The Iola register., 1902-04-04
HE FINAL VICTORY.
ppropriate Discourse of DR.. Tai
mage for Easter.
fows the Christian view of Death
- the Entrance TO n Fuller
Life Everyday Res
directions.

this Easter discourse by DR.. Tai
Iage from the text i Cor. IS, 81:
Death is swallowed up in victory"
About 1870 Easter mornings have
rkened the earth. In France for
free centuries the almanacs made the
ar begin at Easter until Charles IN.
iue the year begin at January l. In
Tower of London there is royal
~ roll of Edward /. on which there
AN entry of Is pence for 400 colored
n IA pictured eggs, with which the
4 II Pple sported. In Russia slaves were
4 II and aims were distributed on
ter. Ecclesiastical councils met in
ltus, in Gaul, in Rome, in Achaia, to
~ Hde the particular day and after
\ ltroversy more animated than gra-
Dis, decided it, and now through all
Afistendom in some way the first sun
n after the full moon which happens
n or next after March II is filled
h Easter rejoicing.
ihe royal court of the Sabbaths is
de up of So. Fifty-one are princes
the royal household, but Easter is
een. She wears richer diadem, she
ays a more jeweled scepter, and in
r smile nations are irradiated. How
leone she is when, after q harsh
\ pter and late spring, she seems to
tp out of the snowbank rather than
conservatory, to come out OF the
lth instead of the south, out of the
ic rather than the tropics, dis
lnting from the icy equinox, but
ONE this queenly day, holding
in her right hand the wrenched
,olt of Christ's sepulcher and hold
high in her left hand the key to all
cemeteries in Christendom.
ty text is an ejaculation. 1t is spun
hdt of halleluiahs. Paul wrote right
10 in his argument about the resurrec-
on and observed all the laws of logic,
hut when he came to write the words
4 the text his fingers and his pen and
he parchment on which he wrote took
ire, and he cried out Death is swal-
( bwed up in victoryl" It is an eXcit-
K hg thing to see an army routed and
n wing. They run each other down.
hey scatter everything valuable in
Z he track. Unwheeled artillery; hoof
" horse on breast of wounded and dy-
man. You have read of the French
!, cslling back from Sedan, of Napoleon's 5
y rack of 10000 corpses in the snow
(anks of Russia, of the retreat of our
fmies from Manassas or of the five
1gs tumbling over the rocks of Beth
ran with their armies while the
istorms of heaven and the swords
Joshua's hosts struck them with
hir fury.
n my text is a worse discontinue
feems that a black giant proposed to
tiuer the earth. II gathered for his
an of the aches and pains and ma.
, and cancers and distempers and
mics of the ages. He marched
down, drilling them in the north
Find and amid the slush of tenn
He threw up barrcades of grave
d. He pitched tent of charna
n. Some of the troops marched
slow tread commanded by con
ions. some in double quick com
led by pneumonias. Some he tool
ing besiegement of evil habit ant
"a by one stroke of the battleaX ot
flalty. With bony hand he pounded
Che door of hospitals and sickroom,
won all the victories in all tn,
Nlt battlefields of all the five cont
rs. Forward, march! ordered tn,
Slqueror of conquerors, and all tn,
kherals and commanders i'm chief anC
presidents and kings and sultan.
Z czars dropped under the feet of hi.
4 charger. But one Christmas nigh
antagonist was born.
rs most of the plaques and sickness
Iand despotisms come out of the east
4 was appropriate that the new con
herer should come out of the sam,
,arter. Power is given Him to awalt
all the fallen of all the centuries
ID of all lands and marshal then
'ainst the black giant. Fields hav,
ready been won, but the last day o
e worlds existence will see the de
sive battle. When Christ shall LEAF
nth His two Brigades, the brigade o
le risen dead and the brigade of tn
lestial host, the black giant will fal
ck and the brigade from the river
IN Ipulcher will take him from beneath
III ID the brigade of descending immor
is will take him from above, an,
Z 'ath shall be swallowed up in vic
ry.
The old braggart that threatene,
e conquest and demolition of tn
anet has lost his throne, has lost hi
Iepter, has lost his palace, has los
Is prestige, and the one word writtel
! Ter all the gates of mausoleum an,
| itacomb and metropolis on cenotapl
hd sarcophagus, on the lonely khai
! the arctic explorer and on the cat
| .alque of great cathedral, written il
hpitals of azalia and calla lily
kritten in musical cadence, write
! a doxology of great assemblabes
Written on the sculptured door of tn
lamily vault, is Victory" Corona
Word, embannered word, apocalypti
word, chief word of thiumphal arc
under which conquerors return.
Victoryl Word shouted at Cullode