The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-04-09

Of sm. I'll means can hardly afford to die
N ore OF our great cities! Funeral
pagea ntry is not necessary. No one
was eTery moro lovingly and tenderly
putinro tho grave than Cerist, but there
were only four in the procession.
Ag;ip; standing in this place where
the Lord lay, L am impressed with the
TACT hat you cannot kee the dead
down. The seal OF the Sanhedrim. a
regiment of soldiers from the tower of
to stand guard, floor of rock,
roof of rock, wall f rock, niche of rock,
cannot keep Christ in the crypt. Come
out, and come up, he must. Came out,
came up. he did. PreGguration. The
ilrst fruits of them that sleep. Just as
certainly rs you and 90 down into the
grave, just so certainly we will come up
agaln. Though you pile up on the TOP
OF us all the boulders of the mountains.
you cannot keep us down. Though we
be buried under TIC coral of the deep
est cavern of the Atlantic ocean,
we Will rise to the surface. All! my
friends, death and the grave arc not
what they used TO be to us, for now,
walking around the spot where the Lord
lay, we find vines aud flowers covering
up the tomb, and that which we called
place OF skulls has become Il beautiful
garden. Yea now there are four gardens
instead OF one: Garden of Eden, garden
OF The Worlds Scpulohrc. garden of
Earth's Regeneration, garden Of IIeav-
eli.
Various sCriptural accounts say that
the work OF gravc-brcaklng will begin
II lln # Fl,
whence | take ii the first intmatiOn
OF the day will be Il sound from Ii 'aven
such as has never before been heard. 1t
may not be very loud but it will be pen
ctratMG. There are m usOlcums so deep
that undisturbcd silence has slept there
every since the day when the slice pcrs
were lcit i'll them. The great noise shall
strike through them. Among the corals
oi the sea. miles deep, where the Ship
wrecked rest, the sound will strike. No
one will mistake it for thunder, or the
bl st OF earthly minstrclsy. There will
hc heard the voice OF the uncountcd NIL
lions Of the dead, who come rushing out
the gates Of eternity nyi;:g toward the
tomb, crying, "Makc way! Oh, grave,
give rs back our body! We gave il to
' Il i'll corruption; surrender it now IN
mrorUl tiOn.' Thousands Of spirits
miSm.; from the field OF Sedan, and from
HmOn.; thc rocks Of Gettysburg, and from
amol,t thc passes OF South Mountain.
y huudrcd thousand are crowdng
Greenwood.
On ;hls grave three spirits meet. for
there were three bodies in th 1t tomb!
Over that family vault twenty spi rits
hover, inr there were twenty bodies.
From New York to Liverpool, at every
lew miles on the sea route. 4 group of
hundreds oi spirits coming down to the
water 10 meet their bodies. See that
multitude! That ia where the Central
Amcrica sank. And Wonder multitude!
that IS where the Pacific went down,
Found at last! That is where the City
OF BOatOn sank. And yondcr the presl-
dent went down. a solitary spirit
allght> on yondcr prairic-that is where
4 traveller pcrlshcd IN the snow. The
whole air is full OF splrlts-spirits flying
north, spirits ilylng south, spirits dying
east. spirits dying west. Crash! goes
Westminster Abbey, as all its dead
kings, and ora,ors, and poets Get up.
Strange cOmmin9ling o. spirl,s search
lng among the ruins. William Wilbcr-
Ioroc, the G"o,,; and Queen Elizabeth,
the bad. Crash Crash! 90 the pv-
and the monarchs of Egypt rise
out Of thc heart Of the desert. snap! 90
the iron Gates o, the modern vaults.
The country grave yard will look like a
rough plouyhcd field us the mounds
break open. All the kings of the earth;
ali The selator- :; all the great men; ali
the bcgg%ra; all the armics--victors and
vanuulshcd; all the agcS-barbaric and
clViIIzcd; all those who were chopped by
the "ulliotlnc, or si.nmcrcd in the fire or
rottcd in dungeons; all the infants Of
day, all the Octogcharlans-al.! all
NoL one straGglcr left behind. All all!
And nov the air is darkcned with the
fragments OF bodies that arc coming to-
@ethcr from the opposite corners Of the
carlh. Lost limbs finding their mate
nohc 10 bone, Slnew to SincW-until
every l0Int is reconstructed. and every
arm nndS is socket, and the ampulatcd
ilmO OF the lrgCOn'S able shall be set
again 1t the point from which 1t was sew
cred. a surgeon told me that after the
patti" OF Bull Run he amputatcd limbs,
throwing them out Of the window, until
the pile reached up to the wnCow-sill.
Al those fragments will have to take
,cM places. Those who were born
bl'hd i'avc eyes divincly kindlcd; those
VINO were lame shall have limb SUBJ
sttutcd. In all the hosts of tic rcsur-
rccilon not one eye missing; not one
loot c!oggcd, not one arm palslcd; not
one tongue dumb; not one car deaf.
Wake up, my friends, this day, this
glorious Easter morning, with all these
If | understand this
day. 1t means peace toward Heaven and
peace toward earth. Great wealth of
flowers! Bring more flowers. Wreath
them around the braZcn 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 rcd dahlics ofhu-
man blood. Give us white lilies OF
peace. Strnw all the earth with Easter
for thc resurrection we cclc-
bratc this morning implies all kinds Of.
resurrection, Il score of resurrection.
resurrection from death and sin to the
Iii" o. the gospel. Resurrection ofapos-
tolc faith. Resurrection Of commercial
integrity. Resurrection OfnatiOnal hon.
or. Resurrection of international rood