The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-04-04


Might Of Nssie.
1T VIII b. done hy music Nothing but
n.usic. sweet but sIi-penetrating music
The trumpet shall soundi You say that i
fisurative. How do you know But
whether literal or figurative. It means
music anyhow. The trumpet. that stir
ring. incisive. mighty instrument. with a
natural compass from below the stan 10
+ above, blown above Sinai when the law
was given. blown around Jericho when
the walls tumbled blown when Gideon
discounted the Midianites blown when
the ancient Isrzeil;es were gathered for
worship, TO be blown for the raising OF
the dead in the last great Easter. The
mother, who. when the child must BE-
awakened. kisses its eyes awake, does
well Bot the trumpet which. when the
dead are 10 be- aroused, kisses the ear
awake. Will do better. Be not surprised If
The dead are 10 be awakened by music
Why, that i the way now We raise the
dead. Take the statistics, IL you can. Of
tie millions OF souls that have been raised
from the death of sin by hymns. BY
psalms, By solos, By anthems. by flutes
by yioiins, by organs. by trumpets. Under
God what hosts have been resurrected by
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by motherly lullabies. by church doXolo-
gies. by oratorios. If we raise the dead
Low by music, be not surprised that on
the last day the dead are to be raised by
n usie
On the Last Day.
"The trumpet shall sound. And that in
strument shall have plenty of work 10 do
on the day mentioned II will have to
sound through all the pyramids, which
are only names for sepuIchers and liber
ate the buried kings. And through hyper
gean graves which were built in mounds,
and hypogean graves which were dug in
rocks, and through the nine hundred
winding miles of catacombs under and
around the Roman Campagna, where over
seven million human beings sleep. And
through all the crystal sarcophagi Of At
lantic and Pacific end Mediterranean and
Caspian and Black Sea deeps. And over
all the battle-fields OF continents. until all
the fallen troops of English and French
and Italian and German and Russian and
Persian and American ard the world
battle-fields answer the call Marathon.
come up! Agincourt, come up Blenheim,
come up! Acre, come up! Hohenlinden.
come up! Sedan, come up, Gettysburg,
come up
Near Sharpsburg, during our civil war
Nhen / was, with some others under the
auspices of the Christian Commission
looking after the wounded. Federal and
confederate, one moonlight night | WAS
Where 1 could look down upon III tents
OF the sleeping army. Oh, what an i'm
posing SpectdCl6i But nv subject calls
US TO look down upan a nigftier bost
or SoldierS slUmnering their last sleeD
IN the DlVOulc of the GLst-the seven hum
dfed and fifty thousand slain IN the
Crlmedn war; the eight hundred thousand
A Y,alN ~ .Sfrs 4
teen million s4ain III Tie wars OF the Sc
sGstris; the twenty-five million slain i'm
Jewish wars: the thirty-tWC million slain
in the wars OF Ghengls Khan; the eighty
million slain III the wars of the Crusaders:
the one hundred and eighty million slain
IN the Roman wars. Ay. according 10
Or. DICK, the dead in war if each one
occupied four feet of ground. would make
enough graves 10 reach four hundred and
forty-tWo times around the earth.
The Harvest of Death.
1.-THE most of people are dead. The
world is a house of two rooms a base
ment and room above ground The
basement mas two to one, three TO one
four TO one more occupants than the
superstructure. Sickness and war and
death have been stacking their harvests
for near six thousand years. Where are
those who saw the Pilgrim Fathers en-
bark, or the Declaration of Independence
signed, or Franklin iasso the lightning,
or Warren Hastings tried, or Queen Eliz-
abeth in her triumphai march TO Kenil-
worth, or William, Prince of Orange,
land; or Gustavus Adolphus crowned, or
Jerome of Prague burned at the stake.
or Tamerlane found his empire? Gone!
Gonei
But the trumpet shall sound. Music to
FqiCQ tho laad nm IL. IL
needs it, You take torch, and / will take
a torch, and we will go through some of
the aisles of the Roman eatacombs, and
see the expectant epitaphs on the walls
and right over where the departed sleep
You know that these catacombs are fifty
or sixty feet under ground. and if one
loses the guide or his torch is extin-
guishe0, he never finds his way out So
Jet US stay close together, and with our
torches, as We wander along a small part
of these nine hundred miles of under
ground passages. see the inscriptions as
they were really chisled there on both
sides the way. On your side you read by
the light of your torch: Here rests a
handmade of God, who out of all ner
riches now possesses but this one house
Thou wilt remain in eternal repOse of
happiness. A. d. $780, On my side | read
by the light of the torch: 'Aurelia, our
1ArtlCSl uduBIttl- Sic Hhtu fifteen wears
and four months. a. D. 325.' On your side
you read: Here hath been laid a sweet
spirit, guileless, wise. and beautiful. Bur-
led in peace. A. ID. 3SS.' On my side | read:
You well-deserving one, lie in peace.
You Will rise. A temporary rest is grant
ed you. Plaucus. her husband, made this
On your side you read: 'Nicephorus. a
sweet soul. in the place of refreshment.'
On my side ] read: In Christ Alexander
Is not dead but lives beyond the stars
q nd IL in &c !, a.
your side you read: Here, happy. you
find rest bowed down with years Irene
sleeps in God 'Valeria sleeps in peace.
'Arethusia sleeps in Cod NaVira in peace,
sweet soul, VINO lived sixteen years. a
soul sweet as honey; this epitaph was
made by her parents
The Final Dawn.
But let US come out from these cata-
combs and extinguish our torches. for
upon all these longings and expectations
of all nations the morning of resurrec-
ton dawns. The trumpet shall sound.
And the sooner it sounds, the better. Oh.
how you would like 10 get your loved
ones back again, II We are ready 10 meet
our Lord, our sins all pardoned. what A
good thing II this moment we could hear
the resOunding and reverberating blastl
Would you not like 10 see your father
again, your mother again. your daughter
again, your boy again and all your de-
parted kindred again? Roll on. sweet dav
of resurrection and reunion, Under the
hOofs of the white steeds that draw thy
chariot We strew Easter flowers. Would
il not be grand If We could all rise to-
gether?
You know that the Bible says we shall
rot all sleep bat We shall all be changed.
What :: should be among the favored
ones ser have 10 see death, and
that Wa. - the full life of our body we
should 'lSt- the trumpet sound and these
mortal boii.s sake on Immortality IN,
how ! wollG hasten to two plar -
fore the dose of such a day nj
Greenwood ard the village cemett4,. Z. *
% SOmerville. And l would CT. aiJ.pi:
The hour las come the trUTnu. RS
sounded, tbs resurrection is here Fatl,er
and mOthe' you We're the best o al ne
group; now lead the wayi' TF,. Earth
sinks out u sight Clouds under foot
Other worlds only milestOnes on he
Kings highway. We risei We risfi W.
rise! To be forever with the I,ord ami
forever with one another. Nav we al
have part in that first resurrection!