The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-16

Marv. because her great love would not
allow her to desert the rlfed tomb
Reading carefully ST. Johns account Of
the resurrection you Will find tA%}t Ma
r. made two visits to the garden where
Christ'S body was laid. FIRST she went
as a woman. Even to tl4!S day the Wo-
men Of the east ouatlle i!rSt day OF til"
week are arcUStQmrd to Go Just the
same as they did in Christ's time. For
six long weeks at early dawn the Wonl-
en- 20 to the new made graves to weep
there. With my own eyes hlN" seen
them going and heard them with l"T
ears. Just as the sun is Nerpin@ over
the Jud:pan hills they come forth r0?."'!
In white. with faces covered NitH long
wells, Wuiling and sOhiinG rs they go
But no sooner did Mary reach tie 1oDlA
and find il desScratod than she r;'n'"l'd
told the disciples Peter ann I0"N
What then happened: Why. Peter and
John came to the tomb and verified I'll"
statement with their own eyes. Then
they turned and went home, but Nary,
the loving Mary. would not leave. size
fingered, asking every On" size met
practically the one nuNSt!~n, w L"rP
have We laid him." SIZE >:Si"u # Of the
two angels: she asked it OF IL" sup
posed gardener; then. as she still coz
tinued to linger about tie tomb, Jesus
revealed himself unto her.
What does the second Journey Ct
Mary to the rifed tomb Of Jesus
sDirit to the Easter tomb of Christ,
seeking him and staying there, as Mary
stayed, Christ will reveal himself unto
us. He will reveal himself as he did
to the noted Christian reformer of old,
whose daily and hourly prayer was
this simple sentence: More light, Lord,
more light, more light" He will re-
veal himself as he did to Thomas
Chalmers. who after preaching for
many years in his kilmeny pulpit, sud
denly had a new revelation of the life
of Jesus, from which he was able to
preach his mighty sermon on THE Elk
pulsive Power of a New Affection
| He shall reveal himself as he did to
Charles H. >Spurgeon. Not until the
Of Christ crucified was he able to grasp
| the right key, which opened to him the
| doors of the treasury of the gospel. He
| will reveal himself as he did again and
| again to your Christian mother. Never
| did sorsow come to her hearthstone
| but she Immediately fed, like Mary, to
the tomb of her Lord. There she stay
| CHI hnr foe
she prayed until the peace that pass
eth all understanding" came into her
heart. Oh, my dear Christian friends,
why do so many of us go to the tomb
Of Jesus as Peter and John went and
then turn our backs upon the empty
crypt? Why do we not linger as Mary
fingered? More light, Lord, more
light, more light More light from
| thy cross; more light from thy loving
face; more light into our troubled lives.
| On this Easter day we cry: More
light! More light" 49,.
The risen Lord appeared early in the
morning Some Bible students inter
pref the words when it was yet dark"
to mean that the resurrected Christ is
only going to reveal himself to his dis
ciples after long succession of earthly
troubles. They try to magnify the
| hopeless grief of the Christian disciples
during the two black nights following
Il the crucifXioE to that dumb despair
/ with which the mother Of a criminal
might watch the stern, grim, voiceless,
forbidding walls of state penitentiary
within which her son is about to be
electrocuted for the crime of murder
l once saw such face, I never wish
to see the like of it again. The mother
hired a room overlooking Sing Sing
prison. There she sat hour after hour
watching and waiting. Not until THU
agonizing woman had heard that bel
, boys heart had ceased to beat did shs
turn away and bury her crushed life il
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+ The Cheerful view.
But take d brighter and more cheer
full view Of the resurrection Of Jesus
Christ in the early dawn. believe tina
Jesus Christ appeared unto Mary in thu
early dawn, when the birds were
stretching their wings for morning
bath, when the cocks were sounding
their feveille of the barnyards, whe1
the dogs from hunger We're trying Il
hunt around for stray bone for thei
I breakfast Christ wants to teach u.
that just as soon as possible he sha!
appear to explain all our sorrows ant
heartaches and mysteries and trial:
and separations Christ could have ap
peared the first Easter day at the sec
ond watch, when all Jerusalem wa!
| stirring, or at II o'clock noon, OF. ever
at the tenth hour. or just before sunset
and still have fulfilled the prophecy
, that he should rise again on the thirt
day. But such tardy action is not likt
that of my Lord and King. He would
not protract by a moment the grief O.
his sorrowing friends. Just as soon a:
the prophecy was fulfilled he burst tht
bonds of death and revealed himsel