Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-04-27
AN EASTER SERMON.
Or. Talmaee Delivers Timely Dis
course on the Risen Savior.
a Prophecy ON Our own Resurrection
As Christ Has Risen so vSsn
HE People Hiso-The Im-
mortal nedy.

Washington. April The great |
Christian festival celebrated in all the |
churches is the theme Of Dr. Taimages |
discourse: i. Corinthians. 1920; Vow |
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 morn
ing. Russian meeting Russian on the
streets OF ST. Petersburg. hanls him.
with the salutation: Christ Il riseni"
and is answered by his friend iu1salu-
tation; He is risen indeed" In some
parts OF England and Ireland 20 this
very day there is the superstition that
on Easter morning the sun dances in
the heavens. And well may we forgive
such a superstition, which illustrates
the fact that the natural world seems
TO sympSshize with the spiritual
Hail. Easter morning. Flowers,
Flowers, All of them a-voice. all Of
them a-tongue, all OF them fun OF
speech to-day. bend over one Of the
lilies. and hear il say; Consider the
lilies OF the valley. how they grow;
they toll not. neither do they spin. yet
Solomon IN all his glory was not ar
rayed like one 81 these" bend over
q rose, and il seems 70 whisper: 81
an the rose OF sharon" And then I
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 aud tomorrow Is cast
@tqs-<he oven. shall He not much more
ssotft you, o ye Of little fsith?"
Flowers, Flowers Braid them into
the brides hair. Flowers Flowers,
Strsw them over the graves Of the
dead. sweet prophecy OF the resurrcc-
tion. Fiowersi Flowersi Twist them
INTO a garland for my Lord Jesus on
| Easter morning, and GLORY lie 10 the
Father. and 20 the Son. and TO the
Holy Ghost; as IL was in the beginning.
4 now and ever shall be" The women
came 20 the SsviOur's tomb. and they
dropped spices ali around the tomb.
and those spices were the seed that
| began 20 grow. aud frou them came
AL the flowers 81 this Easter morn.
The two angels ROBBED in white took
hold of the stone at the Savsour's tomb.
and they Aurled IL with such force
down the hill that n crushed IN the
door OF the worlds sepulcher. and the
stark and the dead must come forth.
care not how iabyrinthine the mnu-
soleum or how costly the sarcophag gus
or however beautifully parterred the
family grounds. We want them all
broken up by the Lord OF the resur-
rection. They must come out. Fs-
ther and mother-they must come out.
Husband and wife-they must come
out Brother and sister-they must
come cut. Our darling childrsn-thev
must come out. The ewes that we
riosed with such trembling fingers
must open again in the radiance Of
that morn The arms we folded In dust
must join ours ia al embrace 81 re-
union. The voice that was hushed in
our dwelling must be returned. Oh.
how long some OF you seem 20 be wait
ing for the resurrection And for
THESE broken hearts to-day l make a
soft. cool bandage out Of Faster
flowers
This morning I and IN the risen
Christ prophecy Of our own reSur-
rection- nv text setting forth the ides
that as Christ has risen so His people
viii rise He. the first sheaf Of ths
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fruits OF them that slept" Before
: get through this morning will wall
. through all the cemeteries OF ths
| read. through all the country grave
? yards. where your loved ones az,
I buried. and I will pluck of these flow
E srs. aud I will drop a sweet proni :,
Of the Gospel rose OF hope. a III,
Of Joy-on every tOmb-the child
: tomb. the husbands tomb. the Wife
j. tomb. the fathers grave. che mother
| grave. And while we celebra t. the res
? direction OF Christ we will at the sam
time celebrate the resurrection OF al
the good. Christ, the first fruits O
them that slept"
\ II ] should come 10 You and ask 70,
for the names OF the great cOnqueror
Of the world. you would say Alexandel
= Caesar, Philip. Napoleon /. All. yo
hare forgotten 10 mention the nam
Of a greater conqueror THAN all thes
"a cruel. a CHASTITY conqueror. II
|, rode on a black horse across Waferlo
and Chalons and Atlanta, the blood
n hoOfs crushing the hearts of nation.
II Is the conqueroy Death He carrie
black dag. and he takes no prisoner,
Re digs a trench across the hen
- spheres and fills II with the carcasss
OF nations. Fifty times would III
world have been depopuiated had No
!, God kept making new generation
= Fifty times the world would hav
+" swung lifeIesx through the air-no ma
on the mountain. no man on the se
= an abandoned ship blowing throue
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