Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-06
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BBOoKLYS, y. Y, April j.-Atthe ser
vices in the BrookIyR Tabernacle this
moTisg, the Easter festival, there were
Coo people inside the building and $500
more ouisigle. vafniy seeking entrance.
IN plSsfaTm and galleries wsreone great
scene n horal decoration. MTs. Evelyn
Lyon Hegenau rendered two appropriate
pieces aRd Professors Brown and Ali
Afforded q special programme o. music.
HYMN No. ~ was sung, the frs. verse
being.
..Clorv 20 God on high
let heaven ani esrth reply
Trs g. ve II name
Dr.. TAmsge's sermon was on ''The
Queen o. Festiyals-" AID his text was
taken from 4. Corinthians Ky. a: Death
rs swallowed up i1 victory." Following
IS the sermon ~ full;
About ls1I Easter mornin IS have swak-
eued the earth. In France, for about
tkree centuries. the almaDscs made the
wear BEGIN al Easter. until Charles ~.
stared the year al Jan. 1. IN the Tower
q LOud8n tseTe - kept on the royal paw
rel o. Edward l. az entry 81 Z Is for 40 col
orsd and pictured Easter eggs, with when
tss peSple spOTtea. II Russia slaves
were freed snd aims distributed on Easter.
Ecclesiastical councils met az Pertus, al
Cabs, 81 Rome and AZ Achais 70 decide
TIE particular day, and after controversy
more animated than gracious. decided it.
and nov al through C0rtstendom IN some
usay the first sunday after the fun Inosn.
watch nappeHs upon or bSXt sft@T March
=. = hIad WIG Easter re3B1cinEs. The
royal court q the =abbatns r. II Rde up Of
6Gy-two. Ffffy-one Of them are prfDcesses,
I'M Easter Is queen 81 ne royal house
hesd sac wears richer dtSiem and
swings mere jeweled sceptve than any
q Cur courts. and in hsT smile nations are
irraciSsed- Unusually welcome this year
szc.uss q TIE h2rsA winter and late
szF1lE siE seems 70 step out Of
"a s1oE-1aEk rather rhSu froD TIE
c1- EzrFzrn-T. % cone out 81 fue Norta
scsr=s5 81 the south, fHoR tbe arctic IN
Sad - Ese tEoTiea- cEs1oz ming rom an
~ e1ziu1E. Bot welcome lHzs queeBly
azy Lza- EoA5s higa % IN Ter right hand
IL NreEc1e(1-ol 10its 81 Cartsts Sc
ure- add IN Ter left the KEY Of
81 tes eeE8@5erpes Of Cbrtstsnd0m. Ny
sexf 81 ar eyacu,AsSsn. Il IS spun out Of
ia5zhs- Paul wrote on deliberately
Dr. BIS great argument. observing all the
= u.s. q 1gic uBVil - came 10 the words
q tbe -ext and thea his fingers ard his
pen AMI the parchment on which be wrote
took nra- ard ne secuted: Death is
swallowed up in victory" Il is an sxcit-
Ing thing % see 40 army ro1ted and
SIZING. They run each other
fowa. They scatter everything val
-a3le 10 their rFzck UnWheeled
-t-ilary. BOOT Of horse on breast Of
iei ard dying men! You have read
FFe0cl falling back from Sedan, OF
-au's track " ~. 900 cGrpses in the
sauks ol Russia, or the retreat OF
forces from Manassas, or the five
: -iez tumDliDg down from the rocks OF
Eelb- H0ron with their armies, while the
nHiistOngs Of heaven and tne swords OF
Jo5hus's host struck them with their
fury. In my taxi is a worse discontinue.
1t seems that black grant proposed to
conquer the esTth. He gathered for his
host all the aches and pains and malarias
and digteTn pers and epIdemics OF the
ages. He marched them down, drilling
them in the EOftbeast wind and amid the
slush Of tempests. He threw up barn.
cades Of grave mounds. He pitched tents
of charnel houses. SEINE OF the troops
marched with slow tread, commanded by
Consumptions, some oy deuh4e-quick.
commanded by PHeamoniWs. Some he
took by long bessegsnlout of evil habit,
and some by Que serske Of the battle-ax
Of casualty. With bOny hard he pounded
at the door Of hospitals and sick rooms.
and won all the victories in al th7 great
Dattle6e DIS Of the i've continents. For
ward, conquerOr OF coDquerorsl and all
the Generals and coEmauders-in-chie
aud al Presidents. AMI Kings. and Sui
tans, and Cars dropped under the feet OF
his w9r-charger. But one Christmas
night his antagonist was born. As most
Of the plaques. and siCknesses, and des-
potisms came from the ESst, il was ap-
prOriate that the new conqueror should
come out Of the same quarter. Power Is
given him 10 waGen all the fallen OF all
the cemeteries and Of all lands, aud mar
shall them against the Black Giant. Fields
have already been won, but the last day
Of the worlds existence will see the de-
cisiye 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 fan back
and the brig de from the riven seVuiehres
VIII take him from beneath, and the brig
ade of the descending immortsls win take
INN above, and deaun shall be swallowed
Dp IN victory.
The old braggart that threatened the
conquest snd demolition on the planet has
lost Ms throne, has lost hfs sceptre, has
lost bis palace, has lost his prestige, and
the one word written over all the gates Of
nausOfeum, and catacomb, and necropo-
lis, or cenOtaph, or sarcOphagus, or the
Cairn OF lone Arctic explorer, or cata-
falque Of cathedral, written in letters Of
Gala lily, written in musical cadence.
written in doXOlogy Of great assembly.
written on scuptured door of family
vault is victory" corOnal wOYd, emban-
nered word, apOcalyptic word, chief word
On trlumphal arch under which conquer
ors returns-gictory word shouted az Ba-
iaklava, al lRkermann, at Megiddo, at
Blenneim, at Marathon. where the Athe-
mans drove back the Modes. and at
Poictiers, where Charles N aFtel broke the
ranks Of the 5arScens. and AZ ,slamis,
where InemlstOcles. in the great sea
fight. COMPOUNDED the Persians. ard N rhe
door Of eastern cavern u chiseled rock,
" here Christ came out OF the dark recess
and tnrOt led the King Of Tsrrors and put
him back IN the niche from which the &c.
lestisi cOnqueror had Just emerged.
Ha! Ia! When the jaws OF the Eastern
mausOleum took down the Black Giant,
death Vas swallowed up in victory.
j proclaim the abolition of death. The
old antagonist must be put back into
mythology with All the lore about Stygian
Ferry ana Charon with oar and boat.
heirOse Abbey and kenilworth Castle are
% more In ruins than the scpuichre. We
shall have no more tn do with death than
we have with the cloak room at Gov.
ernOr's OF Presidents leyee. We step
there a. such cloak room and leave in
charge az 9prWaqtg 0ur ovaruoaf and aver.