Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-03
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DIR. TALMAoE TELLsoF eLoRIEs
OF TIE RESURRECTION
The Earth and the Sea Shall Give Up Theft
Dead, and tho Reunions VIII 30 Such as
No Imagination Car Picture.


BRooKLYE, April o.--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, 'Ihe Sieepers
Awakened" tho text chosen being from
/ Corinthians ". %, Nov 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 salutation. This morning Russian
meeting Russian on the streets st. Peters
burg halls him with tho salutation, "Christ
is risenp aud Is answered by his friend In
salutRtion, "He Is risen indecdW In some
parts Of England and Ireland 10 this very
day there is the superstition that on Easter
morning the sun dances In the heavens, and
well may we forgive such n superstition,
which illustrates the fact that the natural
world seems TO sympathize with the spirit
ual.
Hail, Easter moning Flowersi Flow.
ersi All OF them a-voice, all OF them
a-tongue all Of them full Of speech today.
j bend over che OF the lilies, and hear Il
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
arrnyed like one Of these" / bend over q
rose, and IL seems 10 whisper, II 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 tho oven, shall he
not much more clothe you, ye OF little
fhth"
Flowers glowersl Braid them into the
brides hair. Flowers Flowersl Strow
them over the graves Of the doad-swect
prophecy OF the resurrection. Flowers
Flowersl Twist them into a garland foI
my Lord jesus on Easter morning. "Glory
be TO the Father, and 10 the Son, and &c
the Holy Ghost; as It was in the begin.
ming, Is now and ever shall be-"
~THE BLOOM OF EASTER.
Oh, how bright and how beautiful the
flowers, and how much they make me
think Of Christ and his religion, that
brghtens our lie, brightens our character
brightcus society, brightcns the church
brightons everything You who go with
gloomy countcnance pretending you are
better than am because OF your lugubr
BUSINESS, you cannot cheat me. Pretty cnse
you are for man that Processes TO be more
than a conqueror. II Is not religion that
makes you gloomy; IL is the lack OF IT,
There Is just as much religion in a wedding
as In burial; iust as much religion In q
smile me- In tear
Those gloomy Christians we sometimes
sec are the people TO whom like 10 lend
money, for | never SEQ them again The
women came 70 the Saviour's tomb and
they dropped spices all around the tomb
aud thuac spices were the seed that began
20 grow, aud from them came all the now.
ers Of this Easter morn The two angels
robed IN white took hold OF the stone at the
SaviOurs tomb, and they hurled Il with
such force down the hill that Il crushed In
tho door OF the worlds epulchcr, and the
stark and tho des.d must come forth.
| care not how labyrinthlne the mauso
leuin or how costly the sarcophagus OF
however beautifully partcrred tho family
grounds, we want them all broken up 10y
the Lord Of the resurrection. They must
come out Father and mother-they must
come out Husband and wife--they must
come out BROTHER and siate1,-they must
eomeout. Our darling ehildren-they must
come out The eyes that we close with such
trembling fingers must open again IN the
radiance Of that morn The arms wo folded
union, The voice that was hushed in our
dwelling must be returned. Oh, how long
some Of you seem 10 be waiting -wnitinr
for the resurrection, waitingl And for these
broken hearts today | make a soft. cool
bandpge out OF Easter flowers.
My friends, find In the risen Christ
prophecy Of our own resurrection. my text
setting forth the idea that as Christ has
riscn so His people viii rise He the ilrst
sheaf of the resurrection harvest. lie ''the
hst fruits OF them that slept" Before /
get through this morning | will walk
Through all the cemeteries OF the dend
through nll the country gravcyar1s, whore
your loved ones are buried, and will pluck
on these lowers aud will drop q sweet
promise OF the goapel-aro9o Of hope, a lily
OF JOY on every tomb-the child's tomb, the
husbands tomb, the wifes tomb, the a.
ther's grave, tho mothers grave, and while
we celebrate tho resurrection OF Christ we
will at tho saTne time celebrate the resur.
rection Of all The good. Christ the first
fruits Of them that slept.E
TllE GREAT ooNpUERoR
II should come 20 you this morning aud
ask you for the names OK the great conquer
ors OF the world, You would say Alexander.
Cesar, Philip, Napoleon /. All, my friends,
you have forgotten 20 mention tho name of
greater cenqueror than all these-a cr7iol.
ghRStly conqusior. He rode on black
horse across Waterloo aud Atlanta and
Chalons, the bloody boots crushing che
hearts Of nations Il b tho coaqueror
Death
He carries black Gag, and he takes no
prisoners. He digs q trench across the
henispheres and ais Il with the carcassos
OF nations Fifty thnea would tbs world
have been depopulated had not God kent
making new generations FIFTY ttmesthe
world would have swung lifeless Through
the alr-no man on the mountain, no man
on the sea an abandoned ship plowing
through inmcnEty
Asain and again has be done this work
with all generations He Is n monarch as
well a. coaquersr; his palace sepul-
cher, his fountains the falling tears OF n
world. Blessed be God, in the light OF this
Easter morRlng SCI the prophecy chat his
scepter shall DO broken and INV palace ahall
be demolished The hour b coHinx when
all who are Ia their yIavea she'll come forth.
Christ risen, We shall rise Jesus THE drzt
fruits Of them that slrPt' Now. around
this doctrine Of the resnrrcction there are
great many mysteries
leu eone " me thSs morning. aud say
III the bodies Of the dead art 70 Ne raised
how u this And how, Il thntyu ~ -. =. -