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AN EASTER SERMON.
Dr. Talmage Delivers a Timely Dis
course on the Risen Sartor,
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T rm phrvf OarOwa Reaarrrellwa
As CarUt Uaa Hiaew Will
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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
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