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-'iScJurSe ny DIR. Talmage from the
ext Cor. Xv. "A. Death is swallowed
up in victory"
About $50 Easter mornings have
r-akcncd the earth. In France for
three centuries the almanacs made the
year begin at Easter until Charles TX.
made the year begin at Jan. l. In the
Tower of London there is q royal pay
roll OF Edward |. 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 GauI. in Rome, in Achaia, to decide
the particular day and after contro-
versy more animated than gracious de-
sided it, and now through all Christen-
dom in some way the first Sunday aft
81 the full moon which happens upon
u next after March u is filled with
Easter rejoicing
The royal court of the Sabbaths is
made up of fifty-two. Fifty-one are
srinces in the royal household, but
Easter is queen. She wears richer
iiadem, she sways more jeweled
SccptCr, and in her smile nations are
Tradiatcd. How welcome she is when,
after a harsh winter and late spring,
she seems To- step out Of the snowbank
rather than tie conservatory, to come
out of the north instead Of the south,
out of the arctic rather than the trop-
ics. dismOUutiu% from the icy equinox,
but welcome this queeniy day, holding
high in her right hand the wrenched
of bolt of Christs sepulcher and hold
ing high in her left hand the key to all
the cemeteries in Christcndom.
My.text IS an ejaculation. 1t is spun
out OF hallcIUiahs. Paul wrote right on
an his argument about the resurrection
and observed all the laws of logic, but
when he came 10 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 swallowed
ap in victoryr' 1t is an exciting thing
TO see an army routed and flying. They
run each other down. They scatter ev-
erything valuable in the track. Un-
wheeled artillery; hoof Of horse on
breast of wounded and dying man.
You have read of the French falling
back from Sedan, of Napoleon's track
Of 10000 cOrpseS in the snowbanks of
Russia, of the retreat Of our armies
from Manassas or of the five kings
rambling over the rocks of Beth horan
with their armies while the hailstorms
ST heaven and the swords of Joshua's
host struck them with their fury.
The Charge of the Black Giant.
In nv text is q worse discontinue.
It seems that black giant proposed to
conquer the earth. He gathered for his
host all the aches and pains and ma
hrias 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 Cf charnal
house. Some of the troops marched
with slow tread commanded by con-
sumptions, some in double quick COM
enanded 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 battlefelds of all the five cont-
nents. Forward, march! ordered the
aconQueror 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-
.queror 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-
eisive 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 riyen
Sepulchers will take him from beneath.
and the brigade of descending immor-
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 scep-
ter. has lost his palace, has lost his
prestige. and the one word written over
all the gates of mausoleum and cata-
comb and metropolis. on cenotaph and
sarcophagus, on the lonely khan of the
arctic explorer and on the catafalque
of great cathedral. written in capitals
rf azalia and calla lily. written in mu-
Sical cadence. written in doxology OF
great sassemblagrs written on the
sculptured door of the family vault. is
Victory" Coronal word. embannered
word, apocalyptic word. chief word OF
triumphaI arch under which conquer
ors return.
Rout of the King of Terrors.
Victory. Word shouted at Culloden
and Balaklava and Blenheim, at Me-
and SOIfarina