Connecticut western news., 1893-04-06
THE RESURRECTION.
EASTER SERMON AT THE TABERNA- GLE BY DR. TALMAGE

''Christ Is Risen,'' "He Is Risen Indeed" Wonderful scepes Win Be Witnessed on That Day.
 BROOKLYN, April 2.-The Tabernacle was elaborately decorated with flowers today, and an unusually large audience assembled to hear Rev. Dr. Talmages Easter morning sermon. The subject was, "The Sleepers Awakened" the text chosen being from Corinthians XIV, 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, I give you Christian salutation. This morning Rus siAn meeting Russian on the streets of St. Petersburg halls him with the sal utation, Christ is risenr' and is an swered by his friend in salutation, "He is risen 1ndeedp' in some parts of Eng land and Ireland, to this very day, there Is the superstition that on Easter morn ing the sun dances in the heavens, and we'll may we forgive such superstition
  ural world seems to sympathize with the spiritual.
 Hail, Easter morningl Flowersl Flowersi 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 rose, and it seems to whisper: "I am the rose of Sharon" And then I stand and listen. From all sides there comes the chorus of flowers, saying: "n 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 faithY
 Flowersi Flowers! Braid them into tho brides hair. Flowersi Flowers! Strew them over the graves of the dead, sweet prophecy of the resurrection. Flowersi 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 beginning, is now and ever sh8u be-"
 THE FLOWERS 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 character, brightens soci- ety, brightens the church. brightens ev- e9ythingl You who go with gloomy countenance pretending you are better than I am because of your lugubrious- LA -~~-~ k kc1, you are for 8 man that professes to be more than 8 ,conqueror. It is not reli zion that'makes you gloomy, it is the lack of it. There is just as much religion in awedding as in burial, just as much religion in smile as in tear.
 Those gloomy Christians we sometimes sse are the people to whom like to lend money, for never see them again. The women came to the Saviour's tomb, and they dropped spices all around the tomb, and those spices were 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 Saviour's tomb, and they hurled 1t with such force down the hill that it crushed in the door of the worlds
 
 must come forth.
 care not how labyrinthine the mau- eoleum or how costly the sarcophagus or however beautifully parterred the fami- ly grounds, we want them all broken up by the Lord of the resurrection. They must come out. Father and mother they must come out. Husband and wife they must come out. Brother and sis- tsr-they must come out. Our darling children-they must come out. The eyes that we close with such trembling fin gers smust open again in the radiance of that morn. The arms we folded in dust must join ours in an embrace of reunion. The voice that was hushed in our dwell ing must be retuned. Oh, how long some of you seem to be waiting-wait- Ing for the resurrection, waitingl And for these broken hearts today make a soft, cool bandage out of Easter flowers. THE FIRST FRUITS OF THEM THAT SLEPT.
 My friends, find in the risen Christ . prophecy of our own resurrection, my text setting forth the idea that as Christ has risen 30 his people will rise. He-the first sheaf of the resurrection harvest. He-"the first fruits of them that slept" |" Before get through this morning will walk through all the cemeteries of the dead. through all the country graveyards, where your loved ones are buried, and I will pluck of these flowers, and I will drop sweet promise of the gospel-a rose of hope, lily of joy on every tomb the child's tomb, the husbands tomb, the wife's tomb, the fathers grave, the mothers grave, and while we celebrate tho resurrection of Christ we will at the same time celebrate the resurrection of all the good. Christ the first fruits of them that slept"
 If should come to you this morning and ask you for the names of the great conquerors of the world, you would say Alexander, Caesar, Philip, Napoleon I. Ahi my friends, you have forgotten to mention the name of 8 greater conqueror than all of these-a cruel, ghastly con- queror. He who rode on black horse across Waterloo and Atlanta and Chal- ons, the bloody hoofs crushing the hearts of nations. It is the conqueror Death.
 He carries a black flag, and he takes no prisoners. He digs trench across the hemispheres and fills it with the car. cases of nations. Fifty times would the world have been depopulated had not God kept making new generations. Fifty times the world would have swung life. less through the air-no man on the mountain, no man on the sea, an aban doned ship blowing through immensity
 Again and again has he done this work with all generations. He is monarch as well as conqueror; his palace sep u1cher; his fountains the falling tears o1 world. Blessed be God, in the light oi his Easter morning see the prophecy that his scepter shall be broken and hit palace shall be demolished. The hou, is coming when all who are in thei1 graves shall come forth. Christ risen we shall rise. Jesus "the first fruits oi them that slept" Now, around this doc urine of the resurrection there are grea many rrvotorioQ