The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-14

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SUCCESS and victory. oh, that all The
scenes Of Satanic triumph iu our world
might bC hlotted out and the whole world
might Doe q picture gallery repre- seutiug
the triumphant jesus Down with the
monarchy Of trausErcs Si1nt Up with the
monarchy of our King Hail Jesus
Hail
But must give you the second cause
Of Paul's eXhilaratiOn. II Christ had
stayed in that grave we never would have
gotten out of 10. The grave would have
been dark and dismal as the Couciergcrle
during the rein Of terror. where the carts
came up only 20 take the victims out 70
the scahold. ! do not wonder that the
ancients tried by embalmmcntO Of the body
to resist the dissolution Of death
The grave is the darkest, deepest, Chast-
licst chasm that was ever opened If there
be no light from the resurrection throne
streaming into it. but Christ stayed in
the tomb all Friday night and all Satur
day night and part of Sunday morn
ing. He stayed SO long in the tomb
that the might fit it for us when we go
there He tarried two whole nights in
the grave, so that he saw how import
ant it was to have plenty Of light, and he
mas flooded il with his own glory.
II is early Sunday morning and we
md the morning sun gliding the dew, and
the shrubs are sweet as the foot brushes
them. What a 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 10 the crash an
earthquake! The soldiers fall back as
though they were dead, and the stone at
be Cf Fnpsfef
hill flung by the arms Of an angel. Come
forth, o Jesus! from the darkness into
the sunlight. Come forth, and breathe
the perfume of JOseph's garden
Christ comes forth radiant, and as he
steps out OF the excavation of the rock I
look downrintO the excavation, and in the
distance / see others coming hand-in-hand
and troop after troop, and | find il is a
long procession of the precious dead
Among them are our own loved ones
father, mother, brother, sister, cOmpan-
ion, children, coming up out of the exca-
vation Of the rock until the last one has
stepped out into the light, and | am be-
wildered, and l cannot understand the
scene until see Christ wave his hand
over the advancing procession from the
rock, and hear him cry, 81 am the resur-
rection and the life; he who believeth in
me, though he were dead, vet shall he
live" And then l notice that the long
dirge of the worlds woe suddenly stops
at the archangelic shout of Come forth"
oh my friends, If Christ had not brok-
en- out of the grave you and / would never
come out of it. 1t would have been an
other case of Charlotte Corday attempt
ing to slay a tyrant, herself slain. 1t
would have been another case of John
Brown attempting to free the slaves, him
self hung. 1t would have been death and
Christ in grapple, and death the victor
The black flag would have hoated on all
the graves and mausoleums of the dead,
and hell would have conquered the forces
of heaven, and captured the ramparts of
God, and satan would have come to coro-
nation in the palaces of heaven, and it
would have been devils on the throne and
sons of God In the dungeon
mol mo- mo- When that stona was
rolled from the door Of Christ's grave, it
was hurled with such a force that it
crashed In all the grave-doors of Christen-
DOM and now the tomb is only a bower
where Gods children take a siesta, an
afternoon nap, to wake up in mighty in
vigoration. ''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 afternoon of
the worlds history becomes the brightest
Sunday morning of its resurrection 10Y.
The Good Friday of bitter memories be-
comes the Easter of glorious transform
alton and resurrection.
Ye mourning saints dry every tear
For your departed Lord.
Behold the place He is not here;
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 hand
more than we do the left. If in accident
or battle we must lose one hand, let il be
the left. The left hand being nearer the
heart, we may not do much Of the violent
work OF life with that hand without
physical danger; but he who has the
right arm in full play has the mightiest
of all earthly weapons. In all ages and
in all languages the right hand is the
symbol Of strength and power and honor
Then we have the term, He is right
hand man Lafayette was Washing
tons right-hand man; Marshal Ney was
Napoleon's right-hand man; and now you
have the meaning of Paul when he speaks
of Christ who is at the right hand of God
That means he is the first guest of
heaven. He has right to sit there.
The Hero of the universal Count his
wounds two in the feet, two in the hands,
one in the side-tive wounds O YOU
have counted wrong. These are not half
the wounds. Look at the severer wounds
in the temples; each thorn an excrucia-
tiOn.
If hero comes back from battle, and
he takes off his hat, or rolls up his sleeve.
and shows you the scar of a wound gotten
at Balls Bluff, or at South Mountain, YOU
stand in admiration at his herOism and
patriotism; but if Christ should make
conspicuous the five wounds gotten on
Calvary-that Waterloo of all the ages
he would display only a small part of his
wounds. Wounded all over, let him sit at
the right hand of God, the Father and
the unanimous suffrage all of heaven,
let him sit there In the grand review,
when the redeemed pass by in cohorts of
splendor they will look at him and shout
''Victoryr'
The oldest inhabitant of heaven never
saw grander day than the one when
Christ took his place on the right hand of
God. HOsaunal With lips of clay | may
not appropriately utter it, but let the
martyrs under the altar throw the cry to
the elders before the throne, and they
can toss it TO the choir on the sea of glass
until all heaven shall lift tt-some on
point of scepter, and some on string of
harp and some on tip of the green
branches. Hosanna! Hosanna!
A fourth cause OF Paul's exhilaration.
After clergyman had preached a sermon
in regard to the glories of heaven and the
splendors of the scene, an aged woman
said; If all that is TO go on in heaven, [