Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-04-08
THE RESURRECTION.
EASTER SERMON AT THE TABERNA-
GLE BY DR.. TALMAGE.

EASTER SERMON AT THE TABERNA-
GLE BY DR.. TALMAGE.
The. Russian salutstions For tho Day:
"Christ Is Risen" "Ho Is Risen Indeed"
s Wonderful Scenes VIII Dc Witnessed on
That Day.
BROOKLYN, April 2.-The Tabernacle
was deliberately decorated with flowers
today, and an unusually large audience
assembled to hear Rev. DR.. Talmnge's
Easter morning sermon. The subject
was, Tile Sleepers Awakened" the text
chosen being from 1 Corinthians XIV, 20,
Nov 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, 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 indeed" 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
well may we forgive such superstition
which illustrates the fact that the nat
ural world seems to sympathize with
the spiritual.
Hail, Easter morningl Flowers!
Flowersl All of them a-voice, all of
them a-tongue, all of them full of speech
today. I bend over one of the lilies and
|iEhear it say: Consider the lilies of the
Iiheld, how they grow; they toll not,
neither do they spin. yet Solomon in all
Ibis glory was not arrayed like one Of
these" bend over rose, and it seems
TO whisper: II am the rose of Sharon.
And then stand and listen. From all
sides there comes the chorus of flowers,
saying: "If God SO clothed the grass Of
tie field, which today is and tomorrow
Isiscast into the oven, shall he not much
more clothe you, o ye of little faith?"
IsFlowersl Flowersl Braid them into
i|;tEss brides hair. Flowers! Flowers!
E.Strsw them over the graves Of the dead,
sweet prophecy of the resurrection.
l[:Flowers! Flowersl Twist them into a
garland for my Lord Jesus on Easter
nanrning. GLORY be to the Father, and
||isttosshe Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it
:wassin the beginning, is now and ever
shallsbe."
i THE FLOWERS OF EASTER.
Oh! how bright and how beautiful the
4 flowers, and how much they make me
think of Christ and his religion that
|brightens our character, brightens soci-
|iety, brightens the church. brightens ev-
lesythingl You who go with gloomy
Icountenance pretending you are better
II''ti6ans am because of your lugubrious-
ness you cannot cheat me- Pretty case
57ou:areGfor man that processes to be
Inorssthan a conqueror. 1t is not reli-
gion that makes you gloomy, tits the lack
of There is just as much religion in
awedding as in burial, just as much
4 re1igonsin smile as in tear.
Those gloomy Christians we sometimes
see7are the people to whom like to lend
4 money, for never see them again. The
~ ~ IsIen 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 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 labyrinthine the maui
soleum or how costly the sarcophagus or
however beautifully parterred the falni-
" grounds, we want them all broken up
by the Lord of the resurrection. They
must come out. Father and mother
they must como out. Husband and wife
they must come out. Brother and sis
ter-they must come out Our darling
children-they must come out The eyes
that we close with such trembling fin
gers must 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 returned Oh, how long
some of you seem to be waiting-wait-
ing for the resurrection, waiting! 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 q
prophecy of our own resurrection, my
text setting forth the idea that as Christ
has risen SO his people willrise. He-the
first sheaf of the resurrection harvest.
He-"the first fruits of them that slept. y
Before get through this morning l will
walk through all the cemeteries Of the
dead, through all the country grayeyards,
where your loved ones are buried, and
will pluck off these flowers, and I will
drop a sweet promise Of the gospel
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
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"
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 l.
ALL my friends, you have forgotten tc
mention the name of greater conquero1
than all of these-a cruel. CHASTITY 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 1t with the car
cases of nations. Fifty times would the
world have been depopulated had moi
God kept making new generations. Fifty
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