The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-04-07
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1898.
GAZETTE BUILDING DIRECTORY.
EASTER SUNDAY.

over, that the slnless Christ who lay
dead amongst his people but a few
days ago, is now risen bright and
brilliant and dieth now no more.
From every tapering tower, whose
finger gently points to heaven, DER
hill and dale, we hear those joyful
Easter bells ringing through the land
this divine message of Gods Eternal
Son-that Christ has won the victory
over an unbelieving world, and by
His own almighty power, has risen
from the safely guarded tomb, clothed
in that New Life, which lives only af-
ter death, crowned in the unfading
glories of Immortality. The resur-
rection of Christ is founded on stub
born fact, not delusive fiction. It is a
stern reality, which even the very enc
mics of Christ did not deny. Com
pared with every fact engraven on
history's page, there is none that is
established on proofs so numerous and
so certain. Hence, the Christian world
concludes that if the resurrection of
Christ could be called in question,
then nothing historical could stand,
and the best authenticated facts would
be doubtful, such as the eloquence of
Demosothenes and Cicero, the assasi-
nation of Caesar, and the conquests of
Alexander the Great.
Christ's resurrection, then, is an alb
solutely unanswerable truth, the foun-
dation of our faith, the column of our
hope, and like the keystone in the
arch binding all the parts in one, His
resurrection links Time and Eternity,
making it safe for all men to cross ov-
or the chasm of death unto the very
bosom of God in Heaven. No won
der, then, that on Easter Sunday
morn the children of the church sing
joyful hallejuahs to the Risen Saviour
and swell the chorus strong in the mu-
sic of the singer of old: "This is the
day which the Lord hath made; let us
be glad and rejoice therein
Looking at the Saviour's resource.
ton from another stanpoint I find in
this mystery two specially cogent
truths: 1. Christ rose from the
dead to prove His divine mission unto
men. In point of fact, He could not
we'll have done otherwise, for He haC
frequently told both friends and enc
mics that he would rise from the dead
on the third day. When the naughty
Scribes sought sign that Jesus was
the Messiah, He stoutly answered
them "as Jonas was in the whales
belly three days and three nights, SC
shall the Son of Man be in the heart
of the earth three days and three
nights - And when, once again Christ
had driven forth the money changers
from the temple the Jews questioned
sign that would warrant His author
ity to do these things, but He simply
answered, "destroy this temple and in
three days will raise it up," but He
spoke of the temple of His body. Sc
we perceive, after Christ's death or
Calvary's hillside, all men we're look
ing for the fulfillment of the prophe
cy. The world was painting for His
glorious resurrection. Had He no
risen from the dead, beauteous anc
immortal, the Jews would have Justly
called Him an impostor. the criminals
who nailed Him to the cross would bt
termed heroes, Judas Iscariot blame
less, and Pontius Plate, our spokes
man, might have written Christ's cpl
taph in some such words as these
"Here lies the unrisen body of Jesus
of Nazareth, the worlds first and las1
deceiver." But that Christ meant the
truth, and just what He said, the
worlds first Easter Sunday proves.