Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-04-06
SUNDAY.
Death is Swallowed up In Victory
Look to the World to Come.
has risen as He said.

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t He has risen as He said.
Allelulia!
"Behold the place where they laid
him."
This is the sa,utation Of Joy that
greeted the good women of long age
who went early to the tomb Of the
Saviour on the first Sabbath morn
5 ing after the Crucifxion. It is the
same canticle of joy that has re,
) sounded throughout the Christian
world ever since on the annual re-
currence of this glad and glorious
feast of Easter, which has been
calleu-and is-the .'Queen of
5 Feasts," because it commentaries
the greatest event in the history of
mankind-the Resurrection from
the dead of the crucifed Saviour
by His triumph over death "declar-
ed to be the Son Of God" By that
grand accomplishment all that
Christ claimed for Him was estab
lished and confirmed forever. The
gates were lifted up, the everlasting
doors were opened, the King of
Glory entered in-and all prophecy
was fulfilled in the bringing i'll of
Everlasting Righteousness, the an
nointing of the Most Holy. The
RENT veil of the Temple opened the
sanctuary to the world; and that
) revelation proclaimed the opening of
Heaven to mankind: "Life and
Immortality brought to Light by
the Gospel"
, This is the significance of Easter,
and therefore it is that for forty
days, not including Sundays, the
} forty days of fasting and prayer
) with which Christ fortified himself
for his passion, crucifixion and the
grand finishing of the great plan OF
mans redemption, is commemorated,
There is at this beautiful and glo-
rious season of the year, a strong
, harmony in all creation with this
! day of rejoicing to the world-a
, Benedicite Omnia opera.
The time has passed when Easter
comes as belonging to any denomi-
nation of Christians, hardly ever to
= C~hristendom. The thought of the
. life beyond the grave, "the pleasing
l hope, the fond desire, the longing
= after Immortality" is the deepest
and most earnest craving of
the soul. 1t is the instinct
. the seal, the divine mysterious jewe.
, of the soul-man's credential al
e Lord of Creation. We cannot be.
lieve that We are dust only, return
S ing to dust, q brief candle c~easine
forever with the breaking of 1T
e candlestick. We cannot, we will
not believe that the loved and beau
: tiful, the dear ana honored treas,
: ures of our soul, that have been the
light Of our lives, part from US for
0 ever. Their lights do not 60 out
= Our own consciousness, our pro
foundest convictions, the depths of
our being protest against their ex'
tinguishment, When their stay
here is over we ~consecrate the earth
itself by committing to its bosom all
that remains of them, but with all
confidence looking to the general
resurrection at the last day, and the
life of the world to come.
At this e IN of the year, the
swelling, bursting earth. the start
: ing buds, the new, fresh leaves, the
blossoms, the fitting clouds, all The
r world in a holiday attire, resopanr
$ With the songs of the birds, seems tt
join the grand triumphal hymn
"Arise, Shine, for Thy Light il
. . Come" Or, softly, sweetly, beauti
y fully, Mother Nature, with renewed
youth, seems smilingly to sing
gentle, loving song of awakening
over infant immortals sleeping il
their beds. The old earth baptise,
in the rains and floods of winte,
seems rising to a new life of right
eousness and joy.
Resurrection is in the ground an
air and skies. Everything bespeak
JOY and tells of hope and promis,
The old things have passed ava
with the dreary discomfort OF Ion
cold months, and all things hav
become new. The Heavens them
1. selves haye taken q deeper blu,
and the beautiful c.ouds a specis
freshness, aud the earth breathe
,r out pure and delicious fragranc
|. for the time. AL soulf feel tn
. buoyancy and general impulse tn
q soul of humanity publishes and re
spends: "The Lord is risen /
The Lord is risen indeed" And th
lie world rejoices in the shout
IN ss1'hanks ho to God fhof o;vofb N