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T1IK NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY DI8-
COUKSK.
Subject: “An Kvoryday Christ.”
Text: “She, supposing Him to bo tho gar-
douer."—Johu xx.. 15
Here are Mary Magdalene and Christ, just
after His resurrection. For 40,H) years a
grim and ghastly tyrant had been killing
people and dragging them into his cold pal¬
ace. Ho had a passion for human skulls.
For torty centuries ho had been unhindered
in his work. He had taken down kings and
queens and conquerors and those without
fame. In that oold palace there were
shelves of skulls and pillars of skulls and
altars of skulls and even the chalices at the
table were made of bleached skulls. To tho
skeleton of Abel he had added the skeletons
of all tho ages, and no one had disputed Ills
right until one Good Friday, about 1887
years ago, as near as 1 can calculate it, a
Mighty awful Strsiager came to the door of that
place, rolled back the door, and went
in, aud seizing tho tyrant, throw him to the
pavement an 1 put upon the tyrant’s neck
the heel of triumph.
Then the Might v Stranger, exploring all
tho ghastly furniture of tho place and walk¬
ing through the labyrinths, mid opening the
dark cellars of mystery and tarrying under a
roof tho ribs of welch were made of human
bones—tarrying for two nights and a day,
the nights vary dark and the day very dis¬
mal, He seized the two chief pillars of that
awful palace and rocked them until it began
to fall, and then, laying hold of tho ponder¬
ous front gate, hoisted it from it ^singes and
marched forth crying, “I am the resurrec¬
tion.” That event we celebrate this Easter
morn, Handelinn and Beethovean miracles
of sound added to this floral decoration
which has set the place abloom.
There are three or four things which the
world and the church have not noticed in re¬
gard to the resurrection of Christ. First,
our Lord in gardener's attire. Mary Mag¬
dalene. grief struck, stands by tho rifled sar¬
cophagus of Christ and turns around, hop¬
ing she can find the tracks of the sacrilegious
resurrectionist who has despoiled the grave,
and she finds some one in working apparel
come forth ns if 10 water the flowers or up¬
root tho weeds from the gardeii or set to re-
climbing the falling vine—some one in
working apparel, His garments, perhaps,
having the sign of the dust and tho dirt of
tho occupation.
fresh Mary shower Magdalene, of on her face the rain of a
weeping, turns to this work¬
man and charges him with tho desecration
of the tomb, when, lo! the stranger responds,
flinging His whole soul into oue word which
trembles with all the sweetest rhythm of
earth aud heaven, saying, “Mary!” In that
peculiarity of she accentuation all the incognito
fell off, and round that tustes.d ot talking
with an humble gardener of Asia Minor, she
was .allring witli Him wlio'ownsnll the hang¬
ing gardens of heaven. Constellations the
clusters of forgetmenots, the sunflower the
chief of all, tho morning sky and midnight
aurora, flaring terraces of beauty, blazing
likoa summer wall with coronation roses
and giants of battle. Blessed anil glorious
mistake of Mary Magdalene! “She, suppos¬
ing Him to be the gardener.” Whut tloes
that mean? It means that wo have an every¬
day Christ for everyday work in everyday
apparel. Not on Sabbath morning in our
most seemly apparel are we more attractive
to Christ than we are 111 our everyday work
dress, managing our merchandise, smiling
oar anvil, plowing our field, tendiug the fly¬
ing shuttles, mondinglhe gurmnists for our
household, toiling with providing food for our families
or chisel. weary pen or weary Christ pencil or
weary A working day in work¬
ing Put day apparel tho highest for us in our everyday Easter toil.
it into strain of this
anthem,“Supposing Him to be the ga'rdener."
If Christ had appeared at daybreak with a
crown upon His head, that would have
seemed to suggest especial sympathy for
monsirchs. If Christ had appeared in chain
of gold and with robo diamonded, that would
have seemed to be especial sympathy for the
affluent. If Christ had appeared with sol-
dier's sasfli and sword dangling at His side,
that would have seemed to imply osp eel .ti
sympathy for warriors. But when I find
Christ in gardener’s habit, with perhaps the
flakes of the earth and of tho upturned soil
upon His garments, then I spell it out that
He has hearty and pathetic understanding
with everyday work and everyday anxiety
and everyday fatigue.
Boll it down in comfort all through these
aisles. A working day Christ in working
day apparel. Tell it in the darkest corridor
of the mountain to tho poor miner. Tell it
to tho factory maid in most unventilatesl
establishment at Lowell or Lancaster. Tell
it to the clearer of roughest new ground in
western wilderness. Tell it to the sewing
wo i nn, a stitch in the side for every stitch
in the garment, some of their cruel em¬
ployers having no right to think that they
will get through the door of heaven any
more vhan they could through Die eye of a
broken needle which has just dropped on the
hare floor from tho pricked and bleediug
fingers of the consumptive sewing girl.
Away with your talk about hypostatic union
and soteriology of the council of Trent and
tho metaphysics of religion which would
freeze practical Christianity out of the world,
but pass along this gardener’s coat to all
nations that they may touch the hem of it
and fee! the thrill of the Chris!iy brother¬
hood. Not supposing tho man to be Caisar,
not supposing Him to be Socrates, but “sup¬
posing Him to lie the gardener.”
toiling Oh, that is tho what helped Joseph the Wedgwood,
ami l heat and dust of the
potteries, until he could make for Queen
Charlotte the first royal table service of Eng¬
lish manufacture. That was what helped
James Watt, scoffed at and caricatured until
he could put on wheels the thunderbolt of
power which roars by day and by night in
every furnace of the locomotive engine of
America. That is what helped Hugh Sillier,
toiling arnid the quarries of Cromarty, until
every rock became to him ti volume of the
world’s biography, and he found the foot¬
steps of the Creator in tho old red sandstone.
Ob, the world wants a Christ for the office,
a Christ for the kitchen, a Christ for the shop,
a Christ for the banking bouse, a Christ lor
the garden, while spading and irrigating the
territory! 01), of course we want to see
Christ at last in royal robe and bediamonded,
a celestial equestrian mounting the white
horse, but from tills Easter of 1887 to our
last Easter on earth tve most need to see
Christ as Mary Magdalene saw Him sit the
daybreak, “supposing Him to be the gar¬
dener.”
Another thing which tho church and the
world huve not noticed in regard to the res¬
urrection of Christ is that He made Ilis first
post mortem appearance to one who had been
the seven deviled Mary Magdalene. One
would have supposed He would have made
His first posthumous appearance to a woman
who had always been illustrious for good-
ne?s.
There are saintly women who have always
been saintly—saintly in girlhood, nearly saintly in
infancy, always saintly. Jn ail our
families there have been suintly aunis. In
my family circle it was faintly aunt Phebe;
in yours saintly aunt Martha or saintly aunt
Ruth. One always saimiy. But not so was
the ODe spoken of in the text.
While you are not to confound her with
the rep>entant courtesan who had made her
Ions? lock# do tho work of towel sit Cliri.-t’s
foot wiudiini?, you uro not to forgot that she
was exorcised of seven devils. What si eaj.t-
tsil of demosioloity she must have been! What
si chorus of all diabolism! Seven devils—
two for the eyes and 1 wofor the hands ssn<|
two for the feet and oho for the tongue.
Seven dev.Is; yet nil those sue extirpated,
uiul now she Is as good sis oaeo she was had
and Christ honor.-, her with the llrst post hit-
nious appoaninec. What does that meniiV
Why, it na ans for worst sinner greatest
grace; it melius these lowest down shall
come, •k jsnhlips, highest up; it means that I lie
c 1)1 Unit sirikes 12 at midnight may strike
12 at miduoon; tt menus that tile graee ot
God is seven times stronger than sin, Msirv
dlngdlllene the Seven , evileil I" estino .Mllre
Magdalene the seven angeled. It means
that when the Lord meets us at last Ho will A\i
not throw up to us what we have been.
Ho said to her was, •‘Mary!’’ Many people
having met her under such circumstances
would have said: “Let mo see, how many
devils did you haves* One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven. What a terrible piece you
were when I llrst met you!” Tint most o(
the Christian women in our day would have
nothing to i'o with Mary Magdalene even
after her conversion, lost somehow they he
compromised. The only thing 1 have to say
against women is that they have not enough
mercy for Mary Magdalene. Christ put all
pnlhos and all reminiscence and all anticipa ¬
tion and all pardon and all comfort and all
heaven into one word of four letters,
"Mary!” Mark you. Christ did not appear
to some Bible R'lnabath or Bible Hannah or
Bible Esther or Bible Deborah or Bible Vash-
ti. lint to Mary; not to Mary against whom
nothing was said; not to Mary the mother of
Jesus; not to Mary the mother of James; not
to Mary the sister of Lazarus, but to seven
deviled Mary.
There is a man seven deviled—devil of
avarice, devil of pride, devil of hate, devil
of indolence, devil of falsehood, devil of
strong drink, devil of impurity. Go t can
lake them all aivav. seven or seventy. I rode
over the now cantilever bridge that spans
Niagara—a bridge 000 feet long, 850 foot of
chasm from bluff to bluff. I passed over it
without any anxiety. Why? Because twen¬
ty-two locomotives and twenty-two ears
laden with gravel had tested the bridge,
thousands of people standing on the Can¬
adian side, thousands standing on the Ameri¬
can however side to applaud the the achievement. And
long train of our immortal in¬
terests may be, we are to remember that
God’s bridge of mercy spanning the chasm
of sin has been fully tested by the awful ton¬
nage of all tbo pardouo I sin of all the ages,
church militant standing on one bank,
church triumphant standing on the other
bank. Oh, it was to the seven deviled Mary
that Christ made His llrst post mortem ap¬
pearance.
There is another thing that the world and
the church have not observed in regard to
this resurrection, and that is, it was the
morning twilight.
If tho chronometer had been invented and
Mary had as good a watch as some o f the
Marys of our time have, she would have
found it was about half past 5 o'clock a. m.
Matthew says it was in the dawn; Mark says
it was very early in the morning; John says
it was while it was yet d irk. In other words,
it was twilight. That was tho o’clo k at
which Mary Magdalene mistook Christ for
thegnrloner. What does that mean's 1 It
means there are shadows over the grave un¬
lifted—shadows of mystery that are hovel¬
ing. Mary stooped down and tried to look
to the other end of Ihe crypt. She gave hys¬
teric outcry. She could not see to the other
end of the crypt. Neither can you soe to the
other end of the grave of vour dead. Neither
can we see to tho other end of our own grave.
Oh, if there were shadows over the family
plot belonging there to Joseph of Arlmiithon, shad is it
strange that should be some ows
over our family lot's* Easter dawn, not Easter
noon.
Shadow of unanswered <|uostiosi! Why Why
were they taken away from ns's* were
I hey ever given to 11 s if they were to be (alien
so soon? Why wore they taken so suddenly?
Why could they not have uttered Homo fare¬
well words? Why? A short question, hut a
whole crucifixion of agony in it. Why?
Shadow on the graves of good men and
women who seemed to die before their work
was done. Shadow on nil the graves of
children because we ask ourselves why so
beautiful a craft was launched sit all if il was
lo lie wrecked one mile outside of the harbor?
But what did Mary iight Magdalene have to do In
order to get more on that grave? She
had only to wait. After awhile the Easter
sun rolled up, and tho whole place was
flooded with light. What have you and I to
do in order to got more light on our own
graves and light upon the graves of our
dear loved ones? Only to wait.
Charles V. of Spain, with his servants anil
torches, went down into tho vault of the
necropolis and where his ancestors until were buried,
went deeper, farlher on he came to
across around which were arranged Hie
caskets of his ancestors. Ho also found a
casket containing the body of one of his own
family. Ho had that casket opened, and there
by emb aimer’s art he found that the body was
as perfect as eighteen years before when
it was emtombed. But under the explora¬
tion his body and mind perished. Oh.
my friends, do not let us the morbidly
struggle with the shadows of sepul¬
cher. What are we to do? Wait. It is
not tho evening twilight that gets darker
and darker. It is the morning twilight that
gels brighter and brighter Into the perfect
day. I preach it to-day. Hunrise over
Pore le Chaise, sunrise over Greyfriars
churhyard, Woodiawn, sunrise Laurel over Hill, Greenwood, Mount over
over over
Auburn, sunrise over Congressional burying gruveyurd, ground,
over ov-ry country sun¬
rise over tho catacombs, sunrise over the
sarcophagi wtiere the ships llo hurled. Half
pust 5 o’clock among tho tombs nojv, but
soon to be the noonday of morning explanation twilight and
beatitude. It was in the
that Mary Magdalene mistook Christ for a
gardener.
Another thing tho world and the church
have not observed—that is, Christ's pathetic
credentials. How do you know it was not
a gardener? His garments said He was a
gardener. The flakes of the upturned earth
scattered upon His gartrsenis said He was a
gardener. How do you know He was not a
gardener? Ah! Before Easter had gone by
He gave to some of His disciples His three
credentials. Heshowedthem His hands and
His side. Three paragraphs written in rigid
or depressed letters. left A scar its the right
rulm, a scar in the That palm, tho a scar amid they
the ribs—scars, scars. is way
know Him. That is tho way you and I will
know Him.
Aye, am I saying Ihis morning too much
when I say that will be one of the ways in
which you and I will know each other by
the scars of earlh—scars of accident, scars of
sickness, scars of persecution, scars of hard
work, scars Christ’s of battle, ecars body of old having age.
When 1 see resurrected
scars, It makes me think that our remodeled
and resurrected bodies will have scars.
Why, before we get out of this world sorno
of us will be covered with scars all over.
Heaven will not be a bay into which
float summer yachts after a pleasuring
with the gay bunting and with the em¬
broidered sails as fair as when they
were first unfurled. Heaven will bo
more like a navy yard where men-of-war
come in from Trafalgar and Lepunto—men-
of-war with masts t wlsted by a cyclone, men-
of-war struck on all sides by seventy-four
pounders, men of war with decks scorched
of tho shell, Old Constitutions, old Con-
VOL. V. NO.
Mtnl'atlons. flouting in discharged Irom ner¬
vine to rest forever. la tlm resurrection
Christ creden: ialc.i by s -ais. You and f will
be credentialod and will recognize each
other by scars, Do you think think them them now a
disfigurement? l>o you now a
badge of endurance? 1 tell you the glorious
thought'this morning, they are going to bo
the means of heavenly recognition.
There is one more tiling 1 pal 1 he world and
the church have not untie d in this resurrec¬
tion of Christ, and that is that Christ from
Friday to Sabbath was lifeless in a hot
climate where sanitary prudence demanded
that burial take place thosume dsiy as death,
sui t where there was no ice to retard disso¬
lution. Yet. Iter thiee days Hu comes up
so health.ul, so robust itisilso rubicund Mary
Magdalene takes Him tor a gardener. Not
supposing II 111 to he sin invalid from a Itos-
pit .1, not supposing Him to be a corpse from
jlio tomb, but supposing Him to be the
gar loner. Hoilllilui by Hit) brunt It of tho
upturned sml uni by a perpetual life in the
sunshine.
Alter Christ’s inlorincnt every cellular
tissue broke down, and nerve and artery aud
brain were a physiologies wreck, aud yet
lie comes up swarthy, rubUuiud and well.
When 1 sen alter sneli mortuarj .silence s uelt
radiant appearance, that settles it that
whatever MuuiUl lie onus id ties bodies of
foil'('litislism dead, they uro going to eutmi
up, the nerves restrung, the optic nerve retl-
Uiniined, In s ear ill 11111 tt-vilirate, tile whole
body llfto I ttji, without its weaknesses and
worldly uses tor which there is no resurrec¬
tion. Come, is it not almost time for us to
go out to meet our reanimated dead? Can
you not hear tho lifting of the rusted latch?
Oh. the glorious thought, tho glorious
consolation of this subject when l find
Christ coining up without any of the lnooru-
ttous—for you must remember He was lac¬
erated and wounded fearfully in the cruoi-
ilxion—coming up without one! What does
that make me think? That the grave will
get nothing of us except our wotinds and
imperfections. Christ went into tlm grave
exhausted anil bloodless, All the current of
His life had poured out from His wounds,
lie had lived a life of trouble, sorrow aud
privation, aud then He died a lingering
death. His entire body Imug years’ on suffer¬ four
spikes. No invalid of twenty
ing ever went into the grave so white and
ghastly and broken down as Christ, and yet
here Ho comes up so rubicund and robust
she supposed Him to be the gardener.
Al\ tiie all the aches, sidonches, and the aud leg the aeties, headaches, ana
and buck leave whore Christ
the heart aches we will
left 1 us! The ear will come up without Us
heaviness, the eye will come up without Its
dimness, the lungs will come up without op¬
pressed respiration. Ob, what races wo will
run when we become immortal athletes! Oh,
what circuits we will take when, all earthly
imperfections substruetod and all celestial
velocities added, we shall sot up our resi¬
dence in that city which, though vaster than
all the cities of this world, shall never have
one obsequy! this morning round the shattered
Standing Lord’s tomb, 1 point you to
masonry of our muffled
a world without hearse, without
drum, wlthaut tumulus, without catafalque
and without a tear. Amid all the cathedrals
of tho blessed no longer the “Dead March
in Saul," but whole libretti of “Halleluiah
Chorus." Oh, put trumpet to lip and linger
to key and loving forehead against tho
bosom of a risen Christ! fliilloluinh, amen!
Halleluiah, amen!
An Old Story Retold.
Daniel Webster, Tazewell and Gen¬
eral Jackson’s Secretary of the Navy
were ohee walking together on the
north bank of the Potomac, and while
Webster lingered a little in the rear,
Tazewell offered to bet Branch a ten-
dollar liat that he could prove him to
he on the other side of the river.
“Done,” said Branch. “Weil,” said
Tazewell, pointing to the opposite
shore, ‘‘isn’t that one side of the river?”
“Yes.” “Well, isn’t this the other
side?” “Yes.” “Then, as you are here,
are you not on tho other side?” “Why,
I declare,” said the victim, “so it is;
but here comes Webster, I’ll win back
my bet from him.” As Daniel came
Up, Branch saluted him with, “Webster,
I’ll bet you a ten-dollar hat I can prove
you are on the other side of the river.”
“Done.” “Well, isn’t this one side?”
“Yes.” “Well, isn’t that the other
side?” “Yes, but I am not on that
side.” Branch had to pay for two hats,
and learned that it is possible to bet
both ways and win upon neither.—Ar¬
gonaut.
Many Words on a Postal,
Charles Monnler, of Detroit, Mich.,
lias just completed a task which he
thinks is a record-breaker. He chal¬
lenges the entire world to equal it, but
it must be said right here that unless
one has time to waste, nerves to spare
and doesn’t suffer from headaches he
lias no need to enter the lists against
Monnier.
The champion put the 17,858th word
on a postal card, thereby breaking the
Best previous record by 11,000 words,
lie used a fine steel pen. it. was held
between the thumb and index finger.
The holder was held against the nose
and the letters were made by moving
the head from side to side or up and
down as the case might be. Under a
reading glass the words are distinct.
The card contains forty-eight pages
of “Portia,” by the Duchess. To the
naked eye the postal looks like stipple
work.
Largest Bridge in the World.
The longest bridge in the world is
said to be that which spans an inlet of
the Yellow Sea, near the city of San-
gang, in China. It Is a stone structure
five and a quarter miles in length. The
number of piers is 300, and each one is
ornamented with the marble figure of
a lion three times life size. The top of
the roadway is sixty-four feet above
the water level. The bridge, it is said,
is 800 years old and its masonry is
still in a state of excellent preservation.
Lavender is still used in English
linen closets, but the supply is threat¬
ened with extinction. The growers in
the village of Hitchin, one of the chief
centers of the lavender industry, assert
that owing to a succession of bad sea¬
sons the plant is dying out there, and
that, moreover, they cannot compete
with foreign imitations of lavendet
water.