The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-22

not throw up to us what we have been. All
He said to her was, Mary Many people
having met her under such circumstances
would have said: LET me see, how many
devils did you haveg One, two, three. four.
i've. six, seven. What terrible piece you
were when lrst met your The most OF
the Christian women in our day would have
nothing to do with Mary Magdalene even
alter her conversion. lest somehow they he
compromised. The only thing | have TO say
| against women Is that they have not enough
mercy for Mary Magdalene. Christ put all
pathos and all remlniscence and all anticipa-
tion and all pardon and all comfort and all
heaven into ono word of four letters,
"Mary! Mark you, Christ did not appear
| to some Bible Elizabeth or Bible Hannah Or
Bible Esther or Bible Deborah or Bible wash
Il. but to Mary; not to Mary against whom
nothing was said; not to Mary the mother OF
Jesus; not to Mary the mother OF james: not
to Mary the sister OF Lazarus, but to seven
deviled Mary.
| There is a man seven devied- ieyil of
avarice, devil of pride, devil OF hate, devil
OF Incidence, devil OF falsehool, devil OF
strong drink. devil OF impI rity. God can
take them all away. seven or seventy. Irode
over the new cantilever bridge that spans
Niagara-a bridge 800 feat long. $50 feet of
chasm from blun 10 biuG. | passed over it
without any anxiety. Why2 Because twen-
| ty-two locomotives and TWENTY-FIVE cars
| laden with gravel had tested the brlIye
| thousands Of people standing on the Cam
| adian side, thousands standing on the Ameri
can side TO applaud the achievement. And
| however long the train of our immortal in
terests nav be. we are TO remcmber that
| Gods bridge OF mercy spanning the chasm
| of sin has been fully tested bv tho nwful tom
mage of all the pardonci sin of all the ages,
church militant standing on ona bank
| church triumphant standing on tho other
bank. Oh. il was To the seven dsyiled Mary
! that Christ ma ,e His nrst post mortem an
| pcarance
There is another thing that tho world md
| the church have not observed in regard 10
| this resurrection. AMI that is il wos tho
morning twilight.
| II the chronometer ha 1 been invented aud
Mary had as good a watch rs somn of tho
Marys Of our time have, she would hay,
| found it was about half past o'clock n. m.
| Matthew SAYS 1t was in tho dawn; Mark snys
| 1t was very early in tina morning. John s,ys
It was while ii was vet dark. In other words
| il was twilight. That was the O'Clock nj
which Mary Macdalenc mistook Christ for
| tho gardener What does that mean II
means there are shadows over tho grave un-
| lifted-shadOws of mystery that arc hover
ing. Mary stoorel down ana tried to look
| to tho other end OF the crvpt. She gnyr hys-
toric outcry. She could not seq TO the Other
end of the crypt Neither can you sen To the
other end the grave of your dead. Neither
can we see TO the other end or our own grave.
Oh, il there were shadows over the family
plot belonging to Joseph Of ArImatnen is il
strange that there should be some shadows
over our family lot? Faster dawn. not Easter
noon.
Shadow of unanswered question: WHY
| were they taken away from u.s. why were
they ever rivon TO us II they wcre TO be taken
50 soon? Why wero thcy taken 50 suddenly
Why could they not have uttered some fare
well words? Why? A short question but II
whole cruciflxOn OF agony in it. Whyy
Shadow on the graves of good men and
women who seemed 10 die before their work
was done Shadow on all the graves of
children because we ask ourselves WHY So
beautiful craft was launched at allifit was
TO be wrecked one mite outside of the harborY
Blu. what did Mary Mngdaleno have to do In
order to get more light on that grave! She
had On.v to wait. After awhile tho, Easter
sun rolled up. and tho whole place was
flooded with light. What have you AMI to
do in order TO get moro light on our own
graves and light upon the graves of our
dear loved ones? Only to wait
Charles v Of Spain, with his servants and
torches, went down into the vault of the
metropolis whero his ancestors were buried,
and went deeper, farther on until ho came to
cross around which were arranged tho
casliots of his ancestors. lIc also found
casket containing tho body of ono OF his own
family. He had that casket opened, and there
by cmhaImer art he found that the body was
rs perfect as eighteen years before when
it was cm.ombed. But under the eyplora-
ton his body and mind persisted. Oh,
my friends, do not let us morbidly
struggle with the shadows OF tho scpul-
cher. What aro we TO dO2 Wait. II Is
not tho evening twilight that gets darker
and darker. 1t is the morning twilight that
gets brighter and brighter into the perfect
day. | preach It to-day. Sunrise over
Prrn 10 Chaisc sunrise over GrcyfrinrS
churhyard, sunrise over Gre 'nwOOd. over
Wooilawn. over Laurel lIill, over Mount
Auburn. over Congressional burying ground.
sunrise over every country graveyard, sun
rise over the catucombs. sunrise over the
sarcophagi whore the ships lie buried. Half
past o'clock among tho tombs now but
soon to be the MONDAY of explanation and
bcatitudc 1t was in the morning twilight
that Mary Magdnlene mistook Christ for
gardener.
Another thing tho world and the church
havn not obscrvcd-that is. Chris,'s pathetic
credentials. How do you know it was not
a gardener? His garments said Ho was a
gardener. Tho flakes of the upturncd earth