The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-16

falling rocks the orchestra, angels In
the galleries and devils in the pit the
spectators. the tragedy crusifixion.
TT is Christ that died" Oh, triumphant
thought!
If you go through the picture CALLER
les of Versailles you will find a great
change there. / said to a friend who
had been through these galleries, Are
they as they were before the French
war;" and 1 was told there was a great
change there: that all that multitude
OF pictures which represented Napoleonic
triumphS had been taken away and in
the frames were other pictures repre-
sentative of Germanic success and vic
tory. oh, that all the scenes of satanic
triumph in our world might be blotted
out, and that the whole world might be
a picture gallery representing the tri-
umphant JeSuSi Down with the mon
archy Of transgression! Up with the
monarchy Of our kingi Hail! Jesus,
hall
But 1 must give you the second cause
Of Pauls 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 con-
ciergerie during the reign Of terror
where the carts came up only to take
the victims out 10 the scaffold. / do
not wonder that the ancients tried by
embalmment Of the body to resist the
dissolution of death.
The grave is the darkest, deepest,
ghastliest chasm that was ever opened
If there be no light from the resurrec-
ton throne streaming into it, but Christ
staid in the tomb all Friday night and
all Saturday, all Saturday night and
part Of Sunday morning. He staid so
long in the tomb that he might fit it for
us when we go there. He tarried 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 a 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 earthquakei The soldiers
fall 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, o
Jesus! from the darkness into the sun
light. Come forth and breathe the per-
fume Of Joseph's garden.
Christ comes forth radiant, and as he
steps out of the excavation Of the rock
/ look down into the excavation and in
the distance / see others coming hand
IN mana ana troop AFTER troop. ana L ma
il is long procession 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
1 am bewildered and 1 can not under
stand the scene until see Christ wave
his hand over the advancing procession
from the rock and hear him cry, 81 am
the resurrection and the life; he who be-
lieveth In me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live" And then / notice
that the long dirge of the worlds woe
suddenly stops at the archangelic shout
Of Come FORTH
Results of the Resurrection.
Oh, my friends, if Christ had not
broken out of the grave you and 1 would
never come out Of it! 1t would have
been another case of Charlotte Corday
attempting to slay a tyrant, herself
slain. 1t would have been another case
Of John Brown attempting to free the
slaves himself hung. 1t would have been
death and Christ in a grapple and death
the victor The black flag would have
floated on all the graves and mausOleums
Of the dead, and hell would have
conquered the forces of heaven and
captured the ramparts of God, and satan
would have come to coronation in the
been devils on the throne and sons of
God in the dungeon.
No! no! no. When that stone was
rolled from the door of Christ's grave,
it was hurled with such a force that it
crashed in all the grave doors of Christi
| endom, and now the tomb is only a
bower where Gods children take a
siesta, an afternoon nap, to wake up in
mighty invigoration. Christ is risen.
Hang that lamp among all the tombs of
my dead. Hang 1T over my own resting
place Christ's suffering is ended; His
| work is done. The darkest Friday after
noon of the worlds history becomes the
brightest Sunday morning Of it's resur-
| rection joy. The Good Friday of bitter
memories becomes the Easter of glorious
transformation and resurrection.
Ye mourning saints dry every tear
For your departed Lord.
Behold the place. He is not here.
The tomb is all unbarred.
The gates of death were closed in vain.
The Lord is risen-He lives again.
I give you the third cause OF PauTs ex-
| hilaration. 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 so 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
mightiest 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, HE
| is a right-hand man." Lafayette was
Washington's right-hand man; Marshal
Ney was Napoleon's right-hand man.
and now you have the meaning of Paul
when he speaks of Christ, who is at the
! right hand of God.
The Hero of the Universe.
That means He is the first guest OF
heaven. He has a right to sit there
The hero Of the universal Count His
wounds; two in the feet, two in the
hands, one in the side-five wounds Oh
you have counted wrong. These are not
| half the wounds. Look at the severel
wounds in the temples; each thorn an
! excruciation.
If hero come back from battle, and
| he takes off his hat or rolls up his sleeve
/ and shows you the scar wound gotten
| at Balls Bluff or at South Mountain, you
/ stand in admiration at his heroism and
| patriotism, but if Christ should make
/ conspicuous the FIVE wounds gotten or
1 Calvary-that Waterloo of all ages-Ht
would display only a small part of His
wounds. Wounded all over, let Him sit
1 at the right hand of God. He has 9
right to sit there. BY the request OF
| God the Father and the unanimous
| suffrage of all heaven let Him sit there
| In the grand review. when the redeemed
pass by in cohorts Of splendor, they will
| look at Him and shout Victory"
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