The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-04-03

attendance ana Eemem DerS there are
two more than ne had at mis- obseouies
Not recognizing this idea, how many
small properties are scattered in the
funeral rites, and widOvhood and or
phanage go ont to the cold charity Of
the world The departed left enough
property to have kept the family to
gether until they could take care OF
themselves, but 1t is all absorbed in the
funeral rites That went for grape
which ougt to have gone for bread. A
man of small means can hardly afford
to die in one OF our great citiesl Funeral
pageantry Is not necessary. No one
was ever more lovingly and tenderIv
put into the grave than Christ, but
there were only four in the procession.
Again, standing in the place where
the Lord lay, am impressed with the
fact that you cannot keep the dead
down. The seal of the Sanhedrirn, a
regiment of soldiers from the tower or
Antonio to stand guard, floor of rock,
wall of rock, niche of rock, cannot keep
Christ in the crypt Come out and come
up he must. Came ont and came Ip he
did PrefiguratiOn- The first fruits OF
them that sleep. just as certainly AS
you and go down in to the grave, Just
so certainly we viii come up again
Though you pile on top OF us all the
bOulders 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 up the tomb, and that which
we called a place of skulls has become
a beautiful garden. Yea, now there
are four gardens instead of one: Garden
of Of IL
chre, garden of earth's regeneration,
garden of Heaven ScriPtural accounts
say the work of grave breaking will be-
gin with blast of trumpets and shout
ing; whence I take it that the first in
timatiOn 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 viii be penetrating. There
are mausOleuIns so deep that undis-
turbed silence has slept there ever since
the day when the sleepers were left in
them The great noise shall strike
through them. Among the cOraIs 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 minstrelsy. There
viii be heard the voice of the uncOunt-
ed millions OF the dead, who come rush
ing out of the gates of eternity, flying
toward the tomb, crying, make way.
o, grave, give US back our body We
gave it to you in corruption; surrender
it now in interruption. -
From New York to Liverpool at every
few miles on the sea route a 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
1dent went down. A solitary spirit
alights on yOnder prairie-that is where
a traveller persisted in the snow. The
whole air is full of sPirits-spirits fly
ing north, spirits flying south, spirits
flying east spirits flying west. Crash!
goes Westminster Abbey as all its dead
kings and orators and poets get up.
Strange eomningling of spirits search
ing among the ruins William WILDER
force, the good. and Queen Elizabeth,
the bad Crash! go to the pyramids,
and the mOnarchs of Egypt rise out of
the heart of the desert. Snapl 90 to
the iron gates of the modern vaults. The
country graveyard will look like
rough plowed field as the mounds break
open. All the kings of the earth all
the senators, all the great men, all the
manifestations and vanquished, all the
ages-barbaric and civilized, all those
who We're chopped by guillotine, or
simmered in a fire, or rotted in dun
geOns, all the infants of day, all the
ctOgenarians-alL all! Not one stray
gler left behind.
Wake up, my friends, tins day, this
glorious Easter morning, with all these
congratulations If 1 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 like the rose. braid
them into the name Of the war charger
as ne comes back No more red dahlias
Of human blood. Give ms white lilies
Of peace. Strew all the earth with
Easter garlands, for the resurrection we
cele brate this morning implies all kinds
OF resurrection, score of resurrections.
Resurrection from death and sin 70 the
life OF the gospel Resurrection of
apostolic faith Resurrection of com
mercial integrity. RESURRECTION of ma
tional honor Resurrection Of interna-