St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-05-19

six at the grave, Christ looks down
from Heaven and remembers that 10
two more than were at His obsequies.
Not recognizing this idea. how many
small properties are scattered and
widowhood and orphanage 60 forth
into cold charity! The departed left
small property which would have
been enough to keep the family to-
gether until they could take care OF
themselves, but the funeral expenses
absorbed everything. That went for
Grape which ought to have gone for
bread. a man of moderate means can
hardly afford to die in any of the great
cities. BY all means, do honor to the
departed, but do not consider funeral
pageant as necessary. No one was ever
more lovingly and tenderly put away
to sepulcher than Christ our Lord, but
there were only four people in the pro-
cession.
Again, standing. in this garden with
. new sepulcher, am impressed with
the fact that you cannot keep hedead
down.
Sea of sanhedrin, company of sol
diers from the tower of Antonia,
floor of rock, roof of rock, walls
of rock, door of rock, cannot
keep Christ in the crypts. Come
out and come up He must. Come out
and come up He did. Prefguration.
First fruits of them that slept. Just
as certainly as We come down into the
dust, just SO certainly we will come up
again. Though all the granite of the
mountains were piled on us we will
rise. Though buried amid the corals
of the deepest cavern of the Atlantic
ocean. we will come to the surface.
With these eyes we may not look into
the face of the MONDAY sun, but we
shall have stronger vision, because the
tamest thing in the land to which We
60 will be brighter than the sun. We
shall have bodies with the speed of the
lightning. Our bodies improved, ener-
gized, swiftened, clarified = mortality,
immortality. The door of the grave
taken OF its hinges and flung fat into
the dust.
Oh, my brethren, death and the grave
are not SO much as they used to be;
for while wandering in this garden
with the new sepulcher I find that the
vines and flowers of the garden have
completely covered up the tomb. In
stead of one garden there are four gar
dens, opening into each other-garden
of Eden, garden of the worlds sepul-
cher, garden of the earth's regenera.
tion, garden of Heaven. Four gardens.
Bloom, o earth! Bloom, o Heaven!
Oh, my friends, wake up to glad
ness on this Easter morning! This day.
If interpret it right, means joy-it
means peace with Heaven, and it
heans peace with all the world.
Oh, bring more flowers! Wreathe
them around the brazen throat of the
cannon; plant them in the desert, that
it may blossom like the rose; braid
them into the name of the returned
war charger. No more red dahlas Of
human blood. Give us white lilies Of
peace. All around the earth strew
Easter flowers. And soon the rough
voyage Of the church militant will b
ended. and she will sail up the Heaven
" harbor, SCARED with many . con-
flict, but the flag of triumph floating
from her topgallants. All Heaven will
come out to greet her into port. and
with a long reverberating shout OF
welcome will say: "There she comes
up the bay, the glorious old ship Zion!
After tempestuous voyage she drops
anchor within the veil"