The Canton times., 1902-04-11
THE FINAL VICTORY. y !.
Appropriate Discourse ofaDr. Iai-
mage for Easter.
SHOWS the Christian View OF Dean
Is the Entrance to a Fuer
a% Life = Everyday hes-
RN directions.
.xf,onxr,sht. 1902, by Louis Klopsch' N IL
5Noop' ~ Washington,

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n n this Easter discourse by Dr. Lar
mage from the text Cor. 10 On.
ssDeath is swallowed up in VICTORY.
About 1870 Easter mornings hase
Weakened the earth. In France i9i
three centuries the almanacs mace Ine
year begin at Easter until Cnarles "a
made the year begin at January l.
che Tower of London there is royai
X pay roll of Edward |. on when 'nei
Is an entry of IS pence for 4oo coioleu
and pictured eggs, with when ene
& people sported. In Russia slaves VIZ
K fed and aims were distributed on
Easter. Ecclesiastical councils met ~
Pontus, in Gaul, in Rome, in Achaia' "
decide the particular day and a1ter
Scontroversy more animated tnah sia
cious. decided it, and now through an
Christendom in some way the tlrst pun
8sday after the full moon which happens
" upon or next after March Il Is niieu
with Easter rejoicing. !.
The royal court OF the saooa.ns -
made up of So. Fifty-one are princes
Y in the royal household, but Easter -
aueen. She wears richer diadem, sne
sways more jeweled scepter, ana III
u her smile nations are irradiated. now
welcome she is when, after narsh
" winter and late spring, she seems 10
step out of the snowbank ratner .nan
3 the conservatory, to come out o. .no
north instead of the south, out OF the
arctic rather than the tropics, as
amounting from the icy equinox, out
#, welcome this queenly day, hololhg
high in her right hard the wrenchea
eoff bolt Of Christ's sepulcher and holo-
ing high in her left hand the Key TO al
\. the cemeteries in Christendom.
NV text is an ejaculation. 1t is spun
out of halleluiahs. Paul wrote r1ght
On in his argument about the resurrec-
fion 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 swal
lowed up in victory!"' 1t is an excit.
ing thing to see an army routed ano
flying. They run each other down
They scatter everything valuable II
the track. Unwheeled artillery; moo
Of horse on breast of wounded and dy
ing man. You have read of the Frenci
falling back from Sedan, of Napoleon
track of 10000 corpses in the snow
banks of Russia, of the retreat OF ou
armies from Manassas or of the fiv
kings tumbling over the rocks OF Bet
horan with their armies while tn
hailstorms of heaven and the sword
of Joshua's hoats struck them wit
their fury.
In nv text is worse discontinue
1t seems that black giant proposed t
CONQUER the earth. He gathered for hi
host all of the aches and pains and m;
laryas and cancers and distempers an
epidemics of the ages. He marche
them down, drilling them in the nortl
west wind and amid the slush OF ten
pests. He ethrew up barricades of graz
mound. He pitched tent of charm
house. Some of the troops marche
with slow tread commanded by CO
sumptions, some in double quick COZ
manded by pneumonias. Some he toe
by long bcsiegement of evil habit al
some by one stroke of the battleax
casualty. With bony hand he pound'
at the door of hospitals and sickroor
and won all the victories in all t.
great battlefelds of all the five con
nents. Forward, march! ordered t.
sonqueror of conquerors, and all t
generals and commanders in chief a,
all presidents and kings and sulta
and czars dropped under the feet of |
war charger. But one Christmas mig
his antagonist was born.
AS most of the plaques and sickneI
.es and despotisms come out of the ca
it was appropriate that the new CT
ouerer should come out of the sal
quarter. Power is given Him to aw;
en- all the fallen of all the centur
and of all lands and marshal tn,
against the black giant. Fields hs
already been won, but the last day
the worlds existence will see the
cisive battle. When Christ shall Il
forth His two Brigades, the brigade
the risen dead and the brigade of
celestial host, the black giant will
back and the brigade from the ri'
sepulcher will take him from benea
and the brigade of descending imm
tails will take him from above, {
death shall be swallowed up in
tory. Ga M ~ A
The old braggart that threatel
the conquest and demolition of
planet has lost his throne, has lost
scepter, has lost his palace, has
his prestige, and the one word writ
over all the gates Of mausoleum !
cataeomb and metropolis, on eenot;
and sarcophagus, on the lonely kl
of the arctic explorer and on the
afalque of great cathedral, WRITER