Newport weekly independent., 1903-04-03
THE LIVING LORD,
An Easter Sermon by the "High- way and Byway" Preacher.
Greatest Fact fin the World To-Day Is the Resurrection of Christ-1he Mockery of the Unsnved JOin-
 ing in Easter Celebration.
fCopyright, 1903, by A N. Kellogg News
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 Chicago, April l2, 1903.
 Text:-"But ye....killed the Prince of Life, Whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. "-Act2 3:14, Is.
 THE Living Lord.-The greatest
 fact in the world to-day is the | fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The brightest hope of the hu- man race streams from the empty tomb around which the angels lowered. The most potent message winch ever fell upon the ear of man was that spoken by the Heavenly messengers who gladly declared that the cruclhed Saviour had become the Living Lord. It was a dead Lord Whom Joseph had laid sorrowfully away in his own new tomb, but it was a Living Lord Whom God brought forth triumphantly. It was dead and despised NaZarene Whom the Roman soldiers guarded at the behest of the Jewish leaders who had crucitied Him, but it was LlvinS King Who, treading under foot the dread enemy Death, stepped forth bringing to His subjects the gltt of eternal life. The hand of man could seal the tomb in which rested the dead body; the mighty arm of the powerful Roman government could confidently set it's watch, but when atonement for sin had been fully paid and Goo mighty angel descended from Heaven, his tread shook the earth and broke the seal of mans power and the nash- ing brightness of his countenance cast mans rule into the dust of utter help lessness. It was dead Lord to Whom . the sad-hearted disciples came to mln- ister, and they found Living Lord awaiting them Who quickly turned their tears into glad streams of joy, and their needless offering of embalm- ing spices into the living message of, "Go tell" It was a Living Lord Who during those wonderful 40 days ap- peared to His disciples and talked with them. It was the same Living Lord, with His Tesurrected body of flesh and blood, Who in triumph re- turned to Heaven and took His place at the right hand of the Father. It was the Living Lord Who poured forth upon His waiting disciples on the day of Pentecost the power of the Holy Spirit, and it was the Living Lord Whom Peter held up before that vast assembly of people that day and won three thousand converts. It was the Living Lord around Whom every ser mon of the disciples of the carly church was builded. Take your Bibles and see how repeatedly aud persistently the great fact of Christ's resurrection is referred to. 1t was the Living Lord to Whose mighty power the miracles wrought were credited, and in the scene which our text brings before us we see the lame man who sat at the Beautiful gate with strengthened anklebones leaping and praising God for the Living Christ; we hear the voices of Peter and John declaring to the amazed multitudes that God had raised up from the dead the Prince of Life, Whom they had slain, and that it was faith in Him which had healed the man whom they all knew, and, midst the rejoicing of the Heavenly hosts and while the recording angel is busy entering the names of the newborn
 we see five thousand men accept
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