St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-06

vainly seeking entrance. The platform and
galleries were one great scene of floral dec
oration. Mrs. Evelyn Lyon Hegeman rem
dered two appropriate pieces, and Profs.
Brown and Ali afforded special program of
music. Hymn No. 50 was sung, the first
verse being
'Glory to God on high!
Let heaven and earth reply,
Praise we His name.''
DR.. Talmage's sermon was on The Queen
of Festivals, and his text was taken from
l. CORN thians xv., 54: 'Death is swallowed
up in victory" Following is the sermon in
full:
About ], ,S51 Easter mornings have awak-
led the earth. In France, for about three
centuries, the almanacs made the year be-
gin at Easter, until Charles TX. started the
year at Jan. /. In the tower of London
there is kept on the royal payroll of Edward
I. an entry of els for 400 colored and pict-
ured 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 gra-
cious, decided it, and now all through Chris
tendon, in some way the first Sunday after
the full moon, which happens upon or next
after March 81, is filed with
EASTER REJoICINGs.
The royal court of the Sabbaths is made up
of ifty-two. Fifty-one of them are princesses,
but Easter is queen of the royal household.
She wears richer diadem and swings a
more jeweled scepter than any of 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
instead of the South, from the Arctics instead
of the Tropics, ,dismounting from an icy equi-
nox. But welcome this queenly day that
holds high up in her right hand the wrenched
off bolts of Christ's sepulchre, and in her left
the key of all the cemeteries of Christendom.
Ny text is an ejaculation. 1t is sprung out
of hallelujahs. Paul wrote on deliberately
in his great Argument, observing ali the laws
of logic until he came to the words of the
text; then his fingers and his pen and the
parchment on which he wrote took fire, and
he shouted, 'Death is swallowed up in vic
tory.'' 1t is an exciting thing to see an
army routed and flying. They run each
other down. They scatter everything val
liable in their track. Unwheeled artillery
Hoof of horse on breast of wounded and dy-
ing men! You have read of the French fall
ing back from Sedan, or Napoleon's track Of
60, 600 corpses in the snowbanks of Russia,
or the retreat of our own forces from Manas-
| sas, or the five kings tumb bling down from
the rocks of Beth-Horon with their armies,
while the
HAILSTONES OF HEAVEN
and the swords of Joshua's host struck them
with their fury. In my text is worse dis
comfture. 1t seems that Black Giant pro-
| posed to conquer the earth. He gathered
| for his host all the aches and pains and ma
| larias and distempers and epidemics of the
ages He marched them down, drilling them
in the northeast wind and amid the slush of
| tempests He threw up barricades of grave
mounds. He pitched tents of charnel
houses. Some of the troops marched
with slow tread commanded by
Consumptions some by double quick, COM
mauded by Pneumonias; some he took by
| besiegement of evil habit, and some by one
stroke of. the battle-axe of casualty. With
bony hand he pounded at the door Of hospi-
tails and sick rooms, and won all the victories
in all the great battle fields of the five CONT
nents. Forward, conqueror Of conquerors,
and all. the generals and commanders-in-
chief, and all presidents, kings and sultans
and czars, dropped under the feet Of his war
charger. But one Christmas night his an
tagonist was born. AS most Of the plaques
and sicknesses and despotisms came from
the East, it was appropriate that the new con-
queror should come out of the same quarter.
Power is given him to waken all the fallen of
all the cemeteries of all lands and marshal
them against the Black Giant. Fields have
already been won, but the last day of the
worlds existence will see the decisive 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 brig
ade from the riyen sepulchres win take him
from beneath. and the brigade Of the de-
scending immortals will take him from
above, aud Death shall be swallowed up in
victory.
proclaim the abolition of Death. The old
-
with ali the lore about Stygisn ferry and Cha
ron with oar and boat MNrose abbey and
Kenilworth castle are no more in ruins than
the sepulehre We shall have no more to do
with Death than we have with the cloak room
at governors or presidents levee. We
stop there at such cloak room and leave
in charge of servants our Overcosts, that We
NAV not be impeded in the rounds Of the
brilliant drawing room. When we go away
from this world we are going to kings
banquet and a reception Of monarchs,
and at the door of the tomb we leave the
cloak of flesh and the wrappings with which
we met the storms of this world. At the
close of our earthly reception under the
brush and broom of the porter the coat and
hat may be handed TO US better than when
we resigned them. And the cloak of hu
manity will finally be returned improved,
FRIGHTENED AND PURIFIED.
You and I do not want our bodies restored
to rs Just as they are now. We want TO get
nd of all their weaknesses and their suscept-
ibiiity to fatigue and their slowness of loco
motion. They viii be put through a chemis-
try of the soil ard heat and cold and chang
ing season, out of which God will reconstruct
them as much better than they are now as
the body of the rosiest and healthiest child
bounding the lawn on Prospect park is better
than the body of the siekest patient in Belle
vue hospital. But as TO our soul, We will
cross righ. over, not waiting for obsequies,
independent OF obituary, into state every
way better. with wider room and velocities
beyond com putstion, the dullest Of Us into
companionship with the very best spirits in
the best mood in the very parior of the uni
verse. the four walls FURNISHED, paueI-pie-
tured and gi0rifed with all the splendors that
the infinite God during al the ages has been
able to invent. victoryi Why should it be