The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-04-11
CHRIST IS RISEN!
Or. raImage's Sermon on the Lesson
Embodied In Our Sayiour's
Resurrection.
Awaiting the Day When "All Who Are In Their
Graves Shall Come Forth"


is the theme of Dr. Talmage's discourse;
Corinthians xv, 20, Now is Christ
risen from the dead and become the FIRST
fruits Of them that slept"
| On this glorious Easter morning. amid
| the music and the flowers, / give Won
Christian salutation. This morning Rus
sian meeting Russian on the streets Of St
Petersburg halls him with the salutaticn.
Christ, is risen indeed! In some parts
| of England and Ireland to this verv day
| there is the superstition that on Easter
morning. the sun dances in the heavens.
and well may we forgive such a supersti.
tion, which illustrates the fact that the
natural world seems to sympathize with
| the spiritual.
Hail, Easter morningl Flowersl Flow.
ers! 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
| Il say: Consider the lilies of the field,
| how they grow. They toll not, neither do
not arrayed like one of these" l bend
over a rose, and It seems to whisper, 'T
am the rose of Sharon" And then I
stand and listen. From all sides there
| comes the chorus of flowers, saying, "If
God 50 clothed the grass Of the field, which
to-day is, and tomorrow is cast into the
oven, shall HI. not much more clothe you,
o We of little faithw
| Flowers! Flowersl Braid them into
the brides hair. Flowers! Flowers!
Strew them over the graves of the dead,
sweet prophecy Of the resurrection. Flow
ers! Flowers Twist them into a gar
| land for nv Lord Jesus on Easter morn
ing, and GLORY be to the Father and to
the Son. and to the Holy Ghost; as it was
| IN the beginning, is now and ever shall
! bel! 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 Easter morn. The
| two angels robed in white took hold of
the stone at the Saviours tomb, and
they hurled it with such force down the
hill that it crushed in the door Of the
| worlds ssepulcher, and the stark and the
| dead must come forth.
| care not how labrinthine the maui
soleum or how costly the sarcophagus or
| however beautifully parterred the family
! the Lord of the resurrection. They must
come out. Father and mother-they must
come out; husband and wife-they must
come out; brother and sister--they must
come out; our darling children-.they must
come out. The eyes that we closed with
| such trembling fingers must open again
in the radiance of that morn; the arms
we folded in dust must Join ours in an
embrace of reunion: the voice that was
/ husheed in our dwelling must be retuned.
| Oh. how long. some of you seem to be
waiting for the resurrection! And for
these broken hearts to-day / make soft,
cool bandage out of Easter flowers
| This morning | find in the risen Christ
prophecy of our own resurrection. my
text setting forth the idea that as Christ
has risen so His people will rise. He, the
| first sheaf of the resurrection harvest. He,
| ''the first fruits of them that slept" Be.
fore i get through this morning I will
walk through all the cemeteries Of the
dead. through all the country graveyards.
where your loved ones are buried, and I
i Mill t,1p aG
drop sweet promise of the gospel-a
rose OF hope, lily OF JOY on every tomb,
| the child's tomb, the husband. tomb
the wife's tomb, the fathers grave. the
mothers grave, and. while we celebrate
the resurrection of Christ we will at the
the good. "Christ, the first fruits OF
them that slept"
If / should come to you and ask you
for the names of the great conquerors of
the world, you would say Alexander,
Caesar, Philip, Napoleon T. Ali You
have forgotten to mention the name of a
greater conqueror than all these-a cruel,
a ghastly con1ueror. 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 a trench
across the hemispheres 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 life
less through the air-no man on the noun
tain, no man on the sea, an abandoned
| ship blowing through immensity. Again
and again has he done this work with all
generations. He is monarch IA well as
a conqueror; his palace sepulcher; his
fountains 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 al who are in their graves, shall rise;
Now, around this doctrine of the res
| direction there are great many mys-
| teries. 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
tent to, answer. But there are great
many things you believe that you are not
| able to explain. You would be a very
foolish man to say, 81 won't believe any
thing | can't understand" Why, putting
down one kind of flower seed, comes there
up this flower of this color? Why, putting
down another flower seed, comes there up
flower of this color? One flower
white, another flower yellow, another flow
er crimson. Why the difference wnen
the seeds look to be very much alike-are
very much alike? Explain these things;
explain that wart on the finger; explain
the ditference-why the oak leaf is differ
ent 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 resurrec-
ton L cannot answer. / will ask you
thousand questions about everyday life
| you cannot answer.
l find my strength in this passage. "All
who are in their graves shall come forth"
do not pretend to make the explanation.
You go on and say: Suppose returned
missionary dies in this city When he
was in China, his foot was aInputated.
lie lived years after in England, and there
he had an arm amputated lie is buried
to-day in yonder cemetery. In the res-
direction will the foot come from China,
will the arm come from England and
will the different parts of the body be re.
constructed in. the resurrection; How is
that possiblew
You say that "the human body changes
every seven years and by seventy year,
of age man has had ten bodies. In the
resurrection, which will come up" YOU
say: "a man will die and his body cram
BILE into the dust and that dust be taken
up into the life of the vegetable. An
animal may eat the vegetable. Men eat
| the animal. In the resurrection that body.
distributed in so many directions, how
shall it be gathered up?" Have you any
more questions OF this style TO ask? Come
on and ask them. / do not pretend to an
swer them. / fall back upon the an
nouncement of Gods word, "All who are
| in their graves shall come forth"
You have noticed, / suppose, in read
ing the story of the resurrection, that