Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-04-04
TALNAGE'S SERMON.
THE EMINENT DIVINE DELIVERS AN
EASTER DISCOURSE. THE LORD IL
RISEN. PEACE on EARTH AND GOOD
WILL TOWARD MEN
The Day that Typlllcs Peace to All.


yesterday TO two large congregations
The church was profusely decorated
with flowers, the graceful Easter lily
being especially conspicuous.
The text OF the preachers discourse
was Matt. xviii. 6: Come, see the
place where the Lord lay"
Visiting any great city we are not sat-
isfed until we have also looked at It's
cemetery. We examine all the styles
OF cenotaph, marseleum. sarcophagus'
crypt and sculpture. Here lies 5uried
statesman, yonder an orator. here q
poet, out there an inventor in some
other place a great pnilanthropist. But
with how much greater interest and
with more depth OF emotion we look
upon our family plot in the cemetery.
In the one case it is matter OF public
interest; in the other it is 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 sepulchre
have to tell you, in this sepulchre
there we're buried King, Conquorer.
an Emancipator, q Friend, Brother, a
Christ, Monarch Of the universe, but
bone OF our bone, and flesh OF our flesh
and sorrow OF our sorrow, and heart OF
our heart. Come, sec the place where
the Lord lay"
! II has for surroundings, the manor in
the suburbs OF Jerusalem, a manor
owned by wealthy gentleman b. the
name of Joseph. He was one OF the
court of seventy who had condemned
Christ, but think he had voted in the
negative, or being timid man had
been absent at the time Of the casting OF
the vote. He had laid out the parterre
at great expense. IL was hot climate
and suppose there were broad branched
trees and winding paths underneath
them. while here the waters rippled
over the rock into fishpool, and yon-
der the vines and the flowers clamored
over the wall, and all around there
were the beauties OF the kiosk and ar
Horticulture.
After the fatigues OF the Jerusalem
court room, how refreshing to come out
in these suburbs botanical and pomolo-
pical walk little farther on in the
parterre and come across u cluster OF
rocks. and see on them the marks OF
the sculptor's chisel. come still clos
er and find that there is subterran-
can recess, and walk down the marble
st;Iirs, and come to portico, over the
doorway-an architecture OF fruits and
flowers chiselled by the hand OF the
sculptor. 60 into the portico and on
either side there are rooms, two or
four, or six rooms of rock: in the walls,
inches, each niche large enough to hold
dead body. One of these rooms OF
rock is especially wealthy with sculp-
ture. 1t beautiful and charming
spot. Why all this? The fact was
that Joseph, the owner OF the parterre
of that wealthy manor, had recognized
the fact that he could not always walk
those gardens, and sought this as his
own last resting place. What beauti-
full plot in which to await for the resur-
rection!
Mark well the mausoleum in the rock
It is to be the most celebrated tomb in
all ages. Catacombs OF Egypt, tomb Of
Napoleon Mahai Tai OF India, nothing
compared with it. Christ had just
been murdered and His body must be
thrown out to the dogs and the ravens
as was customary with crucified bodies,
unless there be prompt and effective
hindrance. Joseph, the owner of the
mausoleum, begs for 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.
I think embalmment was omitted.
When in olden times they wished to
embalm q dead body, the priest with
some pretentiOn OF medical skill would
show the point between the ribs where
the incisiOn was to be made. Then the
operator would come and make the in
cision, and then run for his life, else he
would be slain for violating the dead
body Then the other priests would
come with salt and nitre and cassia, and
wine OF palm tree, and complete the
embalmment. But think in this case
embalmment was omitted lest there be
more excitement and another riot.
The funeral advances. Present, Jo-
seph, the owner of the mausoleum; MIC
odemus, who brought the flowers, and
the two Marys Heavy burden on the
shoulders OF two men as they carry the
body of Christ down the marble stairs
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 OF that
seal, like the seal of the United States
government, or OF the British govern
ment, always followed with severe PEN
alties.
A regiment OF soldiers from the Tow
er Of Antonio is detailed to guard that
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