Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-04-20
DEATH Is A VICTORY.
THE SUBJECT OF DR.. TALMAGE's
EASTER SERMON.

THE SUBJECT OF DR.. TALMAGE'S
EASTER SERMON.
An Eloquent Discourse oa the Resnrrcc-
tion-Numeroas Things In Nature That
symboiixe the New Life--oniy the Bad
Disapprore of the Resurrection.
New YORK, April IA, Rev. DR.. Tai
mage preached twice today in New
York-at tho Academy of Music and
the West Presbyterian church--on both
occasions to crowded audiences. One Of
tho sermons was on the subject of 'Eas-
ter Jubilee, +" the text being taken from
| Corinthians XIV, 54, Death is swal-
lowed up IN victory.
! About 1861 Easter mornings have
wakonod the earth. In France for three
begin at Easter until Charles TX made
the year begin at Jan. L. In the Tower
of London there is royal pay roll of
Edward |, on which there is an entry of
IS pence for 400 colored and pictured
Easter eggs, with which tho people
sported. In Russia slaves were fed and
aims were distributed ON Easter.
Ecclesiastical councils met at Pontus,
ut Gaul, at Rome, at Achaia, to decide
the particular day, and after coatro-
vefsy more animated than gracious de-
cided it, and now through all Christen-
dom in some way the first Sunday after
the full moon which happens upon or
next after March 2 i is filled with Easter
rejoicing. The royal court Of tho Sab
baths is made up of so Fifty -one are
princes in tho royal household, but Eas
ter is queen She wears q 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
the cemeteries in Christendom.
My text is an ejaculation. 1t is spun
out of halleluiabs. Paul wrote right on
in his argument about the resurrection
and observed ali the laws of logic, but
when no cano 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 everything valuable on the track.
Unwheeled artillery. Hoof or horse on
breast of wounded and dying man. You
have read of the French falling back
from Sedan, or Napoleon track of 49,
900 corpses in tho snowbanks of Russia,
or of the five kings tumbling over the
rocks of Bethoran with their armies,
while the hailstorms of heaven and the
swords of Joshua's hosts struck them
with their fury.
Tho Hosts of Evil.
But in my text is worse discom-
future. 1t seems that black giant pro-
posed to conquer the earth, He gather
cd for his host all the aches and pains
and maladies and distempers and cpl
denies of the ages. He marched them
down, drilling them in the northeast
wind, amid tho slush of telnpests. He
threw up barbados of grave mound.
He pitched tent of charnel house. Some
of the troops marched with Sow tread,
commanded by consumptions; some in
double quick, commanded by pnormo-
MAS. Some he took by long besiegement
of evil habit and some by ore stroke Of
the battleax CT casualty With bopy
hand he pounded at tho doors of hospi-
tails and sickrooms and won all tho vic
tories III all the great battlelielGs Of all
the five continents Forward, march!
the conqueror 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 antago-
mist was born. As most of the plaques
and sicllnesses and despotisms came out
of tho east it was appropriate that the
new conqueror should come out of the
same quarter Power is given him to
awaken all the fallen of all the ceDtu-
ries and of all lands and marshal them
against the black giant. Fields have al
ready 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 bri-
gade of the celestial host, the black
giant will fall back, and the brigade
from the riyen sepulchers will take him
from beneath, and the brigade of de-
scending immortals will take him from
above, and death shall be swallowed
up in victory" The old braggart that
threatened the conquest and demolition
Of tho planet has lost his throne has
lost his scepter, has lost his palace, has
lost his prestige, and the one word writ
ten over all the gates of mausoleum and
catacomb and metropolis, on cenotGph
and sarcophagus, on tho lonely cairn Of
the arctic explorer and on the catafalque
of great cathedral, written i'll capitals
of azalea and Gala lily, written in mu-
steal cadence, written in doxology of
great assemblages, written on the sculp-
tured door of the family vault, is Vic
tory. " Coronal word, embannered word
apocalyptic word, chief word of trium-
phal arch under which conquerors re-
turn. Victory Word shouted at Cuilo-
den and Balaklava and Blenheim; at
Megiddo and Solferino; at Marathon,
where the Athenians drove back the
Modes; at Poictiers, where Charles Mar
tel broke the ranks of the Saracens; at
Salamis, where Themistocles in the
great sea fight COMPOUNDED the Persians,
and at the door of the eastern cavern of
chiseied rock, where Christ came out
through a recess and throttled the kins
of terrors and put him back III the niche
from which tho celestial conqueror had
Just emerged. Aha, when the jaws Of
the eastern maIsoleum took down the
black giant, "Geath was swallowed up
in yictory"
Abolition of Death.
| proclaim the abolition of death
The old antagonist is driven back into
mythology with all the lore about Styg,
ian ferry and Charon with oar and
beat. We shall have no more to do with
death than we have with the cloalroom
at governors or presidents levee