Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-08
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
Ths Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun.
day Sermon.



On this glorious Bsstef morning, amid the
.Ia an the flowers l give you Chris
tan salutston. This morning Russian
meeting dussian on the sire It's of st. Peters,
Dnrs mails him With the salu;ation, ''Christ
- RISEN ana is answered ny kis friend in
saiutatlon, HE is risen indesdp La soma
parts OF England aad Irelan !. to tais very
DAY, there Is the sd ,erssition that on Il ,ster
morning tae sun dances in the heavens, AMI
vi may we torgve suca a SUPERSTITION
witch illustrates the fact that thu natural
ual.
han, Easter morning. Fiosersi Flow
ers! All OF them eavoice, all OF them
a-tongue, all of them full OF speech TODAY.
10 zen over one of the lilies and hear it say,
CONSIDER the lilies of the field, how ther
Slow, they toll cot neither do they spin,
YET solomon in all his glory was not arrayei
II one OF these" / bend over rose and
II seems TO whisper: II am the rose of Sha.
ron. And then | stand and listen. From
an SIDES there comes tue chorus of flowers
saying; III God 50 clothed the grass of the
neld' which to-day is ami tomorrow is cast
mo the oven. shall He not mitch more
cloehe you. we OF little faithyn
Flowersl Flowersi Rrai them into the
brides hair. Flowers. Flowersi Strew
tnem over the graves of the dead. sweet
Eropnecy or the resurrection. Flowersi
rowers! Twist them into a garland for NV
Lord Jesus on Easte- morning. ''Glory be-
q the Father, and to thu Son. and 60 the
holy Gnost; as it was in the beginning, is
now and ever shall ben
Oh, row bright and how beautiful III.
flowers, and how much they make me tb,nlr
Oh Christ and His religion that brightens our
characeer, brightens society, brightens the
church, brightens everythingi You who go
with gloomy cotntenlnce preten linz Won
are better than am because of your lugII.
pfiousnesS. you cannot cheat me. Pretty
case you are for a man that pre- sesses to be
more thaa conqueror. IL is not religion
that makes you gioomy it is the LACK OF il,
lhere Is Just as much religion in welding
as ih burial, just as much religion in a
smile as in a tear
These gloomy Christians We sometimes
see are the people to whom [ like to lend
money, for L never see them again. The
women cana To the Saviors tomb, and lhey
dropped specs ali around the tomb and
those spices were the seed that began 10
grow, ami fro II item came a / the flowers of
TINS Easter morn, The two an gels rooei i,
white took hold OF the stone at the Sayior's
tomb, and th4y hurled it with such fore.
down the hill that it crushe in the door of
the woriGs sepuchre, and the stark and tho
dead must come forth.
care not how labyrihthine the mauso
ieum 2r how costly the sArcophagus or how
ever beautifully parterred the family
erJanis. we want them all broken tin by the
Lord OF the resurrection. They must come
out. Father and mother they must co me-
out Husband AMI wife-they must coma
OUT bfothsr AMI sister-thay must r,ne
out. Our darling children-they must c5ms
out. The eyes that We close with such
trembling fingers must open again in the
iaoiance OF t2at morn. Inc Arms we foldei
j1in l.,
union Inc voice that was husled in onr
dwelling must oe returned. Ca, how long
some OF you seem to be waiting-waiting
Ior the resurrection, waitin-i And for
these broken hearts today | make a soft
cool banlage out o: Easter flowers.
NY friends, find in the risen Christ a
prophecy OF our own resurrection, nv text
setting forth the idea that as Christ has arisen
SO His people via rise. Hs-the first sheaf cs
the resurrection harvest. He-'the first
traits or them that slept" Before [ get
through this morning l will walk throu III
all the cemeteries of the dead. throuyh all
the country graveyards, where your beloved
ones are buried, anu | will pluck off these
flowers, and will drop a sweet promise of
tne gospel rose of hope, lily of Joy on
every tomb-the chilu's tomb the h1,sosnc1,s
tomb, the wife's tomb, the fathers grave,
the mothers grave, and while we celebrate
the resurrection of Christ we will ct the
same time celebrate the resurrection of all
the good. Christ the first fruits Of them
that slept
Ii should come to yoti this morning aid
ask you for the names OF the great conduer-
ors OF the world, you would say Aiexan Ter
Cesar, Philip, Napoleon 1. Al! my friends.
you nave forgotten to mention the name of
greater conqueror than all of these-a
cruel CHASTITY conqueror. He who rode on
black horse across Waterloo AID Atlanta
and Cha.ons the bloody boots crushing the
hearts OF nations. 1t is the conaueror Death.
Again and AGAIN has he done uhis work
with ali generations. de is monarch as
Wen as conqueror; his palace se2ulcher;
his fountains the falling tears Of a world
Blessed be GOO, in toe hight of this Easter
morning see the prophecy that his scepter
snail be broken ami mis- palace shall be de-
mollshed- Inc hour Is coming when all VINO
are IN their graves shall co ne forth, Christ
risen, we shall rise. Jesus ''tne first fruits
OF them that slept" Nov, around this doc.
urine or the resurrection there are great
many mysteries.
You come to me this morning AMI say.
III the bodies OF the dead are to be raised,
now is this and how is thltf' An YOU ask
mea thousanL questions | an incompetent
% answer, nut there are great man,
Things you believe that you are not 5ia 70
explain You would he very foolish man
h In I
understand" ! 0'A
find my strength in this passaga Gan
VINO are in their graves shall coIns forth
l 60 not pretend to make the ex2la1ation.
lou can go on and say: nSripnoss n "a.
turned missionary dies in BROOKLYN. When
hs was Id China, his foot was aihput,tad
ne iived years after III England. and there
ne mad an arm amputated He is buried
to-day in GREENWOOD In tina resurraotior,
tO1f
come from England. and viii the different
parts OF the body be reconstructed in the
fesufret tions How Is that possbleYn
1ou say That the human body changes
every seven years, and by seventy wears of
age man has had ten bodies. In the
resurrection which will come up?" You saw,
man VIII die and his body crumnls into
OF the vegetable. An animal may eat the
Hesetaole; men eat the animal In the
resurrection that body, distributed in so
many directions, how shall it be pathered
uN nave you any more questions of this
style TO ask? Come on ana ask them. / do
not pretend to answer them. | fail back
UPON the announcement of Co.'s word. "All
VINO are III their graves hall come FORTH
You have noticed, suooose. in reafinp
tue story OF the resurrection that almost
every account of the Bible gives the idea that
tue Characteristic of that day will be a great
sound: do not know that il will b. very
lou but know it will be very penetrating.
10 rue ma 1soleum, where siience has reigaed
ttaousan1 years. that voics must psne-
trats. In the coral cave OF the deep that
voice must penetrate.
All along the sea route from New York to
Liverpool at every few miles where steam.
e. went DOWN departed spirits coming back
towering over the wave There is where
the CITY Of Boston per.shel. Found ct last
f1tre is where the President persisted.
steamer found at last. There is where the
central America went down. Spirits
towering hundreds OF spirits lowering,
waiting for the reunion OF BODY and soul
Out on the prairie a spirit aliyhts There is
wnere Traveller died in the snow. Crasat
goes Westminster Abbey, and the poets and
orators come forth; wonder u ming ling of
cool and bad. Crashi 90 the pyramids OF
Egypt ami the monarcls coma forJn.
who can sketch the scene2 suppose that
ene mo nent before that general rising there
viii be an entire silence save as You hear the
grinding OF wheel or a ciatter of the honfs
OF procession passing into the cemetery.
Silence IN all tbs caves OF the earth. Silence
on the side Of the mouItain. Silence down
In the valleys AMI tar out inso the sea-
Silence
But IN moment in the twinkling of an
eye, as the archanZePs trumpet comes peal
IN, rolling. crashing across mountain ard
der, ana the graves or che DEAD VII heave
like thu waves of the sea, aud Osteni AMI
Seoastopoi and Chalons will stalk forth in
the lurid air, an the drowned will come up
and wiring out their wet locks above the bil-
low, and all the land and all the sea become
one moving mass OF life-all faces, all age /,
all conditions gazing in one direction and