Milford chronicle., 1895-04-19
AN EASTER JUBILEE.
DR.. TALMAGE breaches ON THE
RESURRECTION.

Easter Is Queen Of the sabbaths and HoId'
In Her Hand the Key to An the Cen.2
teries In Christendom-The Life After
Death.
NEW YORK, April 14.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage preached twice today in New York
at the Academy Of Music and the Yves.
Presbyterian church-on both occasions
to crowded audiences. One Of the sermons
was on the subject of Easter Jubilee, 90
the text being taken from I Corinthians
XIV, 81, " Death is swallowed up in victory. &"
About 1861 Easter mornings have
Weakened the earth. In France for three
centuries the almanacs made the year be
gin at Easter until Charles TX made the
year begin at Jan. l. In the tower OF
London there is q royal pay roll of Edward
/, on which there is an entry Of eighteen
pence for 400 colored and pictured Easter
eggs, with which the people sported In
Russia slaves were fed and aims were dis
tributed on Easter
Ecclesiastical councils met at Pontus.
1T Gaul, at Rome, at Achaia, to decidethe
particular day, and after a controversy
more animated than gracious decided it,
and now through all Christendom in
some way the first Sunday after the full
moon which happens upon or next after
March p is filed with Easter re oicing.
The royal court Of the Sabbaths is made
up of 50. Fifty-one are princes in the roy
al household but Easter is queen. She
wears richer diadem and sways a more
jeweled scepter and in her smile nations
are irradiated. We welcome this quoenly
day, holding high up in her right hand
the wrenched off bolt of Christ $ sepulcher
and holding high up In her left hand the
key to all the cemeteries in Christendom.
My text is an ejaculation. It is spun
out of hGlleluiahs. Paul wrote right ON /
In his argument about the resurrection /
and observed all the laws of logic, but I
when he came to write the words of the /
ext his fingers and his pen and the parch- |
nent on which he wrote took fire. and he
,ried out, death is swallowed up in vic
oryr 1t is a dreadful sight to see an
Irmy routed and flying. They scatter ev-
'rything valuable ON the track I'm
Wheeled artillery. Hoof of horse on breas
If wounded and dying man. You have
cad Of the French falling back from Sc
Ian, or NapoleOn's track of 90, 600 corpses
n the snowbauks of Russia, or Of the five
.ings tumbling over the rocks Of Bethoran
With their armies, while the hailstorms Of
eaven and the swords of .Toshua's hosts
truck them with their fury But in my ,
ext is a worse discontinue. Tt seems that ,
black giant proposed to conquer the J
arth. He gathered for his host all the !
ehes and pains and maladies and distcm-
ers and epidemics of the ages. He march i
/ them down, drilling them in the nortI f
lst wind amid the slush of tempests. He .
lrew up barricades Of grave mound He | s
tched tent Of charnel house Some of | h
re troops marched with slow tread, COM +
landed by consumptions; some in double
lick, commanded by pneumonias Some | Il
2 took by long besiegement of evil habit II
III some by one stroke of the battle az n
casualty. With bony hand he pounded II
the doors of hospitals and sick rooms Y
I'd won all the victories in all the great
of all the five continents. For 81
ard, march, the oonqueror Of oonquerors, II
ID all the generals and commanders in Fl
ief, and all presidents and kings and al
ltans and cars drop under the feet Of a
S war charger q