The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-04-15
PULPIT UT'EERANCEs.
A Discourse on Easter rs the
Queen Of Religious Feasts.
sWby Should 1t he Thought aThlng In
credible with You That God Should
Aalse tho ,Deads"-A Sermon
.0ti by Rev. DIR. Taiinage.

AsAl1o the ,Dehug'-A sermon
.ti by Rev. DIR. TaIinsge. '-'
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DR.. Talmage's text for his Easter Sum
day sermon was:
Death lie swallowed up In vlctory.-I Corin-
tbtdns, rp. S.
Following is the sermon: ''''' ''+''
About eighteen hundred and fifty-one
Easter mornings have awakened the
earth. In France for about three CEN
gin al Easter until Charles TX. started the
year at January 1. In the Tower of Lon
don there is kept on the royal payroll Of
Edwa'd l. an entry Of els Tor 400 colored
and pictured Easter eggs, with which the
people sported. In Russia slaves were
freed and aims distributed on Easter.
Ecclesiastical councils met at Pontus, at
GALES, at Rome, at Achaia to decide the
particular day, and after controversy more
animated than gracious, decided 1t, and
now all through Chrlstendom In some way
the first Sunday after the full moon, which
happens upon or next after March 21, is
filed with Easter rejoicings. The royal
court OF the Sabbaths is made up Of fifty
two. Fifty-one Of them are prlncesses,
but Easter is queen of the royal household.
She wears richer diadem and swings
more -jeweled scepter than any Of our
courts, and in her smile nations are irradi-
ated. Unusually welcome this year be-
cause OF the harsh winter and late spring,
she seems to step out of the snow bank
rather than from the conservatory, TO come
out Of the North instead Of the South, from
the Arctic instead of the tropics, dismount.
ing from an icy equinox.
But welcome this quiet day, that holds
high up In her right hand the wrenched-off
bolts Of Christ's sepulcher, and in her left
the key OF all the cemeteries Of Christen-
dom. My text is an ejaculation. 1t is
spun out OF hallelujahs. Paul wrote one
deliberately In his great argument, observ-
ing all the laws Of logic until he came TO
the words Of the text, and then his fingers
and his pen and his parchment on which
he wrote took fire, and he shouted: "Death
is swallowed up In victoryn It l. an ex-
citing thing to see an army routed and
hYins. They run each other down. They
scatter every thing valuable In their track.
breast Of wounded and dying mend You
have read Of the French falling back from
Sedan, or Napoleon's track Of sixty thou
sand corpses in the snowbanks Of Russia,
or the retreat Of our forces from Manassas,
or the fivs Kings tumbling down from the
rocks OF Beth -Horon with their armies,
while the hailstones Of Heaven and the
swords Of Joshua's hosts struck them with
their fury. In my text is q worse dis
comfture. 1t seems that Black Giant pro-
posed TO conquer the earth. He gath
cred for his host all the aches and
pains and malarias and distempcrs and
epidcmics OF the ages. He ma ched them
down, drilling them In the northeast wind
aud amid the slush Of tsmpests. He threw
up barricados OF grave mounds. He pitched
tents OF charnal.houses. Some Of the
troops marched with slow tread, COM
manded by Consumptions; some by
double-quick, commanded by Pneumonia;
some he took by long beslegement OF evil
habit, and some by one stroke OF the bat.
tle-axe Of Casualty. With bony hand he
pounded at the door Of hospitals and sick
rooms, and won all the victories In oil the
great battlefield OF the five continents.
Forward, conqueror OF conquerors. And
all tho Generals and Commanders.i
Chief, and all Presidents aud Kings and
Sultans and Cars dropped under the feet
Of his war charger. But one Christmas
night his antagonist was born. As most
OF the plaques and sicknesses and des-
potisms came from the East, II was appro-
PIRATE that the new conqueror should
come out Of the samo quarter. Power was
given Him 10 wakon all the fallen of all
the cemeteries and Of all lands aud mar.
shall them against the Black Giant. Fields
have already beel won, but the last day
Of the worlds existence will see the de-
cisive battle. When Christ shall lead forth
His two brigades-the brigade OF the risen
dead and the brigade Of the celestial
armies-the Black Giant shall fall back,
and the brigade from the r;ven sepulchers
will take him from beneath and the brig
ade Of the descending immortals will take
him from above, and Death shall be swal-
lowed up In victory.
The old bragRart that threatened the
conquest and den oiirion Of the planet has
lost his throne, bds lost his scepter, has
lost his palace. has lost his prestige, and
the one word written over all the gates OF
mausoleum and .atecomb and metropolis
or cenotaph or sarcophagus or the cairn OF
lone Arctic explorer or catafalque Of
cathedral, written In letters OF Gala lily,
written in musical cadence, written in
doxology Of great assembly, written on
sculptured door Of family vault Is "Vic-
toryp Coroual word, embannered word,
apocGlyptic word, chief word on tri-
umphal arch under which conqucrors re.
turn, Victory Word shouted at Dalaclava,
at InkeImann, at MegIddo, at Blenheim,
at Marathon, where the Athenians drove
back the Medes, and at Poictier, where
Charles Marte broke the ranks Of the
5aracens, and at Salamis, where Them
ist)cles In the great seq q hit confounded
the Persians, and at the door Of eastern
cavern Of chissled rock where Christ came
cut OF the dark recess and throttled the
Kisg Of TeTors and put him back into the
niche from which tho celestial conqueror
h.d Just emerged. Hal hal When the
Jaws Of the eastern mnusoleum took down
the gack Giant, death was swallowed up
In victory.
Iproclaim the abolition Of death. Tho
old antagonist must be put back into
mythology with all the lore about Stygian
Ferry and Charon with oar and boat.
Melrose Abbey and Kenilworth Castle are
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