Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-04-13

Mary because her great love would not
allow her to desert the rifled tomb.
Reading carefully st. Johns account Of
the resurrection. you will find that Ma
~ made two visits to the garden where
Christ's body was laid. First she went
as a woman. Even to this day the wo-
men of the east on the first day of the
week are accustomed to do just the
same as they did in Christ's time. For
six long weeks at early dawn the wom-
en- 90 TO the new made graves to weep
there. With my own eyes | have seen
them going and heard them with my
ears. Just as the sun is peeping over
the JudRan hills they come forth robed
in white, with faces covered with long
wells, wailing and sobbing as they go.
But no sooner did Mary reach the tomb
and find it desecrated than she ran and
told the disciples Peter and John.
What then happened? Why, Peter and
John came to the tomb and verified the
statement with their own eyes. Then
they turned and went home, but Mary,
the loving Mary, would not leave. She
fingered, asking every one she met
practically the one question, Where
have ye laid him?" She asked it of the
two angels; she asked 1t Of the sup
posed gardener; then, as she still con-
tinued to linger about the tomb. Jesus
revealed himself unto her:
What does the second journey of
Mary to the rified tomb of Jesus
teach? Simply this: II we only go in
| spirit to the Easter tomb Of Christ.
| seeking him and staying there, az Mary
stayed, Christ will reveal himself unto
u.s. 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 q new revelation of the life
of Jesus, from which he was able to
preach his mighty sermon on 1.-The Ex-
| pulsive Power of a New Affection"
He shall reveal himself as he did to
Charles II. Spurgeon. Not until the
youthful SpurgeOn caught a glimpse
of Christ crucifed 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 sorrow come to her hearthstone
but she Immediately fed, like Mary, to
the tomb of her Lord. There she stay
ed; there she sought her Master; there
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 Hghtv
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
the crucifixion to that dumb despair
with which the mother of crimina
might watch the stern, grim, voiceless
forbidding walls of state penitentiary
within which her son is about to b.
electrocuted for the crime of murder
l once saw such face. l never wisl
to see the like of it again. The mothe
hired room overlooking Sing Sin:
prison. There she sat hour after hou
watching and waiting. Not until thi
, agonizing woman had heard that he
, boys heart had ceased to beat did sh
, turn away and bury her crushed life il
distant city.
: The Cheerful View.
But take a brighter and more cheer
full view of the resurrection of Jesu
D Christ in the early dawn. | believe tina
!. Jesus Christ appeared unto Mary in th
' early dawn, when the birds wer
4 stretching their wings for mornin
: bath, when the cocks were soundin
l their reveille of the barnyards, whe
e the dogs from hunger were trying t
/. hunt around for a stray bone for thei
v breakfast. Christ wants to teach U
3 that just as soon as possible he sha
Y appear to explain all our sorrows an
d heartaches and mysteries and trial
and separations. Christ could have al
) peared the first Easter day at the SCI
h ond watch, when all Jerusalem wa
b stirring. or at II O'Clock noon, or eve
l. at the tenth hour. or just before sunse
e and still have fulfilled the prophec
D that he should rise again on the thir
? day. But such tardy action is not lik
y that OF my Lord and King. He woul
y not protract by moment the grief {
? his sorrowing friends. Just as soon g
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