The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-04-04
THE FINAL VICTORY.
Appropriate Discourse of DR.. Tai
mage for Easter.
Shows the Christian View of Death
Is the Entrance to Fuller
Life Everyday Res
directions.

Copyright, 1902, by Louis Klopsch, n. Y.
Washington,
The Christian view of death as the
entrance to a fuller life is presented
in this Easter discourse by DR.. Tai
mage from the text l Cor. Is, 54:
death is swallowed up in victory"
About 1870 Easter mornings have
wakened the earth. In France Tor
three centuries the almanacS made the
year begin at Easter until Charles In.
made the year begin at January l. In
the Tower of London there is 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 Achala, to
decide the particular day and after
controversy more animated than gra-
cious, decided it, and now through all
Christendom in some way the first sun
day after the full moon which happens
upon or next after March 21 is filled
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, she
sways a more jeweled scepter, and In
her smile nations are irradiated. How
welcome she is when, after harsh
winter and late spring, she seems to
step out of the snowbank rather than
the conservatory, to come out of the
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arctic rather than the tropics, dis
mounting from the icy equinox, but
welcome this queenly day, holding
high in her right hand the wrenched
off bolt of Christ's sepulcher and hold
ing high in her left hand the keyto all
the cemeteries in Christendom.
My text is an ejaculation. 1t is spun
out of halleluiahs. Paul wrote right
on in his argument bout the resurrec-
ton 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!" 1t is an excit-
ing thing to see an army routed and
flying. They run each other down.
They scatter everything valuable in
the track. Unwheeled artillery; hoof
of horse on breast of wounded and dy-
ing man. You have read of the French
falling back from Sedan, of Napoleon's
track of 10000 corpses in the snow
banks of Russia, of the retreat of our
armies from Manassas or of the five
kings tumbling over the rocks of Beth
horan with their armies while the
!, nd dc
of Joshua's hosts struck them with
their fury.
In my text is worse discontinue.
1t seems that black giant proposed to
conquer the earth. He gathered for his
host all of 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 barricades of grave
mound. He pitched tent of charnal
house. Some of the troops marched
with slow tread commanded by con-
sumptions, some in double quick COM
manded by pneumonias. Some he took
by long besiegement of evil habit and
some by one stroke of the battleax of
at the door of hospitals and sickrooms
and won all the victories in all the
great battlefields of all the five conti-
pents. Forward, march! ordered the
conqueror of conquerors, and all the
generals and commanders in chief and
all presidents and kings and sultans
and czars dropped under the feet of his
war charger. But one Christmas night
his antagonist was born.
AS most of the plaques and sickness
es and despotisms come out of the east.
| it was appropriate that the new con-
| Querer 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 them
against the black giant. Fields have
already been won, but the last day OF
the worlds existence will see the de-
cisive 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 river
sepulcher will take him from beneath
and the brigade of descending immor.
tails will take him from above, and
death shall be swallowed up in vic
tory.
The old braggart that threatened
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 writer
over all the gates of mausoleum anC
catacomb and metropolis, on cenotapf
and sarcophagus. on the lonely khar
of the arctic explorer and on the cat
afalque of great cathedral, written il
capitals of azalia and Gala lily
written in musical cadence, writer
in doxology of great assemble bes
written on the sculptured door of tn,
family vault, is Victory" Corona
word, embannered word, apocalyptit
word, chief word of thiumphal arcl
under which conquerors return.
Victoryl Word shouted at Cullode1
and Balaklava and Bl1nheim, at Me
giddo and Solferino, at Marathon
where the Athenians drove back tn
Medes; at Poitiers, where Charle
Martel broke the ranks of the Sara
Gems; at Salamis, where Themistocle
in the great sea fight confounded tn
Persians, and at the door of the east
ern cavern of chiseled rock, wher
Christ came out through a recess an
thrQttled- the king of terrors and pu
him back IN the niche from which th