The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-09
THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON.
April 10, 1s9s-Mark xvi, is.
The light of Christ's awakening
On every tomb is shed,
And bids us seek our living
No more amid the dead.

And bids us seek our living
No more amid the dead.
Three women may be seen leaving city at such
an early hour that the road they take is still UNI
Travelled by others. In the east are tokens of sun
rise. The long streaks of crimson light there
which our eldest poet calls the rosy fingers of
morn. But the have look for that
beautiful display. Behind them is the hottest city
in the world, and the heights earth's noblest
temple but none of these goodly things divert
them. Their minds run faster than their bodies.
Already in imagination they are pouring their
costly unguents upon the shrouded form of Jesus.
Suddenly they stop short in the highway and
look inquiringly at each other. In their precipita
ton they have forgotten to take someone with
them strong enough to roll away the stone from
the door of the sepulcher. 1t was the haste of
love. The recollection of the insurmountable OBJ
stacle comes to them simultaneously. They had
seen how it took the combined strength of several
men to roll the ponderous stone to its position.
Almost despairingy they cry who shall roll us
away the stone?'
Yet their hearts are so bent upon their holy
task they will not turn back. They advance with
flowers have been trampled by the Roman guard.
turn in the path brings them in sight of the
joy and fear they press their way into the rocky
chamber They find the living there instead of
the dead
The empty tomb of Jesus is converted into an
angelic bureau of information for His nquirng
Come see the pIace.'' s.Go Tell nv Ae'e
The conduct of the women is described with
charming the account b Is true to ma
quickly and fed ''They trembled; were
anna zed." Neither said they anything to any, for
they were afraid" They passed in silence the
people who were beginning to stir out of the city
as they returned They We're too awestruck to
prate about the matter 1t was too holy for
profane ears.
MOSAIC FROM COMMENTARIES
Sabbath passed. There never such
Sabbath on earth.-Deems
Anoint Him: What remained to be done was
slow, careful, tender disposal of the body in the
tomb.-Hoss.
Very early: Literally at deep dawn, at the earli-
est morning light.-Farrar.
When they looked: r. ", looked up. An ac-
curate and graphic detail.-Maclear.
Saw aye, young man: One keeper more than the
Be not affrighted: No need fear to go any
Tell His disciples: The first effort after His
resurrection to rally His discipes.-Ibid
Any man: To communicate the news to stran-
gers would be profanation.-Hoss
THE TEACHERS CULVER.
These women were in the way of loving service.
That is how they came to be the first witnesses
of the resurrection. Loyal doing leads to royal
knowing. If any will do. he shall know"
The stone was rolled away TO exhibit the emptt-
of the tomb. 1t not rolled away for
Jesus, but for His disciples; not that He might
come forth, but that they might enter and
that He was gone.
The Crusades fight for Wills -the-wisp.
The holy sepulcher, called, Is in the heart of
the city, and it is conceded. cannot have
been the place Of entomoment The true site Is
lost. 1t is well. We worship not the place. but
the Person.
The Oriental manner of burial is interesting;
the winding-sheet and napkin: embalmment; rock
hewn chamber: locul like steamship berths. in
which bodies were LAID. Stone for door some-
times shaped like milestone and set in groove,
as to be rolled and held in position
1t was just such place that Jesus forsook on
iTSf first oOk ftrQ-
caution to fold the long linen strip with which
His body had been swathed, and laid it on the
spot where His feet had rested then He did the
with the smaller strip called a napkin in
translation. Thus He left ocular proof
that His body had not been removed in haste
by thieves.