The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-19
REV. DR. TAIMAGR
EHH BROOKLYN DTvYNE,s SUE.
DAY SERMON.
Subject: .sEaster Jubilee"

SAJf
About 1861 Easter mornings have Weakened
the earth. In France for three Centuries the
almanacs made the year begin at Easter un.
til Charles TX made the year begin at Ian. 1.
In the Tower Of London there is a royal pay
roll of Edward I, on which there is an entry
of eighteen pence for 400 colored n pic
tured Easter eggs, with which the people
sported. In Russia slaves were fed n aims
were distributed on Easter.
Ecclesiastical councils met at Pontus, al
Gaul, at Rome, at Achaia, to decide the par
ticular day, and after q controversy more
animated than gracious decided 1t, and now
through all Christendom in some way the
first Sunday after the full moon which hap.
pens upon or next after March Il ts filled
with Easter rejoicing. The royal court Of
the Sabbaths is made up of fifty-two. Fifty.
one are princes in the royal household, but
Easter is queen. She wears a richer diadeu
and sways a more jeweled scepter; and in
her smile nations are irradiated. We well
CONF this queenly day, holding high up in
her right hand the wrenched on bolt Of
Christ's sepulcher and holding high up in
her left hand the key to all the cemeteries IN
Christendom.
NY text is an ejaculation. 1t is spun out
Of halleluiahs. Paul wrote right on In hia
argument about the reG -rection and OBJ
served all the laws of logic, but when he
came to write the words OF the text his
fingers and his pen and the parchment on
which he wrote took fire, and he cried out,
"Death is swallowed up In victory" 1t is q
dreadful sight to see an army routed and
flying. They scatter everything valuable on
the track. Unwheeled artillery. Hoof Oh
horse on breast OF wounded and dying
man.. You have read of the French falling
back from Sedan, or Napoleon's track oil
90, 900 corpses in the snowbanks OF Russia, or
Of the fyo kings tumbling over the rocks Of
-. Alas- n~-osaa ,rhtla fha hofl.
storms of heaven and the swords OF joshua
| hosts struck them with their fury.
But in my text is a worse discontinue. II
| seems that n black giant proposed to con.
uuer the earth. He gathered for his host all
the aches and pains and maladies and dis.
| tempers and epidemics of the ages. He
/ marched them down., drilling them in the
| northeast wind, amid the slush of tempests
He threw up barbados of grave mound. He
| pitched tent of charnel house. Some OF tht
! troops marched with slow tread, commanded
by consumptions; some in double quick
commanded by pneunnonias. Some ne tool
by long besiegement of evil habit and som'
by one stroke of the battleax OF casualty
With bony hand he pounded at the doors o
hospitals and slckrooms and won all the vic
tories In all the great battle1elds OF all thu
| five continents. Forward, march! the con
queror of ~conquerers, and all the generals
| and commanders-in-chief, and all presidents
| and kings and sultans and czars drop unde
| the feet of his war charger.
But one Christmas night his antagonist wa
born. As most ofthe plaques and sicknesse
and despotisms came out OF the east 1t wa
appropriate that the new conqueror SHOULD
come out of the same quarter. Power 1
given Him to awaken all the fallen Of all tn
centuries and of all lands n marshal then
against the black giant. Fields have alread,
been won. but the last day will see the de
cisive battle. When Christ shall lead fort
His two briga3es, the brigade of the rise
dead and the brigade of the celestial host, tn
black giant will fall back. and the brigad
from the riven sepulchers will take him fror
beneath, and the brigade OF descending i'm
mortals will take him from above, an
"death shall b swallowed up in victory.
The old braggart that threatened the cor
quest and demolition Of the planet has los
his throne, has lost his scepter, has lost hi
palace, has lost his prestige, and the on
word written over all the gates OF mausoleui
and catacomb and metropolis, on cenotap
and sa~reophagus, OF the lonely cairn of tn
Arctic explorer and on the catafalque {
great cathedral, written in capitals of azale
and Gala lily, written in musical cadenc'
written in doxology Of great assemblage
written on the sculptured door OF the famil
nered word, apocalyptic word, chief word
triumphal arch under which ~conquerors r.
turn. Victory! Word shouted at Cullode
and Balakiava and Blenheim;
Megiddo and Solferino; at Marathon, whei
the Athenians drove back the Modes;
Poictiers, where Charles Martel broke ii
ranks of the Saracens; at Salamis, whei
Themistocles in the great sea fight confounC
ed the Persians, and at the door OF the cas-
ern cavern OF ehiseled rock, where Chri
came out through u recess and throttled I'll
king of terrors and put him back in II
niche from which the celestial conquert
had Just emerged. Aha, when the jaws
the eastern mausoleum took down the blat
giant, "death was swallowed up in victory
Iproclaim the abolition of death. The o
antagonist is driven back into mytholot
with all the lore about Stygian ferry al
Charon with oar and boat. We shall ha'
} no more to do with death than we have wit
the cloakroom at a governors or president
!, levee. We stop at such cloakroom and lea
! in charge of the servant our oyercoat, OF
overshoes, our outward apparel that we mi
3 not be impeded in the brilliant round Of Il
drawing room. Well, my friends, when '
go out Of this world we are going to akins
BANQUET, and to q reception of monarchs, al
at the door Of the tomb, we leave the clo'
of flesh and the ~wrappings with which '
meet the storms of the world. At the clio
: of our earthly reception, under the brush al
t broom Of the porter, the coat or hat may
handed to US better than when we resign
n 1t, and the cloak Of humanity will finally
returned to us improved and frightened a
> purified and glorified. You and / do n
q want our bodies returned to us as they a
now. We want to get rid Of all their wea
nesses. and all their susceptibilities to !
tigue, and all their slowness OF locomotio
They will be put through a chemistry OF 81
and heat and cold and changing seasons o
o of which God will reconstruct g as mu
better h they are now as the body Oft
rosiest and healthiest child that bounds oy
= the lawn Is better than the sickest patient
n the hospital.
N But as to our soul, we will cross right oy
not waiting for obsequtes, independent
obituary. into q state in every way bett
with wider room and velocities beyond 90
), putation; the dullest of US into eompanic
ship with the very best spirits in their We
best moods, in the very best room Of the u
II verse, the four walls furnished and panel
"a and pictured and glorifled with all thesplt
!. doris that the infinite Godin all ages has be
!, able to invent. Victory!
10 This view Of course makes 1t OF but Lit
Importance whether We are cremated
~sepultured. If the latter is dust to dust, I
q former is ashes to ashes. II any prefer
10 eineration, let them have it without carl
Il ture. The world may become so crowd
p that cremation may be universally adopi
by law as well as by general consent. Ma
OF Llb nllRuJGSI anu uuSl VI taIbh hoNo ~
= through this process. Thousands and t
of Thousands of Gods children have be
70 oremated. T. P. Bliss AND wife. the evan
y list singers, cremated by accident at Ash
buia bridge: John Rogers cremated by per
10 cution. Latimer and Ridley cremated at
- ford, Pothinus and Blondina, a slave, a
AZ Alexander, a physician, and their conrad
N cremated at the order of Marcus Aureli
At least a hundred Thousand Of Christ's
!, eiples cremated, and there can be no do
~ about the resurrection of their bodies. II
d world lasts as much longer as it has alres
IN been built, there perhaps may be no 70
for the large acreage set apart for the rest
places, but that time has not come. PIE
VI Of room yet, and the race need not pass Il
bridge OF fire until it comes to it. The m
of us prefer the old way. But whether
of natural disintegratlon or cremation
oil shall get that luminous, buoyant, gladsoi
,ranscendeut, magnificent, inexplicable str
IA lure called the resurrection body you '
n have il, l will have 1t. l say to you to-
as Paul said to Agrippa, why should II
70 thought a thing incredible with you that {
should raise the deadY"
Nv That far up cloud, higher than the ha
X nies, higher than the eagle flies, what ts
made off Drops OF water from the Huds
other drops from the East River, other DIR
from a stagnant pool out on Newark d.
ba Up yonder there embodied IN q cloud