The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-06-08
EASTER JUBILEE
Rev. DR. Talmage Discourses on
the Resurrection.
The Rising Of the Dead Demonstrated ~
Resurrccted Nature-A sublime
sReview OF tho Victory Over
tho Death Angel.


The following Easter discourse was
delivered by Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage
In the Academy of music, New YORK
city. 1t was based Oh the text:
Death IS sway,eNed up in victory.-L Corin-
ttfans. rss, a.
About eighteen hundred and sixty-
one Easter mornings have wakened
the earth. In france for three CEN
turies tbs almanacs made the year be-
gin at Easter, until Charles TX, made
the year begin at January J. Ia the
tower of London thsss b h royal pay
roll OF Edward l., on which there is an
entry OF eighteen pence for four hun
bred colored and pictured Easter eggs,
with which the speople opofted. In
Russia slaves were fed and aims were
distributed on Easter.
Ecclesiastical councils met e. eontus.
at Gaul, at ROME, ut 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 hrst Sunday
after the full moon which happens up
on or next after March 81 is filled with
Easter rejoicing. The royal court OF
the Sabbaths is made up of fifty-two
Fifty-one are princes in the royal
household, but Easter is queen. She
| wears richer diadem, and swsys a
more jeweled scepter, and in her smile
| nations are irradiated, We welcome
this queenly day, holding high up in
her right hand the wrenched-off bolt of
Christs sepulcher, and holding high up
| Ia her left hand the key to all GENIE
| teries in Christendom,
My text is an ejaculation. II ia
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 ard
his pen and the parchment Oh which
he wrote took Are, and he cried out:
! Death Is swallowed up in victoryr'
1t is dreadful sight to see an army
routed and flying. They scatter every
thing valuable on the track. TN
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 eorpses iii 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's hosts struck them with
their fury. But in my text is worse
| discontinue. 1t seems that black
| giantproposed toconquer the earth, He
! gathered for his host all the aches and
pains and inaladies and distempers and
epidemics of the hges He marched
them down. drilling them in the
northeast wind, amid the slush of tenn
pests. He threw up barricades OF
grave-meuiid. lie pitched tent of
CLEARINGHOUSE. Some of the troops
marched with slow tread, commanded
by consumptiops; some In double.
quick, commanded by pneumonias.
! Some he took by long bcsiegement OF
Y evil habit, and some by one stroke OF
We battle ak of casualty. With bonv
~ 1e pounded at the doors OF hos
IbM s and 81 IL rooms, ind won all the
victories IN all the great battlefields Of
all the five continents. Forward,
march! the conqueror of conqdcrors,
and all the generals and commanders.
in-chief, and all presidents and kings
and sultans and cars drop under the
fect'of hisswar charger.
But Que Christmas night his antag.
t0nist was born. As most of the
4 plaques and sick nesses and despotisms
came out of the east, it was appropri
4 ate that the new conquerer should
rome 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
I. hut. the last day will see the decisive
battle. When Christ shall lead forth
a His two brigades, the brigade of tbs
risen dead and the brigade of the ce
lestial host, the black giant will fall
back, and the brigade from the river
sepluchers will take him from beneath
and the brigade of descending immur
1 tails will take him from above, anG
death shall be swallowed up in vic
tory" The old braggart that threat
i eued the conquest and demolition o.
the planet has lost his throne, ha,
/ lost his scepter, has lost hi
palace, has lost his prestige, and thu
i pne word written over ali the gates o
mausoleum and catacomb and necrop
4 oils. on cenotaph and sarcophagus, OF
! the lonely cairn of the arctic explore
land on tho catafalque of great cathe
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