The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-22
A Sermon
For Today

Subject: The Risen Life.-Colossians 81
to ..
Christ is a risen Christ. His disciples
are also risen. and risen now. Martha
said to Him, MY brother shall rise again.
etc." Christ said to her. Il am the
resurrection" How are His disciples
raised with Him? Paul answers the ques-
ton in Col PIP: Buried with Him in
baptism, where in also ye are risen with
Him. and in Rom, 4 and ;. Therefore
we are buried with Him by baptism into
death, that like as Christ was raised up
from the dead by the glory Of the Father,
even so we also should walk in newnesS
of life. For if we have been planted to-
gether in the likeness of His Death. we
shall be also in the likeness Of His resur-
rectiOn." The raised are Christians when
lifted from the grave Of baptism There
cannot be a resurrection without there
is first burial Lazarus must first die
and be buried, and so Christ first died
and was buried and so also Christ's dis
ciples in order TO become such must first
die TO sin, be buried and be raised into a
new life Christ's resurrection meant
something. Your resurrection means
something.
Your resurrection with Christ is not the
Christian life; it is the coming into it..
the life must be lived in Christ. This
being raised with Christ is no figure Of
speech; it is an act. Christ's resurrection
was not a fable, a figure. a pretty story,
or an allegory, but an act The living
with Christ is not a condition OF mind,
Of of
doing. Being is but the result of doing
Service is the purpose OF everything.
Nothing is built or made for itself alone
or only for its own sake The house, the
horse, the engine. the human being, or
the Christian. In order to be or become
you must do. Christ said am the resur-
rection, the truth, the way. the life. He
Himself was the lesson. the ohject, the
virtue the principle. the resurrection the
way. the truth, the life. the thing. He
wished to teach and the thing He taught
Any beauty is but truth in order be that
beauty of face, Of architecture. of music.
or of life in Christ No true description
can be given without being ard doing
James n Barrie wrote his little book OF
his mother, but it was not Margaret
his mothers sympathy and love.
Jesus our Savior could not describe
these virtues ana principles; He must
needs be them and live them Re. there
fore my friend, what you would make or
teach. There were two Robert Burns.
One when he was at the tavern where
the blinking of the glasses was heard
when ne would run off the jinJle:
"The wife OF my bosom. alas. shs did die;
For sweet consolation 10 church d'd 7 fy;
I found that old solomon proved il fair,
That the blg-belly'd bottles a cure for all
care.
IN this there is neither coed sense or
poetry
The other Robert Burns was when he
was at himself ard seriously near God.
when he wrote The Cotter's Saturday
Night:
The cheerful supper done. vi serious
face,
They, round the ingle. form circle wide;
The sire turns DER. wi pat-iarchaI grace,
The big ha' Bible. once his fathers pride.
His bonnet extremity is laid aside.
Those strains that once cid sweet IL Zion
glide,
He wales portion with judicious care
And let Us worship God. ne says. WIKI
solemn air
That Is poetry. that Is The other an5
better Burns. that IS Scotiants pride.
The artist puts himself upon the canvas.
The sculptor puts himself into the mar
he. You see a painting ard yo1 say TIM;
IS Raphael and that IS Michael Angelo.
etc You mean these men have pct the'r
genius. their Individuality and their soui
into the work. The man who Is living
risen lie IL an illustration Of tAe CHRIST
whom he follows ana is the eabod. ae.t
Ct the virtues lie taught We caEE7t
al PAINT Ike Raphael. hut We car gather
the u-hts and shsdes 4 life ana u r.
a character Ike Uuto the Son o. Coo We
cauaot all carve Ike Folycietas. but We
can take tha rnsliet Of ccnsecrarcd re-
severance and tho chiseI of service AID CT
The r1laest stones or opportunity scattered
III along HES highway, Nc can carve
face like OR Masters We ca-no- 81
su- Ike Jennie Lind. bat We can cas- =
Up tbs sohs and songs TIE sight ard
eInilcs. the tears and laughter = iife snd
weave tkcn into more sublime o-@t-riss
than AIRY ;hac werr ever wT-rtcn ~
Hsnlsl or Hayden we cannot az nr.t4
Ike Shasespearc hut We en- Esiher up
the stories @ broken ae4ris. q anEle is
ard disaapo.ntzsents and trace sheEa i1se
writing a. matches iiierature I've
thea. rny friends. " Il a risen lfe vltt
Chrizt tte Lord.
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