The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-03

loving service. That Is how they camc to be the first witnesses of the resur- rection. Loyal doing leads to royal knowing. If any will do. he shall know"
 The stone was rolled away to exhibit tho emptiness of the tomb. It was not rolled away for Jesus, but for His dis | ciples; not that He might come forth, but that they might enter and see that 1 He was gone
 l The Crusaders were 0 fight for a l "will-o'- the-wisp. The holy sepulcher, | 1t is now conceded, can not have been the place of entombment. The true site is lost. It is well. We worship not the place, but the Person.
 | The Oriental manner of burial is in- teresting; the winding-sheet and napkin: embalmment: rock-hewn cham Der; loculi, like steamship berths, In which bodies were laid. Stone for door, sometimes shaped like millstone and set in groove so as to be rolled and held in position by a smaller stone like chuck under wheel
 It was just such q place that Jesus | forsook on that first Easter morning. He first took precaution to fold the l long linen strip with which His body | had been swathed. and laid it on the spot where His feet had rested; then He did the same with the smaller strip. called a napkin in our translation. Thus He left an ocular proof that His body had not been removed in haste or by thieves.
 The love, faith, fidelity of womanhood | is transfgured in the resurrection | scene.
 Mary mourned what was really her greatest gain. Suppose, she had found the body still in the tomb It would have been the most disastrous find" of history What Mary ignorantly depre- cated was really the infinite gain of hu- manity. The very emptiness of Jesus's tomb is it's chief glory
 The open tomb was converted into bureau of information for the troubled disciples. White-liveried attendants were there to point them to the place where the Lord lay and to the grave clothes laid in such orderly fashion as to preclude the idea of a nasty and clandestine removal, and to announce the blessed truth. He is risen!' A special authority to remit and re- tain was not given to the apostles in the language, "Whosoever sins ye for give" etc It is as if Jesus had said, ''You are going out to preach the terms of forgiveness; viz. repentance and faith. If men meet the conditions they will be forgiven. If they do not, their sins will stand against them" Any oth- CT interpretation would give inechan- Ical and arbitrary power of a privileged class over their fellows.
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 Mary stood: Revised Version. was standing. on her return to the tomb af- ter telling Peter and John that Jesus was not in the tomb. Such offices Gas embalmment) were performed by those who were not closely related to the deceased, SO that the absence of our Lords mother is not wonderful--BCn- gel. She stopped and looked: Because she was anxious to see whether she might not. after all, be mistaken about the absence of the body. She Gtooped because the top of the entrance was so low that she could not otherwise get a near view of the inside of the tomb Clark Even in the midst of her grief she is moved by a natural desire to see if there is any trace of her Lords body in the tomb. Seeth two angels: To be regarded as a distinct vision to Mary. which from the fullness with which 1t is recorded, she probably her. self related to the evangelist She turned: It may be that the angels look ing toward the Lord. showed some sign of his coming.-Westcott Why weepest thou7 This first word of the