The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-04-24
A BLESSED MISTAKE.
MARY MACDALENE BY THE RIFlED
SARcOPhAGUS.

Day Christ In Common AppareI-The
Sears OF Earth-Glorious Thoughts In
spired by the Resurrection of Christ.
WASHINGTON, April 18.-This sermon OF
DR.. Talmage will set its readers to think
ting on new lines and will make this sea-
s0n Of Easter more inspiring than ever
The text Is John Xxx, Is, "She, surprising
him to be the gardener
Here are Mary Magdalene and Christ,
just after his resurrection. For 1000
years 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 un-
hindered In his work. He had taken down
kings and queens and conquerors and
these without fame In that cold palace
there were shelves OF skulls, and pillars Of
skulls. and affairs OF skulls. 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 1857 years ago, MS near as
can calculate It, q mighty stranger came
% the door OF that awful palace rolled
back the door and went in, and, seizina
the tyrant. threw him to the pavement and
put upon the tyrant's neck the heel Of tri-
umph.
Them the mighty stranger, exploring all
10 ghastly furniture Of the place and
walking through the labyrinths, and OPEN
Ing the dark cellars of mystery and tarry-
ing under q roof the RIBS OF which were
made at human hones-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
Err
then laying hold Of the ponderous front
gate, hoisted 1t from it's hinges and
marched forth, crying, .tI am the Res,lr-
rectionl That event we celebrate this
Easter morn, Handelian and Beethoven
miracles Of sound added to this floral dec
Grafton which has set the place abloom.
sosns ut the Tomb.
There are three or four things which the
world and tho church hsayc not noticed in
regard TO the resurrection Of Christ. First,
our Lord In gardeners attire. Mary Mag
dalene, grief struck, stands by the rif1ed
earoophagus OF Christ and turns around,
hoping she can find the track of the sacri-
1cgious resnrrectionist who has despoiled
the grave. and she finds some one In work
Ing apparel come forth as IL to water the
bowers or uproot the weeds from the gnr-
den OF 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 Magdalcne, on her face the rain Of
y fresh shower Of weeping, turns 10 this
y ..rkman and charges him with TIE desc
s.---ion of the tomb, when, 10! the stranger
fssponds, finging his whole soul into one
y ord which trembles with all the sweetest
= 49, OF earth and heaven, saying,
-,-..s., - In that peculiarity OF acoentua-
tion all the incognito 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 hang.
Ing gardens OF heaven Consultations the
clusters of forgetmenots, the sunfower
She chief Of all, the morning sky and mid
night aurorn, faring terraces Of beauty,
naaxan8 IKE q summer wall with corona
taon roses and giants of battle. Blessed
ana glorious mistake of Mary Magdalenei
Sne supposing him to be the gardener"
What does that meanY 1t means that we
have an everyday Christ for EVERYDAY
work In everyday apparel Not on sab