Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-04
THE FINAL VICTORY.
appropriate Discourse of DR.. Tai
= mage for Easter.
shows the Christian View of Death
Il the Entrance to Fuller
Life Everyday Res
directions.

Copyright, 1902 by Louis Klopsch, N VI
Washington, March 30.
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 I Cor. Is, "a:
Death is swallowed up in victory"
About 1870 Easter mornings have
wakened the earth. In France for
three centuries the almanacs made the
year begin at Easter until Charles TX.
made the year begin at January 1. 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 Achaia, to
decide the particular day and after a
) controversy more animated than gra-
cious, decided it, and now through all
Christendom in some way the first Sun
Q 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 SO. Fifty-one are princes
queen. She wears richer diadem, she
sways 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 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
Gre, 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
hailstorms of heaven and the swords
of Joshua's hosts struck them with
their fury.
= In my text is a 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 barbados 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
casualty. With bony hand he pounded
at the door of hospitals and sickrooms
and won all the victories in all the
great battlefields of all the five CONT
nents. Forward, march! ordered the
conqueror of conquerors, and all the
generals and commanders in chief and
all presidents and kings and sultans
and cars 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 riven
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 written
over all the gates of mausoleum and
catacomb and metropolis, on cenotaph
and sarcophagus, on the lonely khan
of the arctic explorer and on the cat
afalque of great cathedral, written in
capitals of azalia and Gala lily,
written in musical cadence, written
in doxology of great assemblabes,
written on the sculptured door of the
family vault, is Victory" Coronal
word, embannered word. apocalyptic