The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-04-19
EASTER JUBILEE.
DR.. Talnage Discourses on the
Glories of the Resurrection.
Our Lords Triumph Over the Black CLAM
Death Is Swallowed Up In Victory
The Reward That Awaits
the Faithful.

taken from |. Cor, Xv:54, death i
swallowed up in victory" DR. Tai
mage said:
About 1.s61 Easter mornings have
awakened the earth. In France fol
three centuries the almanacs made the
year begin at Easter, until Charles IN
made the year begin at January 1. In
the tower of London there is a royal
pay roll of Edward l., on which there
is an entry of is pence for 400 colored
and pictured Easter eggs, with which
the people sported. In Russia slaves
were fed and aims were distributed on
Easter.
Ecclesiastical councils met at Pontus,
at Gaul, at Rome, at Achaia, to decide
the particular day, and, after con-
troversy more animated than gracious,
decided it, and now through all Christ
endom in some way, the first Sunday
after the full moon which happens
upon or next after March 81 is filled
with Easter rejoicing. The royal court
of the Sabbaths is made up of fifty
two. Fifty-one are princes in the
royal households; but Easter is queen.
She wears rich diadem, and sways a
more jeweled scepter, and in her smile
nations are irradiated- We welcome
this queenly day, holding high up in
her right hand the wrenched-off bolt
of Christ's sepulcher, and holding high
up in her left hand the key to all the
cemeteries in Christendom.
My text is an ejaculation. 1t is spun
out of hallelujahs. Paul wrote right
on in his argument about the resurrec-
ton, and observed 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 swal-
lowed up in victory 1t is dreadful
sight to see an army routed and flying.
They scatter everything valuable on
the track. Unwheeled artillery. Hoof
of horse on breast of wounded and dy-
ing man. You read of the French falling
back from Sedan, or Napoleon's track
of ninety thousand corpses in the snow
banks of Russia, or of the five kings
tumbling over the rocks of Bethoran
with their armies, while the hailstorms
of heaven and the swords of Joshua's
hosts struck them with their fury.
But in my text is a worse discomfit-
ure. 1t seems that black giant pro-
posed to conquer the earth. He
gathered for his host all the aches and
pains and maladies and distempers and
epidemics of the ages. He marched
them down. drilling them in the north
east wind, amid the slush of tempests.
He threw up barricades of grave
mounds. He pitched tent of charnel
house Some of the troops marched
with slow tread, commanded by con-
sumptions; some in double quick. COM
manded by pneumonias. Some he took
by long bcsiegement of evil habit and
some by one stroke of the battle-aX of
casualty. With bony hand he pounded
at the doors of hospitals and sick
rooms and won all the victories in all
the great battle-fields of all the five
continents. Forward march! the con-
queror of conquerors, and all the gen.
erals and commanders-in-chi and all
presidents and kings and sultans and
czars drop under the feet of his war
charge.
But one Christmas night his antag-
onist was born. As most of the plaques
and sicknesses and despotisms came
out of the east, it was appropriate that
the New ConquerCr should come out of
the same quarter. Power is given Him
to awaken all the fallen of the CEN
turtles and of all lands, and marshal
them against the black giant. Fields
have already beer won, but the last
day 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 host, the black
giant will fall back, and the brigade
from the riven sepulchers will take
Him from beneath, and the brigade of
descending immortals will take Him
from above and death shall be swal-
lowed up in victory" The old brag-
CART that threatened the conquest and
demolition of the planet has lost his
throne, has lost his scepter, has lost his
palace. has lost his prestige, and the one
word written over all the gates of
mausoleum and catacomb and necropo-
lis, on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on
the lonely cairn of the Arctic explorer
and on the catafalque of great cathe-
dral. written in capitals of azalea and
Gala lily, written in musical cadence,
written in doxology of great assem-
blages, written on the sculptured door
of the family vault, is Victory" Cor
oual word, embannered word, apoca-
lypsic word, chief word of triumphal
arch under which conquerors return.
Victory" Word shouted at Culloden
and Balaklava and Blenheim; at Me-
giddo and Solferino; at Marathon,
where the Athenians drove back the
Medes; at Poictiers, where Charles
Martel broke the ranks of the Sara
Gems; ct Salamis, where Themistocles
in the great sea fight confounded the
Persians, and at the door of the eastern
cavern of chiseled rock, where Christ
came out through recess and throt-
tied the king of terrors, and put him
back in the niche from which the
Celestial Conqueror had just emerged.
Aha! when the jaws of the eastern
mausoleum took down the black giant,
''death was swallowed up in victory"
1 proclaim the abolition of death.
The old antagonist is driven back into
mythology with all the lore about Styg-
ian ferry and Charon with oar and boat
We shall have no more to do with death
than we have with the cloak room at a
governors or presidents levee. We
stop at such cloak room and leave in
charge of the servant our overcoat, our
oyershoes, our outward apparel that
we may not be impeded in the brilliant
round of the drawing room. Well, my
friends, when we go out of this world
mo ara ro;nor ~ a KINGS bauouet and