The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-19

atone nc tne grave OF Cnnries sumner Tor
the ignominious resolutions with which
her Legislature denounced the living
Senator. Do You think that the tomb at
Springfield can paw for Booths bullet2
Oh, do Justice TO the livlDgi All the JUS
tice you do them you must do this eide the
gates OF the Metropolis. They cannot wake
up to count tho number of carriages ut the
obsequies or to notice tho polish of the
Aberdeen granite or to road epitaphal com
mem oration. Gsntleman's mausoleum in
the suburbs OF Jerusalem cannot pay for
Bethlehem mRDger and Calvarean cross
and Pilates rufflan judiciary. Post NOR
tenn honors cannot atone for ante.mortem
ignominies
Again, standing In this gnrden OF the
sepulcher, ! am impressed With the fact
that floral and arborescent decorations are
appropriate for the place OF the dead. We
are glad that among flowers and sculptural
hdornments Christ spent the short time of
His inhumation.
cannot understand what / sometimes
see in the newspapers where tho obsequies
are announced aud the friends say In con-
nection with It, "Send no flowers" Rathor,
II the means allow--I say II tho means
allow-strew the casket with flowers, the
hearse With flowers, the grave with flowers.
Put thom on the brow--lt Will suggest
coronation; In their hand--it Will mean
victory.
Christ was buried In a garden. Flowers
mean resurrection. Death Is sad enough
anyhow. Let conservatory and arboretum
contribute to its allevlatlon. The harcbell
will ring the victory; the passion nowor
will express the gym mpathy; the daffodil
will kindle its lamp and illume the dark
moss, The cluster OF astcrs will be the
constellation. Your little child loved
flowers when she was living. Put them IN
her hand now that she can 80 forth no
moro and pluck them for herself. On sun
shiny days take a fresh garland and put IL
over the still heart.
Brooklyn has no grander glory than its
Greenwood, nor Boston than its Mount Au.
burn, nor Philadelphia than its Laurel
Hill, nor Cincinnati thHn its Spring Grove,
nor San Francisco than It's Lone Mountain.
But what shalt we say TO those country
graveyards with the vines broken down
and tho slab aslant and the mound Gavcd
in and the grass pasture ground for the
seXton's cattle2 Indeed. wero your father
and mother OF 50 little worth that you can
not afford TO tako caro- OF their ashes2 Some
dny turn out all hands and straightcn the
slab and bank mp the mound and cut away
the weeds and plant tho shrubs and low
ers.
Some day you will want 20 lie down 60
your last slumher. You cannot expect any
respect for your bones II you have no de.
ference for tho bones OF your ancestry. Do
you think these relics are Of no impor-
tance2 You will see OF how much impor-
tance they are in the day when tho arch
angel takes out his trumpet. Turn all
your cemeteries into gardens.
Again, standing in this garden OF tho
now sepulcber. / am impressed with the
dignity OF private and unproterdInG obse-
quies.
Joseph was mourncr, sexton. liveryman
had entire charge of everything. Only
four people at the burial of the King OF tho
Unlversel Oh, let this be consolutory to
those who through lack OF means or
through lack OF acquaintance have but
little dem mOnstratlon of grief at the graves
of their loved ones, Long line of glitter.
ing equipago, two rows of silver handles,
casket OF richest wood, pallbearers glOved
and scnrfed, arc not necessary. III there
be six ut 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 widow
hood and orphanage go forth into cold
charityl The departed left n small prop.
erty, which would have been enough to
keep the family together until they could
take care OF themselves, but tho funeral
expenses absorbed everything. That went
for crape which ought to have gone for
bread. A man OF moderate means can
hardly alord to die In any of our great
cities. By all means, do honor to the dc.
parted but do not consider funeral pageant
MS necessary. No one was ever more low.
ingly and tendery put away to sepulGhor
than Christ our Lord. but there were only
four people in the procession.
Again, standing in this garden with n
new sepucher, | am impressed with the
fact that you cannot keep the dead d Iwn.
Seal OF sanhedrn, company OF soldiers
from the tower OF Antoniu, floor of rock.
roof OF rock, walls Of rock, door OF rock,
cannot keep Christ In tho crypts. Come
out and come up He must. Come out and
come up He did. Pronguration. First
fruits OF them that slept. Just as certain
ly as we go down into the dust, Just so
certainly we will como up again. Though
all the granite OF the mountains were piled
on us we will rise. Though buried amid
tho cOrals OF tho deepest cavern of the
Atlantic Ocea1, we will come to the sur
face.
With these eyes We may not look into
the face Of the monday sun, but w0 shalt
havo stronger vision, because the tamest
thing in the land to which we go will bo
brighter than the sun. We shall have
bodies with the speed of tho lightning.
Our bodies improved, energized, switched,
olnrined--mortality, Immortality. The
door of the grave taken or its hinges and
nung fiat into tho 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 tho vines and
flowers OF the garden have completely COW
cred up tho tomb. Instead of one garden
there are four gardens, opening into each
other--gRrden OF Eden, garden of the
worlds sepulcher, garden of tho earth's
regeneration, garden of heaven. Four
gardens. Bloom, o earthl Bloom, o
heaven Oh, my friends wake up to glad
ness on this Easter morning This day, II
| interpret it right, means Ioy-it means
peace with heaven, and 1t means peace with
| ail the world
Oh bring more howers Wreathe them
around the brazen throat of the cannon;
plant them In the desert, that II may bios
som like the rose; braid them into the
mane OF the returned war charger. No
! more red dnhlias of human blood. Give
US white lilies OF peace. All around tho
earth strew Easter flowers. And soon the
rough voyage of tho church militant will
be ended, and she will sail up tho heavenly
harbor, SCARED with many conflict, but
the fings OF triumph floating from her top
gnllants. All heaven will come out to
greet her into port, and with long re-
verberating stou of welcome will say;
"There she comes up tho bay, the glorious
old ship Hlonl After tompestuous voyage
she drops anchor within the veil"