The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-04-08

undertone through the solemn music
| of the 18th psalm.
such knowledge is to wonderful for
| me;
| 1t ia high; cannot attain unto 1t.
| 1t was to such believers--a people
| long trained in the discipline OF this
| spiritual faith and worship, that Jesus
had come. These eleven that sat with
Him about the table were of the be-
| lieving ones, the hoping ones And in
Him, supreme friend and perfect teach
err with whom for these three years
/ they had SO closely companied, they mad
found every thing that their hearts mad
craved, of brotherly sympathy and
love. What temptation of theirs had
He not also felt? What sickness had
He not carried? With what inflrmity
had He not been touched? What deep
est woe of bereavement had he not
shared-entering with them into the
still death-chamber, standing with
them in tears beside the grave? And
God was with Him, and God was in
Him, in purity, in holiness. In sover-
eign power over maladies of body or of
soul, To have Him there, within sight
and touch and hearing, is to be so near
to His Father and their Father, to His
God and their God--why should He go
away 1.
The time has come at last to lead
these willing learners forward and up
ward to new attainment in the spir-
itual life. Ye believe in an unseen God;
will We be able to believe also In me,
when 1, too, shall be no more seen? 1
say not, can you then remember Me, the
life I lived, the words I spake, the
death I died: but can you believe In
Me that still am, and am alive for
evermore? For this it is expedient for
you that go away. You see Me now
before you, under the limitations and
infirmties Of mortal humanity You
have known me true flesh and blood.
You have seen Me weary with my jour
ney and hungerlng for food exhausted
with labor and refreshed again with
rest and sleep; and you have believed
in Me. How, If you shall see Me faint
Ing under My, sorrow and My scourging
and the burden of Ny cross, and falling
to the ground; bleeding from the five
wounds Of nail and spear; the head
dropping upon the breast with loud
groan of expiring anguish; the rigid
body in it's stained grave-clothes lifted
away to be hidden in tomb Of rock?
How, if by and by you shall see Me no
more at all; If along the accustomed
paths from Jerusalem to Galilee, or
along the lake shore, or where the road
from Jericho bends over the shoulder Of
the Mount of Olives and the city Of
David opens to the view, as you shall
be reminded Of Me and long for Me-
will you then be able to believe in me-
trust in Me, as still your living friend
and Saviour? Nothing less than this
was the import Of that word to the
eleven, on that night in which He was
betrayed.
And this. If we can receive it, is the
question that Is put to YOU and me, as
the seasons roll around, and the paschal
moon grows full. and the signs OF res
direction are multiplied about us. We
who believe in the unseen God. do we
believe also in, the unseen Christ? Is
He real to us? Is He living? Tool long
the disciples have been lingering near
that broken tomb. as If seeking the liv-
ing among the dead. We have gone
back from the high and heavenly
thoughts of the Scriptures, and have
been dwelling, on, the mere fact and in 4
cident Of resurrection. as If its main
value were that Of great prodigy, the
GROWING wonder of wonderful life.
Aud truly, 1t Is all this; but this Is not
all that is---thls Is but minor part of
it. See of how little, account, to the
evangelists and the first preachers, is
the certifying pof the details Of the
event They do no. agree as to the or
der of the facts that they saw, nor |
even as to the 5facts themselves. The
thermometers of the gospels who from
the time when first there were four
gospels have been busy with ingenious
labora to reduce the sour to one, are
bafIled by the wide discrepancies and
are driven to bold conjectures to recon
Gle them. And all along they have
missed the lesson which the discrepan-
cies themselves would fain teach us
the lesson how insignificant Is the ques-
ton after what manner the Lord of |
glory rose, compared with the supreme
fact that He Is not dead but living.
In this fact. how lovingly and CRATE
fully they all agree, bringing each his
several "reminiscences of converse with |
the Risen One. From those forty hap
Ply days of intercourse with the Con-
queror Of death and Lord Of life, they |
went forth into all the world as wit |
nesses. Unto those who had companied |
with Him unto the day that He was
received up, was Joined another, as one
born out of due tlme-the young man,
Saul. He had not seen the resurrection
nor stood beside the sepulchre. nor
heard the voice OF angels, nor gazed
upon the folded grave-clothes; but
above his head the heaven had been
Parted, and from the excellent glory
had been heard the voice, SAUL SAUL
| am Iesus!'' The fact of living Jesus
had been burned into his soul, and he
too, was a witness, like the rest. Gov
arnor Festus did not miss the issue be-
tween Paul and His accusers; it was
concerning one Jesus, who was dead,
whom Paul affirmed to be alive. 1t was
The same testimony that was borne by
John. n Him that liveth, and was
lear and behold, He Is alive forever
more, and hath the keys Of death and
If the abode Of the departed" And
his, their testimony, believed on In