Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-04-18
AN EASTER JUBILEE.
DR.. TALMheE breaches ON THE
RESURRECTION.

RESURRECTION.
Easter Is Queen Of the sabbaths and Holds
In Her Hand the Key TO All the Ceme-
tsries 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 West
Presbyterian church-on both occasions
to crowded audiences. One of the sermons
was Gu the subject of "Easter Jubilee"
the text being taken from Corinthians
xv, 81, Death is swallowed up in victory"
About 1861 Faster mornings have
wakened the earth. In FRANCE for three
,centarics the almanacs made the year be-
gin Mt Easter until Charles TX made the
year begin at dan. /. In the tower of
London there is royal pay roll of Edward
l. on which there is an entry Of eighteen
pence for 400 colored and pictured Easter
eggs, with which the people sported. In
Russia slaves wcrefed and aims were dis
tributcd on Faster.
at Gaul, at Rome, ut Achaia, to decide the
particular day, aud after u controversy
more animated than gracious decided it,
and now through all Christendom in
somo way the first Sunday after the full
moon which happens upon or next after
March 81 is filed with Easter rejoicing.
Tho royal court OF tho Sabbaths is made
up of 90. Fifty-onc are princes in the roy
al household, hut Easter is queen. She
wears richer diadem and sways a more
jcwcled scepter, and In her smile nations
are irradiated. We welcome this queenly
day, holding high up in her right hand
the wrenchcd Off bolt Of Christ S scpulcher
and holding high up in her left hand the
key to al. tho cemeteries in Christondom.
My text Is an ejaculation. 1t Is spun
out Of haleliiiahs Paul wrote right on
in his argument about the resurrection
and observed all tho laws of logic, but
when he came to write the words of the
text his fingers and his pen and the parch-
mont on which he wrote took fire, and he
cried ont "Death Is swallowed up in VIC
toryi' 1t Is dreadful sight to see an
shrmy routed and flying. They scatter ev-
erything valuable ON the track Un-
wheeled artillery. Hoof of horse on breast
of wounded and dying man. You have
read of the French falling back from Se-
dan. or Napoleon's 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 o worse discontinue. It seems that
black giant proposed to conquer the
earth. He gathered for his host all the
aches and pains and maladies and distem-
pers and epidemics of the ages, He march
ed them down, drilling them in the north
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, COM
manded by consumptions; some in double
quick, commanded by pneumonias. Some
he took by long besiegement 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 rooms
and won all the victories in all the great
battleflelds of all the five continents. For
ward, 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.
The Black Giants Foe.
But one Christmas night his antagonist
was born. As mos. of the plaques and
sickncsscs and despotisms came out of the
east it was appropriate that tho new con-
queror should come out Of the same quar-
ter. 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 bri-
gades, the brigade of tho risen dead and
the brigade of the celestial host, the black
giant will foil back, and the brigade from
the rivcn scpulchers will take him from
beneath, and the brigade of descending
immortals will take him from above, and
death shall be swallowed up in victory"
The old braggart thnt threatened the con-
quest 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
lonely cairn Of the arctic explorer and on
the catafalque of great cathedral, written
in capitals of azalea and calla lily, written
in musical cadence, written in doxology
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. Victoryl Word shouted at Gull
loden and Balaklava and Blenheim, at