Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-04-03

them In the hand: IL means viz .ory.
Christ was buried in parterre. Christ
was buried in a garden. Flowers are
| types of resurrection. Death is sad
enough anyhow. Let conservatory aud
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 go forth and
pluck flowers for herself. On sunsfiny
days twist a garland for her still he TT
Brooklyn has no grander glory than her
Greenwood nor Boston than her Mount
Auburn, nor Philadelphia than her Laurel
Hill, nor Cincinnati than her Spring
Grove, nor San Francisco than her Lone
| Mountain.
Standing in this place where the Lord
lay, / am also impressed with the dignity
of unpretending obseques. Joseph that
day was mourner sexton, liveryman-had
! the entire charge of all the occasion. Four
people only at the burial of the King of the
universe. Let this be consolatory 20 those
who through small means or lack of large
acquaintance, have but little demonstration
of grief at the grave of their dead. 1t is
not necessary. Long line Of glittering
equipages, two rows of silver handles, cas-
ket of costly wood, pail bearers scarfed
out from heaven on a burial, where there
are six in attendance and remembers there
are two more than he had at his obsequies.
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 Sauhedrim, regiment Of
sold ers 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. Prefguration. The first fruits of
them that sleep. Just as certainly as you
and 20 down into the grave just so GER
tainly we will come up again.
Various scriptural accounts say that the
work of grave-brealSiug will begin with the
blast Of trumpets and shoutings; whence !
take il that the first intimation OF the day
will be sound from heaven such as has
never before been heard. 1t may not be so
very loud. but il will be penetrating. There
are mausoleums so deep that undisturbed
silence ha, 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.
whore the shipwrecked rest, the sound Will
strike. No one will mistake it for thunder
or RIO S,ast Of earthly minstrelsy. There
will be heard the voice of the uncounted
millions of the dead who come rushing out
of the graves of eternity, flying toward the
tomb, crying. "Makc way! Oh, grave give
US back our body. We gave il 10 YOU in cor
ruption; surrender il now in interruption. !"
Snap. go the iron gates of the modern
vaults. The country graveyard will look
like a rough p.oughe1 field as the mounds
no Of hn n.
all the senator's; all the great men, all the
armies-victors and vanquished; all the
ages-barbarc and civilized; all those who
were chopped by guillotine or simmered
in the fire, or rotted in dungeons: all the
infants Of day; AL the octogenarians-all .
all Not one straggler left behind. All,
all. And now the air is darkened with the
fragments Of bodies that are coming to-
gether from the opposite corners on the
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.
Wake up. my friends this day, this
glorious Easter morning. with all these
congratulations. Ii / 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 desert until il shall blossom as
the rose. braid them into the name of the
war charger as he comes back. No more
red dahlas Of human blood. Give us
white lilies of peace Strew all the earth
with Easter garlands, for the resurrection
we celebrate this morning implies all kinds
of resurrection, score Of resurrections.
Resurrection from death and sin 10
the life Of the Gospel. Resurrection of
commercial integrity. Resurrection of
national honor. Resurrection of inter-
national goodwill. Resurrection of art.
Resurrection of literature. Resurrection
of everything that is good and kind and
generous and holy and beautiful. Nothing
to stay down. TO stay buried, but sin and
darkness and pain and disease and revenge
and death. Let those tarry in the grave
forever. GLORY 10 God in the highest,
and on earth peace, goodwill to men,"
Christ, the Lord. is risen today,
Sons Of men and angels say.
Raise your songs and triumphs high,
Sing. We Heavens. and earth reply.
Loves redeemng work is done,
Fought the fight, the battle won.
Lo the suns eclipse is Ger;
Lo he sets in blood no more.
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