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. / £ rtirfWiAijrid SERMON FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. D.D.. Posto:- of Jefferson Park Preaby- terian Ohurch, Cbicag-o April 12.- In Ins Easter fern ion lln* pivaeher shows how the resuneotion is as much of a reality to day to ail who believe as it was to the apostles and draws some helpful spirit ual h ssons. The text is John xx. 1G, “Rile turned herself and sai*i unto him, “Ha! iioni. which is to say. Master.” Vo '? thing! Poor thinj,'! There goes a broken hearted woman. In the early ,hours of the morning she is sobbing >and wringing her hands. “What is the matter, Mary?” "Ah," she answers, “they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. The Roman body snatchers or the high priest’s ghouls have rilled the tomb where we buried Jesus. I am trying to trace his sacred dust and bring it back, if possible, to its former resting place.” Are Mary’s actions extraordinary ? If we thought the graves of our loved ones had boon opened and the bodies tarried away for dissecting purposes, would we not at once hurry off to the family plots and try to find some trace of these most despicable of all con scienceless marauders and make them surrender their stolen treasures? In our bereavements comforters re mind us that it is the mind, the soul, he spirit, of the departed that we oved. They tell us that the physical orm that is still in death was not real ly the beloved one, but only the tene ment that loved one temporarily occu pied. We know that is true, but how dear that tenement is to us! That hand which once held ours in loving clasp, those eyes which lighted up in joy when we approached, those lips which uttered words of affection—how dear they still are, though deatli has robbed them of all power of response! It is hard to part with them even now. I was deeply impressed with this feeling when some years ago I visited the crematory at Pittsburg. I held in my hand the urn containing the ashes of the famous engineer who devised the Ferris wheel for the Chicago World's fair. Only a few months be- | fore lie had worshiped in my church ! at Pittsburg. I remembered well an- ! ther exquisite form which had been imiiarly consumed. How well I could recall the face and form of Emma Ab bott as she sang one of her wonderful songs only six months before her body was carried in on a stretcher and sbmi d through the opened furnace door. Then 1 turned and said to the attendant, “Ho you believe in crema tion?” “1 did,” he answered, “until last May. I firmly believed in it on sanitary grounds and could argue its beneficence from any standpoint.” Then his eyes grew moist as lie said: “But last spring my little girl, my only child, died. I could not bear then to think of her beautiful curls and lovely fo-Bi being shriveled up in that hot fmlUce. So when her mother came to me and asked, ‘Husband, shall we have baby's body cremated?’ I answered: ‘No, wife. Wo loved that little body too well to let it be burned. I think we had better start a family plot and let our baby sleep among the spring flowers.’ ” Mnry'rt Second Journey. Ah, yes! Mary's second journey to that rifled tomb was the most natural outcome of her breaking heart. Rhe wanted to find the poor, bruised, lacer ated form of one whom she had loved while he was alive and whom she still continued to love after he was dead. But that journey back to the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea ended in the strangest of all surprises. Mary went to seek the dead. She found the living. Mary went to an empty crypt. Rhe found a risen Lord. Let us learn to day how Christ first appeared after the crucifixion, to whom lie appeared and for what lie appeared. The risen I>ord revealed himself ac cording to the fulfillment of prophecy. If your husband should say to you: “My dear, business compels me to go to New York. I shall be gone just four days. I shall be home next Thursday morning on the Pennsylvania limited express,” you would expect him home at that time. Why? Because in all your twenty years of married life your husband has never broken such an ap pointment with you. You say: “He is as particular about keeping an en gagement as was George Washington. One day the president stood by his desk witli ids opened watch in his hand, saying to his tardy secretary: ‘Mr. Secretary, you have kept mo wait- jklng now ten full minutes. A slow j watch is no excuse. Either you must * get a new watch or I will get a new ■ecretary.’ That is my husband all through. He never, never breaks an appointment unless lie first notifies the pflRy that it will be impossible for him to keep it.” But, my sister, you have not as much right to expect your hus band to keep an appointment with you as the Christian disciples had that Jesus would rise again from the dead. He clearly and distinctly and emphat ically told them that he would do so. He told them this so clearly and pofnt- dly that the high priest and his hire- •»ngs went to Pilate and had him seal the tomb and place thereabout a Ho man guard “until the third day lest bis disciples come by night and steal hlin^iway and say unto the people be is risen from the dead.” Yet when the resurrection of Easter morn did come Christ's disciples were surprised. They were all dumfounded. They were at first so nonplused tiiat they thought (lie Roman ghouls had stolen Christ’s body and tbe most despised of all thieves, the body snatchers, had dese crated the tomb. < lirist's I’eotnines I’ulClled. This leads to some suggestive infer ences. Our coming gospel triumphs anil sicvesst s'are to b ■ a long succes sion of surprises. Th iugli we Chris tians may live as close to Christ as his disciples did, yet when Christ’s prom ises are to he fulfilled we shall bo amazed with a holy and glorified amazement. We shall be amazed in the way we shall come to die. Many really good people now look upon death as a haunting horror. But most of us will then be surprised to find how easy it is for a Christian to die. Was not dying William Hunter amazed when he cried: “All is well! All is well!” Was not dying John Pawson amazed when he said, “1 know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses!” Was not dying John Fletcher amazed when ho said, “Oh, how this soul of mine longs to be gone, like a bird out of its cage, to the realms of bliss!” Was not tin* dying Christian, A. M. French, amazed, when ho turned to the watch ers and said: “Oh, my wife and dear daughter, how sweet to die! How sw eet to die! Oh, that I could toll you how sweet!” Yes, like the disciples at the tomb most Christians will be amazed to find how easy it is to die, though Christ has again and again told «s that death is not annihilation, but a sleep. Then, like the disciples of old. we shall also be amazed after our own res um'd ion. Though we have read again and again a description of heaven, yet when we come to that beautiful city we shall cry, like the queen of Sheba in the presence of Solomon, “The half was not told me.” We shall be amazed at the beautiful river of life, in which no redeemed immortal can ever be drowned. We shall lie amazed at the arching rainbow which St. John saw round about the white throne, and yet no showers of raindrops or teardrops through which its variegated colors can lie rcfiected. We shall he amazed at our ears attuned to heavenly min strelsy. and yet not hearing one dis cord. Everywhere in heaven our eyes and cars and our sensibilities will be startled and stimulated, but never stunned, with amazement upon amaze ment. Then, above all, like the disciples of old, after our resurrection we shall be amazed at the infinity of Christ’s sacri fice, A mother was one day talking to her little ehild and asked her, “Daugh ter, are you not often amazed at the fact that Jesus died for you?” “Why, no, mother,” she answered. “You would be willing to die for me, and why should not my Saviour? It is just like Christ.” But neither that little child nor any one else this side of the grave has ever had grace enough to fathom or scale or comprehend the im mensities of a Saviour’s sacrifice. It shall he only after we ourselves have been joined to the heavenly choristers that we shall fully realize what the Saviour's atonement means for us. Our redeemed future, as with the disciples of old, will have amazement upon amazement, amazement upon amaze ment! What Mary Believed. The risen Lord appeared unto Mary with the same personality that lie had before the crucifixion. Ilow do I know? Mary thought he was the gardener. By that I do not believe Christ’s garments were bespattered with mud or that his fingers were soiled from contact with the flower stems, but I do believe that the risen Lord stood by the side of Ma ry as lie hail often done before the aw ful crucifixion. I do believe that the risen Christ had the same voice, the same look, the same touch of the hand and the same heart sympathy for earth ly troubles that he had when lie him self was compelled to go hungry and knew not where to lay his head. It is easy, even on Easter day, to have a distorted idea of the risen Ix)rd. I well remember when a little boy how I used to study the hideous idols which my uncle, John Talmage, tin* mission ary. sent us from faroff China. I would take a malformed and repulsive image of stone or wood to my room. Then I would say to myself: “How could any man worship such a thing as that as a god? Ilow could any worshiper suppose that his god could have two stumpy, withered legs, buried tailor fashion under a bloated abdo men; two hateful eyes, squinting with strabismus, and a mouth horrible with the demoniac grin of a destroying mon ster?” But the heathen bowing before such a shrine is perhaps not more in error than some Christians are in ref erence to their risen Lord. They sup pose the resurrected Christ is uncanny in looks and actions. After having suf- fered for our redemption they believe be is no longer a human being, that he lives billions and billions of miles away from earth and has no part lu our everyday life. Ah, no. The Jesus who sympathized with Mary’s tears when she came to seek his body at the tomb Is tbe same Christ who sympa thized witli her troubles before the crucifixion. Tims the Christ who talked to Mary in tbe Easter dawn preaches a prac tical gospel for a practical everyday life. , The boy Jesus who was in tbe carpenter shop is tbe resurrected Christ who is today ready to bend over the shop bench and help tbe mechanic in his toil. The fatherless Christ who once saw Mary, tbe mother, struggling for her daily bread—for Josep’ 's sup posed to have died when tbi divine child was very young—is the sympa thizing Saviour who today is ready to help tbe widow and care for the or phans. We preach not an Easter Je sus in the elegant robes of a king so much as In the plain garb of a work ingman going forth to help thoie who are in the awful struggle for a phys ical existence. The risen Ix>rd appeared first onto Mary because her great love would not allow her to desert the rifled tomb. Reading carefully Rt. John's account of the resurrection, you will find that Ma ry made two visits to the garden where Christ’s body was laid. First she went as a woman. Even to this day the wo men of the cast on the first day of the week are accustomed to do just the same as they did in Christ's time. For six long works at early dawn the wom en go to the new made graves to weep there. With my own eyes I have seen them going and hoard them with my ears. Just as the sun is peeping over the Judiean hills they come forth robed in white, with faces covered with long veils, wailing and sobbing as they go. But no sooner did Mary reach the tomb and find it desecrated than she ran and told the disciples Peter and John. What then happened? Why, Peter and John came to the tomb and verified the statement with their own eyes. Then they turned and went home, but Mary, the loving Mary, would not leave. Rhe lingered, asking every one she met practically the one question, “Where have ye laid him?" Rhe asked it of the two angels; she asked it of the sup posed gardener; then, as she still con tinued to linger about tjie tomb, Jesus revealed himself unto her. What docs the second journey of Mary to tbe rifled tomb of Jesus teach? Rimply this: If we only go in spirit to the Easter tomb of Christ, seeking him and staying there, as Mary stayed, Christ Avill reveal himself unto us. lie will reveal himself as lie did to the noted Christian reformer of old, whose daily and hourly prayer was this simple sentence: "More light, Lord, more light, more light.” He will re veal himself as he did to Thomas Chalmers, who, after preaching for many years in his Kilnieny pulpit, sud denly had a new revelation of tbe life of Jesus, from which he was able to preach his mighty sermon on "The Ex pulsive Power of a New Affection.” He shall reveal himself as be did to Charles II. Spurgeon. Not until the youthful Spurgeon caught a glimpse of Christ crucified was lie able to grasp the right key, which opened to him the doors of tlu' treasury of the gospel. He will reveal himself as he did again and again to your Christian mother. Never did a sorrow come to her hearthstone but she immediately fled, like Mary, to the tomb of her Lord. There she stay ed; there she sought her Master; there she prayed until the “peace that pass- eth all understanding” came into her heart. Oh, my dear Christian friends, why do so many of us go to tbe tomb of Jesus as Peter and John went and then turn our backs upon the empty crypt? Why do we not linger as Mary lingered? “More light. Lord, more light, more light.” More light from thy cross; more light from thy loving face; more light into our troubled lives. On this Easter day we cry: “More light! More light!” The risen Lord appeared early in the morning. Rome Bible students inter pret tlie words “when it was yet dark” to mean that the resurrected Christ is only going to reveal himself to his dis ciples after long succession of earthly troubles. They try to magnify tbe hopeless grief of the Christian disciples during the two black nights following the crucifixion to that dumb despair with which tbe mother of a criminal might watch the stern, grim, voiceless, forbidding walls of a state penitentiary within which her son is about to be electrocuted for tin* crime of murder. I once saw such a face. 1 never wish to see the like of it again. The mother hired a room overlooking Ring Ring prison. There siie sat hour after hour watching and waiting. Not until this agonizing woman had heard that her !>oy’s heart had ceased to beat did she turn away and bury her crushed life in a distant city. The Cheerful View. But I take a brighter and more cheer ful view of the resurrection of Jesus Christ in the early dawn. I believe that Jesus Christ appeared unto Mary in tbe early dawn, when the birds were stretching their wings for a morning bath, when the cocks were sounding their reveille of the barnyards, when tbe dogs from hunger were trying to hunt around for a stray bone for their breakfast. Christ wants to teach us that just as soon as possible he shall appear to explain all our sorrows and heartaches and mysteries and trials and separations. Christ could have ap peared the first Easter day at tbe sec ond watch, when all Jerusalem was stirring, or at 12 o’clock noon, or even at the tenth hour, or just before sunset, and still have fulfilled the prophecy that be should rise again on tbe third day. But such tardy action is not like that of my Lord and King. He would not protract by a moment the grief of his sorrowing friends. Just as soon as tbe prophecy was fulfilled be burst tbe bonds of death and revealed himself unto the broken hearted Mary, and just as soon as Christ can return and w’e are prepared for bis message he will appear again and explain away many— perhaps not all, but many—of the hith erto Inexplicable mysteries of our lives. Divine explanations this side of the grave us well as the other side of the river of Death! Oh, my brother, is not this to you a glorious Easter thought? I do not want to wait until I reach tbe heavenly land before I shall have had at least some of the reasons given why my troubles were sent to me upon earth. I want some of the reasons explained terrestrially as well as celestially. By these earth ly explanations I want to be spiritually stronger to do tbe work which has been given me to do, even though to do it my bleeding feet must puss over blis tering uud thorny pathways. I want to have the same divine revelations ap pear to me when earthly troubles come that came to the wife of a church offi cer whom I visited a short time ago. For years this husband and wife had been childless. But at last God blessed their home. A little one came and stayed just long enough to be loved, and then her spirit fil'd. Was that Christian mother hopeless, bitter and rebellious? Oh, no. The Christ who had appeared unto Mary in the early dawn stood with her by the empty crib. “Mr. Talmage,” she said, "do not think because my baby is dead that she has brought no blessing into my husband's and my own life. Rhe lived long enough for us to pity the husband and the wife who never had a child. Rhe lived long enough to bring my bleeding heart Into sympathy with those who have troubles all round me. I can thank God for my little empty cradle. And I can thank God for my little grave.” oh. my brother and sis ter. in the early dawn of the morning would you not like Christ to come and reveal himself to you? By divine in- spiral ion do you not wish, like this Christian lady, to be able to hopefully and blessedly explain many of the earthly troubles which now seem ready to overwhelm you? The Mission of Mary. The risen Lord appeared unto Mary so that she might go and tell the dis ciples that she had seen the living Raviour. This was no * mall mission upon which to be sent. Must not the transporting news of a resurrected Christ be carried to the farthermost parts of tbe world? Must not this news naturally tirst be spread broad cast by the testimony of those who had lived nearest and closest to Jesus? If Mary Magdalene and Peter and John and James and Mary, the mother of Christ, would not be true and announce to the world a risen Raviour, would the Pharisees or tin* Homan guard that had been bribed or the blatant blas phemers, who hated Christ and his doctrines, do so? And if we, who are the professed followers of Jesus, will not hear testimony to his divine power, will that gospel testimony be scattered by those who know him not? And why should not we, the profess ing followers of Jesus, be willing to uuuouuec to the world the glad tidings of a risen Christ? Rupposing that to day your wife was sick and had to un dergo a very serious operation, would you not notify her mother and father and brothers and sisters of the im pending danger? And if that opera tion was a sueeess would you not make the telegraph wires thrill with the news, “The doctors say the operation was a success and that she will get well?” If you would thus hasten to send the news that your wife had been saved from tbe jaws of death, how much more should every one who realizes wh it the resurrection of the Lord means to our dying race join in the effort to send broadcast through a perishing world the glad news that Christ has risen from the dead? We can imagine the joy that was felt many years ago in an old farmhouse on a certain occasion during the late civil war. One of the sons, who was a soldier boy, was reported to have been shot. His name appeared in the death column. The oldest brother immedi ately went to the front to find out how the lad was shot and, if possible, to bring the body home for burial. When lie found his brother’s regiment and captain, he was told the young man was not killed, but only wounded. The elder brother did not even wait to see his wounded brother. He rushed to the nearest telegraph office and sent these words to the old folks: “Charley is not dead, but alive. I shall bring him home as soon as he can leave the hospital.” Ah, yes. there was joy in the old farmhouse over the seemingly miraculous resurrection of the dead boy. Is there to be no joy scattered abroad by us when we announce ev erywhere the glad tidings of Easter morn? The Christ Of Knster Day. But there is one result of Mary’s mes sage to the disciples upon which I would like to touch before I close. Rhe carried that news to doubting Thomas. Even with all the testimony that Mary brought, Thomas would not believe that Christ bad risen again until lie laid thrust ids finger into his pierced side. Even after Jesus had appeared among his disciples and Thomas saw Christ face to face he would not believe until he had touched Jesus. Is there* any doubting Thomas here today among us? Is there any ope who is trying to believe the Bible and tbe gospel with out believing the divine birth and the divine resurrection of Jesus Christ? Oli, my beloved, among tbe beautiful flowers of Easter morn do not try to exhume a corpse am' call it a living Christ. Dom Pedro I. of Portugal, on the day of his coronation, had the de composing Ixuly of his dead queen car ried through the streets of Lisbon with a Jeweled crown upon her skull and a scepter in her hand. But, after all, she was a dead queen. Look today at a living Jesus. Look today at a resur rected Christ, who is ready to show you ids scars, the results of suffering for your sins. Look today at a living Jesus, who demands that you shall not only call him Master, but Itabboni, wbieli is to say “Great Master.” Look today at an Easter Christ, who was as cended unto the Father, with whom you may be able, through his blood, to puss an endless Easter. [Copyright, 1903, by Louis Klopscb.] PRESIDENT REACHES MONTANA. He Knew What He Wanted. When Chaplain Russell of tbe Mis souri house prays, be wants the mem bers to give attention. His prayers iieing sent up especially for them, be thinks it unseemly for them not to lis ten. Having observed that the mem bers did not attend to what he said, the Rev. Mr. Russell wafted the fol lowing petition up to the throne of grace a few mornings ago: “O Lord, I ask that those in this bouse who rise to their "eet for prayer may not con tinue to read on their papers while tbe chaplain prays. Grant that they may have some respect for God if they have not for tbe chaplain.”—Kansas City Journal. Will Take a Rest of Two Weeks In Yellowstone Park. Livingston, Mont., April 8.—PrcsI- Rnt Roosevelt will enter the Yellow stone park some time this afternoon anil for the next 16 days the outside world will know very little of his do ings. His special train arrived here at 9 o'clock this morning, and after a 15- minute stop during which the president greeted a large crowd that gathered to meet him, started for Gardner, which is the entrance to the park. The train is due there at 12:30 p. m. The president will take luncheon on the train and finish up some necessary j work. Then, accompanied by John Burroughs and a detachment of caval ry. he will plunge into the park for what he hopes- to be two weeks of rest. The remainder of the party will live on the train at Cinnabar, 3 miles from Gardner. Weal? MACHINERY MEN MEET. Claimed that 75 Per Cent of Southern Dealers Will Affiliate, Now Orleans, April 8.—The second annual convention of the Southern Supply and Machinery Dealers’ associ ation began sessions this morning. President C. B. Jenkins, of Charles ton, S. C., presided and Secretary C. B. Carter, of Knoxville, Tenn., was at the desk. This association was organized last year at Charleston and now numbers about 50 of the leading concerns of the south. The convention will be in session three days. The proceedings of the opening session consisted of addresses of welcome and the annual report of President Jenkins, in whim he pointed out that the r*s n u 'on would soon have 75 ; i • cent if all the agents in ti e south i 'is nv rship. No CcrsLni'.ince In Howard Case. Fran).fort, sy.. At :,8.- "’’o- case ag"' •'! James F wa d, c v ?r'.">d with killing Governor William G . 'bel, was called again at o’ lock today. The defense filed an "Jid ivit as to absent witnesses in seeking a continuance. The commonwealth objected' and the court in chambers heard the argu ments. Tlie affidavit of the defense was admitted, and the Howard case will go to trial this afternoon. More Cotton Workers Strike. F.tchhnrg, Mass., April 8.—The power was not started' at the Park Hill Cot ton mills today on account of the strike of the weavers and loom fixers in Mill “C.” The weavers in Mills “A” and ”B” having been out since the middle of last month. In. all, 1,200 employes are out of work now. The weavers in Mill “C” objected to doing work left unfinished in the other mills by the original strikers. All Quiet In Lowell. Lowell, Mass., April 8.—'There was no trace of last night’s disturbance today when the T^awrence hosiery will opened as usual. The ring spinners were to their work, with the other op eratives, numbering about 3,000 in all. The board of arbitration will meet here tomorrow to Investigate the strike and the dispute leading to it. Chicago City Council. Chicago, April 8—The new eltj council will be composed of 36 Re publicans, 33 Democrats. J Indepcn dent and 1 Socialist. Of the 70 mem hers including 26 of the 35 elected yes to-day 53 were indorsed by tlie mu nicipal voters’ league. Shipbuilders May Get Raise. San Francisco. April 8.—A telegram from Lewis Nixon, president of the United States Ship Building company received by W. O. Dodd, president of the Union Iron works, indicates that the men will be granted the 9-hour day on May 11, with a 10 per cent increase of pay. General Strike Proclaimed. Amsterdam, April 8—The work men's defense committee has decided to proclaim a general strike of all the trades throughout the country. Over-Work Weakens Your Kidneys. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. ‘V'V All the b’coa in your body passes through your kidneys or.ee every three minutes. The kidneys are your blood purifiers, they fil ter out the waste or impurities in the blood. if they are sick or out of order, they fail to do their work. Pains, aches and rheu matism come from ex cess of uric acid in the blood, due to neglected kidney trouble. Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady heart beats, and makes one feel as though they had heart trouble, because the heart is over-working in pumping thick, kidney- poisoned blood through veins and arteries. It used to be considered that only urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all constitutional diseases have their begin ning in kidney trouble. If you are sick you can make no mistake by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases and is sold on its merits by all druggists in fifty- cent and one-dollar siz es. Yoj may have a sample bottle by mall Home of Swamp-Root, free, also pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer It Co., Binghamton. N. Y./ “ I suffered terribly for 12 years. The doctors said my blood was all turning to water. At last I tried Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and was soon feeling all right again.”—Mrs. J. W. Fiala, Hadlyme, Ct. No matter how long you have been ill, nor how poorly you may be today, Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is the best medicine you can take for purifying and en riching the blood. Don’t doubt it; put your whole trust in it. SfttSB: Ask your doctor what he thinks of this grand old family medicine, follow his advice and we will he satisfied. Recovery will never be complete if the liver is inactive. Ayer’s Pills are liver pills. Purely vegetable. J. C. A YER CO., Lowell, Mass. APRIL SPECIAL I luring the month of April with each order received for New Plate and 50 Cards, styles to he selected from our sample sheets, we will give in addition. 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