The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-11

! from the tower or Antonio to stand yuarxI
floor of rock, roof of rock, wall of rock
niche of rock cannot keep Christ in the
crypt. Come out and come up he must.
Came out and came up he did Prefigura
ton. The first fruits of them that sleen
Just as certain as you and go down into
the grave, just so certain we will come mr.,
again. Though you pile up on the top of
us all the powders of the mountains YOU
cannot keep us d9wn Though we ba
buried under the coral of the deepest cav
ern of the Atlantic ocean we will rise tn
the surface
Ali my friends, death and the grave are
not what they used to be to us, for nov.
walking around the spot where the T ord
lay, we find vines and flowers covering up
the tomb, and that which we called a place
of skulls has become beautiful garden.
Yea, now there are four gardens instead of
one-Garden of Eden, Garden of the
Worlds Sepulcher, Garden of Earth's Re
generation, Garden of Heaven
WITH TRUMPETs AND sHoUTINGs.
Various scriptural accounts say that the
work OF grave breaking will begin with the
blast of trumpets and shoutings; whence /
take it that the first intimation of the dav
will be sound from heaven such as has
never before been heard 1t NAV not he 81
very loud, but it will be penetrating. There
are mausoleums so deep that undisturbed
silence has slept there ever since the day
when the sleepers were left in them. The
great noise shall strike through them.
Among the corals 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 uncoupted
millions of the dead, who come rushing
out of the gates of eternity, flying toward
the tomb crying: Make wayl Oh, grave,
give us back our bodyi We gave it to YOU
in corruption; surrender it now in incor-
ruption." Thousands of spirits arising
from the field of Sedan, and from among
the rocks of Gettysburg, and 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 tombl Over that fam
lily vault twenty spirits hover for there
were twenty bodies
From New York to Liverpool, at every
few miles on the sea route, a group of hun
dreds OF spirits coming down to the water
to meet their bodies. See that multitude,
That Is where the Central America sank.
And yonder multitudel That is where the
Pacific went down. Found at lasti That
is where the City of Boston sank And
yonder the President went down. A soil
tary spirit alights on yonder prairie That
is where traveller perished in the snow
The whole air is full of spirits-spirits fly
ing north, spirits flying south, spirits fly
ing east, spirits flying west. Crashl goes
Westminster abbey as all it's dead kings
and orators and poets get up. 81
Strange commingling of spirits searching
among the ruins. William Wilberforce.
the good, and Queen Elizabeth, the bad.
Crashi go the pyramids, and the monarchs
of Egypt rise out of the heart of the desert.
Snapi go the iron gates of the modern
ho
like a rough plowed field as the mounds
break open All the kings of the earth:
all the senator's; all the great men: all the
beggars; all Rhe armies-victors and van
qulshed; all the ages-barbaric and civil
lied; all those who were chopped by gull
lotlne or simmered in the fire or rotted in
dungeons, all the infants of day; all the
octogenarlans-alli ALL Not one straggler
left behind. ALI ALI W c-Hi t; gTer.7
And now the air is darkened with the
fragments of bodies that are coming to-
gether from the opposite corners of the
earth. Lost limbs finding their mate
bone to bone, sinew to sinew-until every
joint is reconstructed. 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. IA sur
geon told me that after the battle of Bull
Run he a1nPutated 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 a limb substituted In
all the hosts of the resurrected not one eve
missing, not one foot clogged. not one
arm pa!sied, not one tongue dumb, not
one ear deaf
PEACE TOWARD HEAVEN AND EARTH.
Wake up, my friends, this day, this
glorious Easter morning, with all these
congratulations. If understand this tlay.
it 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 deserts until it shall blossom,
like the rose, braid them into the name OF
the war charger as he comes back No
more red dahlias of human blood Give US
white lilies of peace. Strew all the earth
with Easter garlands, for the resurrection
we celebrate this morning implies all kinds
OF resurrection, score of resurrections
Resurrection from death and sin to the
life of the gospel. Resurrection of apos-
toiic faith. Resurrection of commercial in
tegr1ty. Resurrection of national honor
Resurrection of international goodwill |
Resurrection of art. Resurrection of liter
ature Resurrection of everything that is
good and kind and generous and just and
nOiy auu oestuolIui- NOInlnS TO stay down, |
to stay buried, but sin and darkness and
pain and disease and revenge and death
Let those tarry in the grave forever |
GLORY to God in the highest, and on earth |
peace, good will to men,"
Christ, the Lord, is risen today
Sons of men and angels say.
Raise your songs and triumphs high,
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.
loves redeeming work is done,
Fought the fight, the battle won.
Loi the SUMS eclipse is DER;
Loi he sets in blood no more
Rather a Mean Trick.