Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-04-19

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an end of all this pain and sorrow
must be 50 Through Him we shall Ste
on quite past it some time, leaving it a
/ beyond us as a troubled dream, and stan
In the morning light and deliverance TO
ever This scene tells me that And th'
is what the resurrection meant to Him
2. 'dgaie. II vas also 10 Him bI1
| 81 great triumph And how could ithav
been otherwise7 He had stood all tn
tests, run all the risks, met all the enemies
and here He was radiant and serene con
querer. Yes, J know it; and yet one yer
profound question needs to be answere
here before we can ever be sure whether n
was really victor or not Think HI
died He went into the grave. He fel
under that awful dominion, He had beer
down in the valley Of dissolution and de
cay. Now what we want to know is this
What effect did it have on Him. Did
death harm Him? Did it MAIN or blight
Him? Now that He is alive again, is He
weakened or bereft Of any of His old time
power? We want to know. o. listen to
the answer Not a single quality of His
being is gone, not faculty is olouded, not
a power touched or harmed No. it is the
very same Jesus, save that a new glory
hangs all about Him. Death has not in
jured anything See His love; that mighty
love. Is it chilled? no, it kindles and
flames just the same as He greets Mary
and the other disciples. Has death inn
paired His memory? No go tell my dis
ciples and Peter" "He has not forgotten
even that wayward one Has death taken
any of His possessions from Him9 Not
one. my disciples. my Father, still
mine" Even His voice is the same. Death
has not changed itstone or music MARY"
He said and she knew it the moment He \
spoke, the same old mellowness was in it. !
Death has not harmed His miracle work
ng power He is still ableto pass through |
doors and give a draught of fishes
o needy toilers o, no; death did not hurt |
Him. 1t only gave Him a chance to show
low strong He was. o, there was tr-
Imph, indeed.
3. Ind / think that His soul had the
hill Of gicto,J' upon il that morning.
lie must have been filled with the emotion
conquest One solitary expression that
I'll from His lips tells how He felt must.
owever, make this preliminary statement
bout it You will remember that through
ut His ministry He seemed ali the time to
pressing toward some unknown crisis
He kept saving, 81 have a
lptism to be baptized with and am strait
led till it be accomplished Mine hour is
1t yet come" There was a solemn haste il
ID urgency in the movement of His life
DO busy to shout, too burdened to rejoice
lch was a spirit of His absorbed and toll .
2 ministry. But see now That morn s.
2 as the women run to tell the glad news h
meets them For the first time His soul v
mot contain itself He breaks out; not a
calm and studied speech No; He is 7
ppy a great new joy, a living ecstacy ri
ills Him Over the Easter hills He Of
outs to them, "All hail all hail " tits tn
if He had said: 81 greet YOU : salute W
j, glad daughters Loves redeeming ii,
rk is done death could not hold me he
ave been down among the shadows, but to
n alive again; and here is life and i'm. w
rtality for you "All hail" That was to
shout of God And we, from these wi
rs all abloom with resurrection glory. sal
ut back "AIl hail, thou conquerng for
u.s." Brethren. we too shall reach the an
] hail' sometime. It is the miserere wa
1t will be the victory shout for His wa
Die after a while. know it; blessed Hi
'pect This then, is what His resurrec an,
meant to Him. it,t
A second question: what zoas His me
direction 10 His eae@ies " ! II a0as 10 TIL
y time ofVoefHi disaster and dejeat. san
] a time of woeful disaster and defeat. spe
2 defiant they were a few DAYS before. wit
? shamefully they used His name, mai
k His body, Knocked His royalty and thai
sportof Him beneath His cross. They gree
that death was usually the end of all han
'lers,andnow that He is dying, they are min
that He is in their power, and that this live.
De the last of Him They mark the well
pallid aud deathly; they touch the also
less wrist. "Oh, we have made sure firm
of it. He is gone and ours is the here
~ Now watch;the scene shifts AS He
great morning fushes the earth an He
quake shudders, and thunders through Divl
the Roman guards lie all He S
ID it like dead men Jesus has only days
!, and the might of spear and battle destr
IS broken forever PLATE has told spoil
to go their way and make the grave sure
There was a touch of irony in that more
They put across the stone the great all III
a great empire Poor dupes, irving is tn
Omnipotence with a thread What, rock
~ lay human interdict upon one of resur
earthquakes2 Can YOU spoil Gods urrect
and Illustrate His will by the veto of of the
D authodtyf See Jesus lifts the this
rom His brow, and laws back the clasp
nts from His limbs, and that seal IS YOU d
ID into thousand useless fragments the fir
Ing Of Kings has the right to break flower
is of hirelings. He who was found canno
to loose the seven seals of the book YOU m
s right hand will not be hindered dare n
trihe q tell you tits dangerous So9 l n n
IS for wicked men to get across the shred a
Gods plans They will be ground Man S
ier) Truly did Jesus put down all it. An
all authority that Easter morning, ana e q
d captivity captive And how is e s,le vi n
these rival powers to-day? Tell me our tho
) the Roman Empire now +? A. thing Years
asst; broken and gone. Where is y Tar
Riding on, widening this empire snaree
quering the earth. Where are the folds
legions who bore the eagle? They linger
in nameless graves Where are sle ss slee
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