Milford chronicle., 1904-04-08

+. ing for help. Spades were brought
t and there, at his very doorstep, was
l dug a well which gave precious life
, saving drink to his family and the peo-
pie of the surrounding hills Thus, my
dear grandson. | write this that you
may know that our family at that time
was saved by faith and by believing
prayer" Oh. my friends, Christ is a
| refuge in every age. As the two dis
ciples listened TO him and found COM
fort in their day. as my sainted an
cestor turned to him in his trial and
was delivered. so may we in every
emergency of our lives find help and
peace in looking to him and praying to
him. Will you not feel. as did the two
disciples on the Emmaus road, that
without Christ you can do nothing and
that with Christ you can do every
thing?
But | cannot close without practi-
cal application to our future work in
| our relationship with our fellow men
and fellow Christian disciples. When
Jesus revealed himself to his disciples
) in the little Emmaus village, what
! did they do? Did they rejoice? Yes;
they rejoiced as gladly as did the old
! father in the parable of the prOdigal
son, who cried out in ecstasy, 1t was
meet that we should make merry and
be glad for this thy brother was
dead and is alive again and was lost
and is foundw But these two disciples
did more than merely stay at home
Easter evening and rejoice with each
other. Their happiness over the EN-
maus revelation was too great to be |
housed within four walls They imme- |
diately started back to Jerusalem. |
They said to each other: Come, come, /
come! Let us go and tell the apostles |
and the other disciples that we have !
seen the risen Christ. Come, come,
come! Let us have them rejoice with
us as we rejoice, as we have wept
with them when they wept" We can
now see them running back to the Je-
rusalem capital on Easter night, and
Easter darkness was not made an ex-
cuse for laggard feet They ran. Aye.
they ran as fast as their limbs could
carry them to tell of the risen Christ.
The Glorious News.
We are all ready to carry good news
to our fellow men. After Eapoleon's
defeat at Waterloo a messenger start
ed for the Russian capital to tell the
czar that his national enemy was over
thrown. On and on he went WhiIa
the horses were being saddled at the
iinerent taverns he would sleep; then
ntO his saddle and on When he rush
sd into the Petersburg palace the czar Z
vas at dinner But. undaunted. he car
led the good news inte the rovaI ban Z
luet hall, and then, after telling the
lews, he dropped at the feet of the
Ear and fell into a slumber from
which no one could rouse him. If {
Zar's soldier would be so anxious to 3
ell his chief of an earthly victory shall
re not be anxious, like the Emmaus
isciples, to tell all the world Of n
eavenly victory? From this church
uncovered with flowers. where we
ave seen the risen Christ in vision 8
nd heard him in song and sermon.
lall we not carry the news every
here? The news! Aye, tell the glo-
ous news that Jesus has risen from
le dead and become the first fruits Of
lem that slept
But there is one other fact that l
ould impress upon your thoughts in
rs Easter afternoon revelation. As ii
on as Christ revealed himself unto
$ two disciples he vanished out of
cir sight. If we do not at once re-
i've Christ when he reveals himself.
all probability we shall never re-
i've him at all. One moment he is
re. the next he is gone forever.
me of us in our past lives know
len we saw him. We know that
ere was a certain moment of n GER
N service when Jesus came to us
d said, Here am l." and if we had
at that moment received him as
Lord we would never have re-
we'd him. o men and women. are
this Easter day in the Emmaus
Iase? Are you standing in the little
age seven and one-half miles from
usGlem and having a divine revela-
and yet will not accept the risen
rist? God forbid that my Saviour's
rred hands and SCARED feet ana
rred brow and Scared side should
this Easter afternoons revelation
eal to you in vain!
TCODyrfphf 1904 7 o,,tz