Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-08-14

| Drug up 10 us Jho SINS OF Our past LteI
What have we to do with those obsolete
things? You know how hard 1t is for q
wrecker to bring up anything that is lost
near the shore of the sea, but suppose
something be lost half way between
Liverpool and New York. It cannot be
found; it cannot be fetched up. Now"
says God. "your sins have been cast into
the depths of the sea-" Mid-Atlanticl- All
the machinery ever fashioned in foun-
dries of darkness and launched from the
doors of eternal death, working for TO-
000 years, cannot bring up one of our
sins forgiven and forgotten and sunken
into the depths of the sea. When a sin
is pardoned, it is gone. 1t is gone out Of
the books; it is gone out of the memory;
it is gone ont of existence. "Their sins
and their iniquities will remember nc
more"
THE SUBLIME TRAGEDY.
From other tragedies men have come
away exhausted and nervous and sleep
less, but there is one tragedy that soothes
and calms and saves. Calvary was the
stage on which it was enacted, the cur
tain of the night falling at midnoon was
the drop scene, the thunder of falling
rocks the orchestra, angels in the gall
leries.an devils. in the pit the spectators,
the tragedy a cruci6xion. "It is Christ
that died" Oh, triumphant thought
If you go through the picture gal
leries of Versailles, you will find great
change there. said to a friend who
had been through those galleries, "Are
they as they were before the French
war?" and was told there was a great
change there; that all that multitude OF
pictures which represented Napoleonic
triumphs had been taken away, and in
the frames were other pictures repre-
sentative of Germanic success and VIC
tory. Oh, that all the scenes of satanic
triumph in our world might be blotted
out, and that the whole world might be
picture gallery representing the tri-
umphant Jesusl Down with the mon
archy Of transgressionl Up with the
monarchy Of our Kingl Hail! Jesus,
haili
But / must give you the second cause
of Paul's exhilaration. If Christ had
staid in that grave, we never would
have gotten out of it. The grave would
have been dark and dismal as the con-
ciergerie during the reign of terror,
where the carts came up only to take
the eyictims out to the scaffold. L do not
wonder that the ancients tried by en-
balmment of the bodyzto resist the dis
solution of death.
The grave is the darkest, deepest,
ghastliest chasm that was ever opened
If there be no light from the resurrec-
ton throne streaming into it, but Christ
staid in the tomb all Friday night and
all Saturday, all Saturday night and a
part of Sunday morning. He staid SO
long in the tomb that he might fit 1t for
us when we go there. He tarried two
whole nights In the grave, 80 that he saw
how important it was to have plenty OF
light, and he has flooded it with his OWL
glory.
THE RESURRECTION
It is early Sunday morning, and we
start up to find the grave of Christ. We
find the morning sun gliding the dew,
and the shrubs are sweet as the foot
crushes them. What beautiful place
to be buried inl Wonder they did moi
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 tc
the crash--an earthquake! o The soldiert
fall back as though they were dead, and
the stone at the door of Christ's tomt
spins down the hill, flung by the arm Of
an angel. Come forth, o Jesus, from the
darkness into the sunlight! Come forth
and breathe the perfume Of Joseph's gar
den.
Christ comes forth radiant, and as he
steps out of the excavation OF the rock
look down into the excavation, and IN
the distance I see others coming hand
in hand and troop after troop, and find
It is a long procession Of the precious
dead. Among them are our own loved
ones-father, mother, brother, sister
companion. children, coming up out oi
the excavation of the rock until the LAS
one has stepped out into the light, and
am bewildered, and cannot understand
the scene until see Christ wave hi
hand over the advancing procession from
the rock and hear him cry: II am thu
resurrection and the life. He who be
lieveth in me, though he were dead, ye
shall he i've" And then / notice tina
the long dirge of the worlds woe sud
denly stops at the archangelic shout o
Come forthr'
Oh, my friends, If Christ had not bro
ken out of the grave you and woul'
never come out of It'll 1t would hav
been another case of Charlotte Corda.
attempting to slRy tyrant, herself slain
II would have been another case OF JON
Brown attempting to free the slaves
himself hung. 1t would have been Deatl
and Christ in grapple and Death tn
victor. The black flag would have hoa'
ed ON all the graves and mausoleums Q
tho dead, and hell would have conquere
the forces of heaven and captured tn
ramparts of God, and satan would haV
come to coronation in the palaces {
heaven, and 1t would have been devil
on the throne and sons Of God In tn
DEATH Is A EIRsTA.
Naf xaf nat pVhan that af0na Wa