The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-26
EASTER JUBILEE.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Discourses on
the Resurrection.
Ehe Rising OF the Dead Demonstrated by
Resurrected Nature--A Sublime
aReview OF the Victory Over
the Death Angel.


city. 1t was based on the text:
Death is swallowed up in viotory.-L Corin-
thlans, XIV, 81
About eighteen hundred and sixty
one Easter mornings have Weakened
the earth. In France for three CEN
turtles the almanacs made the year be-
gin at Easter, until Charles TX. made
the year begin at January /. In the
tower of London there is royal pay
roll of Edward L., on which there is an
entry of eighteen pence for four hun
dred colored and pictured Easter eggs,
with which the people sported. In
Russia slaves were fed and aims were
distributed on Easter.
Ecclesiastical councils met at Pontus,
at Gaul, at 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
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 sways
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
Christ's sepulcher, and holding high up
in her left hand the key to all ceme-
teries in Christendom.
NV text is an ejaculation. 1t 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 a 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's hosts struck them with
their fury. But in my text is a worse
1t seems that a black
giant proposed to conquer 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
graye-mound He pitched tent OF
Some of the troops
with slow tread, commanded
by eonsumptions; some in double
quick, commanded by pneumonias.
Some he took by long besiegement of
evil ha bit, 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
In all the great battlefields of
al the five continents Forward,
march! the conqueror of conquerors,
and all the generals and commanders
and all presidents and kings
Ind sultans and cars drop under the
feet of his war charger. G1
lRut one Christmas night his antag-
ouist was born AS most of the
plaques and sick pesses and despotisms
"A me out of the east, it was appropri-
ate that the new conquerer 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 decisive
battle. When Christ shall lead forth
His two brigades, the brigade of the
risen dead and the brigade of the ce-
lestial host, the black giant will fall
hack. and the brigade from the riven
will take him from beneath,
and the brigade of descending immor-
tails will take him from above, and
ideath shall be swallowed up in vic
tory" The old braggart that threat
eued the conquest 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
and catacomb and necrop-
,lis. on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on
the lonely csirn of the arctic explorer
and on the catafalque of great cathe-
aral. written in capitals of azalea and
salla lily, written in musical cadence
written in the doxology OF great as
written in the sculptured
door of the family vault, is Victory
word, embannered word, apoc-
alyptic word, chief word of triumphal
arch under which conquerors return.
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