Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-04-19
RRV. DIR. TALMAGE,
The Brooklyn Divine's
Sunday Sermon.
Snbject: The sleepers Awakened. I"

sept Corinthians Iy. %
On this glorious Easter morning. amid III.
music an the howerS, l give you a Chris
tian sautatIon. This morning Kussi,n
meeting Russian on the sire It's of st. Peters
bnrE halls him with the salutation .sCb-ist
Is rlsenE and IS answered. by ms frisnd IN
salltatlon, He is risen indeedp In sons
parts OF England and Irelani To this v..t-v
day. There Is the su ,erstition that on Easter
morning the sun dances in the heavens and
wen may We forgive such a superstition
which illustrates the fact that the natural
world seems TO sympathize with the ,oirit
ual.
Hail Easter morningI Flowersi Flow
ersi All or them a-voice all of them
a-tongue, all OF them full of speech TODAY
nehl over one oil the lilies and hear it saw:
CONSIDER the lilies Of the field. how thsv
grow, they toll not, neither do thew snin
yet solomon IN all his glory was not arr.vad
II one OF these" | bend over a rose and
1t seems TO whisper: II am the rose of Shs-
ron And then stand and listen. From
sn SIDES thSre comes the chorus of flowers
saying; II God so clothed the grass of the
held. which to-day Is ami tomorrow Is cast
into the oven, shall He not much uc,.a
Glothe you, y ye OF little faithgp
Flowers FIowersl Braid them into the
brides hair. FIowersI Flowersi Strew
s1sI over the graves of the dead, sweet
prophecy OF the resurrection. FlowersI
Flowers! Twist them into a garland for INV
Lord Jesus on Easter morning, ''IIorv hs
. the Father, and TO the Son. and 10 tia
holy Ghost; as 1t was in the BEGINNING ia
nov and ever shall be-"
o. bow bright and how beautiful tha
flowers, and how much thew MAKE me e.,
or Christ. and bis religion,Jh brightens onr
character, brlghtens society, brightens the
church, brlghtens everythingI You who 90
win gloomy couutenance preten ling you
sIe h-3I letter Inan am because of your lugu-
hFlousness, you cannot cheat me- Pretty
case you are Tor man that pTofeSsas to ba
more than a cOnqusror. 1t is not reliZion
LhAt makes you gloomy, it is the lack OF il.
There Is Just as much religion in a welding
As IN burial, Just as much religion in a
smile as in a tear
These gloomy Christians We sometimas
see are the people to whom L like to lend
money, for l never see them again. IN.
women came to the SaviOr's tomb and thew
dropped spices all around the romb and
those spices were the seed that began 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 Sayior,s
tomb, and thsy hurled it with such forcs
down the hlll that 1t crushed in the door OF
the WORLDS sepuchre, and the stark and tina
dead must come forth.
care not how abyrinthine the msuso-
leum OF how costly the strcophagus or how
ever beautifully parterred the family
Lord OF the resurrection. They must come
out. Father and mother-they must come
out Husband and wite-they must come
out. Brother ami sisCer-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. Inc arms We foldel
IN dust must JON ours in embrace OF re-
union. The voice that was hushed in our
dwelling must oe returned. On, how long
some OF You seem to be withdrawing
for the resurrection, waitingl And for
these broken hearts today | make a soft,
cool baniags out o. Easter flowers
My friends, l find in the risen Christ a
prophecy OF our own resurrection nv text
setting forth the idea that as Christ has arisen
20 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 1 will walk through
all the cemeteries of the dead, throu 20 all
the country graveyards, here your beloved
ones are buried, and | will pluck off these
flowers, and will drop "A swseJ promise OF
the gospel rose OF hope a 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
the resurrection of Christ we will at the
same time celebrate the resurrection of all
the good. Christ the first fruits of them
that slept"
II should come to you this morning and
ask you for the names OF the great conquer
ors of the world, you would say Alexander,
Cesar, Philip, Napoleon |. All my friends,
you have forgotten to mention the name OF
q greater conqueror than all of these-s
cruel, CHASTITY coHquerOr. He who rode on
q black horse across Waterloo AID Atlanta
and Chaions the bloody hoofs crushing the
hearts of nations. lt is the conqueror Death.
Again and again has he done this work
with ali generations. He is a monarch as
well as a couqueror; his palace a sepulcher;
his fountains the railing tears Of a world.
Blessed be God, in the light OF this Easter
morning see the prophecy that his Eceptsr
shall be broken ami his palace shall be de-
molished- The hour is coming when all who
are IN their graves shall come forth. Christ
risen, we shall rise. Jesus "the first fruits
Of them that slept" Now, around this doc
trine of the resurrection there are a great
many mysteries.
You come to me this morning and say,
"If the bodies of the dead are to be raised,
how Is this and how is thatP And you ask
msA thousand questions l am incompetent
% answer, but there are great many
things you believe that you are not able to
explain You would be a very foolish man
TO say, Il won't believe anything 1 can't
understand"
hnd my strength in this passage. All
who are in their graves shall come forth"
DO not pretend to make the explanation.
You can go on and say: Suppose re-
turned missionary dies in Brooklyn. When
he was in China, his foot was amputated.
De lived years after in England. and there
he had an arm amputated He is buried
today In Greenwood. In the resurrection
will the foot come from China, will the arm
come from England, and will the different
parts or the body be reconstructed in the
Eesnrrectionf How is that possibleF'
I ou say that 'ths human body changes
every seven years, and by seventy years of
q hQz had faFn In q
resurrection which will come upY You say,
4 man will die and his body crumpls into
dust and that dust be taken up into the life
OF Tue vegetable. An animal may eat the
vegetable, men eat the animal. In the
resurrection that BODY, distributed in so
many directions how shall it be gathered
Apf have you any more questions OF thus
style 70 askt Come on and ask them. do
not pretend TO answer them. | fall back
upon the announcement of COTS word. "Ali
"Go are IN their graves shall come forth"
Aou nave noticed, l suppose, in reatlng
the story OF the resurrection that almost
every account Of the Bible gives the idea that
Sns Characteristic of that day will be q great
sound. do not know that it will be very
5oli' Dut know 1t will be very penetrating:
20 tne maYsoleum, where silence has reigned
slouSand years, that voice must pene-
rate In the coral cave of the deep that
voice must penetrate.
AN along the sea route from New York to
liverpool at every few miles where a steam
o. vent down departed spirits coming back
aoVsrlng sver the wave. There is where
Fne City OF Boston perishe1 Found at last.
-, ere Is where the President perished.
steamer found at last. There is where the
SeHlraI America went down. Spirit:
er'ng-hUndreds OF spirits lowering,
Ga!Lng for the reunion of body and soul
~ oH the prairie spirit ali ghts. There Is
"ueFs traveller died in the snow. Crashi
80 estminster Abbey, and the poets and
o.au0rs come forth; won iertu ming ling oi
~ and bad. Crashl go the pyramids of
-SSPI and the monarchs come forth.
no can sketch the scenei 1 suppose that
si1 SIs moment before that general rising there
srir5'., an entire silence save as you hear toe
oSinulhg - Of a wheel or a clatter of the hoof
Sns,apll plGeession passing into the cemetery
on tho-h ~ all the caves of the earth. Silence
20 t1e side Of the mountain SiIan.a dowu
siI.nc. valleys ami far out into the sea