The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-04-18
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.

Subject; The Christian View ~ Death
The Charge OF the Black Oiant-Itout
Of the King Of Terrors-Everyday Zee
surreetions-Ths Final victory.
WAsHINoroN, ID. G. - The Christian
view of death as the entrance 10 a fuller
life is presented in this Easter discourse
by Dr. Talmage from the text ! Cor. Nv,
81. Death IL swallowed up IN victory
About 1870 Easter mornings have wakened
the earth In France for three centuries
the almanaes made the year begin at East
er until Charles IN. made the year begin
at January /. In the Tower of London
there Is a royal pay roll of Edward L., on
which there is an entry Of eighteen pence
for 400 colored and pictured eggs, with
which the people sported In Russia slaves
were fed and aims we're distributed on
Easter Ecclesiastical councils met in
Pontus, in Gaul, in Rome, in Achaia, to
decide the particular day and after a con-
troversy more animated than gracious de-
cided IT, and now through all Christen-
dom in some way the FIRST Sunday after
the full moon which happens upon or next
after March 81 is filed with Easter rejoic-
ing.
The royal court OF the Sabbaths is made
NH VI NAkf ~hNOs # ivy -bAN aAN ~ AAANRo Az
the royal household, but Easter is queen.
She wears richer diadem, she sways a
more jeweled scepter, and in her smile ma
tons 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 vel
come 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 Chris
ten lom.
My text is an ejaculation. It 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 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 falling back
from Sedan, of Napoleon's track of 10000
corpses in the snowbanks of Russia, of the
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the five kings tumbling over the rocks Of
Beth horan with their armies while the
| hailstorms of heaven and the swords OF
Joshua's host struck them with their fury.
! In my text is a worse discontinue. 1t
seems that black giant proposed to con-
! quer the earth. He gathered for his host
all the aches and pains and malarias and
cancers and distempers and epidemics OF
the ages. He marched them down, drill.
ing them in the northwest wind and amid
the slush of tempests. He threw up barrl-
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 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 back
door of hospitals and siclrooms and won
all the victories in all the great battlefield,
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 anC
sultans and czars dropped under the fee
of his war charger. But one Christina
night his antagonist was born.
As most of the plaques and sicknesse
and despotisms come out of the east, i
was appropriate that the new conquerol
should come Olt of the same quarter
Power is given Him to awaken all the falleI
of all the centuries and of all lands anC
marshal them against the black giant
Fields have already been won, but the las
day of the worlds existence will see tn
decisive battle. When Christ shall Leaf
forth His two brigades, the brigade Of tn
risen dead and the brigade of the celestia
host, the black giant will fall back, ant
the brigade from the riven sepulchers vii
take him from beneath, and the brigade 0
descending immortals viii take him from
above, and death shall be swallowed up il
victory.
The old braggart that threatened tn
conquest and demolition of the planet ha
lost his throne, has lost his scepter, ha
lost his palace has lost his prestige, an
the one word written over all the gates O
mausoleum and catacomb and metropolis
on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on the lone
ly khan of the arctic explorer and on tn
catafalque of great cathedral, written i
capitals of azalia and Gala lilly, written i
musical cadence, written in doXology c
great assemblages, written on the sculT
tured door of the family vault, is "Vit
tory" Coronal word, embannered wore
apocalyptic word, chief word of triumphG
arch under which conquerors return.
Victory! Word shouted at Culloden an
Balaklava and Blenheim, at Megiddo an
Solferino, at Marathon, where the Ather
ians drove back the Modes; at Potter.
where Charles Martel broke the ranks c
the Saracens; at Salamis. where Themi.
toclcs in the great sea fight confounded tn
Persians, and at the door of the easter
cavern Of chiseled rock, where Christ cam
out through recess and throttled the kin
OF terrors and put him back in the mich
fpoVs oh ~.
lust emerged. Aha! When the Jaws c
the eastern mausoleum took down tn
black giant death was swallowed up /
victory" I proclaim the abolition q
death.
The old antagonist is driven bac, int
mythology with all the lore about Styqia
ferry and Charon with oar and boat. Ne