St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
THE FINAL VICTORY.
Appropriate Discourse of Dr.. Tai
mage for Easter.

Shows the Christian View of DEATH
Is the Entrance to a Fuller
Life - Everyday Res
directions.
copyright. 1902, by Louis Klopsch, N. Y.
Washington,
The Christian view of death as the
entrance to fuller life is presented
in this Easter discourse by DR.. Tai
mage from the text Cor. Is, 81:
Death is swallowed up in victory
About 1870 Easter mornings have
Weakened the earth. In France fol
three centuries the almanacs made the
year begin at Easter until Charles IN
made the year begin at January l. Ii
the Tower of London there is roya
pay roll of Edward l. on which there
is an entry of IS pence for 400 coloreo
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, TIC
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 81 is filled
with Easter rejoicing.
The royal court of the Sabbaths is
made up of 50. 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
north instead of the south, out of the
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 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 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
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
hailstorms of heaven and the swords
of Joshua's hosts struck them with
their fury.
In my text is worse discontinue.
It 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 barbados of grave
He pitched tent of charnal
house. Some of the troops marched
with slow tread commanded by con-
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
With bony hand he pounded
at the door of hospitals and sickrooms
and won all the victories in all the
great battlefelds of all the five CONT
nents. Forward, march! ordered the
,onqueror of conquerors, and all the
generals and commanders in chief and
all presidents and kings and sultans
md cars dropped under the feet of his
war charger. But one Christmas night
lis antagonist was born.
AS most of the plaques and sickness
IS and despotisms come out of the east.
t was appropriate that the new con-
1uerer should come out of the same
quarter. Power is given Him to awak-
N all the fallen of all the centuries
Ind of all lands and marshal them
against the black giant. Fields have
lready been won, but the last day of
The worlds existence will see the de-
.isive battle. When Christ shall lead
orth His two Brigades, the brigade of
he risen dead and the brigade of the
CELESTIAL host, the black giant will fall
pack and the brigade from the riven
;epulcher will take him from beneath,
md the brigade of descending immor-
ais will take him from above, and
leath shall be swallowed up in VIC
ory.
The old braggart that threatened
he conquest and demolition of the
Janet has lost his throne, has lost his
cepter, has lost his palace, has lost
lis prestige, and the one word written
yer all the gates of mausoleum and
atacomb and metropolis, on cenotaph
nd sarcophagus, on the lonely khan
f the arctic explorer and on the cat
falque of great cathedral, written in
apitals of azalia and Gala lily,
written in musical cadence, written
n doxology of great assemblabes,
7ritten on the sculptured door of the
amily vault, is Victory" Coronal
7ord, embannered word, apocalyptic
pord, chief word of thiumphal arch
nder which conquerors return.
Victory! Word shouted at Culloden
nd Balaklava and Blenheim, at Me-
lido and Solferino, at Marathon,
here the Athenians drove back the
[edes; at Poitiers, where Charles
[artel broke the ranks of the Sara
ems; at Salamis, where Themistocles
/ the great sea fight COMPOUNDED the
ersians, and at the door of the east