The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-04-27
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Easter the Queen OF the Royal
Court Of Sabbaths.
Death Swallowed Up In the Glory of the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Rising of the
Dead Typlned in Ressur-
rected Nature.

hev. 4. Dewitt Talmage delivcre
the following Easter sermon in tn
Academy of music. New York city, tal
for his text:
Death is swallowed up In victory.--L CORN
hians. xv., 81
About eighteen hundred and sixty
bne Easter mornings have walxene,
the earth. In France for three cen
turtles the almanacs made the year be
gin at Easter, until Charles TX. mad
the year begin at January 1. In thu
tower OF London there Is royal pay
roll OF Edward l.. on which there is al
entry OF eighteen pence for four hun
ared colored and pictured Easter eggs
with which the people sported. Ii
aussia slaves were fed and aims wor,
distributed on Easter.
Ecclesiastical councils met at Pontus
at Gaul, mt Rome, at Achaia, to decide
the particular day, and, after con
troversy more animated than gracious
decided it, and now through all Chris
tendon in some way, the first Sunday
after the full moon which happens up
on or next after March 81 is filed with
Easter rejoicing. The royal court OF
\
Fifty-one are princes in the royal
household; but Easter is queen. She
wears ARCHER diadem, and sways a
more jcweled scepter, aud in her smile
nations are irradiated. We welcome
this quccnly day, holding high up in
her right hand the wrenched-off bolt OF
Christ's sepulchcr, and holding high up
in her left hasd the key to all ceme-
teres in Christendom.
My text is an ejaculation. It is
spun out of hallelujahs. Paul wrote
right on in his argument about the
resurrection, 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 swallowed up in victory!"
1t is dreadful sight to see an army
routed and flying. They scatter every
thing valuable on the track. I'm
wheeled artillery. Hoof of horse on
breast of wounded and dying man.
You have 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
hail-storms of Heaven and the swords
of Joshua'st hosts struck them with
their fury. But in my text is q worse
discontinue. 1t seems that black
giant proposed toconquer 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
northeast wind, amid the slush of tenn
pests. He threw up barricades of
grave-mound. He pitched tent of
charnel-housc. Some of the troops
marched with slow tread, commanded |
by consumptions; some in double
quick, commanded by pneumonias. |
Some he took by long besiegement of
evil habit, and some by one stroke of |
the battle AK of casualty. With bony |
hand he pounded at the doors of hos
pitfalls and sick rooms, and won all the |
victories In all the great battlefields of |
all the five continents. Forward, |
march! the conqucror of conquerors,
and all the generals and commanders
in-chief, and all presidents and kings
and sultans and czars drop under the |
feet of his war charger
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 appropri-
ate that the new conquerer should
come outof the same quarter. Power
is given Hin 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,
bu. the last day will see the decisive
Matte. When Christ shall lead forth
HE two brigades, the brigade of the
risen dead and the brigade of the ce-
lestial host, the black giant will fall
back, and the brigade from the riven
sepluchers will take him from beneath,
and the brigade of descending immor-
.als will take him from above, and
death shall be swallowed up in VIC
tory" The old braggart that threat
ened the conquest and demolition of
the planet has lost his throne, has
lost his sccpter. has lost his
palace, has lost his prestige, and the
one word written over all the gates of
mausoleum and catncomb and necrop-
pills, on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on
Che lonely cairn of the arctic explorer
and on the catafalquc of great cathe-
Oval, written in capitals of azalea and
Gala lily, written in musical cadence,
written in the doxoioyy of great as
scmblages, written in the sculptured
door OF the family vault, Is Victory"
Coronal word, embannercd word, apoc-
alyptic word, chief word of triumpbal
arch under which conqgcrors return.
Victory Word shouted at Cullodcn
and Balaklava and Blcnheim, ut Me-
giddo and Solferino, ut Marathon,
where the Athenians drove back the
Modes, at Poicticrs, where Charles
Martel broke the ranks of the Sara
Gems; at Salamis, where Themistocles
in the great sea fight COMPOUNDED the
Persians, and Mt the door of the east
ern cavern of chiselcd rock, where
Christ came out through recess and
throttled the King OF Terrors. and put
him back in the niche from which the
celestial Conqueror had just emerged.
Aim. when the jaws of the eastern
mausoleum took down the black giant,
death was swallowed up in victory"
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