Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-04-07
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sum
day Sermon.
Subject: "The sIeepers Awakened

tlan situation. This nOrlinZ Russian
meeting Russian on the sire Is of 81. Peters
bnrS halls him with the Situation. Christ
Is rlsen!' and is answere by his friend in
sanitation, HE is risen inleedr In some
parts Of England and Irelan ., t. this very
day, there is the 81 )e-ssitionNhat On Elstsr
morning tue sun dances i'm the heavens, AMI
wei may We forgive sucl a superstition
which illustrates the fact that The natural
world seems to sympathizs VITA the spirit
ual.
Hail, Easter morning Flowers. Flow
ers! All OF them a-voice, all o. them
a-tongue, all OF them full o. speech today.
cen over one Of the lilies and hear IT say.
consider the lilies Of tine fell, how they
grow, they toll rot netaer do they spin.
yet Solomon in AL his glory was nos arrayed
Ii e one OF these | bend over a rose. and
1t seems to whisper: Il aim the rose of Sha-
ron And then stanl and listen. From
all sides there comes the chorus of flowers,
saying; III God SO clothed the grass of the
field. which to-day is an tomorrow is cast
into the oven, shall He not much more
clothe you, . ye OF little faith%
Flowers Flowers. Braii them into the
brides hair. Flowers. flowers. Strew
them over the graves OF the dead, sweet
prophecy of the resurrection. Flowers
Flowers! Twist them into garland for my
Lord Jesus on Easter morning. "Glory be
70 the Father, and to the Son, and 10 the
Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is
now and ever shall be"
Oh, low bright AMI how beautiful the
fowerS, and how much they make me think
of Christ and His religion that brightens our
character, brightens society, briChtens the
church, brightens everything, You who 90
with gloomy counter NICE preten ling you
are better than | am because OF your lugu-
briousness you cannot cheat me. Pretty
case you are for a man that processes to be
more than cOnqueror 1t is not religion
that makes you gloomy, it is the lack o. it.
There is just as much religion in a we ldng
as in burial, just as much religion in a
smile as in tear
These gloomy Christians W. sometimes
see are the people TO whom like to lend
money, for l never see them again. The
women came TO the Savior's tomb AMI they
dropped spices all around the to nh and
those spices were the seed that began t0
grow, and from item came the flowers Of
this Easter morn The two an ses robe1 in
white took hold Of the stone AT the Sav;or's
tomb, and they hurled it with sucd fore,
down the hill that it crushel in the door Of
the worlds sepulchre and the stark aud the
dead must come forth.
care not how labyrinthine the mauso-
leum or how costly the slrc0phagu, or how
ever beautifully parterred the family
grounds, we want them all broken up bv the
Lord OF the resurrection. They must come
out. Father aud mother they must co ne
out. Husband AMI wife-they must come
out. Brother AMI sister-they must c)me
out. Our darling children-they must C ome
out. The eyes that we close with such
trembling fingers must Opan again in the
radiance OF that morn. Inc arms We folde
IN dust must join ours in an embrace of re -
union. The voice that was hushed in our
dwelling must he returned. Ga, how lonr
some OF you seem to be waiting-waitinc
for the resurrection waiting, And for
these broken hearts today / make soft,
cool bantage out o.. Easter flowers.
My friends | find in the risen Christ n
prophecy oil our own resurrection, my text
setting forth the idea that as Christ has arisen
so His people will rise Hs-she first sheaf of
the resurrection harvest. He-'the first
fruits OF them that slept Before | get
through this morning / will walk through
all the cemeteries Of the dead, through all
the country graveyards, where your beloved
ones are buried, ami ! will pluck Oft these
flowers, and will drop a sweet promise OF
the gospel rosa of hope lily Of Joy on
every tomb-the child's tomb. the husbands
tomb, the wife's tomb the fathers grave.
the mothers grave and while we celebrate
the resurrection VI Christ we will at the
same time celebrate the resurrection Of oil
the good. Christ the first fruits Of them
that slept
Ii should come to you this morning and
ask you for the names Of the great conquer
ors of the world, you would say Alex IN Ter,
Cesar, Philip, Napoleon /. Al my frenls.
fOrrrf 70 -. -
a greater c0nqu nor than all OF these -
cruel, a CHASTITY conqueror. He who rode on
black horse across Waterloo AID Atlanta
and Cha.ons the bloody hoofs crushing the
hearts OF nations. It's the conqueror Death.
Again and again has he done this work
with all generations. he Is monarch as
well as a conqueror. his palaces a sepulcher;
his fountains the falling tears Of a world.
Blessed be Col, in tae light Of this Easter
morning [ see the prophecy that his scepter
shall be broken an his palace shall be d.
molished. The hour IS coming when all who
are in their graves shall coma forth. Christ
risen, we shall rise. Jesus the first fruits
OF them that slept Now, around this doc
trine OF the resurrection there ars great
many mysteries
You come to me this morning AMI say.
"lt the bodies Of the dead are 10 be raised,
how is this and how is that AMI you ask
mea THOUSAND questions | am incompetent
~ answer: Ddt there are great many
Things you believe that you ara not able to
explain. gu would be a very foolish man
10 say l won't believe anything | can't
understand
hndmy strength in this passage. "Au
VINO are IN their graves shall come forth"
% not pretend TO make the explanation.
GU CAP 60 on and say: Suppose re-
turned missionary dies ia Brooklyn. When
he was in China, his foot was amputated.
DE lived years after in L lglan1. and there
he had an arm amputated. II is buried
today IN GREENWOOD. In tho resurrection
VIII the foot come from China, will the arm
come from England, and will the different
parts Of the body be reconstructed in tho
resurrection? How is that possible
You say that the human body changes
every seven years, and by seventy years Of
age man has had ten bodies. In The
resurrection which will come up" You say,
a man will die and his body cru nbls into
Dust and that dus, be taken up into the life
OF the vegetable. An animal may eas the
vegetable men eat the animal. In the
resurrection that body, distributed in so
many directions, how shall it be gathered
up Have you any more questions of this
style to ask Come on ana ask them. do
not pretend 10 answer them. fall back
upon the announcement OF Co.'s word. "All
who are in their graves shall come forth"
You have noticed. suppose in reading
the story OF the resurrection that almost
every account Of the Bible gives the idea that
the Characteristic OF that day will be a great
sound. do not know that it will b. very
lout but know it will be very penetrating
In the mausoleum, where silence has reignei
thousand years, that vOic5 must pene-
trats. In the coral cave Of the deep that
voice must penetrate.
All along the sea route from New York to
Liverpool at every few miles where a steam.
q went down departed spirits coming back
lowering over the wave There is where
the City Of Boston perishel, Found ct last.
There is where the President persisted.
Steamer found at last. There is where the
Central America went down. Spirits
overing-iundreds Of spirits lowering,
waiting for the reunion OF body aud soul.
Out on the prairie spirit alghts. There is
where n traveller died in the snow. Crash
goes Westminster Abbey and the poets and
orators come forth; wonderful ming ling OF
cool and bad. Crash go the pyramids OF
Egypt, and the monarcis come forth.
Who can sketch the scenei suppose that
enc moment before that general rising there
viii be an entire silence save as you hear the
grinding of wheel or a clatter OF the hoaf.
Of procession passing into the cemetery.
Silence in all the caves Of the earth. Silencs
on the side Of the mountain. Silence down
in the valleys AMI far out in.o the sea-
Silence
But in a moment. in the twinkling of an
eye, as the archangels trumpet comes peal.
inZ, rolling, crashing across mountain and
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