St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-22
DID CHRIST RISE?
Rev. w. j. Lhamon Holds That
the Weight of Evidence Proves

rev. w. y. LhamOn Holds That
the Weight of Evidence Proves
it.
Rev. W. J. Lhamon, pastor of the
Church of Christ. preached yesterday
morning on "Agnosticism and the Res
direction of Christ" from the text,
"Why should it be thought thing in
credible that God should raise the
dead?'' This is the language of the
apostle Paul to King Aggrippa. 1t is
an ultimate argument on the subject of
the miraculous. If God is. miracles
are. His ways are above our ways,
and what to us is miraculous. is to Him
natural. 1t is illogical to suppose an
infinite being and then limit Him to
our little ways of doing things. The
scientific world on this Easter day can
ton is well nigh an exploded
not it can offer no explana-
ton of the origin of things. An ear of
corn is as wonderful as it was before
Darwin was born. A loaf of bread Is no
more wonderful than grain of wheat,
and why, if God made the one, should
he not make the other, provided He
saw fit? Jesus claimed to be the Son of
God. He saw fit to create bread. His
claim and His deed are in perfect ac-
cord, piece of evidence in the form of
harmony that is never noted by the IL
rational nationalist. Suppose that the
scholarly world accept the testimony of
His miraculous life, of His death and
resurrection, because it is too learned
and too honest to reject such testimony?
Sappose all this, what then? Why then
there was once bigger and better man
in the world than the agnostic, which in
his opinion is impossible. The agnOstic,
the nationalist or the unitarian who puts
the miracles of Christ and their evidence
side by side with those of the middle
ages betrays slovenly scholarship.
Did Jesus arise from the grave? The
apostles affirmed it and died for their
affirmation. They stood precisely or the
basis of modern science. They said,
That which we have seen and heard,
that which we do know, testify we unto
you" They dealt with facts. 1t was
only thus that they were enabled to
old, Pagan, Roman, Jewish soil. They
began work which to-day girdles the
globe. and which is best established
where there is highest intelligence.
Did Jesus arise from the dead?
Scholarly Unitarianism affirms it. DR..
Freeman Clarke says, 1.-The main fact,
that Jesus after his death came again
to his disciples i'll visible form and ere
ated. faith in Immortality which trans
formed their whole being, seems to me
undeniable. Without some such event
Christianity would have been buried
forever in it's Masters grave. The reSur-
rectiOn of Christ was the resurrection Of
Christianity" Scholarship and history
unite in affirming the resurrection of
Christ, and negative criticism can give
no explanation of His disappearance
from earth. EdeISheim declares that
the resurrection of Jesus may unhesi-
tatingly be pronounced the best estab-
lished fact in history" With that fact
comes the proof of our immortality, and
in the risen Christ we finG our proper
Lord. The argument that would dis
prove the resurrection would also de-
throne reason and destroy history. Here
is an example of such argument taken
from the Agnostic writer quoted above.
1t is in his cheap style of Interrogation:
rs any human being responsible for
the weight that testimony has upon
him? Is there such a thing as honestly
weighing testimony? Is the result of
such weighing necessary? Does it in
volye moral responsibility" What a
slap at the sticklers for reason and hon
eSty. We Christians will keep our rea-
son, our honesty, our histories, our
Christ; and withal our hope and our
God.