Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-04-16
will that gospel testimony be scattered
by those who know him not?

by those who know him not?
And why should not VIZ. the profess
ing followers of Jesus, DC willing to
announce to the world the glad tidings
OF risen Christ? Surprising that to-
day your wife was sick and had to I'M
dergo very serious operation. would
you not notify her mother and father
and brothers and sisters Of the i'm
pending danger? And If that opera
ton was success would you not make
the telegraph wires thrill with the
news, "The doctors say the operation
was success and that she will get
wcll?" II you would thus hasten to
send the news that your wife had been
saved from the jaws of death. how
much more should every one who
realizes what the resurrection of the
Lord means to our dying race join in
the effort to send broadcast through a
perlshing world the glad news that
Christ has risen from the dead?
We con imagine the joy that was felt
many years ago in an old farmhouse
on a certain occasion during the late
civil war. One of the sons, who was
shot. His name appeared in the death
column. The oldest brother immedi-
ately went to the front to find out how
the lad was shot and, If possible, to
bring the body home for burial. When
he found his brothers regiment and
captain, he was told the young man
was not killed, but only wounded. The
elder brother did not even wait to see
his wounded brother. He rushed to
the nearest telegraph office and sent
these words TO the old folks: Charley
is not dead but alive. I shall bring
him home as soon as he can leave the
hospital" All, yes. there was Joy in
the old farmhouse over the seemingly
miraculous resurrection of the dead
boy. Is there to be no Joy scattered
abroad by us when we announce ev-
morn?
The Christ Of Easter Dny.
But there is one result Of Mary's mes
sage to the disciples upon which I
would like to touch before close. She
carried that news to doubling Thomas.
Even with all the testimony that Mary
brought. Thomas would not believe that
Christ had risen again until he had
thrust his finger into his pierced side.
Even after Jesus had appeared among
his disciples and Thomas saw Christ
face to face he would not believe until
lie had touched Jesus. Is there any
doubling Thomas here today among
us? Is there any one who is trying to
believe the Bible and the gospel with
out believing the divine birth and the
divine resurrection of Jesus Christ!
oh, my beloved. among the beautiful
flowers of Easter morn do not try to
exhume a corpse and call it a living
Christ Dom Pedro |. of Portugal, on
the day Of his coronation, had the de-
composing body of his dead queen car
ried through the streets of Lisbon with
a jcweled crown upon her skull and a
sceptcr in her hand. But, after all, she
was Il dead queen. Look today at a
living Jesus. Look today at resur-
rected Christ, who is ready to show
you his scars. the results of suffering
for your sins. Look today at living
Jesus, who demands that you shall not
only call Kim Master, but Rabboni,
which is to say Great Master" Look
today at an Easter Christ who was US.
cended unto the Father. with whom
you may be able. through his blood, to
pass an endless Easter.
Copyright. 1903. by Louis Klopschl