The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-06-16
Christ Risen


When the facile pen OF Charles
Dickens dropped from his hand IN
the midst of the writing of his "Mys-
terry of Edwin Brood" a sensation
of regret was felt by his admirers that
he had left story half told. Had
the evangelists laid down their pens
before narrating the resurrection, it
would not have been a passing sensa-
ton of regret, but the universal hui
man heart would have been torn
asunder between faith and dOubt.
There is so much upon the sacred
page to indicate Divinity, but the
glorious seal to it would he lacking
The unfinished Mystery of Jesus
Christ would have plunged each sue
ceeding generation of readers into
grief and despair The lament of the
disciples on the way TO Emmaus
would have been the Worlds refrain:
I'VE thought it had been He who
should have redeemed us. But how
can an unrisen Savior save?n
With Joy and confidence we turn
then to the fourfold narrative of the
resurrection. No unfinished mystery
is here. That last event essential to
the symmetry of the Divine Person
is told with incOntestable truth.
Each evangelist, from his own point
of view, narrates the sublime event
independently.Ot the rest. What one
lacks the others supply. Each gives
some minor touch caught upon the
sensitive plate of his own individual
ity. So from the four pencils groweth
the everything picture of the soul
the rising Christ From the four
Gospels the circumstantial evidences
of the resurrection of Jesus may be
cleaned and arranged as follows:
l. Reality of Jesus Death
Insured by
o. Discipline of Roman soldiers.
(2) Malice of Jews.
81 Centurion's report.
Hence reappearance of Jesus not
the result of recovery from swoon.
II. Jesus Tomb Empty on Third Day
Fact admitted by friend and foe.
Mistake impossible; one body only in
tomb.
~ Body not taken by enemies.
No object in removing it, or could
have refuted story of resurrection by
reproducing body.
(2) Body not taken by friends.
Proved by their transparent in
geniousness.
(3) Body could not have been tax
en- by any one.
(a) Because of the discipline of
Roman soldiers.
(b) Because of position of grave
cloth.
Q. Z. D.-Christ arose of his own
will and power.
No event Of the human history is
more completely verified, more incon-
testably authenticated, than the
resurrcctian of Jesus from the tomb
of Joseph of Arimathea, in the garden
near Calvary. If the circumstance
as related by the evangelists, can be
impeached, then any page of history
can be impeached by the same meth
DDS.
In this circums tantial narrative
full of incidents that at first glance
seem trivial, bot soon appear each
in its proper place-an irrefragible
link in the mightiest chain of evil
dence eyer forged, it is as if one hears
the Masters voice to His doubling
disciples in each generation: Reach
hither thy finger, and behold my
hands: and reach hither thy hand,
and thrust it into my side, and be
not faithless, but believing.n
The Teachers Lantern
The absolute righteousness OF the
apostolic company is manifest in the
women's errand. They were no par
ty to the opening of the tomb or re-
moval of the body. What they had
in their hands was striking and ma
terial testimony of their unfeigned
openness. They came to minister to
the dead, to complete embalmment.