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REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Hnbjern “ Come, See the Place Where ihc
Lord Lay.”
Text; “ Come see the place where the Lord
fay.”—Matthew xxviii., 6.
V isitin g any great city, we are not satis
fled until we have also looked at its ceme¬
tery. We examine nil the styles of cono
taph, mausoleum, sarcophagus, eript and
sculpture. Here lies buried a statesman,
yonder inventor, an in orator, some hero other a poet, place out a great there phi¬ an
lanthropist. and But with depth how much emotion greater
interest with more of we
look In upon our family plot in the public cemetery. in¬
the one case it is a matter of
terest, in the other it is a matter of private
and heartfelt affection. But around the
grave at which we halt this morning there
are gathered all kinds of stupendous in¬
terest. At this sepulcher, I have to tell you
—in this sepulcher emancipator, there was buried a king,
a conqueror, an a friend, n
brother, a Christ. Monarch of the universe,
but bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh,
and sorrow of our sorrow, and heart of our
heart. “Come, see the place where the Lord
lay.” It for surroundings
has the manor in the
suburbs of Jerusalem, a manor owned by a
wealthy He gentlemsin of by the of name of Joseph.
was ohe the court seventy who had
condemned Christ, but I think he had voted
been in the negative, or, being a timid man, had
absent at the time of the casting of the
vote. He had laid out tho parterre at great
expense. It was a hot climate, and I suppose
there were broad branched trees and wind¬
ing paths underneath them, while here the
waters rippled over the rock into a fishpool,
and yonder the vines and the flowers clam¬
bered over the wall, and all around these
were the beauties of kiosk and arboriculture.
After the fatigues of the Jerusalem court¬
room, how refreshing to come out in these
suburbs botanical and pomologieal! .
. I walk a little further on in the parterre
and I come across a cluster of rocks, and I
see on them the marks of a sculptor’s chisel.
I come still closer and I find that there is a
subterranean recess, and I walk down the
marble stairs and come to a portico over the
doorway—an chisled.by architecture of fruits and
flowers the hand of the sculptor.
I go into the portico, and on either side
there are rooms, two or four or six rooms of
rock; in the' walls niches, each niche large
enough to hold a dead body. One of these
rooms of rock It is especially beautiful wealthy with
sculpture. was a and charming
spot. Why all this? The fact was that Jos¬
eph, , the owner of the parterre, of that
wealthy bould manor, had recognized the fact that
he not always walk last those gardens,and
he sought this,as lys own resting place.
What a beautiful plot in which to wait for
the resurrection!
Mark well the mausoleum in the rock. It
is to be the most celebrated tomb in all the
ages; catacombs of Egypt-, tomb of Napoleon,
Mahal Taj of India, nothing compared with
it. Christ had just been murdered, and His
body must be thrown out to the dogs and the
ravens, as was customary with crucified
bodies, unless there be prompt aud effective
hindrance. leum, begs for Joseph, body the owner of Christ, of the mauso¬ he
the and
takes aud washes the ■ poor and, mutilated
frame from the blood and the dust, and
shrouds it and perfumes it.
1 I think embalmment was omitted. When
in olden times they wished to embalm a dead
body, the priest with some pretension of
medical skill would show the point between
the ribs where the incision was to be made.
Then the operator w ould come and make the
incision, and then run . for his life else
he would be slain for violating the
d(>ad body. Then' the other priests
Would come with salt or niter, and cassia,
and wine of palm tree, and complete the
embalmment. But I think in this case em¬
balmment was, omitted lest there be more
excitement and another riot. The funeral
advances. Present^Joseph^the owner of the
den on the shoulder^, (Jhrist of two men as they
carry the body of down the marble
stairs and into the portico, and lift the dead
weight to the level of the niche in the rock,
and push the body of Christ into the only
pleasant resting place it ever had. These
men coming forth close the door of rock
against the recess. The government, afraid
that the disciples would steal the body of
Christ and play resurrection, put upon the
of door the seal of the Sanhedrim, violation of the violation seal of
that seal, like the the
the United States Government or of the
British Government, always followed with
severe penalties. from of
A regiment of soldiers the tower
Antonio is detailed to guard that mausoleum.
At the door of that tomb a fight took place
which decided the question for all graveyards
and,cemeteries. Sword of lightning against
sword of steel. The Angel in of the God against begins the
military. body of fine crypt linen and slides to
move in its shroud
down -upon tho pavement, moves through
the, portico, appeals in the doorway, comes
up the marble steps.. ■ Christ, Him, Having left His
mortuary attire behind comes forth in
the garb that of a workman, as mistook I take Him it, from for
the fact -the- women
the There gardener. and then shattered the tomb
’ was so
that it can never be rebuilt. All the trowels
of earthly masonry cannot mend it. For¬
ever and forever it is a broken tomb. Death
that day taking the side of the military re¬
of ceived flame, a hcmrjhje hud must*himself cut under the down angel’s at spear the
go
last—the King J£ing of Terrors Grace. disappearing “The" Lord be¬
fore the of ig
risen.” Hosanna! Hosanna!
O weep no more, your comforts slain;
The Lord is rjsen; He lives again.
While standing around the place where
the LgiM lay I am impressed with the fact
that. mortuary honors If cannot atone have for
wx-ongs to tho living. costly they could
. afforded Christ such a sepulcher they
could have afforded Him a decent earthly
residence. Will they give a piece of marble
; to the dead Christ when they might have
the^r given had a soft put pillow half’ to tlie . the livpig Christ? of that If
mausoleum in the making expense of Christ’s life
on earth comfortable the story would not
have been so sad. He wanted bread; they
gave Him a stone. Christ, like every other
benefactor of the world, was better appre¬
ciated after He was dead.
’ Standing in this place where the Ldrd lay
I am impressed with the fact that floral and
sculptural for the places ornamentation of the dead. We are appropriate -all glad
are
that in the shprt time of the Saviour’s inhu¬
mation He lay amid flowers and sculpture. I
cannot qtiito understand what I see in the
newspapers obsequies, where, friends amid the announcements “send
and the i-equest no
flowers.” Why, flowers there is no casket place so approi de¬
priate for as the of the
parted. If your means allow—I repeat, if
your means allow—let there be flowers on
the casket, flowers on the hearse, flowers on
the grave. Pat them on the brow; it means
coronation. Put them in the hand; it means
victory. Christ was buried in a parterre.
Christ was buried in a garden. Flowers are
types of resurrection.
Standing in this place where the Lord lay
I am algo impressed with the indignity of
unpretending obsequies. liveryman—had Joseph that day entire was
mourner, sexton, the
charge of all the occasion. of Four the people Universe. only
at the burial of the King those through
Let this be consolatory to who,
small means or lack of large acquaintances, of grief at the
have but little demonstration
Long 6 Hne^of jUttering equipages, of costly wood, two rows pall
of silver handles, casket gloved
bearers scarfed and are not neces
sarv. heaveii at burial .
Christ looks out from a
members there"are^two more than Ho lmd
at His obsequies. Not recognizing this idea,
how many small properties are scattered in
the funeral rites, and. widowhood and or
phnnage go out to the cold charity of the
SIS? take of themselves, but it is all
could care for
absorbed in the funeral rites. That went
crape which ought to have gone for bread.
A man of small means can hardly afford
to die in one of our great cities! Funeral
pageantry is not necessary. No one was
ever more lovingly and tenderly put into four the
grave than Christ, but there were only
in the procession.
Again, standing in this place where the
Lord lay, I am impressed with the fact that
.7~».r. 4 XiYot T SdSi
from the tower or Antonio to stand guard,
floor of rock, roof of rock, wall of rock,
niche of rock cannot keep Christ in the
crypt. Come out and come up He must.
Came out and came ud "of He did. Prefigure
t.ou. The first fruits them that sleep. into
Just as certain as you aud I go down
the grave, just so certain we will come up
again. Though you pile up on the top of us
all the bowlders of the mountains you cannot
keep us down. Though we be buried under
the coral of the deepest cavern of the At
lantic Ocean we will rise to the surface
Various scriptural accounts say that the
work of grave breaking will begin with the
blast of trumpets and intimation shoutings; whence the day I
take it that the first of
will be a sound from heaven such as has never
before been heard. It may not bo so very
loud, but it will deep be penetrating. undisturbed There silence are
mausoleums so that
has slept there ever since the day when the
sleepers were left in them. The great noise
shall strike through them. Among the corals
of the sea, miles deep, where No the shipwrecked will mis¬
rest, the sound will strike. one
take it for thunder or the blast of earthly
minstrelsy. There will be heard the voice of
the uncounted millions of of the dead, who flying come
rushing out of the gates “Make eternity, Oh,
toward the tomb crying: way! it
grave, gives us back our body! We gave in
to you in corruption; surrender it now
incorruption.” Thousands and of spiritsarising the
from the field of Sedan, from among
rocks of Gettysburg, and from among the
passes of South Mountain. A hundred thou¬
sand are crowding Greenwood. On this
grave three spirits meet, for there were
three bodies in that tomb! Over that fam¬
ily vault twenty spirits hover, for there were
twenty bodies.
From New York to Liverpool, at of every hun¬
few miles on the sea route, a group
dreds of spirits coming down to the water to
meet their bodies. See that multitude. That
is where the Central America sank? And
yonder multitude! That is where the Pacific
went down. Found at last! That is where
the City of Boston sank. And yonder the
President went down. A solitary spirit
alights on yonder prairie. That is where a
traveler perished in the snow. The whole
air is filled with spirits—spirits spirits flying flying north, spirits
spirits flying south, Crash! Westminster east,
flying Abbey west. all its dead kings goes and orators and
as
poets get up. the air is darkened with the frag¬
And now
ments of bodies that are of coming the together Lost
from the opposite corners mate—bone earth. bone,
limhs finding their joint to
sinew to sinew—until every is recon¬
structed and every arm finds its socket, and
the amputated limb of the surgeon’s table
shall be set again at the point from which it
was severed. A surgeon told me that after
the battle of Bull Run he amputated limbs,
throwing them out of the window, until the
fragments will have to take their places.
Those who were born blind shall have eyes
divinely kindled; those who were lame shall
have a limb substituted. In all the hosts of
the resurrected 'not not one eye missing, not one
foot clogged, one arm palsied, not one
tongue dumb, not one ear deaf.
Wake up, my friends, this day. this
glorious Easter morning, with ail these
congratulations. If I understand this day,
it means peace toward heaven and peace
toward earth. Great wealth of flowers.'
Bring more flowers. Wreath them around
the brazen throat of the cannon, plant
them in the deserts until it shall blossom
like the rose, braid them into the name of
the war charger as he comes back. No
more red dahlias of human blood. Give us
white lilies of peace. Strew all the earth
with Easter garlands,' for the implies resurrection all kinds
we celebrate this morning
of resurrection, a score of resurrections.
Resurrection from death and sin to the life
of the gospel. Resurrection of integrity. apostolic
faith. Resurrection of commercial
Resurrection of national hotoor. Resurrec¬
tion of international good will. Resurrection
oE apt. Resurrection of literature. Resur¬
rection of everything that is good and kind
and generous aud just and holy and beauti¬
ful. Nothing to stay down, to stay buried,
but sin and dai'kness and pain and disease in
and revenge and death. Let those tarry
the grave forever. “Glory to God in the
highest, and on earth' peace, good will to
men.”
Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day,
Sons of men and angels and trinmphs.high, say, ,
Raise your songs
Sing, ye heavens, apd earth reply.
Love’s redeeming work battle is done,
Fought tho fight, the Is o’er; won.
Lo! the sun’s eclipse
Lo' he sots in blood no more.
They Didn’t Read It.'
A dispatch of Monday from Winsted,
Conn., says; It has been customary for
che government’s fast day proclamation to
be read in all the churches the Sunday
preceding the fast day. In Winsted, on
Sunday, none of the ministers read the
document. The pastors state they had
not been furnished with the official proc¬
lamation by the town clerk. Town Clerk
Wentworth explains the mattei; by the
statement that he does not recognize
Bulkelcy as governor, and hence pigeon¬
holed the official proclamation.
The Dog Died.
A young man named Burton, residing
in Edgefield county, 8. C., attempted to
poijon.his mother and the rest of the
fiini^ Friday with strichuine. morning, by The dosing mother the
breakfast
suspected something wrong, before and tried it.
the breakfast on a dog serving
The dug died.
A Bundle of Ift.
if jjf e were not really such a very seri
0 us business thcie would’ be no funny
p a pors.
If politicians were not what they arc
politics would be different,
^ n( j n j s0 .
be If for the public were only the ideal written pub
whom the constitution was
“practical politicians” would bcatadis
count.
j f aU thc lieatlieD8 were suddenly to
be converted, where would the man with
a mission be?
If all the successful men of to-day were
great men what a heritage this century
would have
I'Jmade h> l.oa.au wte.
are the divorces—but no. home one will
say If Chicago. did involve increase !
matrimony not
ren t and expenses, love would last longer s
^han ___„ it is ordinarily supposed , to , do. ,
If all our millionaires were in thc true,
sense of word honest, we could count
them off on one hand.
If you have brains and no money, pat
yourself heartily on the back day and
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get in this world.
If all men married their first loves the
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If ts a _ man _r always followed the advice of
his best friends he would have no friends
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