The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-04-24

Wood1awn, over Laurel Hill, over Mount
Auburn, over Congressional buryine
ground, sunrise over every country grave
yard, sunrise over the catacombs, sunrise
over the sarcophagi, where the ships lie
buried. Half past 5 O'Clock among the
tombs now. but soon to be tho MONDAY O:
explanation and beatitude. It was in the
morning twilight that Mary Magdalene
mistook Christ for gardener
Another thing the world and the church
have not observed-that Is, Christ's pa
thetio credentials. How do you know It
was not q gardener His garments said he
was gardener. The fakes Of the upturned
earth scattered upon his garments said he
was gardener. How do you know he
was not a gardener? All! Before Easter
had gone by he gave to some of his dis
ciples his three credentials. He showed
them his hands and his side Three
Paragraphs written In rigid or depressed
1etters- A scar in the right PALM scar
In the left palm, a scar amid the ribs
scars, scars. That Is tie way they knew
bim. That Is the way you and I will know
him.
Aye, am saying this morning too much
when I say that will be one of the ways
In which you and will know each other
by the scars Of earth scars of accident,
scars OF sickness, scars of persecution, scars
OF hard work, scars Of battle, scars Of old
ages When eee Christ's resurrected body
remodaied and resurrected bodies will
have scars. Why, before we get out Of this
world some OF US will be covered with
scars au over. Heaven Will not be q bay
into which float summer yachts after
pteasuring. with the gay bunting and with
the embroidered sails as fair as when they
were first unfurled. Heaven will be more
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In from Trafalgar and Lepanto, men-o
war with masts twisted by a cyclone, men,
of-war struck on all sides by "A Founders,
men -Of-war with decks scorched OF the
shell Old Constitutions, old Constella-
lions, floating in discharged froIa service
to rest forever. In the resurrection Christ
credentialed by scars. You and will be
credentialed, and will recognize each other
by scars. Do you think them now dis
fgurements Do you think them now u
badge Of endurancef tell you the glori-
Gus thought this morning, they are going
to be the means of heavenly recognition.
There is one more thing that the world
and the church have not noticed in this
resurrection OF Christ, and that is that
Christ from Friday to Sabbath was lifeless
In a hot climate where sanitary prudence
demanded that burial take place the same
day as death, and where there was no leo
to retard dissolution. Yet, after three
Gays ne comes up 80 beautiful, SO robust
and 90 rubicund Mary Magdalene takes
him for q gardener. Not supposing him to
be an invalid from q hospital, not suppos-
Ing him to be a corpse from the tomb, but
supposing him to be the gardener. Health
ful by the breath OF the upturned sod, and
BY perpetual life in the sunshine.
Glorious Consolation.
After Christ's interment every cellular
tissue broke down, and nerve and artery
and brain were physiological wreck. and
yet he comes up swnrthy, rubicund and
we'll When zee after such mortuary 81
lenoe such radiant appearance, that settles
IL that Whatever should become Of the bod
les OF our Christian dead they are going to
come up, the nerves restrung, the optic
nerve reillumined, the car drum a-vibrate,
the whole body lifted up, without It's weak
nesses and worldly uses for which there II
no resurrection. Come, Is it not almost
time for us to go out to meet our reani-