Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-03-31


fuller life is presented in this Easter
discourse by DR.. Talmage from the
text Cor. XIV, 81, Death is swallowed
up in victory"
About 1870 Easter mornings have
Weakened the earth. In France for
three centuries the almanacs made the
year begin at Easter until Charles IN.
made the year begin at Jan. l. In the
Tower of London there is a royal pay
roll of Edward l. on which there is an
entry Of IS pence for 400 cOlOred and
pictured eggs, with which the people
sported. In Russia slaves were fed
and aims were distributed on Easter.
Ecclesiastical councils met in POntus,
In Gaul, in Rome, in Achaia, to decide
the particular day and after a cOntrO-
versy moro animated than gracious de-
cided it, and now through all Christen-
dom in some way the first Sunday aft
er the full moon which happens upon
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, she sways a more jeweled
scepter, and in her smile nations are
irradiated. How welcome she is when,
after a harsh winter and late spring,
she seems to step out of the snOWbank
rather than the conservatory, to come
out of the north instead of the south,
out OF the arctic rather than the trop-
but welcome this queenly day, holding
high in her right hand the wrenched
off bolt Of Christ's sepucher and hold
ing high i'm her left hand the key to all
the cemeteries in Christendom.
. My text is 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 swallowed
up in victory 1t is an exciting thing
to see an army routed and flying. They
run each other down. They scatter ev-
erything valuable in the track. Tn
wheeled artillery; hOof of horse on
breast of wounded and dying man.
eYou have read of the French falling
back from Sedan, of NapOleon's track
of 10000 corpses in the snowbanks of
Russia, of the retreat of our armies
from Manassas or of the five kings
tumbling over the rocks of Beth hOraA
with their armies while the hailstorms
of heaven and the swords of Joshua's
host struck them with their fury.
The Charge of the Black Giant.
In my text is worse discontinue.
1t seems that a black giant proposed to
conquer the earth. He gathered for mis-
host all the aches and pains and ma
larias and cancers and distempers and
epidemics of the ages. He marched
them down, drilling them in the north
west wind and amid the slush of tenn
pests. He threw up barricadcs OF grave
mound. He pitched tent of charnal
house. Some of the troops marched
with slow tread commanded by con
sumptiOns, some i'm double quick com
handed by pueumOnias. Some he took
by long besicgcment of evil habit and
some by one stroke of the battIeaX OF
casualty. With bOny hand he pounded
at the door of hospitals and sickrooms
and won all the victories in all the
great battlclields of all the five CONT
nents. Forward. march! ordered the
eonquCrOr of conqucrOrs. and all the
generals ana commanders in chlef ant
all presidents and kings and sultans
and czars dropped under the feet of his
'hr.iG ct
his antagonist was born.
AS most of the plaques and sickness
es and dcspotisms come out of the east
It was appropriate that the new con
uucror should come out of the same
quarter Power is given him to awak
en- all the fallen of all the centuries
and of all lands and marshal then
against the black giant. Fields have
already been won, but the last day o
the worlds existence will see the de
cisive battle. When Christ shall leaC
forth his two brigades, the brigade o
the risen dead and the brigade of tn
celestial host. the black giant will fail
back, and the brigade from the rivel
sepulchcrs will take him from beneath
and the brigade of descending immol
tails will take him from above, ant
death shall be swallowed up in vic
tory.
The old brd-gart that threatened tn
conquest and demolition of the plane
has lost his throne has lost his sceI
ter. has lost his palace. has lost hi
prestige. and the one word written owe
all the gates of mausolcum and cat;
comb and metropolis, on CenCtaph an
sarcopha Gus, on the lonely khan of tn
arctic explorer and on the catafalqu
of great cathedral, written in capital
of azalia and calla lily, written i'm nj
steal cadence. written in doXology {
great assemblages. written on IL
sculpturcd door Of the family vault.
''VictOry." Cnronal word, embannert
WORD. aDOcalyptic word. chief word