The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
TALMAGE's SERMON.
RESURRECTION OF THE RE-
DEEMER SUNDAYS SUBJECT

DEEMER SUNDAYS SUBJECT
Now Is Christ Risen from tho Dead
and Become the First Fruits of Them
That Slept'-First Book Corinthians,
Chapter Twenty-Five, Twentieth worse
Copyright, 1901. by Louis Klopsch, N. "
Washington, April 1.-THE great
Christian festival celebrated in all the
churches is the theme of DR.. Talmage's
discourse; l Corinthians XIV, 20, Nov
is Christ risen from the dead and be-
come the first fruits of them that
sept"
On this glorious Easter morning,
amid the music and the flowers, l
give you Christian salutation. This
morning, Russian meeting Russian on
the streets of st. Petersburg halls him
with the salutation, Christ is risen!"
and is answered by his friend in salu-
tation, He is risen indeed!" In some
parts of England and Ireland to this
very day there is the superstition that
on Easter morning the sun dances in
the heavens. And we'll may we forgive
such superstition, which illustrates
the fact that the natural world seems
to sympathize with the spiritual.
Han, Easter morning! Flowers!
FLOWERS! All of them a-voice, all Of
them a-tongue, all of them full Of
speech to-day. bend over one of the
lilies, and hear it say, Consider the
lilies Of the field, how they grow; they
toll not. neither do they spin, yet Sol
ONION in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these" l bend over rose
and 1t seems to whisper, Il am the
rose OF Sharon" And then l stand
and listen. From all sides there comes
the chorus of flowers, saying, IF God
so clothed the grass OF the field which
to-day is and tomorrow is cast into
the oven, shall he not much more
clothe you. o We of little faith?"
Flowers! Flowers! Braid them in
20 the brides hair. Flowers! Flow
ers: Strew them over the graves Of the
dead, sweet prophecy of the resurrec-
ton. Flowers. Flowers! Twist them
into garland for my Lord Jesus on
Easter morning, and GLORY be to the
rather, and to the Son, and to the
Holy Ghost ;as it was in the begin
ming, is now and ever shall be-" The
women came to the Saviour's tomb.
and they dropped spices all around
the tomb, and those spices were the
seed that began to grow, and from
them came all the flowers of this East
er morn. The two angels robed in
white took hold of the stone at the
Savlour's tomb. and they hurled it
with such force down the hill that it
crushed in the door of the worlds
sepulchre and the stark and the dead
must come forth.
The Worlds Great Conuuerors.
IL should come to you and ask you
for the names of the great conouerors
OF the world you would say Alexander,
Caesar, Philip, Napoleon 1. All, you
nave forgotten to mention the name
OF greater conqueror than all these
"a cruel, a CHASTITY conqueror. He
rode on black horse across Waterloo
and Chalons and Atlanta, the bloody
hoofs crushing the hearts of nations.
1t is the conqueror Death. He carries
black flag and he takes no prisoners.
he digs trench across the hemis-
pheres and fills it with the carcasses
OF nations. Fifty times would the
world have been depopulated had not
God kept making new generations.
FIFTY times the world would have
swung llfeless through the air-no man
on the mountain, no man on the sea
an abandoned ship blowing through
immensely. Again and again has he
done this work with all generations.
he is monarch as we'll as a conquer
or; his palace sepulcher; his foun-
tains the falling tears Of world.
Blessed be God! In the light of this
Easter morning l see the prophecy
that his scepter shall be broken and
| his palace shall be demolished. The
hour is coming when all who are in
their graves shall come forth. Christ
risen, we shall rise. Jesus, 1.-The first
fruits of them that slept"
NOW, around this doctrine of the res
| direction there are great many mys-
ter1es. You come to me and say. If
the bodies of the dead are to be raised,
how Is this and how is that? And
you ask me thousand questions am
incompetent to answer. But there are
great many things you believe that
you are not able to explain. You
would be very foolish man to say,
L don't believe anything l can't un-
derstand. Why, putting down one
kind Of flower seed, comes there I'D
this flower of this color? Why, put
ting down another flower seed, comes
there up flower of this color? One
flower white, another flower yellow, an
other flower crimson. Why the differ
ence when the seeds look to be very
much alike-are very much alike? Ex-
plain these things. Explain that wart on
the finger. Explain the difference why
the oak leaf is different from the leaf
of the hickory. Tell me how the Lord
Almighty can turn the chariot of his
omnipotence on rose leaf. You ask
me questions about the resurrection I
cannot answer. will ask you thou
sand questions about everyday life you
cannot answer.
Significance of Great Sound.
You have noticed, suppose, in read
Ing the story of the resurrection that
almost every account of the Bible gives