Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1893-04-07
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DIR. TALMAeE TELLS OF THE eLoRIEs
OF THE RESURRECTION.

The Earth and the Sea Shall Give Up Their
Dead, and the Reunions VIII BE Such as
No Imagination Can Picture-The Glori-
ned 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 XIV, 90, '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 st. Peters
burg halls him with the salutation, Christ
is risen!" and is answered by his friend III
salutation, HE is risen indeed" 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 a superstition,
which illustrates the fact that the natural
world seems to sympathize with the spirit
ual.
Hail, Easter mOrningl Flowersl Flow
er9l All OF LnEAl d-hOlIIH elAA VI N-ANAA-
a-tongue, all of them full of speech today
I bend over one Of the lilies, and near IL
saw. Consider the lilies Of the field, how
thew grow; they toll not, neither do they
snin. vet Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one Of these" l bend over a
rose. and it seems to whisper, Il am the
rose of Sharon" And then l 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, ye OF little
faith?"
Flowers! Flowersl Braid them into the
brides hair Flowers Flowersl Strew
them over the graves of the dead-sweet
prophecv Of the resurrection. FlOwersl
Flowersl Twist them into a garland for
nv 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 everything You who go with
gloomy countenance pretending you are
better than am because of your lugubrl-
ousness. YOU cannot cheat me. Pretty case
YOU are for man that processes to be more
| than a conQueror It is not religion that
makes you gloomy; it is the lack OF it..
| There is lust as much religion in wedding
| as in a BURIAL just as much religion IN
smile as in Il tear.
Those gloomy Christians we sometimes
| see are the people to whom l like to lend
money, for | never see them again! The
| women came to the SaYiour's tomb and
| they dropped spices all around the tomb
and those spices were the seed that began
| to grow, and from them came all the now
ers of this Easter morn. The two angels
ROBBED in white took hold of the stone at the
| Saviour's tomb and they hurled 1t with
such force down the hill that it crushed In
the door of the worlds sepulcher, and the
stark and the dead must come forth.
care not how labyrinthine the mauso
leum or how costly the sarcophagus OF
however beautifully parterred the family
grounds, we want them all broken up by
| Che Lord of the resurrection. They must
come out. Father and mother-they must
| come out. Husband and wife-they must
come out. Brother and sister-they must
come out. Our darling children-they musi
| come out. The eyes that we close with sucf
trembling fingers must open again in tie
radiance Of that morn. The arms we folded
in dust must Join ours in an embrace OF re
union. The voice that was hushed in oul
dwelling must be returned. Oh, how lonG
some of you seem to be waiting-waitinG
for the resurrection, waitingl Andfor thes'
broken hearts today l make soft, COO
bandage out Of Easter flowers.
Ny friends, find in the risen Christ
prophecy of our own resurrection, my tex
setting forth the idea that us Christ ha'
risen SO his people will rise. He the frs
sheaf of the resurrection harvest. He "thl
first fruits of them that slept" Before
yet through this morning / will wall
through all the cemeteries of the dead
through all the country graveyards, wher
your loved ones are buried, and will plucl
of these flowers, and will drop swee
promise of the gospel-a rose of hope, III.
Of 10y on every tomb-the child's tomb, tn
husbands tomb, the wife's tomb, the IL
theirs grave, the mothers grave, and Will
we celebrate the resurrection Of Christ W
will ut the same time celebrate the resur
rection Of all the good. Christ the hrs
fruits of them that slept"
THE GREAT CoNoUERoR.
III should come to you this morning ant
ask YOU for the names Of the great conquer
ors of the world, you wolld say Alexander
C.nsar, Philip, Napoleon /. All, my friends
YOU have forgotten to mention the name Z
a greater conqueror than all these-a cruel
a chastity cohqueror. He rode on blacl
horse across Waterloo and Atlanta an