Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-03
AN EASTER SERMON.
REV. DR.. TALNAGE DELIVERS A TIMELY
AND INTERESTING DISCOURSE
The Beautiful Flowers and Their Mission On
Ear.h-Ihs Resurrection Of the Dead and he
FsIcidss Of That Grand and Glorious Event

was deliberately decorated Win Ao"c4S
to-day. and an unusually large audi
ence assembled TO hear Rev. Or. Tai
mage'S Easter morning sermon. The
subject was: 1.-THE S,eepers Awakened"
the text chosen being from /. Cor.
1920: "Now Is Christ risen from the
dead, and become the hrst-fruits OF
them that slept"
On this glorious Easter morning,
amid the music and the flowers, i give
you Christian salutati0L. This morn
ing. Russiaa meeting Russian on the
streets OF ST. Petersburg, halls him
with the SALVATION, "ChriSt Is risen
and is answered by his friend In saluta'
tion, "He is risen indeed" In some
parts of Enc'aud and ireland, 20 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 thai the ua,ura, world seems 70
sympathize with the spiritual
HAIL, EAsrEE MORNING.
Flowers. F.ower>l AN Of them a-yoice,
all of them a-tOugue, an of them full
OF speech to-day. / bend over one Of
the lilies and hear 20 say: Consider
the lilies of the field, how they grow;
they toll nor, neither do they spin yet
Solomon in an his glory was not ar
rayed like one OF these ! bend over
rose, and 90 seems 20 whisper; IL am
the Rose OF Sharon" And then / stand
aud listen. From all sides there Gomez
the chorus OF flowers, saying; III Coo
so clothed the grass OF the field, which
to-day is, and tomorrow Is cast into the
oven, shall be not much more ciothe
you, o ye Of little iaithF' Flowers.
Flowers, Braid them into the brides
hair. Flowers. Flowers. Strew them
over the graycsoi the dead, sweet pro
prophecy OF tbe resurrection. Flowers.
Flowers. Twist them into garland for
my Lord Jesus on Easter morning.
"Giory be 90 the Father, and 20 the
Son, and % the Holy Ghost; as il was 10
the beginning, is now, and ever shall
be-"
Oh. how bright aud how beautiful
the flowers, and how much they make
me think of Christ and his religion,
that brightens our life, brightenS our
character, brigLteus society, brighteuS
the church, brigbtcus everything. You
who go with gloomy C0untenauce pre-
tending YOU are better than / am be-
cause OF your ,uCu0riOusnesS, you can
not cheat me. Pretty case you are for
a man that Processes 90 be more than q
conoueror. 10 is not religion that makes
YOU gloomy, 70 is tho lack OF il. There
Is Just as much religion .n q wedding as
"a burial just as much religion in q
smile as in tear
THOSE GLOOMY CHRISTIANS
we sometimes see are the people 10
whom I like Co lend money, for ] never
see them again. The women came 10
the Savi0ur's tomb and they dropped
spices an around the tomb, and those
guices were tle seed that began 90
grow, and from them came all the How
FRS OF this Easter morn. The two au-
giles rObod i'm white took hold of the
stone at the Sdyiour's tomb and they
-~l1tfVr-1lG Gith such force down the bill
HAT 10 crushed n the door Cd The worlds
yeDulchre. and th3 stark and the dead
must come forth.
care not how labyrinthine the maui
EOieum or how costly the sarcOphagus
Or however beautifully parterred the
family grounds, we want them all
broken mp By the Lord OF the resurrec-
ton. They must come out. Father
and mother-they must come out. Hus-
band aud wife-they must come out.
Brother and Sister-they must come
out. Our darling children-theY must
come out. The eyes that we close with
such trembling fingers must open again
I'M the radiance Of that morn. The
arms we folded in dust must Join ours
"a an embrace OF reunion. The voice
that was hushed iu our dwelling must
be returned. Oh, how long some Of you
seem 20 be waiting-waitiug for the
resurrection, waiting. And for these
broken hearts to-day I make a soft, cool
bandage
OUT OF EASTER FLOWERS
Ny friends, I fud in the risen Christ
q prophecy o., our Own resurrection, my
text setting for Che idea that rs Chris,
has risen, SO liS people wi,l rise. He the
first sheaf OF the resurrection harvest.
He "the iirSt-truitS OF them that slept
Before get through this morning i
will walk through all the cemeteries Of
the dead, through all the country grave
yards. where your loved ones are buried,
4
will drop a sweet promise Of the Gospel
IA rose of hope, @ lily OF JOY on every
tOmb-the chud's tomb, the husbands
tomb, the wiie's tomb, the fathers
grave. the mothers grave; ana, while
We celebrate the resurrection Of Christ,
W VIII 80 the Same time celebrate the
resurrection on an the good Christ
the first fruits of them that slept"
IL / should come 90 you this morning
and ask you for the names of the great
cOnQuerOrs OF the world, you would saw
Alexander, CWSar, Philip, Napoleon /.
All my friends you have forgotten 10
mention the name OF % greater conquer
or than all these cruel, q CHASTITY con,
ouerOr He role on black horse
across Waterloo and Atlanta and Chal-
ons, the bloody h0Ofs crushing the
hearts of nations. It is the cOnQuer0r
Death.
He carries q black lag, and he takes
no prisoners. He digs o trench across
the hemiSphereS and fills it with the
carcasses of nations. Fifty times would
the world have been depopulated had
not God kept making new generations.
Fifty times the world would have swung
lifeless through the air-no man on the |
mountain, no man on the sea, an aban- I
doned ship ploughing through immens-
ity.
AGAIN AND AGAIN HAS lie DONE
this work with an generations. Heisa
monarch as well as q cOnQuerOr; his pal /
ace a sepulChre; his fountains the fall |
ing Gears of q world Blessed be God.