The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-30
EASTERN oFFrcFs
THE RESURRECTION MORN.


lie is not here. for he IS risen. as ne said
n THESE WORDS is announced the
fuIdllment of religions greatest
promise; the promise OF a life beyond
tae grave. Turn back the pages of
eSnae this morning and stand for o.
moeaeut at Che tomb when Joseph had
hewn ont in the living rock Nearly
nineteen hundred years. with their joys
and their s0rrows, their woodwork
and theis world-pleasure, have passed
since poor. bruised. broken body was
placed in THAI sepulehre, but the scene
stands out as wildly on the canvas Of
fancy as though the actors in it were
still on the earth.
Tt is tbs epHosue of G0lg0tha's trag-
eds, an cpilogue greater even than the
tragedy preceding it. Crucihxions were
not uncommon in Jesus time. The
mob that had assembled to see a Jew
nailed Is a cross would have for
gotten the incident within month had
nothing followed to fix it in their rec
election,
Twice the sun has cast its dying
lisht on the hill where fanaticaI muir
der has been done. Twice its morn
ing rays have touched IL with a CLINT
of gold and the third day has come.
Two women. weeping. are t0iling slowly
up 70 the sepulchre. They carry sweet
spices with which TO anoint the body,
but the wretched clay is gone. The
great stone which had sealed the en-
trance to the tomb is rolled away, and
TIE women find an empty grave. And
set it is not empty, except of that
which they sought An angel speaks TO
The womsn. He tells them Of the res
direction, and The words he spoke VIII
never die. He is not here, for he is
risen, as he said
A little less than nineteen hundred
.feafs ago today the Christian religion
was builded on these few words. words
go simple THAI the least o. The little
ones Christ loved can understand.
on each recurring anniversary of
that day, in churches and cathedrals.
ia chapels and in mission houses, in
cities, ooVns and villages from Arctic
TO Antarctic ice the story is told again.
Great choirs sound anthems to the
risen Lord. banks o. lilies surround
high alters and eloquent ministers
preach. not a dead Jews gospel, but
the gospel of living Savior. Il
am the resurrection and the Hfe." he
said; he that believeth in me, though
NE were dead. vet shall he Hive, and
whatsoever iiveth and believeth in me
shall never die.
Death is but the door to eternal life.
1t is as a man entering darkness. A
fearful place it seems. Gods sunlight
IS shut cut Of it. On and on he goes,
and now light shines Just ahead A
moment Of d0dbt. Of uncertainty, Of
terror, and he passes into a day where
the birds are singing and the air is
heavy with the fragrance Of uncounted
flowers.
If the ChTistiOn religion did not prom
Use life out of death it could not stand
one nour.
OF an the seasons Of The year Easter
offers most uounteous evidence through
natue that life IS attainable only
through oed IN. On the hIllSides and in
the valleys dead seeds are swelling. In
trees That have stood gaunt and Leaf
less these many months the sap is run
ning and giving life to every branch
and twie. soon the barren boughs viii
be covered with foliage, grateful TO the
eye. refreshing to the body. The whole
dead world is coming to life. Softer
grow the breezes. gently flow the
streams loosed from the grasp Of win
ter Ali nature. animate and mani
mate, adorns itself IN fresh attire, ana
the land is ve~v fair. In the face Of
such lavish testimony TO the resurrec-
ton Of an life. it is small wonder. that
Christianity should rejoice at Easter
and renew the memory Of him who
gave the world its eternal faith in the
life 10 come.