The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-05-24

ciples may steal the body of Christ and
play resurrection, order the seal of the |
to be put upon the door of |
the tomb, the violation Of that seal,
like the violation Of the seal of the |
government of the United States or
Great Britain, to be followed with |
great punishment. A company of sol |
diers from the tower OF Antonio is de- |
tailed to stand guard.
At the door of the mausoleum fight |
takes place which decides the question
for all graveyards and cemeteries.
Sword of lightning against sword of
steel. Angel against military. No
seal of letter was ever more easily
broken than that seal of the sanhedrin
on the door of the tomb. The dead
body in the niche in the rock begins to
move in it's shroud of fine linen, slides
down upon the pavement, moves out
of the portico, appears in the doorway,
advances into the open air. comes UP
the marble steps. Having left His
mortuary attire behind Him, He comes
forth in workman's garb, as take it,
from the fact that the women mistcok
Him for the gardener.
That day the grave received surh
shattering it can never be rebuilt. All
the trowels of earthly masonry can
never mend it. Forever and forevec
it is broken tomb. Death. taking
side with the military in that fight, re
ceived a terrible cut from the angels
spear Of fame, so that he himself shall
go down after awhile under it. The
king of terrors retiring befone the
King of Grace! The Lord is risen!
Let earth and Heaven keep Easter to-
day! Hosanna!
Some things strike my observation
while standing in this garden with a
new sepulcher. And, first, post NOR
tenn honors in contrast with ante NOR
tenn ignominies. If they could have af-
forded Christ such costly sepulcher,
why could not they have given Him an
earthly residence? Will they give this
piece of marble, to dead Christ in
stead of soft pillow for the living
Jesus? If they had expended half the
| Nd1uS VI Nuot lOluU W 1udhC N'AIlSt COul-
Portable, it would not have been SO sad
a story. He asked bread; they gave
Him a stone.
Christ, like most of the worlds bene-
factors, was appreciated better after
He was dead. Westminster abbey and
monumental Greenwood are the
worlds attempt to atone by honors
to the dead for wrongs to the living.
Poets corner in Westminster abbey
attempts to pay for the sufferings OF
Grub street.
Go through that roet's corner in
Westminster abbey. There is Handel
the great musician, from whose mu
sic you hear to-day; but while lool
at his statue cannot help but thinl
of the discords Gith which his fellow
musicians tried to destroy him. Their,
is the tomb of John Dryden, a beauti
full monument; but cannot help bu
thing at 20 years of age he wrote O
his being oppressed in fortune and O
the contract that he had just mad,
for thousand verses at sixpence /:
line. And there, too, you find th,
monument of Samuel Butler, the au
thor of "Hudibras;" but while lool
at his monument in Poets corner
cannot but ask myself where he died
In garret. There l see the costl,
tablet in the Poets corner-the costl,
tablet to one Of whom the celebrates
Waller wrote: "The old blind school
master. John Milton, has just issue
tedious poem on the fall Of maa.
the length of it be no virtue, it ha
none.'' There is a beautiful monumen
to Sheridan. Poor Sheridan! If h
could only have discounted that mon
ument for a mutton chop!
Oh, you unfllial children, do not Civ
your parents so much tombstone, bu
| few more blankets-less funeral an
more bedroom! If five per cent. 3
, the money we now spend on Burns
banquets could have been expende
, in making the living Scotch poet con
, Portable. he would not have been hal
ried with the drudgery of an excise
man. Horace Greeley, outrageousl
!, abused while living, when dead is TO
lowed toward Greenwood by the pre-
: ident OF the United States and th
l leading men of the army and nav,
+. Massachusetts, tries to atone at til
2 grave of Charles Sumner for the j,
! nominious resolutions with, which b.
legislature deounced the living sci
ator. Do you think that the tomb {
Springfield can pay for Booths bu
> let?
: Again, standing in this garden !
the sepulcher, am impressed wit
the fact that floral and arborescel
decorations are appropriate for Il
place of the dead. We are glad tn;
among flowers and sculptural ador
:, ments Christ spent the short time
: His inhumation.
+ cannot understand what | som
= times see in the newspapers where t
: obsequies are announced and Il
friends say in connection with
Send no fower5.'' Rather, If t
7 means allow--I say il the means ;
: |low-strew the. casket with fowel