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DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE sY THE NOTED
DIVINE.

SUNDAYS DISCOURSE 6r the No'so
DIVINE.
Subject: The Christian View sf Death
The Charge OF the Black Gisnt-Rous
Of the Klug Of Terrors-Evsrydsy ks-
surreotsons-The FINAL Victory.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. The Christian
v;ew Of death a. the entrance to q fuller
life il presented in this Easter discourse
by DR.. Talmage from the text Cor. xv'
81. death is swallowed up in victory =,
About 1870 Easter mornings have wakered
the earth. In France for three centuries
the almanacs made the year begin at East
ar until Charles TX. made the year begin
ne january I. In the Tower OF London
there . . royal pay roll Of Edward l., on
which there u an entry OF eighteen pence
for 400 colored aud pictured egg, with
which the people sported. In Russia slaves
vere fed and aims were distributed on
Easter. Ecclesiastical couneils met in
decide the particular day and after con-
troyersy more animated than gracious de-
cided Il, and now through all Christen'
dom in some way the first Sunday after
The full moon which happens upon or next
Alter March 81 10 filed with Easter reJoie-
fine royal court Of the Sabbaths il made
up of ffty.two. Fifty-one are princes IN
tie royal household, but Easter 10 queen.
She wears richer Idiadem, she swsys
more jeweled seeptar, and in her smile ma
t;ons are irradiated. How welcome she u
when, after 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
yight hand the wrenched Of bolt OF Christ.s
sepulcher, and holding high in her left
hand the key to all the cemeteries IN Chris
tendon.
nv text il IN ejaculation. It il spun out
Of halleluiahs. Paul wrote right on in his
argument about the resurrection, and OBJ
served ell 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 be cried out,
"tDcath Is swallowed up in victory" It
b an exciting thing to see an army routed
They scatter everything valuable 10 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 Napoleor's track Of 90 900
corpses in the snowbanka Of Russia, of the
retreat Of our armies from Manassas or Of
the Eve 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 10 worse discontinue. 1t
seems that black giant proposed to con.
quer the earth. He gathered for his host
L. 4 ND
cancers and distempers and epidemies oi
the ages. he marched them down, drill.
ing them in the northwest wind and amid
the slush of tempests. He threw up barri.
eades 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 be 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 sickrooms and won
all the victories in al the great battlefield
Of all the 6vs continents. Forward,
march! ordered the coneueror OF conquer
ers,, and all the generals and commanders;
in-ehief and all presidents and kings and
s1' 4. and ssa.. S0a Snsf
night his antagonist was born.
A most Of the plaques and sicknesscs
and despotisms 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 all the centuries and of oil 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 viii
take him from beneath, and the brigade oi
descending immortals will take him from
above, and death shall be swallowed up in
victory.
The old braggart that threatened the
conquest and demolition Of the planet has
lost his throne, has lost his scepter, has
lost his palace, has lost his prestige, and
the one word written over all the gates OF
mausoleum and cataconib and metropolis
on cenotsph and sarcophagus, on the lone
ly khan OF the arctic explorer and on the
catafalque of great cathedral, written in
capitals of azalia and Gala lilly, written in
musical cadence, written in doxology Of
great assemblages, written on the sculr.
tured door of the family vault. il "Vic.
tory" Coronal word, embannered word
apocalyptic word. chief word Of triumphal
arch under which conquerors return.
Victory! Word shouted at Culloden end
Balaklava and Blenheim, at Mesiddo and
Solferino, at Marathon. where the Athen.
where Charles Martel broke the ranks OF
the Saracens; at Salamis. where Them,s.
tocics in the great sea fight confounded the
Persians. and at the door of the eastern
cavern OF chiseled rock. where Christ came
out through a recess and throttled the king
Of terrors and put him back in the niche
from which the celestial Conqueror had
just emerged. Aha! When the jaws OF
the eastern mnusoleum took down the
black giant death was swallowed up in
victory" I proclaim the abolition Of
death.
The old antagonist is driven back into
mythology with all the lore about Stygan
ferry and Charon with oar and boat. Mel.
rose abbey and Kenilworth castle are no
more in ruins than is the sepulcher. We
shall have no more to do with death than
we have with the cloakroom at a govern.
or's or q presidents levee. We stop at
such cloakroom and leave in charge of a
servent. our overcoat, our overshoes, our
outward apparel. that we may not be i'm.
ing room. Well. my friends, when we 60
out of this world we are going to King 8
banquet and to a reception of monarchs.
and ut the door of the tomb we leave the
cloak of flesh and the wrappings with
which We meet the storms of this world.
At the close of an earthly reception. under
the brush and broom OF the porter, the
coat or hat may be handed to US better
than when we resigned il, and the cloak
Of humanity viii finally be returned to US
improved and frightened and purified and
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