Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-04-13
TALMAGE
SERMON
BY Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. DID,.
Pastor Of Jefferson Park Presby-
terrain Church, Chicago

sermon the preacher shows how the
resurrection is as much OF reality to-
day to all who believe as It was to the
apostles and draws some helpful spirit
ual lessons. The text is John Xxx, 1G,
"She turned herself and said unto him,
"Rabboni, which is to say, Master"
Poor thing! Poor thing! There goes
n broken hearted woman. In the early
hours of the morning she is sobbing
and wringing her hands. what is the
matter, MaryT "Ah," she answers,
they have taken away my Lord, and
know not where they have laid him.
The Roman body snatcbers or the high
priests ghouls have rihed the tomb
where we buried Jesus / am trying to
trace his sacred dust and bring 1t back,
n possible, to It's former resting place"
Are Mary's actions extraordinary? IL
we thought the graves Of our loved
ones had been opened and the bodies
carried away for dissectng purposes,
would we not ~ once hurry OF to the
family plots and try to find some trace
0f these most despicable of all con-
scienceless marauders and make them
surrender their stolen treasures?
In our bereavements comforters re-
mind us that II is the mind, the soul,
the spirit, Of the departed that we
loved. They tell us that the physical
form that Is still in death was not real
ly the beloved one, but only the tene-
ment that loved one temporarily occu-
pied. We know that is true, but how
dear that tenement is TO us! That hand
which once held ours In loving clasp,
those eyes which lighted up In JOY
when we approached, those lips which
uttered words OF affection-how dear
they still are, though death has robbed
them Of all power of response! 1t IL
hard to part with them even now.
l was deeply impressed with this
feeling when some years ago | visited
the crematory at Pittsburg. | held in
my hand the urn containing the ashes
of the famous enpineer who devised
the Ferris wheel for the Chicago
Worlds fair. Only n few months be-
fore lac had worshiped in my church
at Pittsburg. | remembered well an
similarly consumed. How well | could
recall the face and form of Emma Alb
bolt as she sang one of her wonderful
songs only six months before her body
was carried In on stretcher and
showed through the opened furnace
door. Then | turned and said to the
attendant, 40 you believe in crema-
tionY II did" he answered, until
last May. | firmly believed In 1t on
sanitary grounds and could argue its
benefcence from any standpoint"
Then his eyes grew moist as he said:
But last spring my little girl, my only
child. died. could not bear then to
think Of her beautiful curls and lovely
form being shriveled up in that hot
furnace. So when her mother came to
me and asked. Husband. shall we have
baby's body crematedY answered:
NO, wife. We loved that little body
too we'll to let 1t be burned. thinl,
we had better start family plot and
let our baby sleep among the spring
flowers"
Mary's Second Journey.
All, yes! Mary's second journey to
that rifled tomb was the most natural
outcome OF her breaking heart. She
wanted to find the poor. bruised. LAGER
ated form Of one whom she had loved
while he was alive and whom she still
continued to love after he was dead.
But that Journey back TO the tomb
OF Joseph of Arimathea ended in the
strangest of all surprises. Mary went
to seek the dead. She found the living
Mary went TO an empty crypt. She
found a risen Lord. Let us learn to
day how Christ first appeared after the
crucihxion. TO whom he appeared and
for what he appeared.
The risen Lord revealed himself &C
cording 10 the fultillnent of prophecy
IL your husband should say to you
MY dear. business compels me to g
10 New York. shall be gone just fou
days. / shall be home next Thursda.
morning on the Pennsylvania Unite,
express" you would expect him hom
ut that time. Why? Because In al
your twenty years OF married life you
husband has never broken such an az
polntment with you. You say: "He
Ne particular about keeping an en-
Hagement as was George Washington
One day the president stood by hi
desk with his opened watch in hi
hand. saying TO his tardy secretary
Mr.. Secretary. you have kept me wait
Ing now ten full minutes. A SLOW
watch Is no excuse. Either you mus
get a new watch or | will get a ney
secretary That Is my husband a
through. He never. never breaks a
appointment unless he first notifies til
party that IL will be impossible for hiI
TO keep e." But. my sister. you hav
not as much right TO expect your hu:
band TO keep an appointment with 70
as the Christian disciples had tina
Jesus would rise again from the dea,
He elaariv distinctly nj ha