The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-04-03
OPINION OF DEATH
Or. TALMAGE'S WEEKLY SERMON
Discusses the Christian View of tie
Grim Observation-Disclosures Removes
Deaths Sti6g.

WASHINGTON, D. c. - The Christian
view o. death - the entrance 10 ICi-ef
I;fa !; presented il this Easter Scourse
~ Dr.. Tatgace from The text | Cor. XIV,
=. "Cca.a Is swallowed up III victory.
Mon. ls,C Eastcrmornings have Wakened
tive Ca.,h. in traace Tor thrce centuries
Tie :. a.ranacs eiaae the year bcg!n at Fast
Cr mil C:::.r!es *. made the ycaT begin
~ .jr1-..v l. In the Tower OF London
there - a royal pay loil OF Edward l., on
winch r;,erc Is a. entry o. eighteen perce
To-! 20 colored and pictured eggs, with
which the Ueoy.e spoyted. In RuSs!a saves
were ed ard aims were dIstrOuted on
E,stcr. Ecclesiastical Councils met III
psn.us, in Gaul, il Rome, IN Aehala, TO
Go.:iG the particular Gay and after coA-
t~sysrsy LloTc animated than gracious de-
ti,,cd Il. and now through all ChriSten-
don IN some way the iirst Sunday after
tIc flll moon which happens upon or next
after March 81 is filed with Easter reJo!c-
InC.
The roval court of the Sabbaths is made
ID OF tifty-two. Fifty-one are princes IN
the royal household, but Easter is queen.
She wears richer diadem, she swayS
more jewclcd scepter, and in her smile ma
tiors 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 wei
come this queenly day, holding high in her
right hand the wrenched of bolt OF Chris, 5
sepu.cher, and holding high in her left
hand the key to all the cemeteries IN Chris
tendon.
My text is an ejaculation. 1t is spun out
OF halleluiahs. Paul wrote right on IN his
argument about the resurrection, and OBJ
served 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 swallowed up in victory" 1t
is an exciting thing to see an army routed
and fying. They run each other down
They scatter everything valuable in the
track. Unwheeled 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 sEowoanks OF Russia, OF the
r:.reat OF our armies from Manassas or OF
the five kings tumbiing over the rocks OF
Beth horan with their armies while the
hGilstorms of heaven and the swords OF
Joshua's host struck them with their fury
in MI text is q worse discontinue. 1t
seems that black giant proposed to con-
quer the earth. He gathered for his host
all the aches and pains and malarlas and
cancers and diStempers and epidemics OF
the ages. He marched them down, drill.
ing them in the northwest wind and amid
the siush OF tempests. He threw up barri-
cades of grave mound. He pitched tent OF
charnal house Some OF the troops
marched with slow tread commanded by
consumptions, some in double quick COM
manded by pneumonias. Some ne took by
long besiegement of evil habit and some
by one stroke OF the battleaxe OF casualty
With bony hand he pounded at the, back
door of hospitals and sickrooms and won
all the victories in all the great battlefelds
of all the five continents. Forward,
march! ordered the conqueror of conquer
ors. 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 slcknesses
and deSpotisns come out OF the east, 1t
was appropriate that the new conqueror
should come out of the same quarter.
Power is given Him to awaken 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
decisive 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 riveH SepulcherS Will
take him from beneath, and the brigade o.
descending immortals will take him from
above, and death shall be swallowed up IN
victory.
The old braggart that threatened the
conquest and demolition OF the planet has
lost his throne, has lost his scepter, has
the one word written over all the gates OF
mausoleum and catacomb and metropolis,
on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on the lone
ly khan of the arctic explorer and on the
catafalGue OF great cathedral, written in
capitals Of azalia and Gala lilly. written in
musical cadence, written in doXo.ogy OF
great assemblages, written OIL the scuip-
tured door of the family vault, is "Vic-
tory" Coronal word. embannered word.
apocAlyptic word, chief word of triumphal
arch under which conquerors return.
Victory! Word shouted at Culloden and
Balaklava and Blenheim, at Megiddo and
Solferino, at Marathon. where the Athen-
ians drove back the Medes; at Poitiers.
where Charles Martel broke the ranks of
the Saracens; at Salamis, where Themis-
tocles in the great sea fight confoun6ed the
Persians, and at the door OF the eastern
cavern of chiseled rock, where Christ came
out through recess and throttled the king
of terrors and put him back in the niche
from which the celestial Conqueror had
just emerged. Aha! When the jaws of
The eastern mausoleum took down the
black giant death was swallowed up in
victory" I proclaim the abolition of
death.
The old antagonist is driven back into
mythology with all the lore about Stygian
ferry and Charon with oar and boat. Mel
rose abbey and kenilworth castle are no
more in ruins than is the sepulcher. We
shall have no more to do with death than