The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-21
RESURRECTION.
Inage's Easter Sermon Rings
4 the Bells of Gladness.
Flowers, Emblematic of
Lilac. Fifty Celebrate the
-s,inG OF Christ's Tomb
season of Rejoicing.


right. 1900 by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington,
.ermon of DIR. Talmage rings
bells of gladness, especially ap-
Mt this season, when all
dom is celebrating Christ's
Lion; text, John 1914, I'm the
q new sepulcher."
ng around the churches this
seeing flowers in wreaths and
in stars and flowers in crosses
Uers in crowns, pillows of
confiagration of beauty, you
I YOU stood in a small Heaven.
nv these flowers will fade. Yes,
haps you may see them again.
NV be immortal. The fragrance
hover may be the spirit of the
the body of the flower dying on
is spirit may appear in better
do not say it will be so. Isay
be so. The ancestors of those
es and camelias and japonicas
hines and heliotropes were born
disc. These apostles of beauty
bwn in the regular line of apos-
.ccession. Their ancestors dur
food, underground, afterward
ID.
Sorld started with Eden; it will
. h Eden. Heaven is called par
God. Paradise means flowers.
theological geniuses in this day
ing to blot out everything ma
rom their idea of Heaven, and,
hs can tell, their future state
4 a-fioating around somewhere
the Great Bear and Cassiopeia,
ID not be surprised if at last
ok up daisy on the everlasting
Id hear it say: 81 am one of the
a flowers of earth. Don't you
Der me? worshiped with ycu
ter morning in 1900"
EXT introduces us into garden.
manor in the suburbs of Jerusa-
sned by a wealthy gentleman
name of Joseph. He belonged
court of 10 who had condemned
but he had voted in the
lie, or. being timid man, had
I'D himself when the vote was to
IN. At great expense he laid out
rden. 1t being a hot climate, l
there were trees broad
led, and there were paths wind
Ader these trees, and here and
were waters dripping down ovr
cks into fish ponds, and there
lines and flowers blooming from
LII, and all around the beauties
.s Blk and horticulture. After the
Is of the Jerusalem courtroom,
.freshing to come into this sub
retreat, botanical and pomolog-
Herring in the garden, / behold
rocks which have on them the
pf the sculptor's chisel. l come
and I find there is a subter-
recess. l come down the mar
bps, and l come to portico, over
there is an architrave, by the
cut into representations of fruits
DIVERS. I enter the portico. On
F. side there are rooms--two OF
six rooms of rock, the walls of
looms having inches, each niche
Enough to hold a dead body.
) one room that is especially
v of sculpture.
fact is that Joseph realizes he
always walk this garden, and
provided this place for his last
er. Oh, what a beautiful spot in
to wait for the coming of the
ection! Mark we'll this tomb,
is be the most celebrated tomb
the ages. Catacombs of Egypt,
pf Napoleon, Mahal Tai, of India,
& compared with it. Christ has
Pen murdered, and His body will
pwn to the dogs and the ravens,
her crucified bodies, unless there
mpt and efficient hindrance. Jo-
he owner of this mausoleum in
eks, begs for the body of Christ.
shes the poor, mutilated frame
be dust and blood, shrouds it and
hes it.
Ink that regular embalmnlent
nitted. When in the olden time
was to be embalmed, the priest,
pme pretension of medical skill,
point out the place between the
here the incision must be made;
ben the operator, having made
Piston, ran lest he be slain for
on of the dead. Then the other
would come with salt of inter
Assia and wine of balm tree and
ete the Ombalmment. But l
this embalmment of the body of
was omitted. 1t would have
another contention and another
funeral hastens on. Present, !
Joseph, the owner of the mauso-
Nlcodemus, the wealthy man who
Fought the spices, and the two
No organ dirge, no plumes, no
lque. Heavy burden for two
; they carry Christ's body down
Prble stairs and into the portico
y the dead weight to the level of
ehe in the rock and push the body
pst into the only pleasant resting
u ever had. Coming forth from
rtico, they close the door of rock
\ the recess.
government, afraid that the dis
may steal the body of Christ and
esurrection, order the seal of the
Prln to be put upon the door of
NIB, the violation of that seal,
pc violation of the seal of the
hment of the United States OF
Britain, to be followed with
punishment. A company of SOL
Prom the tower of Antonio is de-
to stand guard.
ne door of the mausoleum a fight
place which decides the question
III graveyards and cemeteries