The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-04-20

| Strdlghten the SlaD ana Dank up the
mound and cut away the weeds and
| plant the shrubs and flowers,
Some day you will want to lie down
to your last slumber. You cannot eX.
pect any respect for your bones if you
| have no Difference for the bones of your
ancestry. Do YOU think these relies
are of no Importance? You will sec of
how much Importance they are in the
day when The archangel takes out his
trumpet. Turn all your cemeteries
| into gardens.
| Again. standing in this garden of the
new sepulcher, 1 am impressed with
the dignity of private and unpretend-
ing obsequies.
Joseph was mOurner, sexton. livery
| man-had entire charge of everything.
! Only four people at the burial of the
| King of the Universe! Oh let this be
| consolatory to those who through lack
| of means or through lack of acquaint-
ance have but little demonstration of
grief at the graves of their loved ones.
| Long line of glittering equipage, two
rows of silver handles, casket of rich
| est wood, pallbearers gloved and
scarfed, are not necessary. If there be
six at the grave, Christ looks down
from Heaven and remembers that is
two more than were at His obsequies.
Not recognizing this idea, how many
small properties are scattered and
widowhood and orphanage go 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. hut
there were only four people in the pro-
cession.
Again, standing in this garden with
a new sepulcher, I am impressed with
the fact that you cannot keep the dead
down.
Seal 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. Preiguration.
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
go will be brighter than the sun. We
shall have bodies with the speed of the
lightning. Our bodies improved, ener
gized, swiftcned, clarified - mortality,
Immortality. The door of the grave
taken off 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 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-
ton. garden of Heaven. Four gardens. |
Bloom. o earth! Bloom, o Heaven. |
Oh, my friends, wake up 10 glad |
ness on this Easter morning! This day. |
IF i interpret it right, means joy-it |
means peace with Heaven. and it |
means 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 /
-ar charger. No more red dahlas of |
peace. All around the earth strew
Easter flowers. And soon the rough |
voyage of the church militant will be
ended, and she will sail up the Heaven
ly harbor. SCARED with many CON
6ict, but the flag of triumph foat ting
from her topgallants. All Heaven will
come out TO greet her into port, and
with A long reverberating shout of
will say: There she comes
up the bay, the glorious old ship Zion!
After tempestuOus voyage she drops
anchor within the veil.''