The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-05
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAeE TELLsoF THE GLoRIEs
OF THE RESURRECTION.


The Earth and the Sea Shall Give Up Their
Dead. and the Reunions VIII BE Such as
No Imagination Can Picture-Tbe Glori-
Ged Body.
Brooklyn, April 2.-The Tabernacle was
deliberately decorated with flowers today,
and an unusually large audience assembled
TO hear Rev. DIR. TalmaGe's Easter morning
sermon. The subject was 1.-The Sleepers
Awakened" the text chosen being from
] Corinthians Nv, 90, 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, give you Chris
tian salutaticn. This morning Russian
meeting Russian on the streets OF St. Peters
burg halls him with the salutation, "Christ
is risenl' and is answered by his friend in
salutation. ''Ite is risen indeed" In some
parts of England 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 a superstition,
which illustrates the fact that the natural
world seems TO sympathize with the spirit
uaL
Hail. Easter morningl Flowersi Flow
ers! All of them a-voice, all of them
i 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 a
rose, and il seems to whisper, II am the
rose of Sharon" And then I stand and
listen. From all sides there comes the
chorus Of flowers, saving, IF 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
fGiths"
Flowersl Flowersi Braid them into the
brides hair FlOwersl Flowers Strevv
them over the graves of the dead-sweet
prophecy of the resurrection. Flowersl
Flowersi Twist them into a garland for
my Lord Jesus on Easter morning. GLORY
b. TO the Father. and TO the Son, and 10
the Holy Ghost; rs it was in the begin
ming, is now ald ever shall be-"
The BLOOM OF EASTER
Oh, how bright and how beautiful the
flowers, ard how much they make me
think of Christ and his religion, that
brightens our life. brightens our character,
brightens society, bTightens the church,
brightens everything You who go with
gloomy countenance pretending you are
better than am because of your lugubri-
business, YOU cannot cheat me. Pretty case
you are for a man that Processes TO be more
than a conqueror. II is not religion that
makes you g.oomy; it Is the lack Of it.
There is Just Is much religion in n wedding
as in burial; Just as much religion in a
smile as in a tear.
Those gloomy Christians we sometimes
see are the people TO whom I like to lend
money, for / never see them againi The
women came to the Saviour's tomb and
they dropped spices all around the tomb,
and those spices were the seed that began
To grow, and from them came all the flow
ers of this Easter morn The two angels
robed in white took hold Of the stone at the
SaviOurs tOI.lb, and they hurled it with
such force down the hill that it crushed ia
the door Of tn worlds sepulcher, and the
stark and the dead must come forth.
care not how labyrinthine the mauso-
leum or how costly the sarcophagus or
however beautifully parterred the family
grounds, we want them all broken up by
the Lord of the resurrection. They must
come out. Fither and mother-they must
come out. Husband and wife-they must
come ont. Brother and sister-they must
come out. Our darling children-they must
come cut 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 ours in an embrace Of re
union. The voice that was hushed in our
dwelling must be returned. On, how long
some Of you seem to 10 waiting-waiting
for the resurrection, waitingl Andfor these
broken hearts today / make a soft, cool
bandage out Of Easter flowers.
My friends, find in the risen Christ a
prophecy Of our own resurrection. my text
setting forth the idea that es Christ has
,-fuau hiu raonfa will Fica 10 tbo c.
sheaf Of the resurrection harvest. He 1.-THE
first fruits of them that slept" Before l
get through this morning | viii walk
through all the cemeteries OF the dead,
through all the country graveyards, where
your loved ones are buried, and will pluck
off these flowers, and / will drop a sweet
promise Of the gospel-a rose Of hope, a lily
OF jog on every tomb-the child's tomb. the
husbands tomb, the wife's tomb, the IA
TIERS grave, the mothers grave, and while
we celebrate the resurrection of Christ we
will at the same time celebrate the resur-
rection of all the good. Christ the first
fruits of them that slept"
THE GREAT CONQUEROR-
= ! should come TO you this morning and
ask you for the names of the great conquer
ors of the world, you would say Alexander,
Caesar. Philip, Napoleon l. All, my friends,
you have forgotten 10 mention the name of
greater cOnqueror than all these-a cruel,
CHASTITY cOnqueror. lie rode on a black
horse across Waterloo and Atlanta and
Chalons, the bloody hoofs crushing the
hearts of nations. 1t is the conqueror
Death.
He carries black flag, and he takes no
prisoners. He digs trench across the
hemispheres and fills il with the carcasses
Of nations. Fifty times would the world
have been depopulated had not God kept
making new generations. Fifty times the
world would have swung Hfeless through
bhe air-nO man on the mountain. no man
% the sea, an abandoned ship blowing
through immensely.
Again and again has he done this work
With all generations. He is n Monarch -
we'll as a conqueror; his palace a sepul-
sher; his fountains the falling tears of
world. Blessed be God, Ia the light OF this
Easter morning | see the prophecy that his
scepter shall be broken and his palace shall
De demolished The hour is coming when
III who are in their graves shall come forth.
Christ risen, we shall rise. Jesus 1.-The first
huits OF them that slept" Now, around
his doctrine OF the resurrection there are
tgreat many mysteries.
You come TO me this morning and say,
SIf the bodies of the dead are to be raised,
how is this, aud how is thatg" And you ask
me n Thousand questions / am incompetent
30 answer, but there are great many
things you believe that you are not able to
explain You would be a very foolish man