Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-04-23
THE MISTAKEN MARY
1T MEANS THAT WE HAVE AN EVERY
DAY CHRIST.

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Rev. DIR. Talmage Says the Fact Of This
Resurrection Scene Should BE Told In
Factory and Mine and Home For the
Glorious Consolation 1t Affords.
WASHINGTON, April 1S.-This sermon
of DR.. Talmage will set its readers to
thinking on new lines, and will make
this season Of Easter more inspiring
than ever The text is, John Xxx, ID,
"She, suplosing him to be the garden
er."
Here are Mary Magdalene and Christ,
Just after his resurrection. For 1000
years a grim and ghastly tyrant had
been killing people and dragging them
into his cold palace. He had a passion
for human skulls. For 40 centuries he
had been unhindered in his work. He
had taken down kings and queens and
sonquerors 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
puted his right until one Good Friday,
about 1861 years ago, as near as l 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 ghustiy furniture Of the place
and walking through the labyrinths and
opening the dark cellars Of mystery and
ta1rying under Il roof the ribs Of which
were made Of human bones-tarrying
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 pom
derous front gate, hOisted 1t from It's
hinges and marched forth crying, Il
am the resurrection. " That event we
celebrate this Easter morn, Handcllan
and Beethoven 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 in regard TO the resurrection Cf
Christ First, our Lord in gardener at
tire. Mary Magdalene, grief struck,
stands by the rihed 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 10 water the flow
ers or uproot the weeds from the garden
or set to reclimbing 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 Cf weeping, turns TO
this workman and charges him with the
desecration Of the tomb, when, lol the
stranger responds, fiinging bis whole
soul into one word which trembles with
all the sweetest rhythm Of earth and
heaven, saying, MARY" In that pc
culiarity of accentuation all the lncog-
nito 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 hanging gardens CT
heaven. Consultations the clusters Of
forgotmenots the sunhower the chief Of
all. the morning sky and midnight au-
rora. flaring 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 mean? 1t means
that we have an everyday Christ for ev-
ervday work in everyday apparel Not
/ on Sabbath morning in our most seemly
/ apparel are we more attractive oChilst
/ than we are in our everyday WoIk
dress. managing our merchandise, srit-
ing our anvil, plowing 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. Put it into the highest strain OF
this Easter anthem, "Supposing him to
he the gardener.
In Working Garb.
If Christ had appeared at daybreak
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