Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-04-20
AN EASTER JUBILEE.
Or. TALMAGE breaches ON THE
RESURRECTION.

RESURRECTION.
Easter Is Queen Of the sabbaths and Holds
In Her Hand the Key to All the Gene
teries In Christendom- Life After
Death.
NEW YORK, April li.-Rcv. DIR. 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 Faster Jubilee, ;"
the text being taken from Corinthians
xv, 81, Death is swallowed up in victory"
About 1861 Faster mornings have
the earth. In France for three
gin at Faster until Charles X made the
year begin at Jan. l. In the tower Of
London there is n royal pay roll of Edward
l. on which thSro is an entry OF eighteen
pence for 400 colorcd and pictured Faster
eggs, with which the people sportcd. In
Russia slaves We're fed and aims were dis
trihutcd on Faster.
Ecclesiastical councils met at Pontus,
Mt Gaul. ut Rome, Mt Achaia, to decide the
particular day, and after u controversy
more animated than gracious decided IL,
and now through all Christendom in
some way the first Sunday after the full
moon which happens upon or next after
March 81 is filed with Faster rejoicing
The royal court of the Sabbaths Is made
up of 52. Fifty-Onc are princes in the roy
nj household, but Faster is queen She
wears richer diadcm and sways more
ieweled sceptcr, and In her smile nations
are irradiated. We welcome this quccnly
day, holding high up in her right hand
the wrcnchcd of bolt of Christ's scpulchcr
and holding high up in her left hand the
key to all the cemeteries in Christcndom
My text is an ejaculation. IL is spun
out of halleluiahs. 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 parch-
ment on which he wrote took fire, and he
cried out, Death is swallowed up in vic
tory II is dreadful sight To see an
army routed and flying. They scatter cv-
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 Sc
dan. or Napoleons track of 90, 600 corpScs
In the snowhanks of Russia, or Of the Ave
kings tumbling over the rocks of Bcthoran
with their armies, while the hailstorms of
heaven and the swords of .Toshua's hosts
struck them with their fury. But in my
text is worse discontinue. IL seems that
IA black giant proposed to conquer the
earth. He gathered for his host all the
aches and pains and maladics and distcm
pcrs and cpidcmics of the ages He march
ed them down. drilling them in the north
east wind amid the slush of tcmpcsts. lie
threw up barricades of grave mound He
pitched tent of charncl house Some Of
the troops marched with slow tread, com
mandcd by consumptions; some in double
quick, commanded by pncumonias Some
he took by long bcsicgcmcnt of evil habit
and some by one stroke of the battle AK
of casualty. With bony hand he pounded
At the doors of hospitals and sick rooms
and won all the victories in all the great
battlcilclds of all the five continents. For
ward, march, the conqucror of conqucrors,
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
The Black Giants Foe.
But one Christmas night his antagonist
was born. As most of the plaques and
and dcspotisms came out of the
east it was appropriate that the new con
qucror should come out of the same quar-
ter. Power is given him 10 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 dag will see the decisive battle
When Christ shall lead forth his two bri
gadcS the brigade of the risen dead and
the brigade of the celestial host, the black
giant will fall back, and the brigade from
the rivcn scpulchers will take him from
immortals will take him from above, and
death shall bc swallowed up in victory"
The old braggart that threatened the con
quest and demolition Of the planet has lost
his throne, has lost his sccptcr, has lost
his palace, has lost his prestige, and the
one word written over all the gates of
and catacomb and metropolis,
on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on the
lonely cairn of the arctic explorer and on
the catafalquc of great cathedral written
in capitals of aZalca and Gala lily. written
in musical cadence, written in doxology
of great assemblagcs, written ON the
sculpturcd door of the family vault. is
victory. Coronal word, embannercd
word, apocalyptic word chief word Of
triumphal arch under which conqucrors
return. Victory Word shouted Mt Cul-
lodcn and Balaklava and Blenhcim, Mt
Megiddo and Solferino, mt Marathon,
where the Athcnians drove back the
Mcdcs; at Poiticrs, where Charles Martcl
broke the ranks of the Saracens; at Sal
amis, where Thcmistoclos in the great sea
fight confounded the Pcrsians, and at tho
door of the eastern cavern of chisclcd rock
where Christ came out through recess
and throttlcd the king of terrors and put
him back in the niche from which the cc-
iestial conqucror had just emerged Aha,
when the jaws of the eastern mausolcum
took down the black giant death was
swallowed up in victoryl'
proclaim the abolition of death The
old antagonist is driven back into mythol-
ogy with all the lore about Stygian ferry
and Charon with oar and boat. We shall
have no more to do with death than we
have with the cloakroom mt governor S
or presidents lcvec We stop ut such cloak
room and leave in charge of the servant
our ovcrcoa;, our overshocs, our outward
apparel, that we may not be impctied in
the brilliant round OF the drawing room
Well, my friends, when we go out of this
world, we are going TO kings banquet,
and to a reception of monarchs, and az the
door of the tomb we leave the cloak of flesh
and the wrappings with which We meet the
storms of the world. At the close of our
earthly reception, under the brush and
broom OF the porter, the coat or hat may
be handed to us better than when we re-
signed IL, and the cloak of humanity will
finally be returned to us improved and
frightened and purified and glorified You
and do not want our bodies returned Ia
us rs they are now. We want to get rid oi
all their weaknesses, and all their susccpti.
bilitics to fatigue, and all their slowncsS of
locomotion. They will be put through u
chemistry of soil and heat and cold and
changing seasons, out OF which God will
nsconstruct them rs much better than they
are now rs the body of the roSicst and
1ealthicst child that bounds over the lawn