The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-04-07
CHRIST Is RISEN.
Easter Sermon by Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage.
The Great Sound ut the Last Day-What
the Resurrected Body Will Be-
Plenty of Occupation and No
WEAKNESS In Heaven.

In sermon at Brooklyn on Easter
Sunday Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
preached on the subject, The Sleepers
Awakened" the text chosen being from
L Cor. XIV. 20: Now is Christ risen from
the dead. and become the first fruits Of
them that slept" DR.. Talmage said:
On this glorious Easter morning. mid
the music and the flowers, / give you
Christian salutation. This morning.
Russian meeting Russian on the streets
of St Petersburg halls him with the
salutation, Christ is risen-' and is an
swered by his friend in salutation, HE
is risen indeed In some parts of En-
gland 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 super
stition which illustrates the fact that
the natural world seems to sympathize
with the spiritual
Hail. Easter morning. Flowers.
Flowers. All of them a-voice, all OF
them a-tongue, all of them full of
speech to-day. l 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 Solo
mon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these" l bend over a rose
and it seems to whisper: 4 am the
Rose of Sharon" And then l stand
and listen. From all sides there comes
the chorus of flowers, saying: IF God
so clotheA the grass of the field, which
to-day is, and tomorrow IS cast into
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you. o We of little faith?" Flowers.
Flowers, Braid 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 a 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 beginning, is now, and ever shall
be-"
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 90 with gloomy counterance pre-
tending YOU are better than | am be-
cause OF your righteousness, you cam
not cheat me. Pretty case you are for
man that processes to be more than
conqueror 1t is not religion that makes
you gloomy, it is the lack of it. There
is Just as much religion in wedding
as in burial, just as much religion in
smile as in a tear. Those gloomy
a
people to whom l like to lend money,
for I never see them again! The women
came to the Saviour's tomb and they
dropped spices all around the tomb,
and those spices We're the seed that be-
gan to grow and from them came all
the flowers of this Easter morn. The
two angels robed in white took hold OF
the stone at the Saviours tomb and they
hurled it 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 labvrinthine the
mausoleum or how costly the sarcoph-
acus or however beautifully parterred
the family grounds, we want them all
broken up by the Lord of the resurrec-
ton. They must come out Father
and mother-they must come out Hus,
band and 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 in the radiance of that morn
The arms we folded in dust must join
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voice that was hushed in our dwelling
must be returned Oh, how long some
of YOU seem to be waiting-waiting 70,
the resurrection, waiting! And fol
these broken hearts to-day 1 make q
soft cool bandage out of Easter flowers
Nv friends, l find in the risen Chris,
prophecy of our own resurrection, my
text setting forth the idea that a:
Christ has risen, SO his people will rise
He the FIRST sheaf of the resurrection
harvest He 1.-The first fruits of then
that slept" Before get through thi:
morning l will walk through all thS
cemeteries of the dead, through all the
country graveyards, where your loved
ones are buried, and l will pluck of
these flowers and will drop a swee'
promise of the gospel-a rose of hope, ;
lily of joy on every tomb-the child.
tomb, the husbands tomb, the wife
tomb, the fathers grave, the mother
grave, and while we celebrate tn
resurrection of Christ we will at tn
same time celebrate the resurrection O.
all the good Christ the first fruits y
them that slept"
If I should come to you this mornin.
and ask YOU for the names of the grea
conquerors of the world. you would sa..
Alexander. Cesar, Philip, Napoleon
All! my friends. You have forgotten t
mention the name of greater cor
aueror than all these-a cruel. ghast
" conqueror He rode on black hors
across Waterloo and Atlanta an
Chalons. the bloody hoofs crushing tn
hearts of nations 1t is the conquero
Death
He carries a black flag and he take
no prisoners He digs trench acros
the hemispheres and fills it with th
carcasses of nations Fifty time
would the world have been depopulate
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