Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-01
life TRIUMPHANT
EASTER SUBJECT
BURDETTE DECLARES LIFE is
EVERYWHERE
Says the Blacklist Shadows in the
World Are Those of Sin and
They Cannot Stand
the Light

At the Temple Baptist church yes
terday the pastor, Robert j. Burdette,
preached on the topic, Life Triumph
ant" taking for his text Luke 24;5-
why seek ye the living among the
dead?" He said in part:
"All around him were his own tokens
of life. The sepulcher which they
sought was in a garden-in the heart
of foliage and perfume, of bud and
blossom. About them, the olives swung
their leaves, silver gray in the sun
shlne-the color with which they kissed
the breast of the homing dove of the
deluge, crying, The storm Of sorrow is
over; nothing Is eternal but the peace
of Cod
"All around the palms waved their
branches, shouting, Victory. Life
everlasting. The Lord Jesus Christ
hath conquered DEATH The rock-hewn
tomb had repelled and shattered the
stone that closed It In darkness. and
stood open and light and empty for
ever. There was no room for Death
to hold mis- grim court in that laughing,
singing garden of life and joy. There
was no place for the dead in that
God-lighted sepulcher where sat two
angels Of the everlasting Life. There
was nothing dead in that. bower of
gladness.
Where Look for Dead7
"Where then, shall men look for the
dead? Out on the stormy, salt and
bitter sea? 1t swarms with life. It's
very waves in their buoyant, exultant
restlessness are enemies of death and
corruption.
"In the mountain SHOWS? The Alpine
flowers lift their sweet faces to cry,
We live out life from year to year
and kiss with our beauty the only
things we 1ove-the snowdrift and the
glacier Out on the desolation of the
desert? The desert has it's own life
that laughs and sings in the joy of
living. Wherever there is light, there
is life. Where, then, is the darkness
that we may seek the dead?' And the
bright sun, ablaze with the glory of
it's Creator, answers, Nowhere upon
this living world that chants its an
thems of life beneath the glowing of
my radiant beams
"I have for a book mark tiny blue
flower from the Land of the Midnight
Sun, which says to me oft as I look
at it, You never saw, in your fair
land of sunshine, such brilliant, radi-
ant, glorious darkness as God sends us
here amid the ice and snow, where the
nights are so long-and so beautiful.
Where, then, shall we seek for death
and darkness in Gods world of life and
light?
Blacklist Shadows Are Sin
"The blackest shadows in the world
God made so beautiful are the shadows
of sin. The only thing in the world
of life that is doomed to death is the
soul that sinneth.' Love will live for
ever. Hate will die of it's own hatred
| Righteousness in the life that now is
| is the germ of the life everlasting
Sin will die one day of the poison o.
sin, like a god self slain on his owr
dead altar Everything evil, every
thing hateful, shallow hypocrisy, cold
Journalism, bitter hate, malignant envy
drunkenness. lying, impurity. shame
and all the foul offspring of Small
these things will died sometime-in
Gods good, radiant day.
"For they cannot live in the light.
Gods light will kill them. And once
again, they will die of the strangling
horror of their own darkness-the aw-
full oblivion of the second death-the
death which kills itself. Don't seek
the living among the dead. Don't
look for Christ amid impure pleasures;
in the reckless dissipations that some
men call life; in selfish Incidence; in
the ease which destroys strength; in
amusements which taste sweet to the
lips and bitter to the soul; in any
sin that is born of death, and masks
the hideous features of his foul mother
under a thin veneer of lies-of false
and specious promises. Why seek ye
the living among the things that only
live to kill and are doomed to die?"