Sharp County record., 1891-04-23

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the bones of your ancestors your chill
dren, will have no Difference for your
bones. Do you say these relics are OF
no Importance? You will see OF how
much Importance they are when the
/ archangel takes out his trumpet. Turn
all your graveyards into gardens.
Various scriptural accounts say that
the work of grave-breaking will begin
with the blasts of trumpets and shout
ings: whence 1 take it that the first IN
timation 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 penetrating. There
are mausoleums so deep that undls-
turbed silence has slept there ever since
the dav when 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 will mistake it for thunder, or the
blast of earthly minstrelsy. There will
be heard the voice of the uncOunted mil
lions of the dead, who come rushing
out of the gates of eternity, flying to-
ward the tomb, crying: Make way!
| Oh, 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 Gettysburg, and
from among the passes of South Noun
tain. A hundred thousand are crowd
| ing 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 Of the sea
route, a group of hundreds Of spirits
coming down to the water to meet their
bodies. See that multitude.-that is
where the Central America sank And
wonder multitude.-that is where the
| Pacific went down. FOurd at last. That
is where the City of Boston sank. And
yonder the President went down. A
solitary spirit alights on yonder prairie
that is where a traveller perished 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, and
poets get up. Strange commingling of
spirits searching among the ruins
William Wilberforce, 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! go 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; all
the senator's; 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 day; all the
octogenarians-alI! all! Not one
zxraggler left behind. All. all! And
now the air is darkened with the frag-
ments of bodies that are coming to-
gether from the opposite corners Of the
earth. Lost li.ubs 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. A surgeon told me that
after the battle of Bull Run he ampu-
tated limbs, throwing them out of the
window, until the pile reached up to
the window sill. All those fragments
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
eye missing, not one foot clogged, not
one arm palsied, not one tongue dumb,
not one ear deaf
Wake up my fr: ends, this day, this
glorious Easter MOI ming, with all these
congratulations. II | understand this
day, 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
desert until it shall blossom like
the rose braid them into the name Of
the war charger as he comes back.
No more red dahlas 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, a score
Of resurrections. Resurrection from
death and sin TO the life of the
Gospel. Resurrection of apostolic
faith, Resurrection Of commercial
integrity. Resurrection Of national
honor, Resurrection OF international
goodwill. Resurrection Of art, Resur-
rection of literature. Resurrection Of
everything that is good and kind and
generous and just and holy and beauti.
full Nothing to stay down, to stay
buried, but sin and darkness and pain
and disease and revenge and death.
Let those tary in the grave forever,
"Glory TO God In the highest, and on
earth peace, goodwill to men"