Connecticut western news., 1897-04-22
THE MISTAKEN MARY
IT MEANS THAT WE HAVE AN EVERY-
 DAY CHRIST.

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 Rev. Dr. Talmage says the Fact sf This
 Resurrection Scene Should Be Told In Factory and Mine and Home For the Glorious Consolation It Affords.
 WAsHINGToN. April 18.-This sermon of Dr. Talmage will set its readers to on new lines, and will make this season of Easter more inspiring than ever. The text is, John xx, 15, "She, supposing him to be the garden er.''
 Here are Mary Magdalene and Christ, just after his resurrection. For 4,000 years a grim and ghastly tyrant had been killing people and dragging them into his cold palace. He had passion for human skulls. For 40 centuries he had been unhindered in his work. He had taken down kings and queens and conquerors and those without fame. In that cold palace there were shelves of skulls and pillars of skulls and altars of skulls and even the chalices at the table were made of bleached skulls. To the skeleton of Abel he had added the skele- ton of all the ages, and no one had dis lputed his right until one Good Friday, about 1867 years ago. as near as can calculate it, mighty stranger came to the door of that awful palace, rolled back the door, and went in, and seizing the tyrant threw him to the pavement and put upon the tyrant's neck the heel of triumph.
 The Easter Morning.
 Then the mighty stranger, exploring all the ghastly furniture of the place and walking through the labyrinths and opening the dark cellars of mystery and tarrying under roof the ribs of which were made of human bones-tarrying for two nights and 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 pom derous front gate, hoisted it from its hinges and marched forth, crying, "I am the resurrection. That event we celebrate this Easter morn, Handelian and Beethovean miracles of sound added to this floral decoration which has set the place abloom.
 There are three or four things which the world and the church have not mo- ticed iu regard to the resurrection of Christ First, our Lord in gardeners at- tire. Mary Magdalene, grief struck, stands by the rifled sarcophagus of Christ and turns around, hoping she can find the track of the sacrilegious resur- rectionist who has despoiled the grave, and she finds some one in working ap- parel come forth as if to water the flow CTS or uproot the weeds from the garden or set to reclmbing the fallen vine some one in working apparel, his gar ments perhaps having the sign of the dust and the dirt of the occupation.
 Mary Magdalene, on her face the rain of fresh shower of weeping, turns to this workman and charges him with the dissertation of the tomb, when, lol the stranger responds, flinging his whole soul into one word which trembles with all the sweetest rhythm of earth and heaven, saying. "Maryp' In that pe- culiarity of accentuation all the incog- nito fell of, and she found that instead of talking with an humble gardener of Asia Minor, she was talking with him who owns all the hanging gardens of heaven. Cancellations the clusters of forgetmenots, the sunf1ower the chief of all, the morning sky and midnight au- rora, daring terraces of beauty, blazing like . summer wall with coronation roses and giants of battle. Blessed and glorious mistake of Mary Magdalene! 'She, supposing him to be the garden er." What does that meanr It means that we have an everyday Christ for ev- eryday work in everyday apparel Not on Sabbath morning in our most seemly apparel are we more attractive to Christ than we are in our everyday work dress, managing our merchandise, smit- ing our anvil, blowing our field, tend ing the flying shuttles, mending the garments for our household. providing food for our families or toiling with weary pen or weary pencil or weary chisel A working day Christ in work ing day apparel for us in our everyday toll. Putit into the highest strain of this Easter anthem, "Supposing him to be the gardener"
 In Working Garb.
 If Christ had appeared at daybreak with crown upon his head, that would have seemed to suggest especial sympa- thy for monarchs. If Christ had appear ed in chain of gold and with robe dia- monded, that would have seemed to be especial sympathy for the afluent If Christ had appeared with soldiers sash and sword dangling at his side, that would have seemed to imply especial sympathy for warriors. But when find Christ in gardeners habit, with perhaps the flakes of the earth and of the up turned soil upon his garments, then spell 1t out that he has hearty and pa thetic understanding with everyday work and everyday anxiety and every day fatigue.
 Roll 1t down in comfort all through these aisles. A working day Christ in working day apparel Tell it in the darkest corridor of the mountain to the poor miner. Tell it to the factory maid in most unventilated establishment al Lowell or Lancaster. Tell it to the clear. CT of toughest new ground in western wilderness. Tell 1t to the sewing wom. an, 8 stitch in the side for every stitct in the garment, some of their cruel em lployers having no right to think that
 they will get through the door of heaveI any more than they could through thu eye of broken needle which has jus dropped on the bare floor from the prick ed and bleeding fingers of the consump tive sewing girl. Away with your tall about hypostatic union and soteriology . of the council of Trent and the meta physics of religion whicL would freez' practical Christianity out of the world
 but pass along this gardeners coat to al nations that they may touch the hem o. 1t and feel the thrill of the Christly brotherhood. Not supposing the man te be Cesar, not supposing him to be Soc