Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-04-21
CHURCH COLUMN
By J. c. shetland.
The Resurrection.

! The Resurrection.
"Spring birds now are singing, singing
Of the day break in the east.
Church bells now are ringing, ringing,
For the churches glorious feast.
Christ is risen, Christ is risen,
Sins long triumph now is Ger.
, Christ is risen, Deaths dark prison
| Now can hold His saints no more"
I. The grave, though short and
narrow where our dead is, is greater
in one thought than the Rocky
mountains. The Hottest SUBMITS of
earth are gloomy. In climbing them
| we go up out of the timber, and flow
ers and verdure to rocky barrenness
and snoy and ice. The grave is more
gloomy. The end of all our efforts,
striving, grasping, struggle, fighting
weeping, worrying, is the tomb.
s'Earth to earth and dust to dust here
the evil and the just
Here the youthful and the old, here
the fearful and the bold
Here the matron and the maid in one
silent bed are laid.
Here the sword and sceptre rust,
earth to earth and dust to dust"
Of all sad graves the saddest was
the tomb where Jesus lay. The night
mists gathered, the moon and stars
cleaned coldly, the Roman sentries
paced before it, while in an upper
room a group of sad diciples were
saying, ave trusted it had been He
who would have redeemed Israel"
90 what is so dead as persisted hope,
The plan of life crushed overthrown?"
Their expectations are dead, their
dream of the messiah turned to dust.
The throne of their master is a grave.
His regal robes are shroud. His
empire is tomb. His wise and grac-
ious words, were they deception?
Dead! His friends saw the life fade
from his eyes, and the blood drip
from his body. The soldiers who
knew little of other things, knew the
certainty of his death, and made as
surance doubly sure by piercing his
side with a spear. His enemies rag
ing at him and exulting in his death
It was public death absolutely sure.
II. His resurrection is if possible
even more absolutely proved than
his death. Voltaire IN his Dictionaire
Philosphique, lays down five rules
for sufficient testimony. (The speaker
narrated Voltaires rules, the origin of
the books of West Littleton, the re-
cord made by the writer's of the new
testament and the late argument of
Cardinal Gibbons, of the multitude
who saw him after his resurrection
I like the eastern custom of placing
vacent chair for him on easter day,
and also their remembrance that elm
asmuch as you do it to one of these
you do it unto me-"
who therefore open the heart and
door
Cry east and west to the wandering
poor
Whoever thou art whose need is great
In the name of Christ the compass
ionate
And suffering one for thee wait"
III. If we accept these statements
we need not fear death. He lay in
the tomb and left hope there. He
through the grave and left light there.
HI abolished death and brought life
and immortality to light. When this
corinptibls shall have put on incor-
rupton, and this mortal shall have
put on Immortality, then is death
swallowed up in victory. On the
graves of our dead stands the Master
saying, 81 am the resurrection and
the life.N Our dead rest. How many
aching heads, and aching backs, and |
aching heats there are in the world.
If drummer boy were made to beat
MS drum steadily for twenty four
hours, his commander would be court
for cruelty. If he tried to I,
beat his drum steadily for week, he
would die in the attempt. But our
1earts beat on all these years and
nave no rest. But when God has re- /