The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-14
A THOUGHT FOR EASTER.

Tomorrow throughout Christendom
will be commemorated an event that
is without parallel because it con-
cerned One who occupied a position
in the world which no other had.
The event was the elimination of
n tragedy enacted three days before,
upon the horrors of which the sun re-
fused to shine. and while the life of
the lowly Nazarne went out on the
rugged cross planted on the top of
Golgotha. nature shuddered in the
throes of mighty earthquake.
When the veil was rent asunder the
puny hand of man in the great re-
ligious tragedy was stayed and On
impotence became the power which
was forever to establish the claim of
Christ to be the Son of God.
Had it been possible for the Roman
soldiers and the Roman governor to
have closed the events concerning
Christ with his death on the cross,
there would have been abundant room
for questioning His divinity.
The three days between the Friday
of his death and the Sunday of resur-
rection proved the claim which he
had put forth that He was indeed the
Son of God.
The world has always been familiar
with death. It was the inevitable end
of man SO far as his earthly career
was concerned. The learned men had
tried to fathom the Unknown Beyond
without avail.
The human mind had staggered at
the uncertainty and while there had
been in the religion of the Jews line
OF inspired prophecy which had point
ed out the way, the resurrection of
the dead was not generally believed.
1t remained for Christ in carrying
out the great plan of redemption to
demonstrate Its truth.
Even His followers had some doubts
OF the matter, for the women who
first discovered that the body had
arisen, came to the tomb for other
purposes than to test this matter.
When the bands which sealed the
tomb were broken and He who for
three days had lain within it's gloomy
confines came forth in the flesh and
was again seen of men, there could
be no doubt that the resurrection of
the dead were indeed reality.
While seraphic music floating out
in the stiffness of the night over the
Judean hills had proclaimed the birth
OF the Messiah. and while his teach
ings during the three short years OF
his ministry had been full to over
flowing with the power of one whose
inspiration must have been above
men. the world would not have be-
lieved on him save by the unanswer-
able argument of his resurrection.
By his death the religious history
of the world has been changed at
least. Whether he came as the Gull
mination of the great religious sys-
tenn that had been built up in the
Jewish nation and had largely domin-
ated the religion of the ancient world
and left it's indellible stamp upon the
modern. or whether he was foreign
to that religion is a matter upon which
men and people have honestly diff
fered.
Today the world is largely Christian
in belief when measured by the stand
ard Of intelligence. And there can be
no argument that the principles of
the religion handed down through a
long and unbroken line from the very
beginning Of the history of the race,
10 nearer correct as religion guides
than those whose acknowledged orr
gin is shrouded in myth or based upon
the distorted views of men without in
SEPARATION.
What the influence of this religion
has been upon the human race might
be matter for argument, but the fact
IL patent that the nations and people
which are now. and for centuries hare
been. the leaders in the progress of
the world have acknowledged in some
form the religion of the Nazarine.
Japan is pointed to as notable ex-
ception to this statement, but 1t must
he remembered that until the light
Of the Christianized west had shone
upon that land 1t was among the be-
nishted nations Of the earth, and
whatever advances its people have
slade have taken place since it was
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