Christian herald and signs of our times . ist, butthere were only four in the procession. Again ; standing in this place where theLord lay, I am impressed with the fact that youcannot keep the dead down. Theseal of the San-hedrim, a regiment of soldiers from the toweror Antonio to stand guard, floorof rock, roof ofrock, wall of rock, niche of rock, cannot keepChrist in the crypt. Come out and come up hemust. Came out and came up he did. Prefigura-tion. The first-fruits of them that sleep. Justas certainly as you and I go down into the grave,just so certainly we will come up again. Thoughyou pi
Christian herald and signs of our times . ist, butthere were only four in the procession. Again ; standing in this place where theLord lay, I am impressed with the fact that youcannot keep the dead down. Theseal of the San-hedrim, a regiment of soldiers from the toweror Antonio to stand guard, floorof rock, roof ofrock, wall of rock, niche of rock, cannot keepChrist in the crypt. Come out and come up hemust. Came out and came up he did. Prefigura-tion. The first-fruits of them that sleep. Justas certainly as you and I go down into the grave,just so certainly we will come up again. Thoughyou pile up on the top of us all the boulders ofthe mountains, you cannot keep us we be buried under the coral of thedeepest cavern of the Atlantic ocean, we willrise to the surface. Ah ! my friends, death andthe grave are not what they used to be to now, walking around the spot where theLord lay, we find vines and flowers covering upthe tomb, anil that which we called a place ofskulls has become a beautiful garden. Yea, now. Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey. there are four gardens instead of one : Gardenof Eden, Garden of the Worlds Sepulchre,Garden of Earths Regeneration, Garden ofHeaven. Various scriptural accounts say that the workof grave-breaking will begin with the blast ofTrumpets and shoutings ; whence I take it thatthe first intimation of the day will be a soundfrom heaven such as has never before beenheard. It may not be so very loud, but it willbe penetrating. There are mausoleums sodeep that undisturbed silence has slept thereever since the day when the sleepers were leftin them. The great noise shall strike throughthem. Among the corals of the sea, milesdeep, where the shipwrecked rest, the soundwill strike. No one will mistake it for thun-der, or the blast of earthly minstrelsy. Therewill be heard the voice of the uncounted mill-ions of the dead, who come rushing out of thegates of eternity, flying toward the tomb, cry-ing, Make way ! Oh, grave, give
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