Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-04-12
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
RESURRECTION OF THE RE-
DEEMER SUNDAYS SUBJECT
Now Is Christ Risen from the Dead
and Become the First Fruits OF Them
That SIept''-First Book Corinthians,

chapter twenty-five, Twentieth Verse
Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, n. "
Washington, April THE great
Christian festival celebrated in all the
churches is the theme of DR.. Talmage's
discourse; | Corinthians XIV, 20. Now
is Christ risen from the dead and be-
come the first fruits of them that
slept"
On this glorious Easter morning.
amid the music and the flowers.
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 a superstition, which illustrates
the fact that the natural world seems
TO sympathize with the spiritual.
Hail, 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 bend over rose
nd e II hn
rose of Sharon" And then | 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
to the brides hair. Flowers, Flow
ers. Strew them over the graves of the
dead, sweet prophecy of the resurrec-
into garland for my Lord Jesus on
Easter morning. and GLORY be 10 the
Father. and to the Son, and to the
Holy Ghost las 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
Saviour's tomb. and they hurled it
with such force down the hill that it
crushed in the door of the world S
sepulchre and the stark and the dead
must come forth.
The World Great Conauerors.
II | should come to you and ask you
for the names of the great conquerors
of the world you would say Alexander.
Caesar. Philip. Napoleon |. All. You
have forgotten to mention the name
oil greater conqueror than all these
"a cruel. a CHASTITY conqueror. He
rode on a 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 no:
God kept making new generations.
Fifty times the world would have
swung lifeiess 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 conquer-
or; his palace a sepulcher; his foun-
tains the falling tears CT a world
Blessed be God, In the light OF this
Easter morning | 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. Chris
risen, we shall rise. Jesus. the first
fruits of them that slept
Now. around this doctrine of the res.
direction there are a great many mys-
teries- You come to me and say. Il
the bodies Of the dead are to be raised
how is this and how is that? Ana
you ask me thousand questions | an
incompetent to answer But there are
a great many things you believe tha'
you are not able to explain. Yor
would be very foolish man to say
Il don't believe anything | can't un.
derstand. Why. putting down one
kind of flower seed comes there ur
this flower of this color? Why. put
ting down another flower seed. comes
there up a flower of this color: Ont
flower white, another flower yellow. an
other flower crimson. Why the differ.
ence when the seeds look to be yer,
much alike-are very much alike? Ex
plain these things. Explain that wart OF
the finger. Explain the difference VIII,
the oak leaf is different from the lea
of the hickory. Tell me how the IIor,
Almighty can turn the chariot of hi.
omnipotence on a rose leaf You ash
me questions about the resurrection
cannot answer. | will ask you a thou
sand questions about everyday life yo,
cannot answer.
Significance Of a Great Sound.
You have noticed suppose, in read
ing the story of the resurrection tina
almost every account of the Bible give,
the idea that the characteristic of tina
day will be great sound do no
know that it will be very loud. bu
/ know it will be very penetrating. Ii
the mausoleum where silence ha.
reigned a thousand years that vote,
rpuSt pepotrato In tho oorol caya n