St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-16
THE LIVING LORD.
An Easter Sermon by the "High-
way and Byway" Preacher.
Greatest Fact in the World To-Day
IL the Resurrection of Christ-The
Moclxery OF the Unsaved join
inx in Easter Celebration.

Copyright 1903. by A. n. Kellogg News
paper Col
Chicago, April Il. 1905
rext.-"Rut vs.. killed the Prince of
life Whom God hath raised from the
dead: whereof We are witnesses. -Acts
s: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 hui
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 this Heavenly messengers
who gladly declared that the cruclhed
Saviour had become the Living Loro.
It was a dead Lord Whom Joseph had
laid sorrowfully away in his own new
tomb, but it was Living Lord whom
God brought forth triumphantly. 1t
was dead and despised Nazarene
Whom the Roman soldiers guarded at
the behest of the Jewish leaders VINO
had crucified Him, but it was LIVING
King Who, treading under foot the
dread enemy Death, stepped lor'n
bringing to His subjects the gitt OF
eternal life. The hand Of man coulo
seal the tomb in which rested the deaa
body; the mighty arm OF the powerful
Roman government could conhoently
set it's watch, but when atonement lot
sin had been fully paid and uoos
mighty angel descended from Heaven
his tread shook the earth and broke
the seal of mans power and the flash
ing brightness of his countenance cast
mans rule into the dust OF utter help
lessness. 1t was dead Lord to whom
the sad-hearted disciples came to NM
lister, 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 Living Lord Who
during those wonderful 40 days APP
peared to His disciples and talked
with them. 1t was the same Living
Lord, with His resurrected body OF
flesh and blood, Who in triumph re-
turned to Heaven and took His place
at the right hand of the Father. 1t
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. 1t was the
Living Lord around Whom every ser
mon of the disciples of the early church
was builded. Take your Bibles and
see how repeatedly and persistently
the great fact of Christ's resurrection
Is referred to. It 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
anklehones leaping and praising God
for the Living Christ; we hear the
voices of Peter and John declaring to
the amazed laultitudes that God had
raised up from the dead the Prince of
Life, Whom they had slain, and that 1t
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
souls, we see five thousand men accept
the truth of the message and bow al
legiance to the Living Christ.
r HE Easter Message.-In the small
compass Of our text we find crowd.
ed the indictment of man, the triumph
of God and the mission of the disciples
of Christ. Casters message is Of this
three-fold character. Out of the
blackness and death Of mans sin was
wrought the resurrection glory of a
crucified Lord, and the one command
of the risen Lord to His disciples !
was: Go We and tell all the world of
the Living Christ. If the Easter light
shines not through this Divinely-
ordered prism ite full beauty and its
ullmeaning are lest to the soul. Mans |
sin that placed Christ upon the cross
on one side, the triumph of the resur-
rection morn with the Living Lord on
a second side, and the sensitive, re-
sponsive soul of the disciple on the
third side rejecting the glory of it all
as he sends the light far out into the |
world. If the glad music of Easter
morn has not in it the minor strains |
of mans need upon which the Heaven
ly strains of Salvation's song may rest,
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of the disciples to vibrating with the |
sweet message for others, that Easter |
music has not in it the full harmony |
that can satisfy. The world is IA |
niliar with the resurrection story, it |
marks the advent of the day upon it's
it prepares in plans and in
dress for its coming, it is ready to |
raise its voice to join in the strain of
Easter music, it bows before the empty
tomb, it looks upon the risen Christ,
it knows the day as one of glad rejoic-
ing in the churches, and with the last |
grand burst Of music of the evening
service sounding in it's ear it goes back
to its activities and its pleasures and
forgets, until another Easter day
dawns. At Easter time the story of
Living Lord is on everybody's lips, but
the Transforming power of the Living
Lord is not felt because the message
is no longer the full resurrection
truth which starts with mans sin:
''Ye have killed the Prince of Life
and ends with the clear testimony of
personal experience of the risen Lord,
which can say: whereof we are wit
nesses."