The Red Cloud chief., 1891-04-10

a beautiful garden Yea. o there
are our gardens instead OF one: Garden
of Eden, garden Of the worlds sepul-
chre. garden Of earth's regeneration,
garden Of Heaven. Scriptursl accounts
say the work Of grave breaking VIII be-
gin with blast Of ~trumpcts and shout
ing; whence ! take il tina: the first In
timation Of the day VIII be q sound
from Heaven such rs has before
been heard II may not he % very
loud, but IL viii be penetrating. There
are mausoleuins so deep that undisr
turbed silence has slept there ever since
the day whe the sleepers were left In
them The great noise shall strike
through them Among the corals Of
the sea, miles deep. where the ship
wrecked rest. the sound will strike
No one viii mistake IL for thunder, or
the blast Of earthly minstrelsy. There
viii be heard the voice of the u~ncount-
ed millions Of the dead, who come rush
ing out Of the gates OF eternity. flying
toward the tomb. crying. snake way.
o, grave, give US back our body! We
gave il 10 you in corruption; surrender
il now in interruption" Thousands Of
spirits arising from the field Of Sedan,
and from among the rocks Of Gettys-
burg, and from 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 az every
few miles on the sea route a group Of
hundreds Of spirits coming down 10 the
water TO meet their bodies 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
of Boston sank. And yonder the Pres
ident went down. A solitary spirit
alights on yonder prairic-that Is where
a traveller persisted in the snow. The
whole air is full of spirits-spirits fly
ing north, spirits flying south, spirits
flying east spirits flying west Crash.
goes Westminster Abbey as all its dead
kings and orators and poets get up
Strange commingling of spirits search
ing among the ruins. William Wilber-
force, the good, and Queen Elizabeth,
the bad. Crash. go TO the pyramids,
and the monarchs of Egypt rise ont OF
the heart of the desert Snap. go to
the iron gates of the modern vaults The
country graveyard Will look like a
rough plowed field as the mounds break
open. All the kings Of the earth, al
the senators, all the great men, all the
armies-victors and vanquished, all the
ages-barbaric and civilized, all those
who were chopped by guillotine, or
simmered in a fire, or rotted in dun
geons, all the infants of q day, all the
octogenarians-all. all. Not one stIag-
gler 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 10 sinew, until every
! joint is reconstructed, and every arm
finds its socket, and the arnputated 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, throw
ing them out of the window until the
pile reached up to the window sill. All
those fragments will have 10 take their
places. Those who were born blind
shall have eyes divinely kindlcd: those
who were lame shall have a limb sub
stituted. In all the hosts of the rcsur-
rected not one eye missing; not one foot
| clogged; not one arm palsied; not II
tongue dumb; not one ear deaf.
Wake up, my friends, tins day, this
glorious Easter morning, with all these
congratulations. IL l understand this
day, il means peace toward Heaven and
peace toward earth. Great wealth OF
flowers! Bring more flowers. Wreath
them around the brazen throat OF the
cannon, plant them in the desert until
il shall blossom like the roS.. braid
them into the manc of the war charger
as he comes back. No more red dahlias
of human blood. Give rs white lilies
of peace. Sirew all the earth with
Easter garlands, for the resurrection we
celebrate this morning implies all kinds
of resurrection, a score of resurrectlons.
Resurrection from death and sin To the
life of the gospel. Resurrection OF
apostolic faith. Resurrection OF COM
mercial integrity. Resurrection of ma
tional honor. Resurrection of interna-
tional good will. Resurrection Of art.
Resurrection of literature. Resurrec-
ton Of everything that is good and kind
and generous and just and holy and
beautiful. Nothing 10 stay down, To
stay buried, bu: sin and darkness and
pain and disease and revenge and de ath.
Let those tarry in the grave forever.
"Glorp to God in the highest and on
earth peace, good will tn men"
Christ. the Lord. IL risen 20 day,
Sons of men and angels say.
Raise your songs and triunphs high.
4 ne. We heavens, and eartn rely
Loves redcemIng work Is done,
Fought the nght the battle won
Loithe suns eclipse Is DER,
10! he sets in blood no more.