Connecticut western news., 1891-04-01
THE RESURRECTION DAY
SERMON BY DIR. TALMAGE FOR EAST
 FIR SUNDAY.

"Come, See the Place Where the Lord
 Lay" the Text of the Discourse-A
 Wonderfully Graphic Word Painting
 of the Last Scene of Earth.
 NEW YORK, March 29.-Dr. Tal- mage preached an Easter sermon to his two audiences today. Both at the morning service in Brooklyn and at The Christian Herald service in New York in the evening the Academies of Music were bright with profusion of flowers, Easter lilies being conspicuous. A selection of music appropriate to the festival was beautifully rendered at each service. The text of the preach CTS discourse was Matthew xviii, 6, "Come, see the place where the Lord lay" ..
 Visiting any great city we are not satisfied until we have also looked at its cemetery. We examine all the styles of cenotaph, mausoleuln. sarcophagus, crypt and sculpture. Here lies buried a statesman, wonder an orator, here poet, out there an inventor, in some other place great philanthropist. 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 a 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 sepulcher, 1 have to tell you, in this sepulcher there was buried a king, a conqueror, an emancipator. 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, see the place where the Lord lay"
 It has for surroundings the manor in the suburbs of Jerusalem, a manor owned by wealthy gentleman by 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 a timid man, had been absent at the time of the casting of the vote. He had laid out the parterre at great expense It was hot climate, and I suppose there were broad branched trees and winding paths un- derneath them, while here the waters rippled over the rock into a fishpool, and wonder the vines and the flowers clambered over the wall, and all around there were the beauties of kiosk arbor- iculture After the fatigues of the Je- rusalem courtroom, how refreshing to come out in these suburbs botanical and pomological!
 WHER4 JESUS LAY.
 walk little further on in the par terre and l come across a cluster of rocks, and I see on them the marks of a sculptor's chisel l come still closer and l find that there is subterranean recess, and I walk down the marble stairs. and come to portico, over the doorway an architecture of fruits and flowers chiseled by the hand of the sculptor 1go 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 sculpture. It is a 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 he sought this as his own last resting place. What a beautiful plot in which to wait for the resurrec- tion!
 Mark we'll the mausoleum in the rock. It is to be the most celebrated tomb in all the ages; catacombs of Egypt, tomb of Napoleon, Mahal Tai of India. nothing compared with it. Christ had just been murdered, and his 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 a dead body the priest with some pretension 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 I think in this case embalmment was omitted lest there be more excitement and another riot. The funeral advances. Present, Joseph, the owner of the lnausoleum; Nicode- mus, 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 Sanhedrina, tlsa viola tion of that seal, like the violation of the seal of the United States govern ment or of the British government, al ways followed with severe penalties. sOJ,DJERS GUAHDED TT
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