The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-04-03

Flowers are types of resurrection.
Death is sad enough anyhow. Let con-
.servatory and aborteum do all they can
in the way of alienation. Your little
girl loved flowers, while she was alive.
Put them in her hands. now that she
can not go forth and pluck flowers for
herself. On sunshiny days twist gar
land for her still heart. Brooklyn has
no grander glory than her Greenwood,
nor Bottom than her Mount Auburn,
nor Philadelphia than her Laurel Hill,
nor Cincinnati than her Spring Grove,
nor San Francisco than her Lone Noun
tain. What shall | say of those country
grave yards where the vines have fallen
down and the slab is aslant, and the
mound is caved in, and the grass in the
pasture ground for the sections cattle.
Are your father and mother of so little
account you have no more respect than
that for their bones? Some day gather
together and straighten up the fence
and lift the slab, and bank up the mound,
and tear out the weeds and plant the
shrubs. After a while, you. yourself
will want to lie down 20 the last slum-
Der. If you have no regard for the
bones of your ancestors, your children
will have no Difference for your bones.
Do you say these relics are of no i'm
portance? You will see of how much
Importance they are when the archan-
gel takes out his trumpet. Turn all
your graveyards into gardens.
Again, standing in this place where
the Lord lay, | am impressed with the
fact that you can not keep the dead
down. The seal of the Sanhedrim, a
regiment of soldiers from the tower, or
Antonio to stand guard, floor of rock,
wall of rock. niche of rock, can not keep
Christ in the crypt. Come out and come
up he, must. Came out and came up he
did. Prefguration. The first fruits of
them that sleep. Just as certainly as
you and go down into the grave. just
so certainly we will come up again.
Though you pile up on top of us all the
bOulders of the mountains you can not
keep us down. Though we be buried
under the coral of the deepest cavern of
the Atlantic ocean we will rise to the
surface. All! my friends, death and
the grave are not what they used to be
to us, for now, walking around the spot
where the Lord lay, we find vines and
flowers covering up the tomb and that
which we called a place of skulls has be-
come become beautiful garden. Yea,
now there are four gardens instead of
one: Garden of Eden, garden of the
worlds sepulchre, garden of earth's re-
generation, garden Of heaven. Various
Scriptural accounts say that the work of
grave breaking will begin with the blast
of the trumpets and shouting: whence |
take it that the first intimation of the
day will be a sound from heaven such as
has never before been heard. 1t may
not be so very loud, but it will be pene-
trating. There are mausoleums so deep
that undisturbed silence has slept there
ever since the day when sleepers were
left in them. The great noise shall
strike through them. Among the cor
ais of the sea. miles deep, where the
shipwrecked rest, the sound will strike.
No one will mistake it for thunder. or
the blast of earthly minstrelsy- There
will be heard the voice Of the uncounted
millions of the dead, who come rushing
out of the gates of eternity, flying to
ward the tomb, crying. Make way. O.
grave, give us back our body, We gave
it to you in corruption: surrender it
now in interruption. Thousands of
spirits arising from the field of Sedan.
and from among the rocks of Gettys-
burg, ard from among the passes of
South mountain. A hundred thousand
are crowding Greenwood. On this grave
three spirits meet, for there were three
bodies in that tomb, over that family
vault twenty spirits hover, for there
were twenty bodies.
From New York to Liverpool at every
few miles on the sea route group of
hundreds of spirits coming down to the
water to meet their iDdies. See that
multitude-that is where the Central
America sank. And yonder multitude
that is where the Pacific went down.
Found at last! That is where the city
ofsBoston sank. And yondsr the Presi.
alights on yonder prairie-that is where
a traveller persisted in the snow. The
whole air is full of spirits-spirits flying
north, spirits flying south, spirits flying
east, spirits flying west. Crash! goes
Westminster Abbey as all its dead
kings and orators aud poets get up.
Strange commingling of spirits search
ing among the ruins William Will
berforce, the good, and Queen Elizabeth,
the bad. Crash! go the Pyramids, and
the monarchs of Egypt rise out of the
heart of the desert. Snap, 60 the iron
gates of the modern vaults. The coun-
try graveyard will look like rough
ploughed field as the mounds break
open. All the kings of the earth: all
the senators: all the great men; all the
beggars; all the armies-victors and
vanquished; all the ages-barbaric and
civilized; all those who were chopped
by guillotine, or simmered in the fire,
or rotted in dungeons: all the infants OF
a day; all the octogenarians-all! all,
Not one straggler left behind. All!
all, And now the air is darkened with
the fragments of bodies that are coming
together from the opposite corners
OF the earth. Lost limbs finding
their mate-bone to bone, sinew to
sinew-until every joint is reconstruct
ed, and every arm finds its socket, and
the amputated limb of the surgeons
table shall be set again at the point
from which it was severed. A surgeon
told me that after the battle of Bull Run
he amputated limbs, throwing them out
of the window until the pile reached up
to the window sill. All those frag.
ments will have to take their places.
Those who were born blind shall have
eyes divinely kindled; those who were
lame shall have limb substituted. In the
hosts Of the the resurrected not one eve
missing one foot clogged: not one arm
palsied; not one tongue dumb; not one
ear deaf.
Wake up, my friends, this, glo-
rlous Easter morning, with all these
congratulations. II l understand this
day, 1t means peace toward earth.
Great wealth of flowers! Bring more
flowers. Wreathe them around the
brazen throat of the cannon, plant them
in the desert until it shall blossom like