Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-14

by cemeteries, as Brooklyn has It's
Greenwood and Philadelphia its Laurel
Hill. Boston its Mount Auburn, Chlca-
20 its Rose Hill, New York its Wood
lawn and Paris It's Perc-la-ChalseW
Yes. and the amazing fact about the
Jerusalem cemeteries Is that you can
distinguish the different graves there,
lust as you can pick out the different
graves in Calvary cemetery Of Long
Island. AS you 20 through them you
can say, Here is the tomb Of a wealthy
family" or Here is the family plot OF
people who lived in moderate circum-
Stances" or Here is a potter's field,
where the poor are buried" You can
tell all this by studying the tombstones
and the elaborate mausOleums and the
neglected graves. Now, as Mary Mag
dalene is leading you and me among
the tombs and graves which surround
Jerusalem to the grave Of Christ, much
to my surprise she does not go toward
potter's field or to the place where the
/
toward beautiful garden, in the CEN
ter Of which Il magnificent tomb has
been chiseled out Of the solid rock.
This must be the tomb Of very rlch
man. As she goes along | feel that she
is beside herself with grief, and l say:
"Stop, Mary; stop You are going the
wrong way. This IS not the tomb or
Christ who died paupcr; this IS the
tomb Of one Of the wealthy men Of the
east" Then Mary turns, with sweet
smile, and says:
Buried ns a King.
"Nay, friend, / am not wrong. Christ
! may have lived and died poor man,
but he was buried as a king. Dost thou
not know that Joseph Of Arimathea, a
member Of the sanhedrin and one or
the great leaders Of the Jewish nation,
went and asked plate for Christs
body after it was dead and that PLATE
gave it to him? And dost thou further
more not know that Joseph Of Arlma-
thea took Christ's body and buried it in
his own family vault| "But," l again
say. "how could Joseph do that? Jesus
did not own Il particle of clothes when
ne died. The soldiers even gambled for
the coat that he wore on his way to the
cross True" says Mary. True, but
didst thou not also know that, as one
rich man gave Christ his own tomb in
which to be buried, so Nicodemus, an
other rich man. furnished the funds
whereby Christs body was approprl'
atcly arrayed for the rich mans sepul-
chcr?" 30 you think that these words
which | have put into the lips of Mary
are purely imaginary? Then read Marx
XIV. 43. Joseph of Arimathea, an hon
orable counselor, who also waited toI
the kingdom Of God, came and went II
boldly unto PLATE and craved the body
of Jesus. and lie gave the body to Jo
seph." Then turn to John xix, 80, "Anc
there came also NicOdemus, who, at the
first. came to Jesus by night anC
brought Il mixture of myrrh and aloes
about n hundred pound weight. TheI
took they the body Of Jesus and wounC
# in linen clothes with the spices, a.
n the manner Of the Jews is to bury .
Now. what is the deduction Of thes'
:. two thoughts?. Why, as Nicodemus
the rich man. gave the expensive spice
with which to preserve Christ's bod,
for the burial, and as Joseph of Arima
thea. another rich man, gave Chris
! his sepulcher for the burial, therefor
If means that all the rich men OF tn
world and all the brains Of the Worl
shall vet stand by the empty tomb o
Christ and declare him Lord Of lord
and King of kings. Oh, my friends,
, am clad Christ's cradle was in a man
ger That proves that Jesus came
Christ for the poor and the outcastS
the sorrowng and the afflicted. But
q am also glad that Chrsts dead bod
was wrapped in the spices of Nic(
} demus and laid ip the family vault
= a Joseph. That symboizes to me thi
other fact that some day all To
: mightiest men of earth shall yet az
< claim him not only the risen Lord, Dt
r also their Redeemer and Friend. Ma
I that glorious day be not far distan
2 It Is said that just over his study des
D at Hawarden William e. Gladston
Y had these words framed and hung upo
4 the wall: "Thou wilt keep him in pc
feet peace whose mind is stayed O
thee" SO may all the great and hol
i. ored men of this day find their perfe'
e peace in a risen Lord, as NicodemI
: and Joseph of olden times honored III
e at the sepulcher.
u Another Startling Fact.
p But as we approach a little near
, the rined sepulcher we find anoth
u startling fact. "The body of Christ
. gomez you say. Is that the startlll
= fact? Oh, no. 1 expected to find u
- body gone. All historians have alludI
= = TO this one fact. expected to find Il
- body of Christ gone. Next l want
y call your attention to the fact that u
=, craveclothes were lying in the cryI
= lust as they were put there by Chrls'
p" friends when Jesus body was Ia