.4 4, AN EASTER SERMON. Dr. Talmage Delivers a Timely Dis course on the Risen Sartor, a - T rm phrvf OarOwa Reaarrrellwa As CarUt Uaa Hiaew Will Bu . I & ihiHiI B4r. ICopyrlght. 1901. bj l.c.na Klopeoh. N. T btilnKtun. April 7. ! Washington, April 7. The great Christian festival et lebrated in all the j churches ik the theme of Dr. Talmage's i discourse; 1. Corinthians, 15:20: "Now t la Christ risen from the dead and be rime the first fruita of them that slept," - Oa this glorious Easter morning, amid the. music, and the flowers, 1 give you Christian salutation. This morn ing, Russian meeting Russian on the street of St. Petersburg, hanls him mith the salutation: "Christ is risen!" nnd u answered bv his friend in salu tation: "He i risen indeed!" In some arts of England and Ireland to this Tery day there is the superstition that on Easter morning the s un dances in the heavens. And well may we forgive such a superstition, which illustrates the fact that the natural world seems to sympathize with the spiritual. Hail, Easter morning! Flowers! Flowers! All of them a-voice, all of them a-tongue. all of them hill of tpeech to-day. I bend over one of the lilies, and J hear it ay: "Consider the lilies of .he valley, how they grow; they top not, neither do they spin, yet fulomon in all his glory was not ar rayed like one of these." I l(end over av rose, and it serins to whiscr: "I am the rose, of Sharon." And then 1 Hand and listen. From all sides there comes the chorus of flowers, snying: lf God so clothed the grass of the field hie.h to-day is and to-niorrow is cast Into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of iittle faith?" Flowers! Flowers! . Timid them into the bride's hair. Flowers! Flowers! fctrew them over the graves of h iead, sweet prophecy of the resurrec tion. Mowers! Flowers! Twixtthein Into a garland for my Ixird Jesus on Easter morning, and "Glory be to the ather, and to the Son. and to Ihe Holy Ghost; as it was in the Ix'giiming, Is now and ever shall Iw." The women came to Ihe Saviour's totnb. nnd they dropped spices all around the tomb. and Miose spices were the seed that ' began to grow, and from ihem came all ihe flowers of this Foster morn. The two angels roWd in' white took hold of the stone at the Saviour's tomh, nd they hurled it with such furce own the hill that it crushed in the oor of the world's sepulcher, and the tsrk and the dead must come forth. I care not how labyrinthine the man- oleum or how costly the sarcophagus or however beautifully parterred the family grounds, we want them all broken up hy the Lord of the resur rection. They must come out. Fa ther and mother they must come out. Husband and wife they must come cmt. Ural her and sister they must come out.. Our darling children they roust 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, liow long some of yon sef m tolie wait ing for the resurrection! And for these broken hearts to-day I make a oft, cool bandage out of Easter flowers. fcThis morning 1 And in the risen -Timet a prophecy of our own resur rerfHim, my text setting forth the idea that as Christ has risen so His people will rise. He. the first sheaf of the - resurrection harvest. He. "the first If nits of them that slept." Before I fret through this morning I Mill walk through all the cemeteries of the dead, through all the country grave yards, where your loved ones are buried, and I w ill pluck off these flow r, and I will drop a sweet promise of the Gospel a rose of hope, a lily f joy on every tomb the child's Icrmh, the husband's tomb, the wife's tomb, the father's grave, the mother's jrrave. And while we celebrate the res urrection of Christ we will at the same time celebrate the resurrection of all Ihe good. "Christ, the first fruita of them that slept." If I should come to you and ask you for the names of the great conquerors of the world, you would say Alexander, Caesar, Philip, Napoleon I. Ah, you tiave forgotten to mention the name of greater conqueror than all these a cruel, a ghastly conqueror. Ha rode on a black horse across Waterloo nd Chalons and Atlanta, the bloody hoofs crushing Ihe hearts of nations. Jt i the conqueror Death. He carries a black flag, and he takes no prisoners. He dig a trench across the hem ispheres and fills it with the carcasses of nations. Fiftv times would 'the world have been depopulated had not Ciod kept making new generations. Fifty times the world would have swung lifeless through the air no man on the mountain, no man on the sea, an abandoucd ship plowing through Immensity. Atraiu and ngMn has he done this work with all generations. ITe is a motiurch as well as a con oueror; his )pl- a sepnl'.d.er; his fountains the falling tears of a world. Blessed be God! In the light of this Faster morning I see the prophecy that lilt acepter shall be broken and bis palace shall be demolished. The hour is coming when all who are in their graves shall come forth. Christ risen, we shall rise. Jesus, "the first fruita of them that slept." Now. around this doctrine of the res urrection there are a great many mys teries. You come to me and say: "If the bodies of the dead are to be raised, how is this and how is that ?" And you ask roe a thousand questions I am in competent to answer. Hut there are a great many things von believe that you are not able to explain. You would be a very foolish man to say: "I won't lelieve anything I ran't understand." Why. putting down one kind of flower need, comes there up this- flower of this color? Why, putting down another flower seed, comes there up a flower of this color? One flower white, an other flower yellow, another flower crimson. Why the difference when the seeds look to be very much alike are very much alike ? Explain these things. Explain that wart on the finger. Ex plain the difference why the oak leaf is different from the leaf of the hick ory. Tell me how the Lord Almighty can turn the chariot of His omnipo tence on a rose leaf. You ak tne ques tions about the resurrection 1 eainot answer. I will a:-k yon a thoiisai.d questions about everyday life you can not answer. . I find my strength in this passage: "All who ore in their graves shall come forth." I do not pretend to make .the explanation. Yon go on and say: "Suppose a returned mis sionary dies in this city. When he was in China, his foot was ampu tated; he lived years after in f.ng land, and there he had an arm ampu tated; he is buried to-day in yonder cemetery. In the resurrection will the foot come from China, will the arm come from England, and will the nitterent parts of the body he re constructed in the resurrection? liow ia that ossih!e?" ion nave noticed. I suppose, in reading the storv of the resurrection i that almost every account of the j liible gies the idea that the charac teristic of that day will be a great sound. I do not know thnt it will lie very loud, but I know it will lie very enetrating. In the mausoleum where silence has reignrd a thousand years that voice intnt enetrate. In the coral cave of the deep that voiev must penclrate. Millions of spirits will come through the gates of eternity, and they will come to the tombs of the earth, and they will cry: liive us back our bodies; we gnve them to you in corruption; sur render them now in ineorrnptlon." Hundreds of spirits hovering alwit the fields of Gettysburg, for there the bodies are buried. A hundred thousand spirits coining to Green wood, for there the bodies are buried, waiting for the reunion of body and soul. All along the sea route from Xew York to Liverpool, at everv few miles where a steamer went down, depart ed spirits coining back, hovering over the wave. There is where the Citv of Hoston perished. Found at last. There is where the President nor. ished. Steamer found at last. There is where the Central America went down. Spirits hovering, hundreds of spirits hovering, waiting for the re union of body and soul. Out on the prairie a spirit alights. There is where a traveler died in the snow. Crash goes Westminster abliey, and me poets and the orators come forth; wonderful mingling of good and bad. Crash eo the nvrnmiT of Egypt, and the monarchs come forth. Who can sketch the scene? I sup pose that one moment before that general rising there will be an entire silence, save as you hear the grinding of a wheel or the clatter of the hoofs of a procession passing into the cem etery. Silence in all the cavea of tlip earth. Silence on the side of the mountain. Silence down (n the val leys and far out into the sea. Silence. But in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, as the archangel's trumpet chines pealing, rolling, crashing, across the mountain and sea, the earth will give one terrific shudder, and the graves of the dead will heave like the waves of the sea. and Ostend. Sevastopol and Chalons will stalk forth in the lurid air. and the drowned will come up and wring out their wet locks above the billows, and all the land and all the sea become one moving mass of life all faces, all ages, all conditions, gazing in one direction and upon one throne the throne of resurrection. "All who are In their graves shall come forth." "Hut," you say, "if this doctrine of the resurrection ia true, as prefigured by this Easter morning, can you tell u something about the resurrected body?" I can. There are mystries about that., but I shall tell you three or lour things in regard to the res urrected body that are beyond guess ing and beyond mistake. In the first place, I remark in re gara io your resurrected body, jt will - ,...,,,., i hc Dodv we have now is a mere skeleton of what it would have been if sin had not marred and defaced it. Take th tvjuiriic mm hc mat was ever wade by an mist and chip it here ana chip It there with a chisel, and batter and bruNe it here and there and then stand it out in tne storms of a hundred vesrs. and the beauty would be gone. Well, the human bodv has been .hipped and battered and bruised and damaged wun me storms of thousands of year tho physical defects of other generation coming down from generation to gen eration, we inheriting the infelicities of past generations. Put in the morn ing of the resurrection the body will be adorned and beautified according to the original model. And there is no such difference between a gymnast and an emaciated wretch in a laz aretto as 'here will be a difference between our bodies as they are now and our resurrected forms. There you will see the erfect eye after the "water of deaih hive washed out tha stains of tears and study. There yot. will see the perfect hand after the knots of toil have been u-.iied from the knuckles. There you will see the form erect and elastic afier the bur dens have gone off the shoulder the very life of God in the body. In this wo-!d the most impressive thiug. tha most expressive thing, is the human face, but that face is veiled with the griefs of a thousand years. Hut in the resurrection morn that veil will be taken away from the face, and the nooitd..y sun is dull and dim and stupid compared with ihe out flaming glories of the countenances of the saved. When thoe faces of the righteous, those resurrected faces, turn toward the gate or look up to ward the throne, it will be like the dawning of a new morning ou the bosom of everlasMng day. 0 glorious, resurrected body! But I remark, also, in regard to that body w hich you are to get in the resur rection, it will be an imiortant body. These bodies are wasting away. Some body has said that as soon as we begin to live we begin to die. I'nless we keep putting the fuel into the furnace the furnace dies our. The blood vessels are canals Tasini; the breads uffs to r II parts of te ytem. We must be recnn.s' pirreil hour by hour, day by i. ay. Nr:.:-i's, and l-iiili are all tne tune trvivg l" ifei tiicir pry under the teneinen! or lo pu!i us oiT the embank ment of the grave. ' Hut, blessed be God. in the resurrect ion we will get a body immortal. No malaria in the air. no couch, no neuralgic twinge, no rheumatic pang, no fluttering of the heart, no shortness of breath, no am bulance, no disienarv. no hospital. no invalid's chair, no spectacles to im prove the dim vision, but health, im mortal health! O ve who have aches and pains Indescribable this morning, ye lio are never well, ve who are lacerated with physical distress, let me tell you of the resurrected body. tree from all disease. Immortal! Im mortal! I go further and sav in regard to that body which you are lo gel in the resnrrectiou.it w ill W a vigorous body We walk now eight or ten miles, and we are fatigued; we lift a few hundred poiniiis, anil we are exhausted; un armed, we meet a wild beast, and we musi run or flee or climb or dodge be came we are incompetent to meet it we t..i! ei-'h; or ten hours eiiereiitical ly, and then we are weary. Hut in the resurrection we are to have a body that never gets tired. Is it not a glori ous thought? Plenty of occupation in Heaven. I suppose Hroadwav. Xew York, in the busiest season of the year at noonday is not eo busy as Heaven is all the time. Grand projects of mercy for other worlds. Victories to be cele brated. The downfall of despotism on earth to be announced. Great songs to lie learned and sung. Great expedi tions on which (ktd shall send forth His children. Plenty to do, but no fatigue. If you are sealed under the trees of life, it will not be to rest, but to talk over w ith some old comrade old times the battles where you fought shoulder to shoulder. Sometimes in this world we feel we would like to have such a body as that There is so much work to he done for Christ, there are so many tears to be. wified away, there are so many bur dens to life, there is so much to be achieved for ( Iirist, we sometime wish that from the first of January-to the last of December we could toil on without stopping to sleep or to take any recreation or to rest or even to take food -that we could toil right on milium snipping a moment in our work of commending Christ and Jieaven to all the people. Hut we all get tired. It is a characteristic of tha human ldy in thiscondition; we must get tired. Is it not a glorious thought that we are going to have a body that wiH never grow weary? i glorious resurrection day! Gladly will I fling aside this poor body of sin and fling it into the tomb if at thy bidding I shall have a body that never wearies. That is a splendid resurrection hvtn that we have all sung: 8o JviU skpt. fjod'j dylnc Son Paxsed through the gTavt and blmed tht bed. Rost hern, blest saint, till from His thrir.a The mornirg breaks to pierce the xhad. 0 blesaed resurrection! Speak out, sweet flowers, beautiful flowers! While you tell of a risen Christ tell of the righteous who shall rise. May God fill you this morning with anticipa tion! 1 heard of a father and ion who among others were shipwrecked at sea. The father arid the son climbed TiVa i-pnnirc rnst AHV vF.a Every The Goodyear Tire & Simmons Hardware Co., incorporated, St. Louis, Mo, Schmelzer Arms Co., Kansas City, Mo., distributers, Harris-Anderson Lumber Ci. GIVES Best Grades at -BEFORE J. J. RHODES, M'G'R.,. Lexington, K W. W. CORSE, M'G'R., KICHAKD FIELD, PB18I CHARTERED JANCAKY sn.1875. PalO Up Capital. $50,000. 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