The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-19
STORY OF THE RESURRECTION.
TALMAGE POINTS OUT SOME OF THE
WORLDS MISTAKES.

Thrill of ChristIy brotherhood in
the Hem OF the Risen SnviOr's Coat.
The Woman 10 Whom he Made His
FIRST Appearance at the Resurrcc-
tiOn.
Washington April IS. 1s97-This sermon
of DR.. Talmase will set its readers to
thinking on new lines, and will make this
season of Easter more inspiring than ever.
The text is, John 2Jl5: "she, supposing
him to be the gardener"
Here are Mary Magdalen and Christ
Just after his resurrection. For four
thousand years q grim and CHASTITY tyrant
had been killing people and dragging them
into his cold palace He had passion
for human skulls. For forty centuries he
had been unhindered in his work. He had
taken down kings and queens and con-
ouerors. and those without fame. In that
cold palace there we're shelves of skulls,
and pillars of skulls and affairs OF sKuils'
and even the chalices at the table were
made of bleached skulls. To the skeleton
of Abel he had added the skeleton OF all
the ages. and no one had disputed his
right until one Good Friday about eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven years ago. as
near as I can calculate it, a mighty
stranger came to the door OF that awful
nalace. rolled back the door, and went IN,
and Selling the tyrant, threw him to the
pavement and put upon the tyraat's neck
the heel of triumph.
Then the mighty stranger, exploring all
the chastity furniture of the place, and
int he an
ing the dark cellars Of mystery, and larry
ing under a roof the ribs of which were
made of human housekeeping for two
nights and a day. the nights very dark and
the day very dismal. he seized the two
chief pillars of that awful palace and
rocked them until it began to fall, and
then LAYING hold of the ponderous front
gate hoisted il from its hinges, ana march
ed forth crying, Il am the Resurrection"
That event we celebrate this Easter MORN
Handelian and Beethoven miracles OF
sound added to this floral decoration which
has set the place ab.oom.
There are three or four things which
the world and the church has not noticed
in regard to the resurrection of Christ.
First. our Lord in gardeners attire Mary
Magdalen, grief-truck, stands by the
riled sarcophagus of Christ, and turns
around, hoping she can find the track of the
sacrilegious resurrectonist who has de-
spoiled the grave, and she finds some one
in working apparel come forth as If to
water the flowers, or uproot the weeds
from the garden, or set to reclimbing the
fallen vine-sOme one in working apparel,
his garments perhaps having the sign of
the dust and the dirt of the occupation.
Mary Magdalen, on her face the rain of
a fresh shower Of weeping, turns TO this
workman, and charges him with the des-
ecradon of the tomb, when 10! the strang-
er responds, flinging his whole soul into
one word which trembles with all the
sweetest rhythm of earth and heaven say
ing, Mary In that popularity of ac-
centuation all the incognito fell off, and
she found that instead of talking with an
humble gardener of Asia Minor, she was
talking with Him who owns all the hang
ing gardens of heaven. Consultations the
clusters of forget-me-nots, the sunflower
the chief Of all, the morning sky and mid
might aurora, fiaring terraces Of beauty,
blazing like a summer wall with corona
ton roses and giants of battle Blessed
and glorious mistake of Mary Magdalen.
"She supposing Him to be the gardener"
What does that mean2 1t means that we
have an everyday Christ for everyday
work in everyday apparel. Not on Sab
bath morning in our most seemly apparel
are we more attractive to Christ than we
are in our everyday work-dress, managing
our merchandise shifting our anvil,
ploughing our field, tending the flying
shuttles, mending the garments for our
household, providing food for our families,
or toiling with weary pen, or weary pen
Gil. or weary chisel. A working-day Christ
I'm working-day apparel for us in our every
day toll Put IL into the highest strain of
fhfa Tva cfpr anthem fsEuDDOSiDg him he
the gardener"
If Christ had appeared at daybreak with
a crown upon his head, that would have
seemed to suggest especial sympathy for
monarchs: If Christ had appeared in chain
Of gold and with robe diamonded, that
would have seemed to be especial SYM
pathy for the affiuent; If Christ had APP
peared with soldiers sash and sword dang
ling at his side, that would have seemed
20 imply especial sympathy for warriors;
, but when l find Christ in gardeners habit,
with perhaps the fakes Of the earth and
OF the upturned soil upon his garments,
then / spell IL out that he has hearty and
pathetic understanding with everyday
work, and everyday anxiety, and everyday
fatigue.
Roll it down in comfort all through these
aisles. working-day Christ in work.
ing-day apparel Tell il In the darkest cor
ridOr of the mountain to the poor miner.
ti.ated establishment at Lowell or Ian
caster. Tell IT to the clearer of toughest
new ground in western wilderness. Tell
It to the sewing woman, a stitch in the
side for every stitch in the garment, some
Of their cruel employers having no right to
think that they will get through the door
Of heaven any more than they could
drought the eye of "A broken needle which
has just dropped on the bare floor from
the pricked and bleeding fingers OF the
consumptive sewing girl. Away with
your talk about hypostatc union, and So
teriology of the council of Trent, and the
metaphysics Of religion which would
freeze practical Christianity out of the
word; but pass along this gardeners coat
10 all nations that they may touch the
hem of it and feel the thrill OF the Christly
brotherhood Not supposing the man to
be Caesar. not supposing him to be Soc
rates, but "supposing him TO be the gard
ner"
Oh. that Is what helped Joseph Wedg-
wood, toiling amid the heat aud the dust Of
the potteries, until he could make for
Queen Charlotte the first royal table ser
vice Of English manufacture. That was
what helped James Watt. sconed az and
caricatured, until he could put on wheels