The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16

w WAbh JhOSO OOoOlCUC bhAhBoA wv
know how hard it is for wrecker to
bring up anything that is lost near the
shore of the sea, but suppose some
thing be lost half way between Liver
pool and New York, it cannot be found,
1t cannot be fetched up. Snow" says
God, "your sins have cast into the
depths of the sea-" Mid Atlantic! ALI
the machinery ever fashioned in foun-
dries of darkness, and launched from
the doors Of eternal death, working
for 10000 years, cannot bring up one OF
our sins forgiven and forgotten and
sunken into the depths of the sea,
When a sin is gone-it is gone out Of
the books, it is gone out of the mem
ory; lis gone out Of existence. Their
sins and their iniquities will remem-
Der no more" .tr.t.l.
From other tragedies men have come
away exhausted and nervous and sleep
less; but there is one tragedy that
soothes and ca1ms and saves. Calvary
was the stage on which it was enacted,
the curtain of the night falling at mid
noon was the drop scene, the thunder
of falling rocks the orchestra, angels
in the galleries and devils in the pit
the spectators, the tragedy a crucifix-
ion. 1T is Christ that died" o, tri.
umphant thought I 'a
If you go through the picture CALLER
les of Versailles you will find a great
change there. l said to friend who
had been through those galleries: "Are
they as they were before the French
war?" and was told there was a great
change there, that all that multitude
of pictures which represented Napole-
onic triumphs had been taken away,
and in the frames were other pictures
representative of Germanic success and
victory. o, that all the scenes Of Sa-
tanic triumph in our world might be
blotted out, and that the whole world
might be picture gallery representing
the triumphant Jesusl Down with the
monarchy Of transgression! Up with
the monarchy of our King! Hail! Jesus
Haill
But must give you the second cause
of PauPs exhilaration. II Christ had
stayed 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 to the scaffold. dc
not wonder that the ancients tried by
embalment Of the body to resist the
dissolution of death.
The grave is the darkest, deepest
ghastliest chasm that was ever opened
II there be no light from the resurrec
tion throne streaming into it, but
Christ stayed in the tomb all Friday
night and all Saturday, all Saturday
night and part of Sunday morning
He stayed so long in the tomb that He
might fit 1t for us when we go there
He tarried two whole nights in the
grave, so that He saw how importan'
it was to have plenty of light, and II,
has flooded 1t with His own glory.
1t is early Sunday morning, and W.
start up TO find the grave of Christ
We find the morning sun gliding tn,
dew, and the shrubs are sweet as tn,
foot crushes them. What beautifu
place to be buried inl Wonder they
did not treat Christ as well when II,
was alive as they do now that He &
dead. Give the military salute to th'
soldiers who stand guarding the dead
But bark TO the crash an earthquake
The soldiers fall back as though the,
were dead, and the stone at Christ
tomb spins down the hill, flung by tn,
arm of an angel. Come forth, Oh Jesus
from the darkness into the sunlight
Come forth, and breathe the perfum,
Of Joseph's garden.
Christ comes forth radiant, and a
He steps out of the excavation of tn,
rock look down into the excavation
and in the distance see others coming
hand-in-hand, and troop after troop
and l find II Is long procession Of the
precious dead. Among them are oul
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 l am bewildered
and cannot understand the scene un.
til see Christ wave His hand over the
advancing procession from the rock
and hear Him cry: 81 am the resur,
rection and the life; he who believeth
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 "ComC
forthl'
Obi my friends, II Christ had moi
broken out Of the grave you and
would never come out OF II. II would
have been another case OF Charlotte
Corday attempting to slay a tyrant
herself slain. 1t would have been an
other case Of John Brown attempting
TO free the slaves, himself hung. II
would have been death and Christ In q
grapple, and death the victor. The
black flag would have foated on all the
graves and mausoleums OF the dead, and
hell would have conquered the forces
Of Heaven, and captured the rampartI
Of God, and Satan would have come to
coronation in the palaces Of Heaven
and IL would have been devils on the
throne and sons Of God In the dungeon.
Mol mol mol When that stone was
rolled from the door Of Christ's grave
IL was hurled with such force thai
it crashed in all the grave-doors oi
Christendom, and now the tomb Is only
q bower where Gods children take a
siesta, an afternoon nap, TO wake up
in mighty invigoration. Christ "a
risen" Hang that lamp among all the