The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-21

Copyright. 1902. Louis Klopsch. N. "
washington, March 3O.-The Chris
ian view of death as the entrance to
4 fuller life is presented in this Eas-
ter discourse by DR.. Talmage from the
ext | Cor. XIV, "a, Death is swallowed
Up in victory"
About 1870 Easter mornings have
Weakened the earth. 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
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 snow bank 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 Christendon.
Ny text is an ejaculation. 1t Is spun
out OF halleluiahs. Paul wrote on IN
his argument about the resurrection
and observed all the laws OF logic, but
when he came to write the words CT
the text his fingers and his pen ana
the parchment on which he wrote TOOK
fire, and he cried out, Death is swal-
lowed I'D in victory" 1t is an exclt-
ing thing to see an army routed and
flying. You have read of the French
falling back from Sedan, Of Napoleon
track of 10000 corpses in the snow
banks OF Russia, Of the retreat OF our
armies from Manassas or OF the hve
kings tumbling over the rocks OF Beth
horan with their armies while the hall
storms of heaven and the swords OF
Joshua's host struck them with their
fury.
In my text is a worse discontinue.
1t seems that a black giant proposed
to conquer the earth. He gathered for
his hosts all the aches and pains and
malarias and cancers and distempers
and epidemics Of the ages. He march
ed them down, drilling them in the
northwest wind and amid the slush OF
tempests. He threw up barricad OF
grave mound. He pitched tent of char
nal house. Some of the troops march
ed with slow tread commanded by
command of pneumonias. Some ne
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 ana
sickrooms, and won all the victories In
all the great battlefields of all OF the
five continents. Forward, march!
ordered the conqueror Of conquerors,
and all the generals and commanders
| in chief and all the 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 SICK
nesses and despotisms come out OF the
east, il was appropriate that the new
conuueror should come out of the SINE
quarter Power Is given him to awak-
en- all the fallen of all the centurie:
and of all lands and marshal then
against the black giant. Fields have
already been won, but the last day
of the worlds existence will see the
decisive battle. When Christ shall
lead forth his two brigades, the bri
gade of the risen dead and the brigade
of the celestial host, the black g1an
will fall back, and the brigade from
the riven sepulchers will take hin
from beneath, and the brigade Of des
cending immortals will take hin
from above, and death shall be swal
lowed up in victory.
The old braggart that threatens
the conquest and demolition of tn
planet has lost his throne, has los
his scepter, has lost his palace, ha
lost his prestige, and the one wor
written over all the gates of mauso
leum and catacomb and metropolis, O.
cenotaph and sarcophagus, on tn
lonely khan of the arctic explorer an
on the catafalque of great cathedra
written in capitals of azalia and call
lily. written in musical cadence, writ
ten in doxology of great assemblage
written on the sculptured door of tn
family vault, is Victory" Corona
word, embannered word, apocalypti
word, chief word of triumphal arc
under which conquerors return.
, The old antagonist is driven bac
, into mythology with all the lore abol
Stygian ferry and Charon with OF
and boat. Melrose abbey and keni
, worth castle are no more in ruins tina
is the sepulcher. We shall have I
) | more TO 90 WIFI uealu tuah we ha'
q | with the cloakroom at a governors
4 a presidents levee. We stop at sue
8 cloakroom and leave in charge of
i servant our overcoat, our overshoe
a our outward apparel, that we may M
q be impeded in the brilliant round
the drawing room. Well, my friend
when we go out of this world we a.
going to a Kings banquet and to a r
. ceptioa of monarchs, and at the dot
of the tomb we leave the cloak of fes
and the wrappings with which v
meet the storms of this world. At II
close of an earthly reception, und
the brush and broom of the porter, Il
;, coat or hat may be handed to us be
ter than when we resigned it, and Il
cloak of humanity will finally be +
:, | 1arn1-ed and hri CHI