The Cairo bulletin., 1906-05-21
(concluded from Second Page.l


and dahllas and asters and pansies and
heliotropes and wistaria You say to
me. II do NOT care whether there are
oriental fowers or no. When I think
| Of the garden surrounding Christ's
tomb think of the most beautiful OF
all flowers, anu then | say Joseph's
garden was like those flowers and not
only like them, but far more beautiful
than they"
IL Was u Wrecked Garden.
You are right, my brother. No gar.
den OF the western hemisphere can 1e
as beautiful rs the garden Of the + i.
estine hills. where Christ was buried in
Joseplfs tomb But, alas. you wor id
be very much in error If you thou. I
| this garden about Joscnr's tomb WAS
beautiful when Mary Alagdalene and
| Mary, the mother of James, entered IL
on that Easter morning. If you would
| go with these women there you would
find the lilies and the roses and all the
other flowers trampled down. II was
once beautiful, but now It is a wrecked
| garden This beautiful garden looks
| as though it had been uprooted by a
| herd of swine or Knocked 1Wn by n
pelting hailstorm. What was the mat
| ter? No sooner did this angel of the
resurrection appear and Christ come
| forth from the tomb than the Roman
soldiers fell down like dead men. They
fell fiat among the flowers. Then, as
soon as they recovered from their
swoon, they rose and In wild terror
fed Those flowers We're torn from
their roots or crushed as though n herd
Of stampeding cattle had iammed their
hoofs Into them. What lesson do we
therefore learn from these crushed
flowers lying around In the wrecked
Garden surrounding the tomb of Joseph
of Arimathea: Why. this is the lesson:
II we can only bring our risen Lord In
10 touch with the intrenched armies of
sin he Will scatter the Satanic hosts rs
he made the Roman guard drop before
him In the sunrise burst Of that first
Easter morn Oh, my friends. will this
not be your purpose, that Christ may
triumph over all the forces of evil In
trenched in our city streets?
We can never rid this world of sin
unless we make the risen Christ Onr
header and companion, Almost every
where we turn, even among the beau
tiful flowers about the tomb VI the
dead Christ, we can hear the hiss OF
the serpent the touch of whose fang
means eternal death unless the wound
IL healed by divine medicament. Blsh-
Old Meade relates how one day he was
out walking in Il beautiful garden with
Young lady. "Oh, bishop" she cried
"Iook at that lovely fiowert With that
she reached over TO II bush heavily lad
en- with the most exquisite roses. She
reached far forward 10 pluck the most
beautiful of ALL when suddenly out of
that bush there darted the fang OF Il
snake aud fastened Itself upon nor
arm. SO in the world about us. Even
In the most beautiful. OF lower gardens
we find the Satanic serpents wrggling,
twisting, Kissing as the Roman guard
was encamped about the tomb of Jo-
seph OF Arimathea from nback Fri
day" to Easter morn Oh. my friends,
win you not strive TO bring forth this
risen Christ and let him make sin UNI
der the flash OF his eye crouch and
trample and die?
Beautiful Legend.
And, If il is important 10 lei the risen
Christ come forth to- scatter sin out of
the hearts of the human race, how
much more important Is 1t to let him
IA, NJ
make us pure and true and good and
noble and Christian! There is II beau.
tiful legend told that many years ago
Il poor, blind pilgrim was journcyirg
toward Jerusalem, the city of Peace.
After he had been many days and
weeks and months on his way he met
another traveller going that way. This
stranger said, Friend, submit myself
to me. and 1 will guide thee 10 the City
Of Peace and give 10 thee whatsoever
thou wilt ask" After the twain had
journeyed OH for some days more. at
last the pilgrim. utterly wearied, turned
and said, ''Oh. good friend. thou who
hast said that thou wilt do everythin"
For ine II submit myself to Thy viii,
open for me my blind eyes" TIE
stranger said: Il will. Blind eyes, Re
We openedr" Instantly the 1l.ad m"1
opened his eyes. and he saw &C. %.
had been walking along the ed. e o.
precIpice. And he saw that his guilc
was Jesus Christ.
Lord Jesus, at this Eastertide we are
pilgrims. We are iourneying to The
New Jerusalem. the city OF Peace. We I
are journeying thither by the way Of 4
the garden. in the midst of which 4
stands II rihed tomb. We are blinded +
by sin. We are lost. and we w'rnt
guide. o thou Christ. who dist az
pear unto Mary Maglalene, come 10
our rescue. open oar blind eyes Cry f.
unto US as thou dldst TO the sinful wo- /
man OF old: Thy sins are forgiven /,
thee Go In peace" Grant us this .
prayer. o Jesus! And may thy angel .
who spoke TO Mary Alagdal=ne and .
Mary. the mother % Ja:rcs. spe-k TO &
us I'm thy name the glorioa5 message Of .
our sins forever pardoned and forever
past.
copyright. 1896. 10y Louis Rlopsch.l
Poor Fatheri