The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-05-10
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIvINEs SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subjects "Easter Jubnee.v

tory ~ Corinthians NV., 81
About 1851 Easter mornings have wnksned
/ the earth. In France for three Centuries tho
/ hlmanaos made The year begin at Raster un-
/ gu Charles TX made the year begin NJ Jan. 1.
I In the Tower OF London there III royal nav
/ roll Of Edward /, on which there a an entry
/ Of eighteen pence for 800 cOlored and pie
/ turod Easter eggs, with which the people
/ sported. In Russia slaves were fed and aims
| were distributed on Easter
Ecclesiastical councils met AZ pontus, az
/ Gaul, no Rome, az Achaia, 90 decide the par
/ ucular day, and after q controversy more
/ animated than gracious decided it, and now
/ through oil Chnstend0m Ia some way the
+ first Sunday after the full moon which hap
/ pens upon or next after March q 81 filled
/ with Easter rejoicing. The royal court OF
/ the sqbbnths is made up Of flfy-two. Fifty
4 one are princes In the royal household, but
/ Easter ia queen. She wears a richer diadem
/ and sways more ieweled scepter; and In
/ her smile nations are irradiated. We well
i come this queenly day, holding high up IN
her right hand the wrenehed on bolt OF
/ Christs sepulcher and holding high up in
her left hand the key 10 all the cemeteries IN
/ Christendom.
My text Is an ejaculation. II Is spun out
OF halleluiahs. Paul wrote right on in his
argument about the resurrection and OBJ
served all the laws Of logic, but when he
came 10 write the words o. the text his
fingers and his pen and the parchment on
which no wrote took fire. and he cried out.
'Death is swallowed up In vlctorym lisa
dreadful sight to see an army routed and
| lying. They scatter everything valuable on
the track. Unwheeled artillery Hoof OF
horse on breast Of wounded and diving
man. You have read OF the French falling
back from Sedan, or Napole0n's track OF
/ $4,000 c0rpscs In the snowbanks Of Russia, or
/ Of the FIVE kings tumbling over the rocks of
Bethoran with their armies, while the hail
storms Of heaven and the swords Of Joshua's
/ hosts struck them with their fury.
But In my text "a worse discontinue. Il
seems that q black giant proposed to con-
quer the earth. He gathered for his host all
the aches and pains and malades 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 the
troops marched with slow tread, commanded
by consumptiOns; some in double quick,
commanded by pneumonias Some he took
by long besegement Of evil habit and some
by one stroke Of the battleax Of casualty.
With bony hand he pounded at the doors Of
hospitals and sickroOms and won all the vic
tories in all the great battleAelds of all the
five continents. Forward, march! the, con-
querOr Of conquerers, and oil the generals
and commanders-in-chief,a and all presidents
and kings and sultans and eZars drop under
the feet of his war charger.
But one Christmas night his antagonist was
born. AS most ofthe plaques and siclnesses
and despotsms came out Of the east it was
appropriate that the new conqueror should
come out OF the same quarter. Power is
given Him to awaken all the fallen of all the
centuries and Of all lands and marshal them
against the black giant Fields have already
been won, but the last day 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 host. the
black giant will fall back and the brigade
from the riven sepulchers win take him from
beneath, and the brigade of descending inn
mortals will take him from above, and
death shall be swallowed up in victory"
The old braggart that threatened the con-
quest 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 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 musical cadence,
written in doxology Of great assemblages,
written on the sculptured door Of the family
vault, is "Victory." CorOnal word, emban-
nered word, apocalyptic word, chief word Of
triumphal arch under which conquerors re-
turn. Victory! Word shouted at Culloden
and Balaklava and Blenheim; at
Megiddo and Solferino; at Marathon. where
the Athenians drove back the Modes; at
Poictiers, where Charles Martel broke the
ranks of the Saracens at Salamis, where
Themistocles in the great sea fight confound-
ed the Persians, and at the door of the east
ern cavern OF chiseled rock where Christ
came out through recess and throttled the
king of terrors and put him back in the
niche from which the celestial conuueror
had just emerged. Aha, when the laws OF
the eastern mausoeum took down the black
giant, "death was swallowed up in ylctoryr
! l proclaim the abolition of death. The old
antagonist is driven back into mythology
with all the lore about Stygian ferry ant
Charon with oar and boat. We shall have
no more to do with death than we have with
the cloakroom at a governors or president:
levee. We stop at such cloalIroom and leave
in charge of the servant our oyercoat, ou1
J overshoes, our outward apparel that we may
not be impeded in the brilliant round of the
drawing room. Well, my friends, when W,
, go out Of this world we are going to a king
banquet, and to a reception OF mOnarchs, anC
) at the door Of the tomb, we leave the eloal
OF flesh and the Wrappings with which W
meet the storms OF the world. At the clos
of our earthly reception, under the brush an
broom Of tho porter, the coat or hat may b
handed to us better than when we resigne
+ it, and the cloak OF humanity will finally b
returned to us improved and frightened an
purified and glorihed. You and 1 do no
? want our bodies returned to us as they ar
now. We want to get rid of all their weak
nesses, and all their susceptibilities to ia
tigue and all their slowness of locomotion
They will be put through chemistry of sol
and heat and cold and changing seasons GU
7 of which God will reconstruct them as muc
better than they are now as the body Of tn
+ rosiest and healthiest child that bounds owe
the lawn is better than the sickest patient
c the hospital.
d But as to our soul, we will cross right owe
not waiting for obsequies, Independent {