Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-22
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
CHRISTIAN DEATH AS THE EN-
TRANCE TO FULLER LIFE.
Eloquent Easter Discourse Preached from
Corinthians, Death Is Swallowed Up
in victory"-why Should We Doubt
That God Can Raise Us from Death?

Washington. March 30.-The Chris
tlan view of death as the entrance to
a fuller life is presented in this Eas-
ter discourse by DR.. Talmage from the
text | Cor. XIV. "a, Death Is swallowed
up in victory
About $40 Easter mornings have
wakened the earth. The royal court
of the Sabbaths is made up of fifty
two Fifty-one are princes in the
royal household, but Easter is queen.
She wears richer diadem, she sways d.
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 snow bank 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
off bolt of Christ's sepulcher 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 on in
his argument about the resurrection
and observed all the laws Of logic, but
when he came to write the words 81
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 and
flying. 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 hall
storms of heaven and the swords of
Joshua's host struck them with their
fury
In my text is worse discontinue.
1t seems that a black giant proposed
to conquer the earth. He gathered for
his hosts all the aches and pains and
malarias and cancers and distempers
and epidemiCs of the ages. He march
ed them down, drilling them in the
northwest wind and amid the slush OF
tempests He threw up barricades of
grave mound. He pitched tent of char
nal house. Some of the troops march
ed with slow tread commanded by
consumptions, some in double quick
command of pneumonias. Some he
took by long besiegement of evil habit
and some by one stroke of the battleaX
OF casualty. With bony hand he
pounded at the door of hospitals and
sicIIrooms, and won all the victories in
all the great battlefields of all of the
five continents. Forward, march!
ordered the conqueror Of conqperors
and all the generals and commanders
in chief and all the 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 sick
nesses and despotisms come out of the
east, it was appropriate that the new
conqueror should come out of the sme
suarter. Power is given him 20 awak-
en- all the fallen of all the centuries
and of all lands and marshal then
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 bri
gade 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 min
from beneath, and the brigade of des
cending immortals will take hin
from above, and death shall Ae swal
lowed up in victory.
The old antagonist is driven bacl
into mythology with all the lore abou
Stygian ferry and Charon with GA
and boat Melrose abbey and Kenil
worth castle are no more in ruins thai
is the sepulcher. We shall have N
moro to do with death than we hav
with the cloalroom at a governors o
presidents levee. We stop at sucl
cloaroom and leave in chlEge of
servant our overcoat. our overshoes
our outward apparel, that we may no
he impeded In the brilliant round o
the drawing room. Well. my friends
when we go out of this world we ar
going to a Kings banquet and to a re
ception of monarchs, and at the doc
of the tomb we leave the cloak Of fiesl
and the wrappings with which w
meet the storms of this world. At tn
close of an earthly reception, unde
the brush and broom of the porter, tn
coat or hat may be handed to Us bet