The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-15
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Church, in which the two young women
lost their lives, were to have been very
elaborate. The decorations were very
beautiful, and had the programme been
carried out the principal items in the
morning would have been the anthem,
Death Hath No More Dominion" and the
pastors sermon. The subject for the dis
course was 80 death where is thy sting?"
and the text was For this corruptible
must put on interruption, and this mortal
must put on Immortality"
In the evening DR.. Gibson would have
discoursed on the words, Woman why
weepest thou?" His text would have
been, "But Mary stood without at the
sepulcher weeping, and as she wept she
stopped down and looked into the sepul-
cher and they said unto her,
woman why weepest thou" A synopsis
of the reverend gentleman's discourse, as
prepared, is as follows:
Every one here recalls the various incidents
that led up TO the crucifxion. The disciples
fed from the cross. The women remained.
They were the last at the cross, the first at the
tomb. Their presence az the tomb was an in
dication of their unbelief. They had not come
to see him rise, but to prepare him for his long
sleep. Mary came and found the stone rolled
away. She was surprised she began 10 weep.
While thus engaged Jesus himself drew near
and questioned her thus: woman, why
Weepest thou|
First consider this interesting question.
Many women are great weepers. Men deaden
their feelings; women do not. Women, like
men, are the cause of their own tears. Temper
is responsible for many tears Vice is the toun-
tain of tears. Even motherhood, when holy,
brings tears q man knows nothing about.
Women have more cause TO weep than men.
Society forgives a man readily, but not q
woman A man has the forming OF his life in
his own hands. woman has TO wait on the
will OF others. A man is free to go anywhere;
a woman is not. A woman has more disap-
pointments and makes more sacrifices. II
there is any sickness at home, she has to attend
to it, Mary did not find her Lord. She could
not show her love as she wanted to show it..
What wonder If she wept, especially as the
was stolen? Every day has its disappoint-
ments.
individual was stranger. She could not
she was wise. woman should not
wear her heart on her sleeve any more
than a man. Mary. was polite. Stranger
though she was she did not forget to call him
Sir. Looking at her face, which perhaps bore
marks of the suffering she endured when the
evil spirits possessed her, the stranger might
who does not know much about the forms of
society" We are apt to misjudge the poor and
ugly.
for her children because they were not. Right
or wrong she was going to cling to her sorrow.
Not so with Mary. 'Tell me where thou hast
laid him." she said, "and l will take him
away" 1t is simply awful when we will not
and fall. Then, If we can do no more, it is bet
ter to cry to God, "Restore unto me the Joy of
thy salvation"
Thirdly harken to the earnest exclamation.
Mary That was all the Lord said. Never was
there a shorter Easter sermon. We have such
a high opinion of our eloquence and our the
ology. How poor they are in their power COM
pared with this one vocabulary She felt its
charm. 1t was word spoken from the heart
to the heart as all words should be. He needed
no manuscript for this address of welcome.
Maryl That name told her she was not forgot
ten. Maryl That name told her she was not
despised. Mary That name told her he was
not ashamed to own her faithfulness. Risen
in triumph, with the beauty of eternal youth
upon his face, ne was still the lowly, humble
Nazarene, who would accept the love and devo-
ton of the poorest person and the simplest
heart
/ knew Durrant only as knew other young
men who belong to the church, as l have not
been here long. i might say that my relations
with him were only official We were not on
the friendly terms that has been intimated 1t
is a moral certainty that Durrant had key to
the side door of the church. There are several
persons who have keys to this door, and any
way the commonest house key would open the
door, as the lock is simple one If | am not
mistaken found Durrant in the church one
morning when l came there to go TO my study
He was in the library. For two months Dur
rant has given considerable time in arranging
the library and in getting new books. He
seemed to take great deal OF interest in it,
Of course / would not believe Durrant could
commit such horrible set OF crimes, but now
everything points against him. | had never
heard word said derogatory to Durrant until
the time of the killing. Since then have been
told some stories of his bad actions to several
women.
Rev. ]. George Gibson is a Scotchmvn