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

ness. The cluster of asters will be
the constellation. Your little child
loved fowas when she was living.
Put them =, her hand now that she
can go forth no more and pluck them
for herself. On sunshiny days take =
fresh garland and put it over the still
heart.
Brooklyn has no grander glory than
its Greenwood, nor Boston tnan its
Mount Auburn, nor Philadelphia than
its Laurel Hill, nor Cincinnati than its
Spring Grove, nor San francisco than
its Lone Mountain. But what shall we
say of those country graveyards, with
the vines broken down and the slabs
aslant and the mound caved in and the !.
grass pasture ground for the sextons
cattle? Indeed, were your father and
mother of SO little worth that you can
not afford to take care of their ashes?
Some day turn out all hands and
straighten the slab and bank 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 ary respect for your bones if you
have no Difference for the bones Of your
ancestry. Do you think these relics !
are of no Importance You will see 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, I am impressed with
The dignity of private snd unpretend-
Ing obsequies.
Joseph was mourner, sexton, livery
mln-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 demonstrations 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. IT there be
six at the grave, Christ looks down
from Heaven and remembers that II
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 LETT
a 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 thu
/ departed, but do not consider funeral
1 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.
i Again, standing in this garden with
a new sepulcher, / 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. 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
go will be brighter than the sun. We
shall have bodies with the speed OF the
lightning. Our bodies improved, ener'
I gjzed. swiftened. clarified = mortality
immortality. vhc door Of the grave
taken off it's hinges and flung nat 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
e with the new sepulcheri find that thu
!. vines and flowers of the garden have
e completely covered up the tomb. IN
: stead of one garden there are four gar
r dens. opening into each other gardet
i of Eden, garden of the worlds sepul
t cher. garden of the earth's regenera
+ tion. garden of Heaven. Four gardenE
B,oom. O earth! Bloom, O Heaven.
+ oh, my friends. wake. UP TO glad
b ness on this Easter morning! This day
t if ] interpret it right. means joy--i
e means peace with Heaven. and 4
It means peace with all the world.
l. Oh, bring more flowers! Wrath
Il them around the brazen throat Of tn
cannon; plant them in the desert, tha
> Il NAV blossom like the rose; sbrai
,e them into the name of the returne'
e war charger. No more red dahlas 9
/: human blood. Give MS white lilies Q
,e peace. All around the earth sire,
J. Easter flowers. And soon the rong
s. voyage of the church militant viii !
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