THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BE LLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1897. THE RISEN SAVIOUR. He Footons Us to a World Be. yond the Tomb. : There Will Be No Sorrow, or Slokness, on Deformity We Shall Made Perfect. Comforting There be Words for Everyone. In his Easter sermon Dr «Lives a graphic description of urrection His text 20: 15: ''She supposing Him to be the gardener.” Here are Mary Magdalen and Christ, just after his resurrection. For 4,000 years a grim and ghastly tyrant had been killing people and dragging them into his cold palace. He had a passion for human skulls, For 40 centuries he had been unhindered in his work. He had taken down kings and queens and conquerors, and those without fame. In that cold palace there were shelves of skulls, and pillars of skulls, and altars of skulls, and even the chalices at the { Talmage the res Joho morn was table were bleached made of skulls, To the skeleton of Abel added the skeleton of all the ages he had , and no one had disputed his right until one Good Friday, about 1,807 years ago, as near ate IL a ¢ of that mighty as I can calcul: y OO! awful wor » tyrant, thr larkest corridon poor mint maid in most ment at Lowell or roughest new unventils « establ Lancaster Fell it to the clearer of ground in fell It to the sewing woman, a stiteh in in the western wilderness the side for every stitch of their cruel employers no right to think that they got through the door of Heaven any more than they could through the eye of a broken needle which has just dropped on the bare floor from the pricked and bleeding fingers of the consumptive sewing girl. Away with your talk about hypostatic union, and soteriology of the Council of Trent, and the meta. physics of religion which would free practical Christianity ont of the Wot but pass along this Gardener's coat) all nations that they may touch the hem of it and feel the thrill of the Christly brotherhood. Not supposing tho man to be Caesar, not supposing Him to be Socrates, but "supposing ilim to be the gardener.” Oh, that is what helped Joseph Wedg- garment, some having will ’ wood, toiling amid the heat dust of the potteries, until make for Queen Charlotte royal table service of facture. Watt, scoffed at and ecaricatured, until | he could put on wheels the thunder | bolt of power which roars by day and | by night in every furnace of the motive engines of America. That what helped Hugh Miller, the quarries the id and 1 . nef the frst locos | of Cromarty, until every him a volume of the | world’s biography, and he found the rock became to footsteps of the Creator in the old red Oh, the world Christ for the office, a Christ kitchen, a Christ for the shop, a Christ sandstone wants n for for the banking house, a Christ for the | garden, while spading and planting | and irrigating the territory. Oh, of | course, we want to see Christ in royal robe and bediamoned, a celes- tial equestrian mounting horse, but from this Easter of 1807 our last Easter on earth we must as Mary Him at the daybreak, to be gardener.’ nt the to | need | to see Christ Magdalen NOW ‘supposing Him Another thing which the church and the world have to the resurrection of Christ is that made His first post-morte to one who had noticed in regard | He | mm Appearancs not been the seven-deviled Mary Magdalen. One would have sup- posed he would have posthumous appearance vs been hat § ie o'clock Mag mistook he gardener What It means there are shad. grave unlifted, shadows that are hovering. Mary to look to the She gave hyn which Mar inler for does na mean ows over the of mystery stoope d down and tried other end of the erypt She could not see to the other end of the erypt Neither ean you see to the other end of the grave terie oulery of your dead Neither can wo see to the other end of our own grave. Oh, if there were shadows over the family plot belonging to Joseph of Arimathea, is it strange that that there should be some shadows over our family lot? Easter dawn, not Easter noon, Shadow of unanswered question! Why were they taken away from us? Why were they ever given to us if they were to’ be taken so soon? Why were, they, taken so suddenly? - Why could they not have uttered some'farewell words? Why? A short question, but Ee — d . — English manu | That was what helped James | iw tolling amid | the | least | white | cruelfixion of agony in it Why? Shadow on the graves of good men and women who seamed to before their work was done, Shadow n whole die on all the graves of children we ask why craft all if Ourselves BO launched at it was to be wrecked one mile outside of the harbor? | But what did do in order to get more light on that grave. She had After awhile the Easter up only to wait, aun rolled and the whole place was flooded with light, What have you and I to do in order to get more light on our own graves and of our dear light upon the graves loved ones? Only to wait Another thing the church have observed; Christ's pathetic credentials you know it was nota gardner garments sald He The flakes of the tered upon His garments sald He was a gardener, not and the that is How world not do was a gardener upturned earth scat. Faster of a gardener? Ah! Before by He gave His His three Heo showed them His hands and His side Three paragraphs had gone tO son disciples credential written in rig depressed letters. A sear in the palm, a in the left amid the way BCAr the ribs soars they ion “en we what ol earthly si hirme ted sil celeatinl ve ndded that city all the cities of have one obsequy : Standing this morning round the shattered masonry of our Lord's tomb I point you to a world without hearse, without muffled drum, without tumu lus, without estafalque, and without a tear, Amid all the eathedrals of the blessed no longer the Dead March in Saul, but whole libretti of Hallelujah Oh, put trumpet to lip and finger to key, and loving forehead against the bosom of a risen Christ Hallelujah, Amen, Hallelujah, Amen! we sha set up our residencs in whieh, 1 i than shall neve r vaste wugh this world Chorus Ringing Fah, Along the const of Florida and Geo gia the musical notes of what the old fishermen eall the “singing shad’ are often heard. They differ from the rommon shad in being smaller, and piso in the formation of thelr mouths Their singing is pleasant at first, but soon grows monotonous, owing to the fact that it is a constant repetition of the same sounds, © ™ - rn - becanse | beautiful u | Mary Magdalen have to | y [ How do you know He was | | fen » His | | and inflicted untold tortures | eonscious patient | od the use of | anmsthotio in ADVANCE INSURGERY HOW IT DIFFERS NOW FROM WHAT IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO. The covery Horror of the Kuoife Up to the Dis. of Anwsthesin In Ether by Dr. William T, G, Danger ns Well First Use of Morton, as Fain the Operation One of the most interesting papers | read ut the celebration in Boston of the { fiftieth anniversary of the first adminis { tration of ether in a surgical operation, | says the Philadelphia Record, was that | by Dr. John Ashhurst of this city on “Surgery Before the Days of Anmsthet- "' It vividly recalls the horrors of those days when the surgeon's knife was an object of far greater terror than now upon the "‘A study of the condition of surgery before the days of anmwsthegin,’’ said Dr. Ashhurst, “reveals on the one hand a picture of heroic boldness and masterly self control on the part of the surgeon, and on the other a sometim stoic ghastly fortitude panoramas, and enduar- f abject terror and h J h of OE 3 agom always Pall——0n tim Who re hh al Wan i RiArm Lom mediate] Kr Micon 1 discovery HN ana I were h con be practioal value in diminishing the pain of opera the disadvan tages of their « mployment were of course recognised. Meanwhile facts were acon mulating the significance now plainly recognise, cited no attention “Sir Humphry Davy, in the early days of the nineteenth contury, suggest. nitrous oxide gas as an minor operations, and it was the custom at some of our medical sohools—at the University of Penney). vania, for one-~for students to breathe ‘Ianghing gas,’ it was then oalled, for diversion. Bat yet—and yot—gur. KOON8 went on, in every country, cutting and burning, and patients went on writhing and screaming, until on the 16th day of October, in the year 1548, in tho Massachusetts General hospital, Dr. John C, Warren painlessly removed n tumor from a man who had previously boen otherizsed by Dr. William T. QO. Morton, and surgioal anesthesia be. cameo the priceless heritage of the sivi ligod world,” the only agents whi tinued regarded as of tons, though attendant of which we but which ex. a THREE HAPPY WOMEN. A ‘I'rio of Fervent Letters to the Sympathetic Friend of Her Sex. 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