Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-04-02
THE FINAL VICTORY.
Appropriate Discourse of DR.. Tai
mage for Easter.
shows the Christian View OF Death
Is the Entrance TO "A Fuller
Life Everyday Res
directions.

The Christian view of death as the
entrance to fuller life is presented
IN this Easter discourse by Dr. Tai
mage from the text l Cor. Is, 81:
Death is swallowed up in victory"
About l,S1O Easter mornings have
wakened the earth. In France for
three centuries the almanacs made the
year begin at Easter until Charles IN.
made the year begin at January /. In
the Tower of London there is a royal
pay roll OF Edward /. on which there
Is an entry of is pence for 400 colored
ana pictured eggs, with which the
people sported. In Russia slaves were
lea and aims were distributed on
Easter. Ecclesias teal councils met in
fontus, in Gaul, in Rome, in Achaia, to
decide the particular day and after
controversy more animated than gra-
cIous, decided it, and now through all
'hrlstendom in some way the first Sun
day after the full moon which happens
upon or neNr after March 2l is filed
with Easter rejoicing.
The royal court of the Sabbaths is
made up of SO. 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 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
oil bolt of Christ's scpulcher 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
fire, and he cried ou.: 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. lie gathered for his
host all of the aches and pains and ma
Iarias 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 charnaI
house. Some of the troops marched
with slow tread commanded by con
Eumptio3s, 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 pounds
at the door OF hospitals and sickrooms
and won all the victories in ali 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 czars dropped under the feet Of his
war charger. But one Christmas night
his antagonist was born.
As most of the plaques and sickness
ts and despotisms come out Of the east.
1t was appropriate that the new con
Guerer should come out Of the same
Euarter 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 dav Of
the worlds existence will see the de-
cisiye 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 fan
back and the brigade from the rivcn
sepulcher will take him from beneath.
and the brigade of descending imrnor-
tails viii take him from above. and
death ball be swallowed up I'm VIC
tors.
The old bragcart That threatened
the conquest ana demolition of the
planet has lost bis throne. has LOST bi.
sceptCr. has lost his palace. ban. lost
his prestige. end The one word written
over a.I the gates oft wausoIcrn and
catar'WD and metropolis. on ccuotaub
md sarcophagu-. on the lonely Khan
of The arctic explorer and on the cat
afalque Of great cathedral, written in