The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-16


 Inquiry of Science.
 Nor was this all the publicity the resur- rection of Jesus Christ received what remains beyond numbers and power, be- yond the council of the great and the as- sembly of the people? Scieneel Every great fact that is to be proclaimed to tlie world must be brought forth on this Il z theatre of publicity, on the arena Of learning and discussion in the presence of tho lords Of thought and knowledge. For it might happen that the testimony which had hraved the passions of the multitude and withstood the power of princess might quail before the searching inquiry of science.
 Did the apostles, then. announce the resurrection of Jesus Christ in the halls of science? On certain day vessel arrived al the port of Athens from which a stanger landed who wended his way from the harhor to the center of this famous city When this man had gazed around. his spirit was stirred within him. the seat of the civilization of the world seemed but temple of idols. After he had shaken off the dust from his feet before this majestic ruin of former days, he cnterd into the reopagus-the only surviving relic of it's ancient greatness, and standing in the midst said. "Ye men of Athens. passing by and seeing your I written: To the unknown God What, therefore, you worship without knowing 1t, that I preach unto you. God. who made the world and all things therein hath appointed a day wherein He will judge the world in equity by the man whom He hath appointed giving faith to all by raising Him up from the dead" (Acts xviD.
 And so we see that St. Panl before the 1parpad uf Athaog liFo Gt n midst of the Jewish council and in the upper chamber at Jerusalem. did not hesi tate to boldly proclaim the resurrection of Jesus Christ The world has re-echoed the testimony of the apostles. and from the assembly of the people to the coun- cl chamber of princes. from the council chamber of princes to the academy of the learned this marvellous fact has spread from one end of the world to the other, uniting the dearest evidence to the widest publicity, like the sun whose lfe-giving light shines every where and is visible To every eye while 1t sheds around the brshtness of it's beams.
 When on the moring of the resurrection the holy women came to the sepuchre of Jesus Christ they found there an angel who said to them Why seek you the living with the dead? He is not here but Is risen II Was not fitting that the divine body of the crucifed Savior should remain buried in the earth. and that nor tal eyes should always he able to contem- plate the immortal remains of the Cod man.
 Genius and Power
 We can well understand how genius, power and holiness may lie buried in the dust of the tomb. The bones of the mighty ones of the earth remain in order that the contemplation of their corrup- ton, their dust their nothingness may century after century teach us the little ness of human things. We can well un- derstand that God should not have with held the relics of Saints Peter and Paul from the empire of death and the moul dering effects of time. Great as they were and holy. they were but men. and death exercises its dominion over the tonlbs of saints no less than over the mortal re- mains of kings.
 But it was not fitting that it should be thus with the tomb of Jesus Christi I: was necessary that this sepulchre should remain silent and empty in the midst of nations as the witness of immortality, in order that the ceaseless inquiry of man. kind might eyer find it's answer from this memorial of the resurrection in those cheering words Of hope: "I am the resur- reetion and the life; he that believcth fin Me shall live and l will raise him up at the last day.