Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-04-04

her Spring Grove, nor San francisco
than her Lone Mountain What shall
say of those country grslveyards
where the vines have fallen down and
tile slab is aslant and the mound is
caved in and tue grass is the pasture
ground for the sections cattle? Are
/ your father and mother of so little &C
count that you have no more respect
than that for their bones2 Some day
gather together and straighten up the
fence and lift tho slab and bank up the
mound and tear out the weeds and
plant the shrubs. After o while you
yourself will want to lie down to the
last slumber. If you have no regard
/ for tho bones of your ancestors, your
children will have no Difference for
your bones Do you say these relics
are of no Importance You will sec of
j how much Importance they are when
! the archangcl takes out his trumpet.
Turn oil your graveyards into gardens.
Standing in this place where the Lord
lay aln also impressed with the dig
nifty Of unprctending obsequies. Joseph
that day was n.ourncr, sexton, livery
man had the entire charge of ell the
OCCASION Four people only at the
bnrial 81 the Kin
tstliroug SINAI large
acquaintance, have but little demon
stration of grief at the grave of their
dead. 1t is not necessary. Long line
of glittering equipages, two rows of sill
yer handles caskct of costly wood,
pallbearers scarlet and gloved are not
necessary. Christ looks out from
heaven at burial where there are six
in attendance, and remembers there are
two more than lie had at his obsequies.
Not recognizing this idea how many
small properties are scattered in the
funeral rites, and widowhood and or
phanasc go out to the cold charity OF
the world The departed left enough
property to lave kept tho family to-
gether until they could take care of
themselves, but it is all absorbed in the
funeral rites. That went for Grape
which ought to have gone for bread.
a man of small means can hardly of
ford to die in one Of our great cities.
Funeral paseantry is not necessary
No one was ever more lovingly and
tenderly put into the grave than Christ,
but there were only four in the process
sion.
THE DEAD SHALL RISE AGAIN.
Again. standing in this place where
the Lord lay, am impressed with the
fact that you cannot keep the dead
down. Tic seal of Sanhedrim, regi
ment of soldiers from the tower OF
Antonio to stand guard, 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. Pretigura- |
ton. The first fruits of them that
sleep. Just as certainly as you and
60 down into the grave, Just 50 GER
tainly we will como up again. Though
you pile up on the top of us all the
powders of the mountains you cannot |
keep us down. Though VIC be buried
under the coral of the deepest cavern
of the Atlantic ocean, VIC will rise; to
the surface. All! my friends, death
and the grave are not what they used
to be to us, for now, walking around |
the spot where the Lord lay. we find
vines and flowers covering up the |
tomb, and that which we called q
place of skulls he's become beautiful
garden. Yea, nov thora arc four gar |
dens instead of one-Giardcn of Eden, !
Garden of the Worlds Scpulcher, Gar
den of Eartl's Regeneration, Garden
of Heaven.
Various scriptural accounts say that
the work of grave breaking will begin
with the blast of trumpets and shout
ings; whence | take it that the first
intimation 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 mausoleunls so deep that undis-
turbed silence has slept there ever since
the day when the slcepers 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 nlinstrelsy. There will
be heard the voice of the uncounted
millions of the dead, who como rushing
out of the gates of eternity, flying
toward the tomb, crying: "MaAe way
Oh, grave, give Us back our bodyl We
gave it to You in corruption; surrender
it now in interruption" Thousands
of spirits arising from the fold of
Sedan, and from among the rocks OF
Gettysburg. and from among the passes
Of South Mountain. A hundred thou
sand aro crowding Greenwood. On
this grave three spirits meet. for thore
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 on the sea route,
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 yonder
multitude!-tIat is where the Pacific
went down. Found 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 n traveller persisted in
the snow. The Whole air is full OF
spirits-spirits flying north, spirits fly
49, eo,,tJ, cr;,.;tc N..io, ooet SHIRTS fiy-