CHRIST IS RISEN!
Or. Talmage's Sermon on the Lescon
Embodied in Our Saviour's
Resurrection.
Awaiting the Day Whea “All Who Are in Their
Graves Shall Come Forth."
[Copyright 1801, ,
Wasningron, D. C.—The great Chris
tian festival celebrated in all the churches
1s the theme of Dr. Talmage’s discourse:
I Corinthians xv, 20, “Now is Christ
risen from the dead and hecome the first
fruits of them that slept.”
On this glorious Easter morning, amid
the music and the flowers, I give vou
Christian salutation. This morning Rus-
nian meeting Russian on the streets of St.
Petersburg hails him with the salutation,
“Christ is risen indeed!” In some parts
of England and Ireland to this verv day
there is the superstition that on Easter
morning the sun dances in the heavens,
and well may we forgive such a supersti-
tion, which illustrates the fact that the
natural world scems to sympathize with
the spiritval.
Hail, Easter morning! Flowers! Flow-
ers! All of them a-voice, all of them a-
tongue, all of them full of speech to-day.
I bend over one of the lilies, and I hear
it say: “Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow. They toil not, neither do
they epin. yet Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like one of these.” 1 bend
over a rose, and it seems to whisner, “1
am the rose of Sharon.” And then 1
stand and listen. From all sides there
comes the chorus of flowers, saving, “If
God so clothed the grass of the field, which
to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the
oven, shall He not much more clothe you,
O ve of little faith?’ :
Flowers! lowers! Braid them into
the bride's hair. Flowers! Flowers!
Strew them over the graves of the dead,
sweet prophecy of the resurrection. Flow-
ers! Flowers! Twist them into a gar-
land for mv Lord Jesus on Easter morn-
ing, and “Glory be to the Father and to
the Son and to the Holy Ghost: as it was
in the beginning. is now and ever shall
be!” he women came to the Saviour’s
tomb, and they dropped spices all around
the tomb, and those spices were the seed
that began to grow. and from them came
all the flowers of this Easter morn. The
two angels robed in white took hold of
the stone at the Saviour’s tomb, and
they hurled it with such force down the
hill that it erushed in the door of the
world’s ssepulcher, and the stark and the
dead must come forth.
care not how labrinthine the mau-
solenm or how costly the sarconhagus or
however beautifully parterred the family
grounds—we want them all broken up by
the Lord of the resurrection. They must
come out. Father and mother—they must
come out; husband and wife—they must
come out; brother and sister—they must
come out; our darling children—they must
come out. The eves 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 reunion: the voice that was
hushed in our dwelling must be retuned.
Oh, how long some of you seem to be
waiting for the resurrection! And for
these broken hearts to-day I make a soft,
cool bandage out of Easter flowers.
This morning I find in the risen Christ
a prophecy of our own resurrection, 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 fruits of them that slept.” Be-
fore 1 get through this morning I will
walk through all the cemeteries of the
dead, through all the country graveyards,
where your loved ones are buried, and I
will pluck off these flowers, and I will
drop a sweet promise of the gospel—a
rose of hope, a lily of joy on every tomb,
the child's tomb, the husband's tomb,
the wife's tomb, the father's grave, the
mother's grave, and, while we celebrate
the resurrection of Christ we will at
same time celebrate the
the good.
i vention name of a
congue: an all these—a cruel,
eonnueror. He rode on a black
- across Waterloo and Chalons and
Atlanta, the bloody hoofs crushing the
hearts of nations. It 1s the conqueror
Death. He carries a black flag, and he
takes no prisoners. He digs a trench
across the hemispheres and fills it with
the carcasses of nations. Fifty times would
the world have been depopulated had not
God kept making new generations. Fifty
times the world would have swung life-
less through the air—-no man on the moun-
tain, no man on the sea, an abandoned
ship plowing through immensity. Again
and again has he done this work with all
generations. He is a monarch as well as
8 conqueror; his palace a sepulcher; his
fountains the falling tears of a world.
Blesstd be God in the light of this
er morning! I see the prophecy that
his scepter shall be broken and his palace
shall be demolished. The hour is coming
when all who are in their graves shall rise.
Jesus, “the first fruits of them that slept.”
Now, around this doctrine of the res
urrectiop there are a great many mys
teries, ou come to me and say, “If the
bodies of the dead are to be raised, how
in this and bow is that?’ And you ask
me a thousand questions I am incompe-
tent to answer. But there are a great
many things you believe that you are not
a to explain. You would be a very
foolish man to say, “I won't believe any-
thing I can’t understand.” Why, putting
down one kind of flower seed, comes there
up this flower of this color? Why, utting
down another flower seed, comes there up
a flower of this color? One flower
while, another flower yellow, another flow.
er crimson. the difference when
the seeds look to very much alike—are
much alike? Explain these things;
explain that wart on the finger; explain
the difference—why the oak leaf is differ.
ent from the leaf of the hickory. Tell
me how the Lord Almighty can turn the
chariot of His omnipotence on a rose leaf,
You me questions about the resurrec.
tion I cannot answer. 1 will ask you a
thousand questions about everyday life
you cannot answer. :
I find my strength in this passage, “All
who are in their graves shall come forth.”
1 do not pretend to make the explanation,
You go on and say: “Suppose a returned
Missionary dies in this city. When be
was in ina, his foot was amputated.
He lived years after in England, and there
J He is buried
today in yonder cemetery. In the res
urrection will the foot come from China
will the arm come from England and
will the different parts of the body be re
constructed in the resurrection! How is
that possible?”
You say that “the human body changes
every seven years and by seventy years
of age a man has had ten bodies, In the
resurrection, which will come up? You
“A man will die and his body erum-
into the dust and that dust be taken
nto the life of the ble. An
eat the vegetable. Men eat
imal. In the resurrection that body,
wa many directions, how
gathered up?” Have I any
of this style to ask? Come
them. 1 do not pretend to an.
back upon the an
cement of God's word, "All who are
their p
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trate. In the coral cave of the deen that
voice must penetrate. Millions of spirits
will come through the gates of eternity,
and they will come to the tombs of Lhe
earth, and thév will ery: “Give us buck
our bodies. We gave them to vou in
corruption. Surrender them now in in-
corruption.” Hundreds of spirits hover
ing about the fields of Uativeburg, for
there the bodies are buried. A hundred
thousand spirits coming to Greenwaod,
for there the bodies are buried. waiting
for the reunion of body and soul
All along the sea route from New York
to Liverpool, at every few miles where @
steamer went down, departed spirits com
ing back, hovering over the wave, There
is where the City of Boaton perished
Found at last, There is where the
President perished. Steamer found at
last. There is where the Central Amer
ican went down. Spirits hovering—liun
dreds of spirits hovering, wailing for
the reunion of body and soul. Out on
prairie a spirit alighte. There is where
a traveler died in the snow. Crash goes
Westminster Abbey, and the poeta and
the orators come forth! Wanderful min
gling of good and bad. Crash go the
pyramids of Egypt, and ths monarchs
come forth,
Who can sketch the scene? [ sunpose
that one moment before that eeneral ris
ing there will be an entire silence, rave
as von hear the grinding of a wheel or
the clatter of the hoofs of a procession
passing into the cemetery. Silence in al)
the caves of the earth. Silence on the
side of the mountain. Rilence down in the
vallevs and far ont ints the sea. Silence
But in a moment, in the rwinkling
eve. as the archaneel’s ‘ramet
pealing, rolling, crashing acroee the un
tain and sea, the earth |
terrific shudder, and the
dead will heave like the
sea, and Ostend and Sevastana! un
long will stalk forth in the luri
the drowned will
their wet locks above the hillow
the land and all the sea became
ing mass of life--all faces
conditions gazing in one
upon one throne, the thron
tion. “All who are in
coma forth ”
“But ” yon
the resurrec
ine.
COME NYY AN
craves shal
sav, “if this doctrine of
tion is true, as prefigured hy
this Easter morning, ean
somethin~ about the resurrected bod
I can. There are mvsteries abont :
but I shall tell von three or four things
in reeard to the resurrected body that
are beyond guessing and beyond nes
take.
In the first place
tn vour resurre-ted hoody, it will
alorions body. The body we have
ir a mere skeleton of what it
have been if sin had not marred an
faced it. Take the most exquisite
that wa: ever made bv an
chin it here and chip it there with a ohi
and hatter and braise
and then stand it ant
hundred vears. and the beauty
gone. Well, the human body
chipped and battered and nised and
damaged with ¢ storms
of years, the nMysical
generations coming
tion to generation, we inheriting the
vou fell we
T remark in recard
be a
atatye
artist and
here and
in the sis anf a
thors
would be
has been
rusgnds
deferts other
down from gerera
infe
licities of nast generations
But in the morn
the bady will he
the
there iz no such
{ the resurrect ¥
and beagtified
s And
a pen
A BY
according to model
difference hotveen
nast and an emaciated wretch in a lazaret
to ns there will be a difference het
our b lies as they Are now and Wir resur
rected forma There vou will
the waters of
washed out the stains of tears
there vou will
the knots of
the
ween
see the ner
fect eve after have
and study:
death
soe the perfect hand af
been intied
you will see
after the burdes
sider
most exnressive §
but that {sce is wei
rerurrected faces
ra ihe “rate or look up toward
hrone, it will be like the dawnine of »
new morning on the hosom of everlasting
dav! O glorious, resurrected body!
ut 1 remark also in regard to that
body which vou are to get in the resur
rection, it will be an immortal body. These
bodiea are wasting away. Somebody has
said that as soon as we hegin to live we
begin to die. Unless we keep putting the
fuel into the furnace the furnace dies ont
The blood vessels are canals taking the
breadstuffs to all parta of the syatem. We
must be reconstructed hour by hour. dav
by dav. Sickness and death are all the
time trying to get their nry under the
tenement or to push us off the embank
ment of the grave, but, blessed be Cod,
in the resurrection we will get a body im
mortal
Sometimes in this world we feel we
would like to have such a body as that
There is so much work to be done for
Christ, there are so many fears to he
wined away. there are go many burdens to
lift. there i« so much to he achieved for
Christ. we somstimes 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 res!
or even to take food-—-that we could toil
right on without stopping a8 moment in
our work of commending Christ and
heaven to all the peonle, but we all get
tired. Jt ia characteristic of the human
body in this condition: we must get tired
I= it not a glorious thought that we are
going to have a body that will never grow
weary? O glorious resurrection day!
Gladly vw 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 ia a splendid resur
rection hymn that we have all sung:
So Jesus slept. God's dying Son
Passed through the grave and blessed
the .
Rest here, blest saint, till from His
throne
The morning breaks to pierce the shade
I heard of a father and son who, among
others, were shipwrecked at sea.
father and the ton climbed into the rig
ging. The father held on, but the son
after awhile lost hia hold on the rigging
and 2h Gashed Sosa. on fathir wu
pose e gone hope y under t
wave. The next day the father was
brought ashore from the rigging in an ex
haus state and laid on a in a
fisherman's hut, and after many hours
had came to consciousness and
jaw ying beside him on the same bed his
friends, what a glorious thing it
will be if we wake up at last to find our
loved anes beside us, coming up from
the same plot in the graveyard, coming
up in the same morning light—the father
and son alive forever, all the loved ones
alive forever, never more Lo weep, never
more to oh never more to die,
May the God of Peace that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that
t Shepherd of the sheep, through the
Blood of hy everlasting Covenant nals
ou perf n every good w 0 do
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thousand and the “great muititude that
mo man ean number,” some of eur hes
friends among them. we alter awhile to
join the tude. Glorious anticipation!
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