Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-08-25

resentative of German success and victory.
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 triumphant Jesus Down
with the monarchy OF transgresslon! Up
with the monarchy of our King Hail Jesus
hail
But must give you the second cause of
Paufs exhilaration- II CHRIST had staid In
that grave, we never would have gotten out
Of it. The grave would have been dark and
dismal as the conciergerie during the reign
of terror. where the carts came up only TO
take the victims out TO the scanold. do
not wonder that the ancients tired ny en-
balmment of the body to resist the dissolution
of death.
The grave is the darkest. deepest, shastl-
est chasm that was ever opened II there be
no light from the resurrection throne stream
ing into it. but Christ staid in the tomb all
Friday night and all Saturday, al! Saturday
night and part Of Sunday morning He
staid SO long in the tomb that He might fit II
for us when we go there. He tarrled two
whole nights in the grave, so that He saw
how important it was TO have plenty OF
light and He has flooded it with His Own
glory.
1t 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 brushes them. What
beautiful place to be buried In Wonder
they did not 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 to the
crash-an earthquake The soldiers fell back
as though they were dead, and the stone at
the door of Christ's tomb spins down the hill,
flung by the arm of an angel. Come forth,
Jesus from the darkness into the sunlight
Come forth and breathe the perfume of
Joseph's garden.
Christ comes forth radiant and as He steps
out of the excavation of the rock l look
down into the excavation, and in the dis
lance see others coming hand in hand and
troop after troop. and find it is a long pro-
cession of the precious dead. Among them
are our own loved ones-father, mother,
brother, sister. companion children, coming
up out of the excavation Of the rock until
the last one has stepped out into the light,
and [ am bewildered, and l cannot under
stand the scene until see Christ wave His
hand over the advancing procession from the
rock and hear Him cry: II am the reSur-
rection and the life. He who believeth in
Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live"
And then I notice that the long dirge of the
worlds woe suddenly stops at the archan3elic
shout of Come forth -
Oh, my friends, if Christ had not broken
out of the grave you and would never come
out of it 1t would have been another case
Of Charlotte Corday attempting to Stay a
tyrant, herself slain 1t would have been
dnOrn6r case OF JOIN brown attempting 10
free the slaves, himself hung. 1t would have
been Death and Christ in q grapple and
Death the victor. The black tag would have
hoated on all the graves and maUsoleumS OF
the dead, and hell would have conquered
the forces of heaven and captured the ram
parts of God, and satan would have come to
coronation in the palaces of heaven, and it
would have been devils On the throne and
sons Of God in the dungeon.
No! mol mol When that stone was rolled
from the door of Christ's grave, it was hurled
with such force that it crashed in all the
grave doors of Christendom- and now the
tomb is only a bower where Gods children
take u siesta, an afternoon nap, to wake up
in mighty invigOration- |"Christ is risen y
Hang that lamp among all the tomhs of my
dead Hang it over my own resting place.
Christ's suffering is ended; His work ie
done The darkest Friday afternoon of the
worlds history becomes the brightest Sunday
morning OF its resurrection joy. The Good
Friday of bitter memories becomes the
Easter of glorious transformation and resur-
rectlOn-
Ye mourning saints dry every tear
For your depar ed Lord.
Behold the place He is not here.
The tomb is all unbarred.
The gates of death were closed in vain.
The Lord IS rjSen-He lives again.
give you the third cause of Paurs exhil-
aratlOn- We honor the right hand more than
we do the left. If in accident or battle we
must lose one hand. LET it be the left The
left hand being nearer the heart we may not
do much of the violent work of life with that
hand without physical danger, but he who
has the right arm in full play has the might
est OF all earthly weapons In all ages and
in all languages the right hand is the symbol
OF strength and power and honor. Hiram
sat at the right hand of Solomon. Then we
have the term. SIS he right hand man."
Lafayette was Washington's right hand man
q "a az wa Nan IN = rio h hon
And now you have the meaning ofPaul when
he speaks of Christ who is at the right hand
of God.
That means He is the>tirst guest of heaven.
He has right to sit there. The hero of the
universe! Count His wounds; two in the
feet, two ic the hands, one in the side-fve
wounds. Oh. you have counted wrong.
These are not half the wounds. Look at the
severer wounds in the temples. Each thorn
an eXcruciatiOn.
If a hero comes back from battle, and he
takes off his hat or rolls up his sleeve and
shows you the scar of wound gotten at
Balls Bluff or at South Mountain, you stand
in admiration at his heroism and patriotism,
but IT Christ should make conspicuous the
five wounds gotten on Calvary-that Water
loo Of all the ages-He would display only
small part of His wounds Wounded all over,
let Him sit at the right hand of God. He has
a right 10 sit there. By the request of God
the Father and the unanimous suffrage of all
heaven let Him sit there. In the grand re-
view when the redeemed pass by in cohorts
of splendor they will look at Him and shout
"Victory:,'
The oldest inhabitant of heaven never saw
a grander Gay than the one when Christ took
His place on the right hand of God. Hosan-
ma With lips of clay 7 may not appropriate
ly utter 1t. but let the martyrs under the altar
throw the cry to the elders before the throne
and they can toss it to the choir on the sea of
glass until all heaven shall lift it-some on