The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
AN EASTER sER1ION.
Dr.. Talmage Delivers Timely Dis
course on the Pisen SAVIOR
AProphecy on Our own EesurTee''0H
As Christ Has Risen so "i1A
His People Rise-The I'M
mortal Sooy.

ycopyr,sht, 1901 by Louis klopsch, \. u
Washington, april 4.
Washington, April THE great
Christian festival celebrated in all the
churches is the theme Of Dr.. ~almage's
discourse; I. Corinthians, 1910: 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, l give
you Christian salutation. IhlS morn
ing, Russian meeting Russian on tne
streets Of St. Petersburg, hams hl,n
with the saIutation: Christ is rlsen.
and is answered by his friend IN sa-0-
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 well may we forgive
such superstition, which illustrates
the fact that the natural world seems
to sympathize with the spiritual.
Hail, Easter morning! Flowers.
Flowers! AL Of them a-Toice. all OF
them a-toogue, all Of them full OF
speech to-day. I bend over one Of the
lilies, and I hear it 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 Of these" bend over
rose, and it seems to whisper: u
an the rose OF Sharon" And then ]
stand and listen. From all sides there
comes the chorus of flowers, saying:
eff God so clothed the grass Of the field
which to-day is and tomorrow is cast
into the oven, shall He not much more
clotbe you, Q ye Of little faith?"
Flowers! Flowers! Braid them into
the brides hair. Flowers! Flowers,
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
Father, ana to the Son, and to the
Eely Chest; as It was in the beginning,
is now and ever shall be-" The women
cane to the Sariour's tomb, and they
dropped spices all around the tomb,
and those spices were the seed that
began to grow, and from them came
ell the Gewers Of this Easter morn.
The two angels robed in white took
hold Of the stone at the Saviour's tomb,
and they hurled it with such force
6ewE the hill that it crushed in the
doe- Of the worlds sepulcher, and the
stark and the dead must come forth.
Lcare not hew labyrinthine the mau-
seleun Or how costly the sarcophagus
OF however beautifully parterred the
family grounds, we want them all
broken up by the Lord Of the resur-
rection. They must come out. Fa-
tbe- and motber-they must come out.
Husband and wife-thsy must come
out. Brother and sister-they must
come out. Our darling children-tbey
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 re-
union. The voice that was hushed in
our dwelling must be returned. Oh,
5ow long some Of yeu seem to be wait
ing for the resurrection! And for
these broken hearts to-day make a
soft, cool bandage out Of Easter
flowers.
This morning 7 find in the risen
Christ 8 prophecy Of our own resur-
rection, my text setting forth the idea
that as Christ has risen so His people
VIII rise. He, the first sheaf of the
resurrection harvest. Ee, "the first
fruits Of them that slept" Before 7
get through this morning will walk
through al the cemeteries of the
dead, through al the country grave
yards, where your loved ones are
buried, and will pluck of these Sow-
era, and Will drop sweet promise
Of the Gospels rose of hope, lily
Of joy-on every tonb-the cbild's
tomb, the husbands tomb, the wife's
tomb, the fathers grave, the mothers
grave. And while we celebrate the res
direction Of Christ we viii at the same
time celebrate the resurrection Of all
the good. Christ, the first fruits Of
them that slept"
II 7 should come to you and ask you
for the names Of the great cooeuerors
Of the werllS, would say Alexander.
Caesar, Philip, Nssolson I. All, you
>save forgotten to nenfisHH Ht5e Hane
Of 9 greater conquerer than all t6esee-
"a cruel, a ghastly conqueror. he
rode On = black horse across Waterloo
and Cbalons and Atlanta, the bloody
hoofs crushing the hearts Of nations.
Il Is the cooeueror Death. He carries
black 6ag, and he takes no prisoners.
He digs trench across the hem
ispheres and fills it with the carcasses
Of nations. Fifty times would the
world have been depopuIsted had not
God kept making new generators.
Fifty ti8es the world would have
swung Gfeless through the air-no man
On the mountain, no man OF the sea,
an abandoned ship blowing through
lDnensity. Again and again has he
Sene this work with all generations.
He Is . monarch as well as con-
querer; his palace sepulcher; his
fountains the falling tears Of world.
Blessed be Ged! In the light Of this
Easter morning see the prophecy
thas his scepter shall be broken and
bis palace shall be demolished. The
hour Is coming when all who are in
<6os- er,vas cbo11 coroa ror+b T1,-;e+
risen, we shall rise. Jesus, "tbe first
Fruits Of them that slept"
New, around this doctrine Of the res
direction there are e great many :nys-
teries. You come to me and say: "If
the bodies Of the dead are to be raised.
how Is this and howis that?" And you
ask me thousand questions am in
Frolicsome Students.