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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-4-6, Page 7ANGELS OF THE GRASS. The Eloquent Pulpit Orator's Discourse on the Easter Season, He prows }inspiration, From. the •Fields. -Lessons Which the ".Flow ers Bring to the, Anxious, the. Dispirited and the Bereaved, Washington, April 2,—In this Easter u1 wise had a carefully looked bureau, sermon Dr. Talmage interprets the mess- age which the flowers bring to the anx- ious, the dispirited and the bereaved; text, Luke xii, 28, "If then God so elotho the grass, whieh is to -day in the ;geld, and toanorrow is cast into the oven, how arte nnueh more will, be clothe you, 0 ye of little fa]t1h?r' The lily is the queen of Bible flowers. The role quay have disputed; her throne in modern titres and won it, but the rose originally bad only five petal,, It •seas under the long continued and intense gaze of the world that the rose blushed into its present beauty. In the Bible train, ettssia and hyssop and freoltincense and myrrh and slaikeluard and camphor and the rose follow the lily. Fourteen tinges in the Bible is the lily nlentloned: only twice the rose. The rose may now have wider t,taipire, but the lily reigned in the thue of F sther, in the time of Sol- omon, in the time of Quiet, Caesar hack his throne on the hills. The Illy bad Iter throue an the valley. In the twreateesv tier mon that seas ever preached there was Only ono flower, and tltttt a lily, The Bedford dreamier, John I3clnyen, entered the house of the intermretei' dna ♦vas shown a cluster of flowers diad was told to "consider the lilies,,, We may study or reject other sciences at our option—it is so with astronomy, it is -so with chemistry, 1G is se with jurisprudence, it is -so with physiology. It is so with geology—but the s .lime&' of bet u y Christ commands. tis to study whoa be says, "Coneltler the lilies," Measure therm j'rom root to tip of petal. Inhale their breath. Notice the graceful- ness of their pulse. Hear the whisper of the white lips or the ettiteru and the red Ups of the American lily. I3elanging to this royal -family of lilies ttre the lily of the Nile, tiro Joann 111~y, the Lally Washington of the Sierras, he Golden Band lily, the Giant lily of Ne - peal, the Turk's clip lily, the African lily from the Cape of Good Hope. .All those lilies have the royal blood in their veins. But I take the lilies of my toxb this tnorning as typical of all Rowers. and their voice of floral beauty seems to address us, saying; "Consider the lilies, consider the azaleas, consider the fuchsias, consider the geraniums, consider the Ivies, coneitier the hyacinths, consider tbe heliotropes, consider the oleanders." WIth deferential and grateful and intelli- gent and worshipful souls, consider them. Not with insipid sentiulea:talisau or with sophomoric vaporing, but for grand and practical and everyday, and, if need be, i homely uses, con::ider them. Voices of the Viewers. The flowers are the angels of the grass. They all have voices, 'When the clouds speak they thunder, when thewbis'lwinds speak them scream, when the cataracts speak they roar; but when the flowers speak they always whisper. I stand here to interpret their message, 'What have you to say to us, 0 yo angels of the grass? This morning I mean to discuss what .flowers aro good for. That is any y subject, 'What are flowers good for? I remark, in the first place, they are good for lessons of God's providential euro. "Thus was Christ's first tbought. All these flowers seem to address us to- day, saying: "God will give you apparel and food: Wo bave no wheel with which to spin, no loom with which to weave, no sickle with which to harvest, no well sweep with which to draw water, but Goa slakes our thirst with the dew, and God feeds us with the bread of the sun- shine, and God has appareled us with more than Solomonic regality. We are prophetesses of adequate wardrobe. "If God so clothed us, the grass of the field, will be not much more clothe you, 0 ye of little faith?" Men and women of worldly anxieties, take this message home with you 1 Row long has God taken care of you? Quarter of the journey of life? Iialf the journey of life? Three- quarters the journey of life? Can rou not trait hire the rest of the way? God does not promise you anything like that which the Roman Emperor had on his table at vast expense -500 nightingales' acing nes—but he bas promised to take caro ,'.ef. you. He has promised you the necessi- ties, not the luxuries—bread, not cake. If God so luxuriantly clothes the grass of the field, will he not provide for you, Es living and immortal children? He will. • No wonder Martin Luther always had a flower on his writing desk for inspire- " tion 1 Through the cracks of the prison door a flower grew up to cheer Pleciola. Iiungo Park, the great traveller and ex- plorer, bad his life savedby a flower. He sank down in the desert to die; but, seeing a flower near by, it suggested God's merciful caro, and be got up with new courage and travelled on to safety. I said the flowers are the angels of the grass: - I add now they are the . evangels of the sky. t If you ask mo the question, "What are flowers good for?" I respond, they aro good for the bridal day. The bride must have them- on her brow, , and she must have there in her hand. The marriage altar mast be covered with them. A wedding without flowers would be as in- appropriate las a wedding without music. At such a sing they aro for congratula- tion and prophecies of ••good. So much of the pathway of life is covered up with thorns, we ought to cover the beginning with orange blossoms. H'hovers Always Appropriate. Flowers are appropriate on such coed- ikons, for in ninety-nine out of a hundred cases it is tho very best thing that could have happened. Tho world may criticise and pronounce it an inaptitude and may lift its eyebrows in surprise and think, it might suggest something better, but the God who sees. the 20, 40, 50 years of weddedlife before they have begun arranges for the best. So that flowers in almost all cases aro appropriate for the marriage day. Fire divergences of disposi- tion will becoino correspondences, reek lossness will become prudence,; frivolity will be turned' into praoticality. There has boon many an aged widowed and in the bureau a box, and in the box a folded paper, and in the folded paper a half blown rose. slightly fragrant, dis- colored, carefully pressed. She put it there 40 or 50 years ago. On the auni- versary day of her wedding she will go tothe bureau, she will lift the box, she will unfold the paper, and to leer eyes will be exposed the half blown bud, and the memories of the past will rush upon her. and a tear will drop ripen the flower, and suddenly it is transfigured, and there is a stir in the dust of the author, and it rounds out, and it is full of life, and it begins to tremble in the procession up the church aisle, and the dead music of it half century ago comes throbbing through the air, and vanished bees reap pear and right hands are joined, and'a manly voice promises, "I will, for better or for worse," and the wedding march thunders a salvo of joy at the departing Prowl, but a sigh on that anniversary dayscatters the sGitt scene. Under the deep totalled breath the altar, the flowers, the congratulftting groups are scattered, and there is nothing left but a trembling hand holding a faded rosebud, whieh is put into the paper and then into the box, and the box carefully placed in the bur- eau, and with a sharp, sudden click of the look the scene is aver. Ah, my friends, let not the prophecies of the flowers on your wedding day be false prophecies. Be blind to each other's faults. Make the most of eacla other's excellences. Remember the vows, the ring an the third finger of the left hand, and the benediction of the calla lilies. If you ask lite the question, "What aro flowers good for?" I answer, they are good to honor and,comfortthe obsequies. The worst guilt ever made into the side of aur poor earth is the gash of the grave Ib Is so deep, it is so cruel, it is so i curable, that it needs something to coy it up. Flowers for the casket, flowers fo the lietrse, flowers for the cemetery What a contrast between a gravo in a country churclayard, with the fen broken down and the tombstone aslan and the neighboring cattle browsing algid the mullein stalks and the Canada this - ties, and a June morning In Greenwood, the wave of roseate bloom rolling to the top of the rumbas and then braelting into foaming crests of avhito flowers all around the pillows of dust. It is the difference between sleeping under rags and sleeping under an embroidered blan- ket, We want old hlortality with his chisel to go through all the graveyards in Christendom. and while lie carries a chisel in ono hand eve want old Mortality to havo some flower seed in the palm of the other hand. -mission of Wild Viewers. "Oh," you say, "the dead don't know; it snakes no differexioo to theta." I think you are mistaken. There are not so many steamers and trains souring to any living city us there aro oohvoys coming from heaven .to earth, and if there bo instan- taneous and constant communication be- tween this world and the bettor world, do you not suppose your departed friends know what you do with their bodies? Why has God planted goldenrod and wild flowers in the forest and on the prairie, whore no human eye over aces them? Ile planted them there for invisible intelli- gences to look at and admire, and when invisible intolligonces come to look at the wild flowers of the woods and the table lands, will they not snake excursion and see the flowers which you have planted in affectionate remembrance of them? When I -am dead, I would like to have a handful of violots—any one could pluck then out of the grass, or some ono could lift from the edge of the pond a water lily—nothing rarely expensive, no insane display, as sometimes at funeral rites, where the display takes the bread from the childrons' mouths and the clothes from their backs, but something from tbe great democracy of flowers. Rather than imperial catafalque of Russian Czar, I ask some one whom I may have helped by gospel sermon or Christian deed, to bring a sprig of arbutus or a handful of China asters. It was left for- modern times to spell respect for the departed and comfort for the living in letters of floral gospel. Pil- low of flowers, meaning rest for the pil- grim who has got to the end of his jour- ney. Anchor of flowers, suggesting the Christian hope which wo have as an an- chor of the soul, sure and steadfast. Cross of flowers, suggestinz the tree on which our sins were slain. If I had my way, I would cover up all the dreamless sleepers, whether in golden' handled cas- ket or pine box, whether a king's mau- soletun or potter's field, with radiant or aromatic arborescence. The Bible says, "in the midst of the garden there was u sepulcher." I wish that every sepulcher might -be in.the midst of a garden. Symbols of Reltrion. 11 you asked n:» the question, "What are flowers good fore''` 1 answer, "For re1igioa6s symbolism." Have you ever studied i criptttral flora?' The Bible is an arboretmn, it is• a divine conservatory, it is a herbarium of exquisite' beauty. If you want to illustrate the brevity of the highest' human life, you will quote from Job, "Man cometh forth as a flower and is cut down." Or you will quote from the psalmist, "As the flower of the field, so he perisheth; the wind passeth over it. and it is gone." Or you will quote from IsaiaL, "All flesh is grrtss, and the gooclliness thereof is as the flo.;er of the held." Or you will quote from James the apostle, "As the flower of the grass,' so he paseeth away." What grapbio Bible °symbolism i All the cut flowers will soon lie dead, -whatever+ caro you •take of theta.. Though morning and night -you baptize them in the name of the shower, the baptism will not be - to them a saving ordinance. They have been fatally wound- ed with the knife tbat cuts them. They are bleeding their life away; they zee dying now. The fragrance in the air is their departing and ascending spirits. Oh, yes! Flowers are almost human. Botanists tell us that flowers breatho, they take ` nourishment, they eat, they drink. They are sensitive. They have their likes and dislikes. They sleep, they wake, They live in families. They ,have their ancestors and their descendants, their birth, their burial, their cradle, their grave. Tho zephyr rooks the one, and the storne digs the trench for the other, The cowslip must leave its gold, the lily must leave its silver, the rose must leave its diamond neoklacs of morn- ing dew. Dustto. dust. So we come up, we prosper, we spread abroad, we die, es the flower—as the flowery Change and decay in all around T see; 0 thou who changeth not, abide with me! Flowers also mord mighty symbolism, of Chrisb, who compared himself to the ancient queen, the lily, and the modern queen, the rose, when he said, "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the val- ley." Redolent like the one, humble like the other. Like both, appropriate for the sad Nebo want sympathizers and for the rejoicing 'lobe wait banqueter&, Hover- ing over the marriage ceremony like a wedding bell or folded like a chalet on the pulseless heart of the dead. 0 Christ, let the perfume of thy name be wafted all around the earth—lily and rose, lily and rose --until the wilderness crimson into a garden and the earth turn into one great bad of immortal beauty laid against the warm heart of God, Snatch down from the world's banners eagle and lion and put on lily and rose, lily and rose. Viewers at Easter. But, my friends, flowers have no grander use than when on Faster morn- ing. we celebrate the re,'rnimatiou of Chalet from the catacombs, The flowers spell resurrection, There is not a noels or, corner in all rho building but is toughed with the ineenso. The women carried spices to the tomb of Christ, and they dropped slices all around about the tomb, and from these spices h e i q h ve grown l the a w al P g flowers of Easter morn. The two white orbed angels that hurled the stone away from the door of the tomb hurled it with such violence down the hill that it crush ed in the door of the world's sepulcher, and millions of dead shall como forth. However labyrinthine the mausoleum, however costly the sarcophagus, however architecturally grand the necropolis, however beautifully parterred the family grounds, we want them all broken up iby the Lord of the resurrection. The forms that we laid away with our broken hearts must rise ;teem. Father and mother, they must eunle out, Husband and wife, they must come out. Brothers and sisters, they must come aut. Our darling children, they must comp out. The eyes that with trembling fingers we closed must open in the luster of rosur- t- rection morn. The arms that we folded in death must join ours in embrace of er r reunion. The beloved voice that was hushed must bo retuned. The .beloved - form must come up without its l ailrmi- eO ties, without its fatigues. It must come t up, Oh, how long it seems for some of you l Waiting, waiting for the resurree- tion! How long, how long!- I make for your broken hearts to -day a cool, soft bandage of lilies. I comfort you this day. with the thought of resurrection. When Lord Nelson was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral in I.ondan, the heart of ail England was stirred. The procession passed on amid the sobbing of a nation. There were 30 trumpeters stationed at the door of the cathedral, with instru- ments of music in hand, waiting for the signal, and, when the illustrious dead arrived at the gates of St. Paul's Cathe- dral, those 30 trumpeters gave one united blast, nncl then all was silent. Yet the trumpets dict not wake the dead. Ho slept right on. But I have to tell you, what 30 trumpeters could not do for one man, one trumpeter will do for all nations. The ages have rolled on, and the clock of the world's destiny strafes 9, 10, 11, 12, and time shall bo no longer! Typical of the Itesnrrectton. Behold the archangel hovering! He takes the trumpet, points it this way, puts its lips to his lips and then blows one long, loud, terrific, thunderous, reverberating and resurreotionaty blast! Look, look! They rise! The dead—the dead! some coming forth from the family vault, some from the city cemetery, some from the country graveyard. Here " a spirit is joined to another body, and mil- lions of departed spirits are assorting the bodies, and then reclothing themselves in forms radiant for ascension. The earth begins to burn—the bonfire of a great victory. All ready now for the procession of reconstructed humanity! Upward and away! Christ leads, and all the Christian dead follow, battalion after battalion, nation after nation. Up, up! On, on! forward, ye ranks of God Al- mighty! l -mighty! Lift up your heads, ye everlast- ing gates and lot the conquerors come in! Resurrection! Resurrection! And so I twist all the festal flowers of the chapels arid cathedrals of all Christen- dom into ono great chain, and with that chain I bind the Easter morning of 1899 with the closing Easter . of the world's history—resurrection 1 May the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of sheep, through the blood of the conven- ant, make you porfeet in every good work to do his will. - Some Curious Horseshoes. In Japan most of the horses are shod with straw. Even the clumsiest of cart horses wear straw shoes, which, in their cases, are tied around the ankle with straw rope and are made of tbe ordinary rice straw, braided so as to form a sole for the foot about half an inch thick. These soles cost about a halfpenny a racy. Iceland horses are shod with sheep's horn. In the valley of the Upper Oxus the antlers of the mountain deer are used for the same purpose, the shoes being' fastened with horn pins. In the Soudan the horses are shod with socks made 'of carrel's skin. In Australia horseshoes are made of cowhide. A German not long ago invented a horseshoe of paper pre- pared by saturating with. oil, turpentine and other ingredients. Thin layers of such paper are glued to the hoof till the requisite thickness is attained, and the shoos thus made are durable and impene- trable by moisture. - Newfoundland Caribou. The caribou, or reindeer, • of Newfound- land roam over an area of some 25,000 miles of unbroken wilderness. They are magnificent creottues, some of the larger stags weighing from 500 to 800 pounds. Asmight be expected,, venison is pretty plentiful in Si. John's market and bus been sold for as little as live cents a' pound - neeessive tee f t.•n, Customer—I haven't tiny change with are this in.ailing; ,will you trust ire for: a pos, age stamp until to -morrow? Drug clerk—Certainly. P.fr. Toner, f`ustomer--But suppose I should get ki11e1, or— Drug Clerk -Pray don't speak. of it. Mr. Jones. The loss would be but a At It Again. They were in their chronic condition of quarrel, when the missis said after a more than usually strong torrent of abuse "Ah, you don't appreciate me .nOWI You'll know my value when I'm gone.'' And he remarked, "I'd give a trifle to know your value.' And. oh, wasn't there a shindy them if the party wall between our villas hadn't been so thin, 1 might have won- dered why crockery had recently ad - ',fenced in price. I knew now.•—Pick.- Me Up. A Gsp Deceiver. Miss Faire le Pleat bas invented this ingenious device by which she gives a false idea of her proportions, -Scraps,. It Started to Start. "I thought you said this lightning express started at 4 p. m , said the impatient passenger "Oh, no," the oiiicial replied. "that isn't the time it starts. That's the time it starts to start. We are a little late today, and so it was 4:29 before we started to start to start." After which it was the passenger's tarn to stein and, realizing the obliga- tion thut was upon bins, be duly did so. --New York World. •. Reflections of a Bachelor. Every girl likes a pian to think she is full of moods. Whom the gods wish to destroy they first invite to dinner. A girl's ideal of a trousseau is to have real lace and two dozen of every- thing When a woman tries to explain bow she came to a conelnsion. it reminds you of a tadpole explaining why its tail fell off. Prudence. "What made yon challenge that American to a duel?" asked a Parisian journalist's friend. "It was in self defense. I thought that if 1 could get him to fight with weapons we could make it the usual harmless affair, Otherwise he'd be like- ly to insist on trying to whip me with his fists and probably hurt me."— Washington Star Bard Luck. "Well, how are you getting along with that fund you began saving some time ago for a trip to the Paris exposi- tion ?" "I've had bad luck with it. I bad $1.40 laid away. but my wife happened to find it one day jnst before a mon with a newly patented egg beater carne around. "-Chicago News. A I'ebrtaary Scene. "What's Jimmie?" "Skatin in the well." "An Maria? Wbau''s she?" "Sweepin snow off the violet beds.' "An what's dad a-doin of?' "Well, las' time I seen him the boys wuz buildin a fire roan' him to thaw hila out the barn."—Atlanta Constitu- tion. Unfortunate. Props—Got to cut out that scene where you light a cigar with a thou- sand dollar bill. The Star—What's the matter? "Einstein says he won't credit you for not another cigar till you settler"— Indianapolis Journal. - Zero In the Suburb.. When Pleasant Green, that cheerful soul, that smooth suburbanite. Found it had changed from twelve above to ten below at night, Re hastened to explore his house with more than fond regard And found, alas, that all the pipes were frozen fast and hard! There was no water for the cook to wash the pretties In. And there was none for Mrs. Green to cleanse the baby's skin: • There was no water for the lord of that once bright demesne To wash his hands—oh, snd the fate that frowned on Pleasant Green! But In the basement—me, oh, my!—twelve inches deep it stood, And soaked and frozen was the coal and eke the kindling wood! "J1 sadder sight 1 never saw. Ob, saint perturbing scene! Another pipe was busted—see!" quoth Mr. Pleasant Green. The kitchen stove refused to burn -ice- bound were all its legs— But with the aid of gasoline the cook thawed out some eggs, And Pleasant, Green put on his gap and pulled the edges down. And, shaking like a homeless cur, he • - bolted off to town. The wind was cold and more than bold, and frozen were his socks Ere he had walltecl=by fate compelled, his tNventy-seven` blocks. But what of them heleft behind? ltnag- !ne such a arena Aa that which reigned within the home of shivering Pleasant Green! --St, Louis Post -Dispatch, (NATIONAL P�osp��fc sre THE BEST FERTILIZER KNOWN RESUSCITATES worn out Lands, IMPROVES Good Lancs and nukes the Best Lands BETTER, IAPROVES the QUALITY or the Crop and increases the QUANTITY, VI -AUNTS' WANTED IN EVERY DISTRICT IN CANADA, NATIONAL FARMERS CO'Y, TORONTO, OT. Ab, So Clevert --- The "They say she is a clever conversa- tionalist." O b y � n "Clever? CaaiversatinQalist4 Why, she's brilliant, She doesn't even need to converse. 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