Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-04-15
DEATH Is 4 VICTORY
THE SUBJECT OF DR.. TALMAGE'S
EASTER SERMON.

NEW YORK, April 1A.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage preached twice today in New
York-at the Academy of Music and
the West Presbyterian church-on both
occasions to crowded audiences. One of
the sermons was on the subject of ''Eas-
ter Jubilee, - the text being taken from
I Corinthians XIV, 81, death is swal-
lowed up in victory -
About 1861 Easter mornings have
Weakened the earth In France for three
centuries the aImanacs made the year
begin at Easter until Charles X made
the year begin at Jan. l. In the Tower
of London there is a royal pay roll of
Edward I, Oh 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 q contro-
versy more animated than gracious de-
Eided it, and now through all Christen-
dom in some way the first Sunday after
the full moon which happens upon or
rejoicing. The royal court Of the Sab
baths is made up Of 90. Fifty-one are
princes IN the royal household, but Eas-
ter is queen. She wears richer diadem
and sWays q moro jeWeled scepter, and
in her smile nations are irradiated We
welcome this QueenIy 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.
NV text IS an ejaculation. It is spun
out Of halleIuiahs. Paul wrote right Oh
in his argument about the resurrection
and observed ali 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 victoryI' It is dreadful sight
to see an army routed and flying. They
scatter everything valuable on the track.
Unwheeled artillery. Hoof or horse on
breast OF wounded and dying man. You
have read of the French falling back
from Sedan, or NapOleOn's track Of co.,
900 corpses in the snowbanks 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
The Hosts OF Evil.
But il my text is g worse discom-
future. It seems that 4 black giant pro-
posed to conquer the earth. He gather
ed for his host all the aches and pains
and maladies and distempers and cpl
denies of the ages. He marched them
down, drilling them in the northeast
wind, amid tho sIush Of tempests He
threw up barricades Of grave mound.
He pitched tent of charnel house. Some
of the troops marched with slow tread,
commanded by consumptions; some in
double quick, commanded by pneumo-
MAS. Some he took by long besiegement
of evil habit and some by one stroke Of
the battleax Of casualty. With bony
hand he pounded at the doors Of hOspi
tails and sickrOoms and won all the vic
tories in all the great battlefelds of ali
the five continents. Forward, march,
the conqueror of conquerors, and all the
generals and commanders in chief, and
all presidents and kings and sultans
and cars drop under the feet of his war
charger.
But one Christmas night his antago-
mist was born AS most Of the plaques
and sicknesses and despotisms came out
of the east it was appropriate that the
new conuueror should come out of the
same quarter Power is given him to
awaken all the fallen Of all the centu-
ries and of all lands and marshal them
against the black giant. Fields have al
ready been 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 bri-
gade 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 de-
scending immortals will take him from
above, and death shall be swallowed
up in victory" The old praggart 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 writ
ten over all the gates of mausoleum and
catacomb and metropolis, on cenotaph
and sarcophagus, on the lonely cairn of
the arctic explorer and ON the catafalque
of great cathedral, written in capitals
of azalea and Gala lily, written in mu-
steal cadence, written in doxology of
great assemblages, written on the sculp-
tured door CT the family vault, is ''Vic-
tory" Coronal word, EN- hammered word,
apocalyptic word, chief word of triurn-
phal arch under which eCnquerors re-
turn. Victory! Word shouted at Gallo
den and Balaklava and Blenheim; at
Megiddo and Solferino; at Marathon,
where the Athenians drove back the
Modes; at Poictiers where Charles Mar
tel broke the ranks of the Saracens; at
Salamis, where Themistocles in the
rrront con hoI,t nnrFnn1nCod the Por.Ci ans