The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-18

rocks the orchestra, angels In the gal
leries and devils in the pit the spectators,
the tragedy crucifxion. ut Is Christ
that died." Oh, triumphant thought!
II you go through the picture gal.
leries of Versailles, you will find great
change there. / said to friend who
had been through those galleries, "Are
they as they We're before the French
WARP" and was told there was great
change there; that all that multitude of
pictures which represented Napoleonic
triumphs had been taken away, and in
the frames We're other pictures repre-
sentative Of Germanio success and vic
tory. Oh, that all the scenes of satanic
triumph in our world might be blotted
out, and that the whole world might be
picture gallery representing the tri-
umphant Jesus! Down with the mon
archy of transgression! Up with the
monarchy of our King! Hail! Jesus,
hail!
But l must give you the second cause
of Paul's exhilaration, If Christ had
staid in that grave, we never would
have gotten out of it. The grave would
have been dark and dismal as the con-
ciergerie during the reign of terror,
where the carts came up only to take
the victims out to the scatfold. Edo not
wonder that the ancients tried by en-
balmment of the body to resist the dis
solution of death.
The grave is the darkest, deepest,
ghastliest chasm that was ever opened
if there be no light from the resurrec-
ton throne streaming into it, but Christ
staid in the tomb all Friday night and
all Saturday, all Saturday night and
part of Sunday morning. He staid 80
long in the tomb that he might fit it for
us when we go there. He tarried two
whole nights in the grave, so that he saw
how important it was to have plenty of
light, and he has flooded it with his own
glory.
THE RESURRECTION.
1t is early Sunday morning, and we
start up to find the grave of Christ. We
find the morning sun gliding the dew,
and the shrubs are sweet as the foot
brushes them. What beautiful place
to be buried in! Wonder they did not
treat Christ as well when he was alive
as they do now that he is dead. Give
the military salute to the soldiers who
stand guarding the dead. But bark to
the crash-an earthquake! The soldiers
fall back as though they were dead, and
the stone at the door of Christ's tomb
spins down the hill, flung by the arm of
an angel. Come forth, o Jesus, from the
darkness into the sunlight Come forth
and breathe the perfume of Josephs gar
den.
Christ comes forth radiant, and as he
steps out of the excavation of the rock l
look down into the excavation, and in
the distance see others coming hand
in hand and troop after troop, and | find
it is long procession of the precious
dead. Among them are our own loved
ones-father, mother, brother, sister,
companion. children, coming up out of
the excavation Of tha rock until the last
one has stepped out into the light, and
am bewildered. and cannot understand
the scene until l see Christ wave his
hand over the advancing procession from
the rock and hear him cry: II am the
resurrection and the life. He who be-
ieveth in me, though he were dead, yet
shall he i've" And then / notice that
the long dirge of the worlds woe sud
denly stops at the archangelic shout of
Come forth!"
Oh, my friends, if Christ had not bro
ken out of the grave you and l would
newer come out Of it! 1t would have
attempting to slay a tyrant, herself slain.
1t would have been another case of John
Brown attempting toNfree the slaves,
himself hung. Itwould have been Death
and Christ in grapple and Death the
victor. The black flag would have float
ed on all the graves and mausoleums Of
the dead, and hell would have conquered
the forces Of heaven and captured the
I.ramparts of God and satan would have
come to coronation in the palaces Of
heaven, and it would have been devils
on the throne and sons of God in tho
dungeon.
DEATH is A SIESTA.
Mol no! no! When that stone was
rolled from the door of Christ's grave, 1t
was hurled with such a force that it
crashed in all the grave doors of Chris
tendon, and now the tomb is only q
bower where Gods children take sizes
ia, an afternoon nap, to wake up In
mighty invigoration. "Christ is risen.
Hang that lamp among all the tombs Of
my dead. Hang it over my own resting
place. Christ's suffering is ended; his
work is done. The darkest Friday aft.
ernoon of the worlds history becomes
the brightest Sunday morning of its res.
direction joy. The Good Friday Of bit.
ter memories becomes the Easter Of glo-
rious transformation and resurrection.
Ye mourning saints. dry every tear
For your departed Lord.
Behold the place. He is not hcre.
The tomb is all unbarred.
The gates Of death were closed In vain.
The Lord Is risen-he lives again.
give you the third cause of Paul's ex
hilaration. We honor the right hant
more than we do the left. II i'll acciden
or battle we must lose one hand, let i
be the left. The left hand being nearer
the heart, we may not do much of thu
violent work of life with that hand with
out physical danger, but he who has tn,
right arm in full play has the mighties
of all earthly weapons. In all ages ant
in all languages the right hand is tn
symbol of strength and power and hon
or. Hiram sat at the right hand of Solo
mon. Then we have the term, He is
right hand man." Lafayette was Wash
ington's right hand man. Marshal Ne.
was Napoleon's right hand man. Anc
now You have the meaning of Paul whel
he speaks of Christ who is at the RICH
hand of God.
That means he is the first guest o
heaven. He has right to sit there
The hero of the universe! Count hi
wounds; two in the feet, two in tn
hands, one in the side-five wounds. Oh
you have counted wrong. These are no
half the wounds. Look at the severe
wounds in the temples. Each thorn Al
excruciation.
CHRIST'S WOUNDS.
IF a hero comes back from battle, an