The age-herald., 1902-04-06

Washington, March S0.-The Christian view of death as the entrance to fuller life is presented in this Easter discourse by Dr. Talmage from the text 1 Cor. xv "A, Death is swallowed up in victory"
 About 1870 Easter mornings have Walk ened the earth. In France for three cen- turies the alm anacs made the year begin at Easter until Charles TX. made the year begin at January 1. In the Tower of Lon don there is a royal pay roll of IS pence for 400 colored and pictured eggs with which the people sported In Russia slaves were fed and aims were distributed pn Easter. Ecclesiastical councils met in Pontus, in Gaul, in Rome, in Achaia, to decide the particular day and after con- troversy more animated than gracious de- rided it, and now through all Christen- dom in some way the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after March 21 is filled with Easter re- Joicing.
 The royal court of the sabbaths is made hp of fifty-two. Fifty-one are princes In the royal household, but Easter is queen. She wears richer dadem, she sways more jeweled scepter, and in her smile nations are irradiated. How welcome she Is when, after harsh winter ana late spring, she seems to step out of the snow bank rather than the conservatory, to come out of the north instead or the south, out of the artic rather than the tropics. dismounting from the icy equinox, but welcome this queenly day, holding high In her right hand the wrenched off bolt of Christ's sepulcher and holding high in her left hand the key to all the cemeteries in Christendom.
 My text Is an ejaculation It Is spun evs of hallelujahs. Paul wrote right on in his argument about the resurrection 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 out, Death is swallowed up in victory!' It is an exciting 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 dying man. You have read of the French fall ing back from Sedan, of Napoleon track of 90000 corpses In the snowbanks of Russia, of tho retreat of our armies from Manassas or of the five kings tumbling over the rocks of Beth horan with their armies while the hailstones to heaven and the swords of Joshua's host struck them with their fury.
 The Charge of the Black Giant.
 In my text is worse discomfture. It seems that a black giant proposed to conquer the earth. He gathered for his host al the aches and pans and malarias and cancers and pains and bgkq mb and cancers and distemp pers and epidem- Iog Nf q TTa drilling them in the northwest wind and amid the slush of tempests. He threw up barricades of grave mound He pitched tent of charnal house. Some of the troops marched with slow tread, com manded by pneumonia. Some he took by long besiegement of evil habit and some by one stroke of the battleaxe of casualty. With bony hand he pounded at the door of hospitals and sick rooms and won all the victories in all the great battle fields of al t..o 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 bis war charger. but one Christm as night his antagonist was born.
 As most of the plaques and sicknesses and despotisns come out of the east ii was appropriate that the new conqueror should come out of the same quarter Power is given him to awaken all the fallen of al 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 riven sepulchers will take nim from beneath