The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30

is majestic fact.
 1 In the light of all that has been said |, we can put the point very briefly: Ii l the resurrection of Christ goes, every thing goes. Paul, in very rapid sum- ming of points, shows us the utter for. I lornness of the situation if we give up l faith in this majestic fact. Paul says, If Jesus be not raised from the dead, preaching is vain, faith is also vain, the Apostles not only are liars, but they are false witnesses of God, all are vet in their sins, those also who are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. and those l who profess to believe in Christ are of all men most miserable, ''pitiable" the Revised Version has it, and rightly, FOR MAN TO BE TRULY FITTED
 is he who is fondly clinging to hope l that is sure to disappoint him.
 The accumulated evidence for the i truth of Christ's resurrection is simply overwhelming, and, for the life of me, cannot see how so sincere a man as Count Tolstoi could speak such non- sense as we find in My Religion" lit tie book which may have fallen into your hands. He writes: ''Jesus, who | Is supposed to have been raised in per- son and to have promised general res- urrection-Jesus not only said nothing in affirmation of individual resurrection and individual immortality beyond the grave, but, on the contrary, every time He met with the superstition, He did not fail to deny it's truth. As to personal resurrection, strange as it may appear to those who have never carefully studied the Gospels for themselves, Jesus said nothing about it whatever. Jesus told them that although He might suffer many things and be put to death, He, that is, His doctrine, would be triumph antly established.' What edition of the Gospels has Tolstoi read? How easy is it to read ones own thoughts and preju- dices into the Bible! How can anyone who makes any pretense to learning and who has any claim upon candor deny the fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ! As Lord Lyttleton, once an infidel but made & Christian through study of the conversion of Paul by the risen Christ, said: 'tIf the resurrection of Jesus Christ cannot be taken as an un- questioned historical fact, then no fact in history can be thought credible 5 Be- fore the attestation of such witnesses as have been called scepticism about the resurrection is simple madness. It is like one, on bright day. shutting him. self up in room with drawn curtains and closed shutters and saying, II will not believe that the sun is shining" The Easter carols sing forth joy that rests on firm assurance, the music of the res. uIrection is the exultation which springs from truth.
 ! 'He is not here, fof He is risen, as He said: Come, see the place where the Lord lay.n You see that these women who stole through the early haze of that first Easter day to tine grave in the gar den were not even asked to believe an angels testimony that the tomb was empty they were told to examine for themselves. Come, see the napkin laid by itself. Come. see the grave clothes laid by themselves. Come, see in every thing the evidence of an orderly going. see that there is no sign here that the body was stolen, that grave robbery was made by friend or by foe.'' This is strong circumstantial evidence to the truth of this matchless fact; there is much other evidence of this sort.
 There Is the evidence of spring. Ev- lery apparently dead tree that at this season of the year puts forth bud and blossom and leaf, the sward at your 1 feet that responds in grass and herbage to the call of the sun, the ugly little insect that crawls up through the water along 8 reed and when it reaches the surface becomes the beautiful winged