Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-04-03
THE RESURRECTION.
IASTER SERMON AT THE TABERNA-
tCLE BY DR.. TALMAGE.


''Christ Is Risen, A." ''ae is Risen Indeed"
Wonderful Scenes VIII BE Witnessed on
ThatsDay.
BROOKLYN, April 2.-The Tabernacle
was deliberately decorated with flowers
today, and an unusually large audience
assembled to hear Rev.. Dr. Talmage's
Easter. morning sermon. The subject
was, 1.-THE Sleepers Awakened" the text
chosen being from | Corinthians XIV, 90,
Now is Christ risen from the dead and
become the first fruits of them that
Elepf.'
On this glorious Easter morning, amid
the music and the flowers, / give you
Christian salutation. This morning Rus
sian meeting Russian on the streets of
st. Petersburg halls him with the sal
utation, .-''ChriSt is risent' and is an
swered by his friend in salutatiOn, He
is risen indeed!' in some parts of Eng
land and Ireland, to this very day, there
is the superstition that on Easter morn
ing the sun dances in the heavens, and
well may we forgive such a superstition
which illustrates the fact that the nat
rural world seems to sympathize with
the spiritual.
Hail. Easter morning4 Flowers!
Flowers! All of them a-voice, all of
them a-tongue, all of them full Of speech
today. | bend over one Of the lilies and
1 hear 1T 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 q rose, and 1t seems
to whisper: Il am the rose Of Sharon"
And then stand and listen. From all
sides there comes the chorus Of flowers,
saying: 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 We of little faith?''
Flowers! Flowers! Braid them into
the brides hair. Flowers! Flowers!
6trew them over the graves of the deads
sweet prophecy of the resurrection.
Flowers! Flowersi Twist them into
garland for my Lord Jesus on Easter
morning. GLORY be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it
was in the beginning, is now and ever
shall be-
THE FLOWERS OF EASTER.
Oh how bright and how beautiful the
flowers, and how much they make me
think of Christ and his religion that
brightens our character, brightens sOci-
ETY., brightenS the church, brightens ev-
erythingi You who go with gloomy
countenance pretending you are better
than / am becausesOf your lugubrious-
hess. you cannot cheat me. Pretty case
you are for a man that processes to be
more than a. cOnQuerOr. 1t is not reli-
gion that makes you gloomy, tits the lack
Of it. There is justzas much religion in
u wedding as in q burial, just as much
religion in q smile as in a tear
These gloomy Christians we sometimes
see are the people to whom | like to lend
tnoney. for. / never see them again. The
women came to the SaViOur's tomb and
they dropped spices all around the tomb
and those spices were the seed that be-
gan to grow, and from them came all the
flowers of this Easter morn. The two
angels robed in, white took hold Of the
stone at the. SaviOurs. tomb, and they
hurled it with such force down the hill
that it crashed in the door of the worlds
sepulcher. and the stark and the dead
must come forth
| care nat how iabyrinthine the maui
solemn or how costly the sarcOphagus or
however beautifully parterred the fa1ni-
ly grounds, MelWant them all broken up
by the LORD of lthe resurrection. They
must come out. Father and mother
they must come out. Husband and wife
they must come cut. Brother and Sis
ter-they must come out. Our darling
chil6ren-they must come out. The eyes
that we close with such trembling fin
gers must open again in the radiance Of
that morn. The arms sve folded in dust
must join ours in an embrace of reunion.
The voice that MAS husbed in our dwell
ing must be Retuned. Oh how long
some of you seem to be waiting-wait-
ing fGr the resurrection, waiting! And
for these broken hearts today make a
soft. eeol bandage cut. CT Easter flowers
THE FIRST FRUITS OF THEM THAT SLEPT.
My friends. | find IN the risen Christ
prophecy Of our own resurrection, Eny
text setting forth theidea tkat as Christ
has risen.so his people viii rise. He-the
first sheaf Of the resurrection harvest.
He-tthe first fruits of themfhat slept
Before l get through this morning | VIE
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 gespel-a
rose of hope, q lily Of joy ca every tomb
the child's tomb, the husbands tomb,
the wife's tomb, the fathers grave, the
mothers grave. and while we celebrate
the resurrection Of Christ we will at the
same time celebrate the resurrection of
all the good. "Chfist the first fruits of
them that slept
LIE l should come to you this snorning
and ask you for the names of the great
.conquerors of the world, you would say
Alexander, Caesar, Philip, Naposeon ].
Ali my. friends, you have forgotten to
mention the name of a greater conqueror
Than all of These 6.111el q chastity CON