The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-03-26
THE RESURRECTION.
City Olergymen Discuss Themes Appropri
ate to the Easter Season.
a BYrERrAN oHURCu.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Theme: ssEaster Hope" Text: Acts
$40. aAnd his name through faith in his
name hath made this man strong whom
ye see and know"
Our text Is from an address by st.
Peter to the crowds that had gathered
ut the temple in establishment that the
lame man had been healed. A great
miracle had been wrought. But Peter
said ii was not wrought by the apostles
own power but through faith in the
Risen Christ. The text contains two
thoughts.
I. The fact of Ohrist's resurrection.
This is one OF the great mountain tops
in the historic landscape. IL is seen and
known and read OF all men. It has en-
tered into the faith and feeds the hope
OF q lost world. The Christian church
celebrates the resurrection OF its Divine
Saviour every Lords Day. This fact is
Fundamental, vital. aFor il Christ be
not risen then ID our preaching vain and
your faith is also vain" q Cor. XVI The
klng-bolt OF o wagon 10 made OF solid
iron and 10 very strong. Because, Il It
should break the wagon would fall apart
and the load be capsized. The truth OF
the resurrection ID the king-bolt or the
Christian system. Therefore great care
was taken by the Architect Of that sys
tenn, the Divine Author and Finisher Of
our faith 10 give the world strong and
~irrefragable evidence OF It's having occur
red. Read the thrilling story in the
closing chapters OF each of the gospels.
q. But In our text is an illustration Of
the power, The healing, strengthening
power OF faith in the Risen Jesus. A
cripple was cured OF his lifelong lame
ness. Carried every day by friends to
the spot be sat helplessly begging at the
temple gate. But to-day he received
more than he asked. He was cured by
the miracle working power or Jesus oi
Nazareth. 'His feet and ankle bones re.
ceived strength, and he leapiDg up stood
and walked and entered with them
into the temple walking and leaping and
praising God"
If the new testament teachbs any
thing,if the gospel OF n Risen Lore
; comes to us today with any helpful anc
inspiring message, that teaching ant
: that message are that we moral cripplel
!. can be made whole, that the spiritual in
fifmities with which we have been bori
, may be healed, that by faith in the Riser
Christ o new, . divine strength win b
. impaired TO us, that a glorious Christian
{ manhood and womanheod may be ours
: and that walking and leaping and prais
. ing God in the enthnsiasIasof our newi
found strength we may enter into tn
D temple OF q useful and happy life her
/ and a bllssful Immortality hereafter.
When Tennyson wrote Of "the might
8 hopes that make us men,"h he must hay
: bad in his thought the blessed hop
r born on tina. first glad Easter mornin
when instead Of a dark, rock-boun,
& tomb the weeping women found a
empty grave, q heavenly light and a
angels presence. ..The Lord ID Risen.
! blessed be God who hath begotten u
Q again unto q lively hope by the resul
q ~rection OF our Lord Jesus Christ fror
{ the grave.
M. CHURCH.
"The Power of Christ's Resurrection
! Text, Philippians BIO.
knowledge OF Christ may be histories
4 as we know Caesar, Napoleon. or Wash
! ington, but this is not enough: it mus
, be experimental. This is what PAT
j terms in the context, athe excellency Z
J the knowledge OF Christ Jesus m
Lord So, too, the mere historic;
knowledge of Christ's resurrection
!, insufficient; we must obtain the .exce
lent knowledge OF the .'power Of hi
resurrection
|. Experienced in conversion. Tha
gracious and miracnlously mysteriou
work in the soul that we commonly ca
= conversion is the eternal evidence {
Christis resurrection. It brings hop
= as Christ brought hope when he ARCS
J blessed be the God and Father of on
, Lord Jesus Christ, which according
Z his abundant mercy hath begotten d
again unto o lively hope by the resu.
4 ~rection OF Jesus Christ from the dead
etc. It also imparts life, and gives lii
erty. and incites to holy aspiration
] IF We, then, be risen with Christ, see
those things which are above. etc. a
y who has been "born again. has the be.
proof OF the resurrection OF Christ, II
Z .if Christ be not raised, your faith
vain; ye are yet In your sins.n Has /
il arisen In your heart, with @healing i
his wings? If so, you know, in SON
measure. athe power Of his resurre'
tion.n
2. Manifest In worldwide nisssion
h. Immediately after Christis resurrectiol
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