Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-04-06
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAeE TELLS OF THE eLoRIEs
or THE RESURRECTION.

rhs Earth and the Sea Shall Give Up Their
Dead. and the Reunions WIN Be Such a.
No Imagination Can Pioture-The GIori-
aed Body.
BROOKLYN, April 2.-The Tabernacle was
deliberately decorated with flowers today,
and an unusually large audience assembled
TO hear Rev. Dr. Talmage's Easter morning
sermon. The subject was, THE Sleepers
Awakened" the text chosen being from
Corinthians xv, 20, ''Now is Christ risen
from the dead and become the first fruits
Of them that slept"
On this glorious Easter morning, amid
the music and the flowers, give you Chris
tian salutation. This morning Russian
meeting Russian on the streets Of st. Peters
burg halls him with the salutation, "Christ
Is risenP' and Is answered by his friend in
salutation, HE is risen indeedp' In some
parts of England and Ireland to this very
| day there is the superstition that on Easter
morning the sun dances in the heavens, and
well may we forgive such superstition,
which illustrates the fact that the natural
world seems to sympathize with the spirit
| ual
Hail, Easter morningl Flowersl Flow
ersl All Of them a-voice, all Of them
a-tongue, all of them full Of speech today.
| bend over one Of the lilies, and hear it
say, Consider the lilies of the field, how
they grow; they toll not, neither do they
spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these" / bend over a
rose, and il seems to whisper, II am the
rose of Sharon" And then I stand and
listen. From all sides there comes the
chorus of flowers, saying, "If God so clothed
the grass Of the field, which today is and
tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he
not much more clothe you, o ye of little
faithf"
FlowersI F1owersl Braid them into the
brides hair Flowersl Flowersl Strew
them over the graves Of the dead-sweet
prophecy Of the resurrection. Flowersl
Flowersl Twist them into garland for
my Lord Jesus on Easter morning. "Glory
be to the Father, and to the Son, and to
the Holy Ghost; as it was in the begin
ming, Is now and ever shall be-"
THE BLOOM OF EASTER.
oh, how bright and how beautiful the
flowers, and how much they make me
think of Christ and his religion, that
brightens our life, brightens our character,
!, brightens society, brightens the church,
brightens everythingl You who 60 with
gloomy countenance pretending you are
batter than am because Of your lugubri-
business, you cannot cheat me. Pretty case
you are for man that processes to be more
than a conQueror. IL is not religion that
makes you gloomy; it is the lack of it
There is just as much religion in a wedding
Us in burial; just as much religion in 6
smile as in a tear.
Those gloomy Christians we sometime.
| see are the people to whom like to lenC
money, for never see them againI Tht
women came to the Saviour's tomb anC
they dropped spices all around the tomb
and those spices were the seed that bega1
| to grow, and from them came all the flow
| eTs of this Easter morn. The two angel
| robed in white took hold of the stone at tn
| Saviour's tomb, and they hurled it witt
such force down the hill that it crushed il
the door of the worlds sepulcher, and tn
| stark and the dead must come forth.
care not how labyrinthine the mauso
Ieum or how costly the sarcophagus o
however beautifully parterred the famil
grounds, we want them all broken up b
the Lord of the resurrection. They mus
come out. Father and mother-they mus
come out. Husband and wife-they mus
come out Brother and sister-they mus
come out. Our darling children-they mus
come out. The eyes that we close with sue
trembling fingers must open again in th
radiance of that morn. The arms we folde
in dust must join ours in an embrace of RI
union The voice that was hushed in ou
dwelling must be retuned. Oh, how Ion
some ,of you seem to be waiting-waitin
for the resurrection, waitingl And for thes
broken hearts today I make q soft, coz
bandage out of Easter flowers.
My friends, find in the risen Christ
prophecy of our own resurrection my tex
setting forth the idea that as Christ ha
risen so his people will rise. He the fir,
sheaf of the resurrection harvest. He ''tt
D first fruits of them that slept" Before
: get through this morning will wal
4 through all the cemeteries of the deaa
. through all the country graveyards, whel
your loved ones are buried, and will pluc
off these flowers, and l will drop a swe
promise Of the gospel-a rose of hope, e lii
n of joy on every tomb-the child's tomb, tt
+ husbands tomb, the wife's tomb, the f
% TIERS grave, the mothers grave, and viii
= we celebrate the resurrection of Christ v
i will at the same time celebrate the resu
rection of all the good. Christ the fir
fruits of them that slept"
THE GREAT CoNoUERoR.
If ] should come to you this morning ar
. ask you for the names Of the great conque
oIs of the world, you would say Alexande
g Cesar, Philip, Napoleon l. All, my friend
q you have forgotten to mention the name
a greater conqueror than all these-a CRUZ
20 ghastly conqueror. He rode on blat
horse across Waterloo and Atlanta al
:. Chalons, the bloody hoofs crushing Il
u hearts of nations It is the conquer
- Death.
He carries u black flag, and he takes
prisoners. He digs trench across t
- henispheres and fills it with the carcass
I'D of nations. Fifty times would the wor
he have beea depopulated had not God Ike
nc making new generations. Fifty times t
ng world would have swung lifeless throu
sn the air-no man on the mountain, no m
. on the sea, an abandoned ship plowi
Ss Ss through immensity.
X Again and again has he done this wo
IS with all generations. He is monarch
% we'll as conqueror; his palace a sep,
~ cher; his fountains the falling tears OF
N world Blessed be God, in the light of Il
Is Easter morning see the prophecy that
g scepter shall be broken and his palace sh
* be demolished. The hour is coming wh
IS all who are in their graves shall come for
% Christ risen, we shall rise. Jesus 1.-THE fl
ss2 fruits of them that slept" Now, arou
ssS this doctrine of the resurrection there
Is great many mysteries.
20 You come to me this morning and 81
90 III the bodies of the dead are to be rails,
- how is this, and how is that?" And you g
= me Thousand questions am incomplete
'Ss' to answer, but there are great ma
nx things you, believe that you are not uble
- explain. You would be very foolish m
to say, II won't believe anything ! ca
understand