Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-04-12
VOL XIV NO. IA. WHOLE NUMBER, 1902

WASHINGTON, April THE great
Christian festival celebrated in all the
churches is the T. me Of DR.. Talmages
discourse; l Corinthians Ky, 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 You /
Christian salutation This mo ming. /
Russian meeting Russian on the streets I
Of st. Petersburg halls him with the /
salutation, Christ is Iisen! and is an !
swered by his friend in salutation. He /
is risen indeed" In some parts of Eng
land and Ireland to this very day there
is the superstition that on Easter morn
ing the sun dances in the heavens. And
well may we forgive such a superstition,
which illustrates the fact that the natu-
raj world seems to sympathize with the
spiritual.
Hail. Easter morning! Flowers! Flow
ers! Al OF them a-vOice. all of them
a-tonguc. all of them full of speech to-
day. bend over one of the lilies AMI
hear it sHy Consider the lilies Of the
hcld how they grow; they toll not. nei
ther do fhcy spin. yet Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one Of these.
| bend over a rose, and it seems to whis-
per. Il am the rose of Sharon" And
then ! stand aud listen. From all sides
there comes the chorus of flowers, say
ing. "lf God SO clothed the grass of the
field which today is and tomorrow is cast
INTO the oven. shall he not much more
/ clothe you. o We Of little faithg'
! Flowers, Elowers Braid them into
the bri.le's hair. Flowers. Flowers!
] In, ..,,, tI,o .rro 1-oe Of fbn dauI
sweet prophecy Of the resurrection.
Flowers! Flowers! Twist them into a
garland for my Lord Jesus on Easter
morning. and GLORY be to the Father,
aud to the Son. and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning. is now and
over shall he" The women came to the
Savi0ur'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 thi.
Easter morn The two angels ROBBED il
white took hold Of the stone at the Say
tours tomb. and they hurled il with sucl
force ,lown the hin that it crushed in thu
door of the worlds sepucher. and thu
stark and the dead must come forth.
care not how labylinthine the mau
S0lrum or how costly the sarc0phagls o
however beautifully palterred the fam
ily grounds. we want them all broken Il
by the Lord of the resurrection. The
y must come out Father and mother
they must come out. Husband and wifi
they must come our. Brother and sis
ter-they must come out Our darlin
/ children-they must come cut The eye
/. that we closed with such trembling fin
- '3ust open again in the radiance c
tha be- arms we folded in du'
/, must ION - in an embrace of reunion
}. The voice that was hushed in our dwell
i. ing must be returned. Oh how Ion
some Of you seem to be waiting for Il
q resurrection And for these broke
y hearts today make a SOFT cool bandai
out Of Easter flowers.
This morning | find in the risen Chri
Il prophecy of our own resurrection, II
n. text setting forth the idea that as Chri
n has risen so his people will rise. He. q
first sheaf of the resurrection harve'
" lie "the first fruits of them that slept
= Before ! get through this morning ! W
% walk through all the cemeteries of t
% dead, through all the country graveyard
a where your loved ones are buried, and
w will pluck off these flowers, and ] "
drop sweet promise of the gospel
rose of hope, lily of idy-on every tot
the child's tomb. the husbands ton
the wifp's tomb, the fathers grave,
mothers grave And while we cclchri
the resurrection of Christ we will at
same time celebrate the resurrection
MI the good. Christ the first fruits
them that slept"
The worlds Great COnquerOrs.
y Ii should come to you and ask
for the names of the great conqurlors
the world you would say AleXan'
CAESAR. Philip. Napoleon |. All, you h
forgotten to mention the name of gre
or conqucror than all theSe-a cruel
CHASTITY cunquprur He rode ON hl
horse across Waterloo and Chaluns
Atlanta, the bluudy honfs crushing
, hearts of nations. Ii is the cOnqu'
. Death. He carries black flag. and
takes no prisoners. lie digs tire
Ell. across the hrniSphercs and fills it !
the carCaSsrs of nations Fifty Il
would the world have been depopul'
- had not God kept making new gen
lions. Fifty times the world would
swung lifrlcSS through the air-nO
NeW on the mountain. no man on the sea
Is abandoned ship plOwing through
ME menSity Again and again has he
iden this work with all generations He
avs; monarch as well as a conQuerOr; his
lder ace a srpulchpr; his fountains the ia
eau, tears of world Blessed he God!
his the light of this Easter morning
hete the prophecy that his sceptcr Sha
that broken. and his palace shall be dc
ackS ished. The hour is coming when all
ms are in their graves shall come
great Christ risen. we shDil rise Jesus.
Y to first fruits of them that slept"
f his Now aro,,id this doctrine Of the
love- direction there are a great many
tqrips. You come to me and say.
hite- bodies Of the dead are to be raised.
pro is this and how is that? And you as
le re- n thousand questions ! am incomT
tillon to answer But there are great
ter 1t things you believe that YOU are moi
Hons to explain. You would he a very {
ssem man To say Il won't believe anytl
iisad can't understand" Why. putting
5 was me knl of Hover seed, comes the
en is This flower of this color? Why p
taper down annihrr flower seed. comes
jumps, M a Rnwpr of this color? One
,ratch white. another flower yellow. n
mping Sewer crimson Why the diff
night when the seeds look to he very
t Mr.. alikP-are very much alike: e
,hesc things Explain thai wart
) trip finger Explain the difference vi
them oak leaf is different from the leaf
re- not hickory. Tell me how the I.nl
Mrs mighty can tura the chariot Of h
impotence on rose leaf You q
questions ah0ut the resurrection
cd not answer will ask yon a IN
insti-
ose or questions about everyday life You
plays answer.
tian in find my strength in this passag
IL. la-all
igiOus" forth" do not pretend to ms
ct and explanation. You 20 on and say
und in pose a returned missionary dies
ives Of city. When he was in China,
in the was amputated; he lived years 9
would England, and there he had an a
ltrolled putated; he is buried today il
iuch so cemetery. In the resurrection
edition foot come from China, will the ar
Chris from England and will the ,
,icb all parts of the body be reconstruct
,cidedlv resurrection? How is that posi-
women You say that the human body
to,. hos every seven years. and by 40 !
~ Of a age a man has had ten bodies
- Chris resurrection which will come up
opooors say: "A man will die and his boo
b,isfian BILE into the dust. and that dust
up into the life of the vegetable;
go, NAL may eat the vegetable; men
possible? aiHl..l II 'iie 'esu' ~ -
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torth.'