.
yonder an orator, here a poet, out there an
inventor, in some other place great phi
lanthropist. But with how much greater
interest and with more depth of emotion
We look upon our family plot in the ceme-
tcry. In the one case it is matter of pub
he interest, in the other it is a matter of
private and heartfelt affection. But
around the grave at which we halt this
morning there are gathered all kinds of
stupendous interest. At this sepulcher, /
have to tell you-in this sepulcher there
was buried a king, a conqueror, an eman-
> sipator, friend, a brother, Christ Mon
arch of the universe but bone of our bone
and flesh of our flesh, and sorrow of our
morrow, and heart of our heart. "Come,
80 the place where the Lord lay"
THE MANOR OF JOSEPH.
1t has for surroundings the manor in
the suburbs of Jerusalem a manor owned
by a wealthy gentleman by the name of
Joseph. He was one of the court of seven
ty who had condemned Christ, but think
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timid man, had been absent at the time of
the casting of the vote. He had laid out
the parterre at great expense. It was hot
climate, and suppose there were broad
eranched trees and winding paths under
meath them, while here the waters rippled
over the rock into a fishpool, and yonder
the vines and the flowers clambered over
the wall, and all around there were the
beauties of kiosk and arboriculture After
the fatigues of the Jerusalem courtroom
how refreshing to come out in these
saburbs botanical and pomologicall
Iwalk a little further on in the parterre
and come across cluster of rocks and
- on them the marks of q sculptor's
ehisel / come still closer and l find that
there Is a subterranean recess and walk
down the marble stairs and come to port
100 over the doorway-an architecture of
FRUITS and flowers chiseled by the hand of
the sculptor. go into the portico, and on
either side there are rooms, two or four or
NIX rooms of rock; in the walls inches.
zach niche large enough to hold a dead
body. One of these rooms of rock is espe-
sally wealthy with sculpture. 1t was a
heautiful and charming spot. Why all
this7 The fact was that Joseph, the own
eref the parterre. of that wealthy manor,
had recognized the fact that he could not
always walk those gardens, and he sought
this as his own last resting place. What
beautiful plot in which to wait for the
segurrectioni ~ =. RI. .5 - E.
MARX WELL THE MAUsoLEUM 81
Mark well the mausoleum in the rock |
H IS to be the most celebrated to NIB in all |
"a ages; catacombs of Egypt, tomb of
Napoleon, Mahal Tai of India, nothing |
sempared with it. Christ had just been
murdered, and his body must be thrown |
sat to the dogs and the ravens, as was
o1stomary with crucified bodies, unless |
there be prompt and effective hindrance. |
Joseph, the owner Of the mausoleum, begs |
eor the body of Christ, and he takes and |
washes the poor and mutilated frame from |
the blood and the dust, and shrouds it and |
perfumes it. 4AE "
kthink embalmment was omitted When |
IN olden times they wished to embalm a |
dead body, the priest with some pretension
sf medical skill would show. the point be-
tween the ribs where the incision was to |
20 made. Then the operator would come I
and make the incision, and then run for /
his life else he would be slain for violating
ehe dead body. Then the other priests
would come with salt of inter, and cassia.
and wine of palm tree, and complete the
en oalmment. But think in this case en-
eaainment was omitted lest there be more
excitement and another riot. The funeral
advances. Present, Joseph, the owner of the
nausoleum; Nicodemus, who brought the
flowers. and the two Marys Heavy bur
oen on the shoulders of two men as they
carry the body of Christ down the marble
sfairs and into the portico and lift the dead
weight to the level of the niche in the
rock, and push the body of Christ into the
only pleasant resting place it ever had.
These men coming forth close the door of
rock against the recess. The government. /
afraid that the disciples would steal the
body of Christ and play resurrection, put
upon the door the seal of the Sanhedrim,
the violation o. that seal, like the violation
Of the seal of the United States govern
1nent or of the British government, always
followed with severe penalties
THE GUARD OF THE TOMB.
"A regiment of soldiers from the tower of
Antonio is detailed to guard that mauso
ieum At the door of that tomb fight
took place which decided the question for
All graveyards and cemeteries. Sword of
lightning against sword of steel. Angel of
God against the military. The body in the
crypt begins to move in its shroud of fine
linen and slides down upon the pavement.
moves through the portico, appears in the
aoorway, comes up the marble steps
Christ. having left his mortuary attire be-
hind him, comes forth in the garb of a
workman as take it, from the fact thar
the women mistook him for the gardener.
There and then was shattered the tomb
20 that it can never be rebuilt All the
trowels of earthly masonry cannot mend
II Forever and forever it is a broken
tomb. Death that day taking the side of
the military received horrible cut under
the angels spear of fame, and must him