Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-04-19
The
 Resurrection as Viewed b,y the Ministers of GlobeD

~ PRINGTIME reminds us of life All nature is then putting on her robe of green The - great truth that out of death comes life IS z everywhere evident. The heart of man some times craves audience with nature. It is then z that the mind in quest of truth looks "up through ! nature up to natures God The singing of the birds, the sound of the brook as 1t trckles down the mountain side the contented look of the cat tie as they graze upon natures green, all remind us that it is happy season. How different from the dreary days of which the poet Longfellow wrote And why shouldn t this be happy sea son7 Easter fraught with such profound sig nificance makes its annual visits at this season. What is EasterY Easter Sunday as we know it, is the day observed in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is one of the great relg gous festivals of Chrstendom. The first { Sabbath after the crucifxion found little band of disciples with crushed hopes The idea prevail ent to their minds was that their hopes had been nailed to the cross and even buried in Josephs tomb. But how far from the truth. The day following tho Jewish sabbath these same men welcome resurrected Redeemer. Their hopes and ambitions were once more revived. So in thinking of Easter one must think of life. The devout mind must occupy itself with thought of sunrise and immortality if it would grasp the true meaning of Easter.
 
 Judea? If SO, suppose we take trip to Jerusa- lem in order to be present the day of the resur rection. Remember you are drawing upon your imagination for this picture. Here it is: The day following the Jewish Sabbath called in Scripture the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene with ! another woman named Mary goes to the tomb to see the body of their cruciied Lord. They do not find the body; it is gone. They return to the dis cples to bring them the news, but on the way back they meet the Savior, who says All Hail. Tell my disciples to come to Gaea and they shall see me-" says the risen Christ. How do you account for the empty tomb! It all hinges upon this. Christianity rises or falls with the fact of the resurrection. One body of : ccclesiascs in order to strike death blow at the fact of the resurrection tried to bribe of to tell lie. Do you suppose any man or set of ! men would be caught mapping if they knew 1t ' meant deathY Others tell that Jesus never died; that after all it was only shadow; that after time he rallied lived and died like any ether man. But this does not explain the empty tomb. No, there is only one explanation that is satisfactory to the sincere mind and only one true explanation for the empty tomb, and that is that Jesus Christ rose from the dead By this act He convinced . the world of His divinity and His divine mission Christianity was thus founded upon fact. The resurrection signied the triumph of Christ over the grave and is reminder of his supremacy in the realm of life and death. A glance at other thought: Following it to it's logical conclusion Jesus rose therefore shall rise; resurrection is certainty. How many hearts have felt that the grave was their master and have turned away from the mound feeling that the last ray of light had gone out? Not so to the firm believer in the first Easter morning. A ray of light penetrates every grave and the heart is reminded of meet ing placenot in Galilea but the other side of Jordan and in the sweet fields of Eden. 'I am the resurrection and the life" Because live B ye shall live also" Shall not take these words . home to hearts; shall we not believe them? Nature reminds us of resurrection when the re- turn of springtme brings to life the nipped bud of the flower. It not deadthe cold winter winds had only nipped its beauty. Just with these lives of ours death will nip us and we shall . be consigned to Mother Earth mean to say, our . body dies but our souls shall live with God and j shall at our dissolution enter upon that broader and more comprehensive life. The master mind
 of the universe invites all nations to see the place where the Lord lay If Christ from the dead the third day, his words full of sgnf- canoe; this we very believe. And in our opinion are sustained by the civilized nations of the earth, backed up by nineteen centuries of prog ress and the planting of the in every nation under heaven ISIDORE K. McDAVID, Pastor First Baptist Church.