The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-10
the BULLETINS SUNDAY SERMON


Los Angeles, cal, April lU-ln TINS
sermon tue Easter story receives a
new and beautiful setting. which APP
peals equally to the simple and the
learned. The text Is Luke xiv, 81,
And their eyes were opened, and they
knew him, ana he vanished out Of
their sight
Familiar truths become impressive
when presented in an unfamiliar way.
1t is therefore necessary for the
preacher to find a new setting for the
gospel camera. Whenever | wish
some lesson to be clearly remembered,
would wing it, once said Thomas
Guthrie the great Edinburgh pulpiteer.
ny gratifying the legitimate play of
the imagination salient truth finds its
way more readily to the heart and
makes deeper impression on the
memory. The suggestive Illustration,
nail. fastens il in the mind; like the
feathers Of an arrow. makes il strike,
and like the bark, makes it stick"
''Windows For Sermons" is the pointed
caption of 4 book of sermonic iilustra-
tioa. Yes; we all need new windows
MS well az clear windows through
which we can learn the great lessons
of er,gnpi tttttb
This is Easter day. The lessons with
which tie anniversary is fraught are
ut the very foundation of our faith.
They are SO momentous that the inn
agination is overwhelmed by their i'm
port. The facts are few. but how vital,
how significant they are. Let Us try
to look ut them from a different stand
point from that to which we are aCcus-
toned Transporting ourselves in
thought to the city of Jerusalem on
that eycntful day we hear rumorS
about the sitting of the sanhedrn, at
which the humble Nazarenc was con-
demned, but we pay no attention to
them. | listen not to the excited re-
ports flying everywhere that the high
priest ana his hirclings and the Off
GERS Of the law, led by the Apostate
Judas, had captured Christ in the gar
den of Gethsemane. | mingle not with
the multitudes that are crowding the
courtroom, in which Plate is the Judge
aud Jesus the prisoner. | gaze not at
the awful scene when Christ hung
upon the cross and his dying lips part
ed in their last agony l go not with
Mary down among the lilies TO the
tomb on the first Easter morn. But
when the sungIow Of Easter afternoon
has bathed the Judpan hills in great
waves OF light would point you to a
couple Of pedestrians vending their
way from the Jerusalem capital to-
ward the little village Of Emmaus. AS
these two ordinarily dressed men walk
OH see them accosted by third tray
eer. who appeared over the hills. And
now, az these three come nigh to the
village, | would see them enter hum
bic home. Then, while they are at
supper, would show you why the
stranger revealed himself to these two
disciples as the risen Christ.
EATERS Revelation.
Easter afternoons revelation, in the
first place, comes as a welcome on
enlargement to all those who are ear
nestly and prayerfully trylngto increase
their faith by reaching out for more
light, Ii comes as a divine demOnstra
ton that the prayer of broken heart
cd father once made to Christ, Lord,
| believe. help thou mine unbclicf, is
one of the most beautiful and yet hum
BE prayers of earnest beseechment. II
Is a holy inspiration that though we
sometimes in spiritual life have 10
walk rs q blind man feels his way
along. step by step. yet If we go on
trustfully and prayerfully and hope
fully Christ, after awhile. will reveal
himself to US IN all his glory.
Why do entertain this hope2 | find
ground for ii in tie fact that one Of
the earliest appearances Of Christ on
this first Easter day was to The two
men who had doubted the fact Of his |
resurrection. Christ when upon earth
dealt with men as we deal in our loves /
with our kith and kin Supposirg that |
| was a young man and Ind gene off |
to four years war Surprising after /
n long series of adventures | should /
come back to my native town. Who /
would be the first person | should /
want TO see? Would | wish to 60 and |
call first upon my school friends or
upon n merchant in whose store | used /
to work az clerk? Would | care first |
to see my old society friends and the /.
boys with whom | used to play base /
bail In the village lots? Oh, no, If /
was a young man the person whom | /
would honor first with visit would |
be my mother and then my father and |
my sisters If | was Il married man |
the fist person | would honor after !
my return home would be my wife /
and then my children When the tclc-
gram was handed to Abraham Lincoln (
notifying him Of his nomination for /
the presidency by the Republican na- f
ton convention assembled In Chicago /
the first move Abraham Lincoln made /
was to put on his tall hat and say: /
well, boys, there is a little woman mp I
the street who would like to hear this +
news. guess | will 60 and tell her
what has happened"