The Red Cloud chief., 1892-04-29
RESURRECTION.
Eloquent Easter Discourse By Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage.
death a Mercy to the Human Race-As
Flowers Follow the vernal Equinox So
Wul Song and Happiness Follow
the Winter OF Death.

Flowers Follow the vcrnsl Equinox So
WM Song and Happiness Follow
tho Winter Of Death.
On Easter Sunday DR.. TalmAge
preached at Brooklyn upon the fesar-
rection. His text was from 1. Samuel,
XIV. 30: ''Surely the bitterness of death
is past" He said:
So cried Agag, and the only objection
/ have to this text is that a bad man mt
tered it. Nevertheless, it is true, and
in a higher and better sense than that
in which it was originally uttered
Years ago a legend something like this
was told me: In = hut lived a very poor
woman by the name of Misery. In
front of her door was a pear tree, which
was her only for a living.
Christ, the Lord, in poor garb was
walking through the earth and no one
would entertain him. In vain he
knocked at the door of palaces and of
humble dwellings. Cold and hungry
and insufficiently clad, as he was, none
received him. But coming one day to
the hut of this woman, whose name was
Misery, she received him and offered
him a few crusts and asked him to warm
himself at the handful of Goals, and she
: sat up all night that the wayfarer
might have a pillow to rest on. In the
morning this divine being asked her as
he departed what she would have him
do in the way of reward and told her
that he owned the universe and would
give her what she asked. All she asked
was that her pear tree might be pro-
tected and that the boys who stole her
fruit, nee climbing the tree, might not
be able to get down without her on
sent. So it was granted and all who
climbed the tree were compelled to stay
there.
After a while Death came along and
told the poor woman she must go with
him. But she did not want to go, for,
however poor ones lot is, no one wants
to GO with Death. Then she said to
Death: Il will go with you if you will
first climb up into my pear tree and
bring me down a few pears before /
start" This he consented to do, but
having climbed into the tree, he could
not again come down. Then the troubles
of the woman began, for Death did not
come. TIE physicians had no patients,
the u~ndeIfakerS no business, the law
yers no wills to make. the people who
waited for inheritances could not get
them. tho old men Staid in all the pro-
fessions and occupations SO that there
was no room for the young who We're
.-,n. an nn1 tho n,~fh nnf ox,nr
. crowded and from all the earth the cry
went mp: so. for Death! Where is
Deathq' Then the people came to the
poor woman and begged her to let Death
descend from the tree. In sympathy
for the world. she consented to let Death
come down on n condition. and that
was that he should never modest or take
her away, and On that condition Death
was allowed to come down, and he kept
: his word and never removed her, and
for that reason we always have Misery
with us
In that allegory some n has set
forth the truth that l mean to present
on this Eastermorning which celebrates
the resurrection of Christ and our COM
ing resurrection-that one of the grand
est and mightiest mercies of the earth
is our divine permission to quit it. Sixty
four persons every minute step off this
planet. Thirty million people every
wear board this planet. AS a steamer
must unload before it takes another
cargo, and as the passengers of a rail
train must leave it in order to have
another company of passengers enter
it, so with this world.
What would happen to an ocean
steamer if a man, taking a staterOOm,
should stay in it forever? What would
happen to a rail train if one who pur-
-chases a ticket should always occupy
the seat assigned him? And what would
happen to this world if all who came
into it never departed from it? The
grave is as much a benediction as the
cradle. What sunk hat ship in the
Black sea a few days ago? Too many
messengers. What was the matter with
that steamer on the Thames, which,
a few years ago, went down
with 600 lives? Too many pas
Now. this world is only
a shin which was launched some 6,OOO
ago. So many are coming aboard it is
necessary that a good many disembark.
4. Suppose that all the people that have
lived since the days of Adam and Eve
were still alive. What cluttered up place
this world would be-no elbow room, NO
place to walk, no privacy, nothing to
eat or wear, or if anything were left
the human race would, like a ship
wrecked crew, have to be put on small
,rations, each of us having perhaps only
a biscuit a day. And what chance
,xvould there be for the rising genera
uions? = 49,.
In the ordinary length of human life
con have carried enough burdens, and
shed enough tears. and suffered enough
;niustices, and felt enough pangs, ant
a,een clouded by enough doubts, and
surrounded by enough mysteries. W.
talk about the shortness of life. but il
eco exercised good n we would real
,zo hat life is quite long enough. L
= are the children of God. we are at {
hanouet, and this world is only the frs
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