The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-24
AN EASTER JUBILEE.
OR. TALMAGE breaches ON THE
RESURRECTION.

RESURRECTION.
| Easter Is Queen of the Sabbath and Hold:
In Her HandThe Key to All the Gene
tcrics in Christendom.
New YORK, April 14.-Rev DR.. Tai
| mage preached twice today IN New
York the Academy of Music ano
the West Presbyterian church-on
both occasions to crowded audiences
One of the sermons was on the subject
of Easter Jubilee" the text being
taken from I Corinthians Nv, 81
Death is swallowed up in victory"
About 1861 Easter mornings have
walked the earth. In France for three
centuries the almanacs made the yeal
begin at Easter until Charles X made
the year begin at Jan. l. In the tower
of London there is a royal pay roll ot
Edward l, on which there is an entry
of eighteen pence for 400 colored anc
pictured Easter eggs, with which the
people sported. In Russia slaves were
fed and aims We're distributed on Eas
ter.
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
or or next after March 81 is filed with
Easter rejoicing. The royal court OF
the Sabbaths is made up of so. 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 hel
left hand the key to all the cemeteries
in Christendom.
My texts an ejaculation. 1t 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 parchment on which he wrote took
fire, and he cried out, Death is swal
| lowed up in victory" lisa dreadful
sight to see an army routed and flying.
They scatter everything valuable on
the track. Unwheeled artillery. Hoo1
| of horse on breast of wounded and dy
ing man. You have read of the French
falling back from Sedan, or Napole
ons track of 10000 corpses in the
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. But in my text is a worse
discontinue. 1t seems that a black
gaint proposed to conquer the earth.
He gathered for his host all the aches
and pains and dmaladies and distempers
and epidenics of the ages. He marched
them down, drilling themin in thenorth'
east wind amid the slush of tempests.
He threw up barricades of grave
mound. He pitched tent of charnel
house. Some of the troops marched
with slow tread, commanded by con
sumptives; some in double quick, com
manded by pneumonia. Some he
took by long beseigement 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 room and won all the victories IN
all the great battlefelds of all the five
continents, Forward, march, the con-
quoror of conquerors, all the generals
and commanders in chief, and all presi-
dents and kings and sultans and czars
dropunder the feet of his war charger.
But one Christmas night his an
tagonist was born. AS most OF the
plaques and sicknesses and despotisms
came out of the east it was appropriate
that the new conqeuror 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
celestial host, the black giant will fall
back, and the brigade from the risen
sepulchers Wilt take him from beneath,
and the brigade of descending immort.
ais will take him from above, and
death shall be swallowed up in vic
tory" The old braggart that threat
ened 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 mausoleum and
catacomb and metropolis, on cenotaph
and sarcophagus, on the lonly calrn
of the artic explorer and on the catafal-
que of great cathedreals, written in
capitals of azalea and Gala lily, writ
ten in musical cadence, written in dox-
ology of great assemblages, written on
the sculptured door of the family
vault, is victory" Coronal word
embannered word, apocalyptic word,
chief word of triumphal arch under
which conquerors return. Victory
Word shouted at Culloden and Balak.
lava and Blenheim, at Megiddo and
Solferino, at Marathon, where the
Athenians drove back the Medes; at
Poitiers. where Charles Martel broke
the ranks of the Saracens; at Salamls,
where Themistocles in the great sea
fight confounded the Persians, and at
the door of the eastern cavern of CHS
eled rock where Christ came out
through recess and throttled the king
of terrors and put him back in the
niche from which the celestial conquer
or had just emerged, Ahan, when the
Jaws of the eastern mausoleum took
down the black giant death was
swallowed up in victory"
I proclaim the abolition of death.
The Old antagonist is driven back into
mythology 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 the cloak