The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-04-09

papers where amid the announce
ments OF obsequies the friends request
sssend no flowers" Why, there is no
place so appropriate for flowers as
the casket OF the departed. II your
means allow-I repeat, if your means
allow-let there be flowers on the
casket, flowers on the hearse, flowers
on the grave. Put them on the brow;
it means coronation. Put them in the
hand; it means victory. Christ was
buried in a parterre. Christ was buri-
ed in garden, Flowers are types of
resurrection. Death is sad enough
anyhow Let conservatory and
arboretum do all they can in the way
of alienation. Your little girl loved
flowers while she was alive. Put them
in her hands, now that she cannot 60
forth and pluck flowers for herself. On
sunshiny days.
TWIST A GARLAND at H..
for her still heart. Brooklyn has no
grander glory than her Greenwood,
nor Boston than her Mt. Auburn, nor
Philadelphia than her Laurel Hill,
nor Cincinnati than her Spring Grove,
nor San Francisco than her Lone
Mountain. What shall I say OF those
country graveyards where the vines
have fallen down and the slab is ashanti,
and the mound is caved in, and the
grass is the pasture ground OF the sex
tons cattle. Are your father and
mother OF SO little account you have
no more respect than that for their
bones? Some day gather together
and straighten up the fence and lift
the slab, and bank up the mound,
and tear out the weeds and plant the
shrubs. After a while, you yourself
will want to lie down to the last slum-
Der. Ii you have no regard for the
bones Of your ancestors, your children
will have no Difference for your bones.
Do you say these relics are OF no i'm
portance? You will see OF how much
Importance they are when the arch
angel takes out his trumpet. Turn all
your graveyards into gardens.
Standing in this place where the
Lord lay, am also impressed with
the dignity of unpretending obesquies.
Joseph that day was mourner, sex
ton, liyeryman-had the entire charge
OF all the occasion. Four people only
at the burial Of the King OF the uni
verse. Let this be consolatory to
those who through small means, or
lack OF large acquaintance, have but
little demonstration of grief at the
grave OF their dead. It is not neces-
sary. Long line of gittering equipages,
two rows of silver handles. casket OF
costly wood, pall-bearers scarfed and
gloved are not necessary. Christ looks
out from heaven at a burial where
there are six in attendance and remem-
bers there are two more than he had
at his obsequies. Not recognizing this
idea, how many small properties are
scattered in the funeral rites, and
widow hood and orphanage go out to
the
COLD CHARITY OF THE WORLD.
The departed left enough property to
have kept the family together 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. Aman
OF small means can hardly afford to
die IN one OF our great cities! Funeral
Pageantry is not necessary. No one
was ever more lovingly and tenderly
put into the grave than Christ, but
there were only four in the procession.
Again, standing in this place where
the Lord lay, am impressed with the
fact that you cannot keep the dead
down. The seal OF the Sanhedrim, a
regiment OF soldiers from the tower or
Antonio to stand guard, floor ofrock,
roof OF rock, wall Of rock, mich ofrock,
cannot keep Christ in the crypt. Come
out and come up he must. Came
out and came up he did. Prefgura-
ton. The first-fruits OF them that
sleep. just as certainly as you and 1
go. down into the grave, just so GER
tain(y we will come up again. Though
you pile up on the top of us all the
boulders OF the mountains, you can
not keep us down. Though we be bu-
rled 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 fad vines and flowers covering up
the tomb, and that which we called a
place Of skulls has become beautiful
garden. Yea, now there are four gar
dens instead of one: Garden of Eden,
garden OF the worlds sepulchre. gar
den OF earth's regeneration, garden of
heaven.
Various scriptural accounts saw
that the work of grave breaking will
begin with the blasts of trumpets and
shoutings; whence 1 take it that the
first intimation Of the day will be a
sound from heaven such as has never
before been heard. It may not be so
very loud, but it will be penetrating.
There are mausoleums 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 shiprecked rest, the sound
will strike. Lo one will mistake it for
thunder, or the blast OF earthly min.
strelsy. There will be heard the voice
OF the uncounted millions Of the dead
who come rushing out of .@s
THE GATES OF ETERNITY,
flying toward the tomb, crying, "Make
way!
Wake up, my friends, this day, this
glorious Easter morning, with all these