Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-03-31
OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900

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"'spA 80 live" To how many
n millions of bereaved
hesrts have these sa-
cred words come as benson in the hour of
sorest affliction, when dust was gathered to
dust and ashes to ashes. They are the key
stone of the Christian arch Of faith, the re-
moval of which would cause the whole beau
tiful structure to fall and crumble in pieces.
The manger scene at Bethlehem-the
maiden mother and the babe amid the low
ing kline, the alteration of the Magi and the
astonished gaze Of the simple shepherds of
Bethel, is an exquisitely touching picture,
with its side light of the angel song of peace
and the mystic star that set ablaze the sky
of night.
Noble the simple life and nobler the
deeds, and yet more sublime the words that
fell from the lips of Him who spoke as never
man spoke before.
Calvary shows spectacle Of suffering to
make the world weep over the sorrows of
One who in the agony of death delivered
man given over like himself to human
destruction.
But while the glory life of the Nazarene
quickens the heartbeat of love and excites
to admiration the mind of the believer, it
fails to satisfy the longings of the spirit
which is in man that cries aloud: IF man
die shall he live again?"
Ali not Bethlehem, not Nazareth, not Je-
rusalem, but tomb, q chamber cut in the
solid rock; 1t is thence that proceeded the
completeness of the holy faith and changed
faith to sight and hope into glad fruition.
Sad hearts, mourning hearts, desolate
souls, stand weeping by the grave of the
loved that is not, and in that hour of this ag-
ony they feel that all that man can know or
feel, or fear of anguish comes of the sepul-
cher. But that which scorches the cheeks
with tears and stretches the heart strings to
breaking, that is the crown-promise of all
aiiissi3sS 1, worth in living.
So, sse grave, mark the spot, a
81. Manila. march,, rang out upon the
l, sare made rs day: "He ia not
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He.abss ss,s aus4ant defiance of grand
old Paul: e.hSS5h, where is thy sting? o
grave, where is thy victory? But thanks be
unto God, which giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ"
The Borrowing ones standing by the grave
Of the dead may look upward and with eye
Of faith see the coming of the resurrected
Lord with His angels, to call forth the dead
who sleep In their graves, and thencefor.
ward forever the loved who were lost
awhile shall live together with Him.
Easter day, resurrection day, day of glad
promise, most glorious of all the days that
have been, or are, or that shall be, meet
were it that triumph songs shall rise from
choral lips, that sweetest flowers should fill
ohancel and altar, and that faces should be
Frightened into smiles and men and women
put on their gayest apparel. The day that
tells of His resurrection, also is the day that
confirms His coming again, when all that
sleep In Him shall rise with Him
Bethlehem was the dawn of Christian
hope, the triumphal entry into Jerusalem
tA MONDAY, Gethsemane its cleaning and
Calvary Its black and gloomy night. But
the tomb Of Joseph was the meridianal splen
dor Of q day of faith, the light of which
shall glow until it is merged into the create,
glory Of Heavens own day where is M
night. WILLIAM RossER coBBE