The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1903-04-17
TOWN TOPICS.
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES.
REV MR. ROSS breaches FOR THE FIRST
TIME.

AS was noted: in last weeks BEE,
new pastor has been appointed TO tne
Sandy Hook Methodist church, Rev
William Ross, who is soon to move MS
family from Seacliff, L. l., to Sandy
Hook. He came to officiate at the
services last Sunday, and gave helpful
addresses. His personality is upllft-
ing and when once one has met him he
feels pleasure in anticipating culture
| meetings during the coming year, which
we hope will be prosperous one to
our little church. In the morning Mr
Ross spoke few kindly.words OF greet
| ing and then addressed his, audience
on the Easter theme. His text was
| found in Cor. Is: IA. He said in part:
There is no need for me to bring to
you proofs of the resurrection. We be-
| lieve in the resurrection and what we
believe we do not need to have proved
to U.S. If Christ is not risen there can
be no use of my standing here and
preaching to you, but as he is risen l
can preach to you the risen Christ.
| But we will try to see why Christ's life
means more to us than the lives OF
other good men. There were many
| other good men who lived and taught
and died before Christ did. All! yes.
| they died. But Christ died, too.
| What then makes the difference. Just
this: Christ was not captive of the
grave. He arose again. Still other
men besides Jesus were raised.
He was not even the first to rise, for
He Himself raised others. This is the
difference: All others who came back
from the grave were raised by second
party. Jesus Christ raised Himself.
There was in Him life and power. No
outside agency raised Him from the
| tomb. Do you not remember how
strongly the tomb of Christ was guard
ed?. There were soldiers and the seal
of the governor; to have tried to reach
the tomb would have been sure death.
| And when Christ arose He arose to die
| no more. Other men were raised and
died again, but Christ rose and is alive
forever more. eff man die shall be
live again." is question asked again
and again. Philosophy has answered
the question and said, mo, life cannot
! again come to a dead body" Jesus
Christ answered the question not SO.
He arose himself and SO proved His
power over death. Because he arose
| we, too, may hope to live again. We
are appalled, by the number of suicides
| in these days. Men forget that death
does not end life. They may by death
get away from their awful lives, but
there is resurrection and after that
Judgment, when they will again have
to face their sins. But there is hap
pier side to this. Not only those who
die in sin are raised but they who die
| in Christ are raised to everlasting life.
We shall know our friends and clasp
their hands. There will be songs OF
joy to the Christ who made such happy
reunions possible. All this life in
heaven we have through the resurrec-
tion; all we have or are is through
the resurrection of Jesus. Some say:
But the Bible makes no specific state
ment of our Immortality. Neither
| does the Bible make specific state
ment that there is God. Its first
words are ''In the beginning God"
1t assumes the fact to be known. Be-
lieve it; there is God and by His Son,
Jesus Christ, we have Immortality by
believing in Him.