The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-11-16
PRESIDENT ROOSEVEL IS TAKING A LOOK AT
The BIG DITCH AND The WORKMEN TODAY
The Greatest
Service Yet
WAS THE ONE HELD LAST NIGHT
AT THE CENTRAL CHRIS
TlAN CHURCH.

Evangelist Shearer's sermon on
did Christ Rise From the Dead?"
vas most logically handled and the
Scriptural evidences we're most con-
elusive to all reasonable minds. The
speaker took Luke 24:6 for his text:
"He is not here, but risen." hO said
in part: This part Of Luke's gospel
has the message OF all importance to
the world: this proposition of'Luke
Is either true or false. II false what
Then? If trle, what then? II Christ
rose from the dead he is divine; he
is the Son Of God; every man and
woman is obligated to accept Him as
Savior. One should know something
of the history, life and character of
Abraham, Of Moses, David and the
Prophets, but that is of small import.
ance compared to knowing Jesus
Christ, whom to know is life entGrnal,
upon which our eternal salvation de-
pends. The three greatest days in
the worlds history were when the
Virgin brought forth her first born,
when he hanged upon the cross in
tragic death, and when he arose from
the dead, the resurrection and the
life. Paul in the fifteenth chapter of
First Corinthians says:
"If Christ Is not risen, them Is our
preaching vain, then are we found
false witnesses of God and We are yet
in your sins, and all they that are
asleep are perished."
Then is It fact that all the COM
ing generations will go down into the
dark valley Of death, hopeless. If
that is true, we had just as well throw
away this Bible; II there is no hope
you rob me Of Christ, and Of aii, for
then there is nothing worth living for,
If Christ is not risen.
There is a class Of men called inf
lels or unbellevers, who deny the res
direction of Christ and yet have moth
ing to offer to the world. May ! ask
what has dnbelief done for the world?
How many drunkards lifted out of
the gutter? How many>fallen women
has It saved? How much joy or happi-
ness has It brought to the world2
When | see man going among the
cannibals OF darkest Africa to save
the lost and teach them Christ Is Say
Tor. When ! see woman kneeI In
prayer beside the fallen girl; when I
see loved ones going into the region
and shadow Of death; when my heart
aches and | reach for the hand that
has vanished when | hear Jesus say.
81 am the resurrection and the Ife,"
| thank God that am not an infdel.
When ,infidelity can not show one
square mile that 1t has made pure
and clean or one life brighter It should
forever hang its head in shame. Be-
lieverS and disbelievers agree that Je-
sus lived, was tried in Jerusalem, was
crucified on the cross of Calvary that
he was buried In the tomb Of Joseph
of Arimathea, but where do they dis
agree? In that he rose from the dead.
Among the many witnesses of Chrlst's
resurrection were the sixty Roman
soldiers who guarded his tomb mder
the penalty of death for non.perfOrm-
ance of duty. The seal must moi be
broken. When they came with the
message that Jesus had risen "and
showed into the chief priests all the
things that were done, and were as
Sembled with the elders and had talk
en- counsel, they gave large money
unto the soldiers, saying, Say ye, His
disciples came by night and stole him
away while we slept"
Would you accept the testimony OF
sleeping men? Would any court re.
ceive such testimony? Listen, sixty
sleeping soldiers! One soldiers sleeps