Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-06

thousand more outside, vsinly seeking en-
trance. TIE platform and galleries were
one great scene of floral decoration. Mrs.
Evelyn Lyon Hegeman rendered two ap-
propriate pieces and Professors Brown and
Ali afforded q special programme OF music.
Hymn No. 81 was sung, the first verse be-
ing;
"Glory 10 God on high,
Let heaven and earth reply,
Praise ye his name"
DR.. Talmages sermon was on The
Queen of Festivals" and his text was taken
from Corinthians, XIV, 81: death is swal-
lowed up in victory" Following is the
sermon IN full:
About 1851 Easter mornings have awak-
ened the earth. In France for about three
centuries the almanacs made the year. begin
at Easter, until Charles II started the year
at January l. In the Tower of London
there is kept on the royal payroll OF Ed
ward l. an entry OF eighteen pounds for
four hundred colored and pictured Easter
eggs, with which the people sported. la
Russia slaves were freed and aims distribu-
ted on Easter. Ecclesiastical councils met
at Pontus, at Gallie, at Rome at Achaia,
to decide the particular day, and after
controversy more animated than gracious,
decided it, and now all through Christian
dom in some way the Sunday after the
full moon which happens upon or next
after March q is filed with Easter rejoic-
iug. The royal court of the Sabbaths is
made up OF Gity-two. Fifty-one of them
are princesses, but Easter is queen of the
r0yal household. She wears richer diadems
snd swings q more jeweled scepre than
any Of our cours, 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 snow
bank rather than the conservatory, TO come
out of the North instead OF the South, from
the Arctic instead of the tropics, dismount-
ing from an ice equinox.
But welcome this queenly day that holds
high up in her right hand the wrenched off
bolts Of Christ sepulchre and in her lett
the KEY of all the cemeteries OF cbristen-
dom. Ny text is an ejaculation. 1t IS
spun out Of the hallelujahs. Paul wrote on
deliberately IN his great argument ooserv-
ing all the laws of logic until he came to
the words OF ihe text and then his fingers
and his pen and the parchment on which
he wrote took FIRE aad he shouted: Death
is swallowed up in victory They run
each other down. They scatter everything
valuable in their track; uuwleeled artillery
HoOfs of horses on the breasts OF wounded
and dying men! You have read Of the
French falling back from Sedan or Napo
Icons track OF $4,000 corpses in the snow
banks Of Russia, or the retreatment Of our
forces from the MsnsSss, or the five kings
tumbling down from the rocks Of Beth
Horon with their armies while the hail
stones of Heaven, and the swords Of
Joshuas hosts struck them with their fury.
In my text is worse discontinue. 1t
seems that a Black Giant proposed to con-
Qucr the earth. He gathered for his hosts
all the aches, and pains, aud malarias, 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 barr;cades OF grave
mound. He pitched tents Of chapel houses:
Some Of the troops marched
with slow tread commanded by
Consumptions, some by double quick COM
manded by Pneumonias, some he took by
long besiegement of evil habits and some
by one stroke OF the bsttle-sxe of casualty.
With bony hand he pounded at the door Of
hospitals and sick rooms and won all the
victories in all the great battle fields of the
five continents. Forward, conqueror of
conquerorsl and all the generals and COM
msnders,in-chief, and all presidents aad
kings, and sultans and czars dropped under
the feet of his warcharger. But one
Christmas night
HE Antagonist Was Born.
rs most Of the plaques and sicknesscs and
dtspotisms came from the East it was ap-
propriste that the new conqueror should
come out of the same quarter. Power Is
given him to waken all the fallen of all the
cemeteries and of all lands and marshal
them against the Black Giant. Fields have
already been won, but the last day of the
world 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 brigade
from the riven sepulchres will take him from
beneath and the brigade OF the descending
immortals will take him from above and
death will be swallowed up in victory.
The old brsggart that threatened the con-
auestiand demolition Oft he planet has lost his
throne has lost his sceptre, has lost his palace,
has lost his prestige and theone word written
over all the gates OF meusaleum and cate
comb and metropolis or catafalque or sar-
cophagus or the eairn OF lone arctic explor-
er or catatalque of cathedral, written in let
lers Of Gala lily, written in musical cadence,
written in dOxology Of great assembly, writ
ten on seulptured door Of family vault is
"sictcryr Coronal word, embsnDered
word, apocalyptic word, chief word on
triumphsl arch under which conquerors re-
turn. Victory. Word shouted at Bslsclava,
at Inkermaa, at Megiddo, at Blonheim, at
Marathon where the Athenisus drove back
the Medes, and at PoiCtiers where Charles
Martel broke the ranks of the Saracens and
at Sulamis where Nanistocles, in the great
sea Gght, eOnfounded the Persisns, and at
rock. where Christ came out of the dark re-
cess and throttled the King of Terrors and
put him back in the niche from which the
celestial cOnquerer had Just emerged. Hal
ha when the jaws ofthe eastern mausoleum
took down the Black Giant, death was swal
lowed up in victory.
| proclaim the abolition of death. The
old antagonist must be put back into night
along with all the love about Stygian ferry
and Charon with oar and boat. Melrose
Abbey and Kenelworth castle are no more
in ruins than the sepulchre. We shall have
no more to do with death than we have with
the cloak room at 9 Governors or Prssi-
dents leyee. We stop there at such cloak
room and leave in charge Of servants our
oyercoats and overshoes that we may not
be impeded in the rounds of the brilliant
drawing-room. When we 60 away from
this world we are going to q king banquet
and q reception Of monsrchs and at the
door Of the tomb We leave the cloak of
flesh and the wrsppings with which we
IL oF Az, A. l..