Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03
Again, standing In this Mace where


1act that you.cannot keep the dead down.
The seal of the Sanhcdrim regiment
OF soldiers from the tower of Antonio to
stand guard, floor of rock, roof of rock,
wall OF rock, mich of rock cannot keep
ehrist IN the crypt. Come out and come
up he must. Came out and came up he
dld. Prefignration. The first fruits of
them that sleep. just as certain as you
ana go down into the grave, just so
certain we will come up again. Though
you pile up on the top of us all the
powders OF the mountains you cannot
keep US down. Though we be buried
under the coral of the deepest cavern of
the Atlantic ocean we 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 the tomb, and that which we
called place of skulls has become
beautiful garden. Yea, now there are
four gardens instead of one-Garden of
Eden, Garden of the Worlds Sepulcher,
Garden OF Earth's Regeneration, Garden
of Heaven.
Various scriptural accounts saw that
the work of grave breaking will begin
with the blast of trumpets and shout-
ings; whence take it that the first inti-
nation of the day will be a sound from
Heaven such as has never before been
heard. 1t may not be so very loud, but
1t will be penetrating. There are maui
soleums so deep that undisturbed silence
has slept there ever since the day when
the sleepers were left in them. The
great noise shall strike through them.
Among the corals of the sea, miles deep.
where the shipwrecked rest, the sound
will strike. No one will mistake it for
thunder or the blast of earthly Minstrel
sy. There will be heard the voice of the
uncounted millions of the dead, who
come rushing out of the gates of eterni-
ty, flying toward the tomb crying:
snake way! Oh, grave, give us back
our body! We gave it to you in corrup-
ton; surrender it now in incorruption!"
Thousands of spirits arising from the
field of Sedan, and from the rocks of
Gettysburg, and from among the passes
of South Mountain. A hundred thou
sand are crowding 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, 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!
That is where the Pacific went down.
Found at last! That is where the City
of Boston sank. And yonder the Pres-
dent went down. A solitary spirit
alights on yonder prairie. That is where
traveller persisted in the snow. The
whole air is full of spirits-spirits flying
north, spirits flying south, spirits flying
east, spirits flying west Crash! goes
and orators and poets get up.
Strange commingling of spirits search
ing among the ruins. William Wilber-
force 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 senators; all
the great men; all the beggars; all the
ambassadors and vanquishcd; all the
ages-barbaric and civilized; all those
who were chopped by gnillotine or sim
mered in the fire or rotted in dungeons;
all the infants of day; all the octoge-
narians-all! all! Not one straggler
left behind. All. all!
And now the air is darkencd with the
fragments of bodies that are coming to-
gether from the opposite corners of tho
earth. Lost limbs 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 amputated limbs, throw
ing them out of the window until the
pile reached up to the window sill. ALI
those fragments will have to take their
places. Those who were born blind
shall have eyes divinely kindled; those
who were lame shall have limb substi-
tuted. In all the hosts of the rosur-
rected not one eye missing, not one foot
clogged, not one arm palsied, not one
tongue dumb, not one ear deaf.
Wake up, my friends, this day, this
glorious Easter morning, with all these
congratulations. II l 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 deserts until
it shall blossom like the rose, bradc them
into the name of the war charger as he
comes back. No more red dahlias Of
human blood. Give us white lilies of
peace Strew all the earth with Easter
garands, for the resurrection we cele-
brate this morning implies all kinds of
resurrection, a score of restrictions.
Resurrection from death and sin to the
life of the gospel. Resurrection of
apostolic faith. Resurrection of COM
mercial integrity. Resurrection of ma
tional honor. Resurrection of interna-
tional goodwill. Resurrection of art.
Resurrection 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 larry in the grave forever "Glory
to God in the highest, and on earth peace,
good will to men,