The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-05-01
Talmage's Sermons.
Easter Service


building and six tiiuusand more out
side, yainly seeking entrance The
Platform and galleries were one great
scene Of floral decoration. Mira.
EVELYN Lyon II dgeman rendered
two appropriate pieces and Professors
Brown and Ali afforded special pro
lram Of music.
Or. Talmdges sermon was on The
"Queen Or Festivals and his text was
taken from 1 Corinthians w 81.
death is swallowed up ~ victory.
Following is the sermon.
Since 1851 Easter mornings have
awakened the earth. In France for
about three centuries, the almanacs
made the year begin at Easter until
Charles X started the year at Janu-
airy I. In the tower Of LondeR there
is kept OH the royal pay roll of Ell
warl an entry OF eighteen pounds
for four hundred colarel and pictured
Easter eggs, with which the people
sported. In Russia, slaves were freed
and aims distributed on Easter. Ec-
clesiast. cal councils met at Pontus. at
Gales, at Rome, at Achala 10 decide
the p rtieular day, and after contro-
versy, more animated than gracious,
decided it. and new all through
ChrIstendom in some way tie first
Sunday after the full moon, wi ich
happens upon or next after March
p Is filed with Easter rejuiclngs.
The royal court Of the Sabbaths Is
made up of fifty~'wo. Fifty-one OF
them are princesses, but Easter is
queen Of the royal household She
wears richer diadem, and swings a
more jewe!ed seeptrc than any #
our courts, and in her smile nations
are irradiated, Unusually welcome
this year, because Of the harsh winter
and late spring, she seems to step out
Of the snowbank rather than from the
conservatory, to come out of the
North ms cad Of the South, from the
Arctic instead Of the tropics, dis
mounting from the icy equinox. But
welcome this queenly day that holds
high mp in her right hand the wrench
cd off bolts of Christs sepuIehre and
in her left the key Of all the ceneter
les of Christendom. Ny text Is an
ejaculation, it Is spun OUT of hallelu-
jahs. Paul wrote on deliberately in
his great argument observing all the
laws Of logic until he came TO the
words Of the text, and then his fingers
and his pen and the parchment on
which he wrote took fire and Re
shouted: Death is swallowed up III
vic; ory!" It's an exciting thing to
see an army routed and flying, They
run each other doYn. They scatter
everything valuable in their track.
puwheeled artillery! Hoof Of horse
on breast of wounded and dying men!
You have read of the French falling
back from S0udan, OF Napoleon's
traek Of $4,000 corIses in the snow
bangs Of Russia, OF the ra;raat nf our
forces from Manassae, or the five kings
tpmhling down from the rocks Gi
Beth IIorOn with their armies while
the hailstoaes of heaven and the
swords Of Joshua's host struck them
with their fury. In nv text is a
worse discontinue. 1t seems that
back giant proposed to conquer the
earth. He gathered for his host all
the aches, pains, malarias, dislempers
and epidemics of the ages. He
marched them down, drilling them in
the northeast winds, and amid the
slush Of tempests he threw up barrl-
cAdes Of grave mound. lie pitched
tents Of charnel houses. Some Of The
troops marched With slow tread, COM
manded by consumphops, some by
double quick, commanded by pneu~
mOnias. Some he took by long be-
siegement ofevil habit, and some by
one stroke of the battle-ax Of casu-
atty. With bony hand he pounded
Mt the door of hospitals and sick rooms
and won all the victories in fll the
great battlefelds of the five continents
l procliim the abolition of death.
The old antagonist must BE pat back
into mythology, with all the l,re about
Stygan ferry and Charon, With ear
and boat. You and / do not want
our bodies restored to Us as they are
now. We want to get rid Of all their
weaknesses, their susceptibility to fa
tigue and their slowness of locomo-
motion. They will be pgt through
chemistry of the soil and heat, ana
cold, and changing season, out OF
which God will reconstruct them as
much better than they are now, rs
the body of the rosiest aud healthiest
child bounding the lawn in Prospect
Paak is better than the body of the
siekest RatiRnt in Bellevue hospital.
But as to our soul, we viii cross right