Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09
THE RAISING
OF LAZARUS

Specially Prepared for This Papsr

lMfs--JHnnHTy OF GeDTudry, n. ~. ~.
One or three months after the last les
son. Asd two or three months before
JeBu.' crucihxion.
PLACE B~ethabara tR. ", Bethany
In Prrea. Bethany. n small village on the
nOint Of Olives. about two miles from
Jerusalem.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
At the feast Of the dedication, In DE.
cember, Christ had so plainly assert
ed his deity that the Jews had sought
20 stone him for blasphemy; but he
had escaped to B%ethabara %(Bethany)
In Perea, the country east OF the Jor.
dana town in the north over against
Galilee.
Christ's promise OF a resurrection
did not satisfy Martha. II was too
general, too vague, too far ahead. She
wanted her brother back--that min.
ute. Christ met that longing by m
OF the most magnificent OF his utter.
ances - that wondrons sentence
which has carried hope and triumph
TO millions Of the dying and ~bercaved.
and will do so while time and NOR
tally endure."-Geikie.
THE living. breathing friend,
whom you love.
AM.-Am now: no vague sometime;
no ~postponcmcnt.
THE Observation-Disclosures power
Of the resurrection, the resurrection
embodied.
AND THE LIFE-to conquer that
grim DEATH which has come so ter
ribly to your home.
HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME-
believing what Martha FASTENED to
confess, that Christ was Gods Son,
his messenger OF love to the world.
THOUGH HE WE'RE DEAD-as to
his mere body.
YET SHALL HE LIVE-in every
point that constitutes life, having eve
O body, and n far better n
AND WHOSOEvER-yes. though he
were the chief OF sinners.
LIVETH-with this higher life in
him.
AND BELIEVETH IN ME- - ION
me-" says the Revised Version.
SHALL NEVER DlE--No. NEVER:
will be but an incident in
his continuing and triumphant LIFE.
Jesus, Our Resurrection and Our
Life.--l. by preserving our lives daily.
through countless unseen pcrils that
surround u%s-perils Of the disease
germs floating everywhere; perils
Of earthquake on this thin
earth crust over hidden fires:
perils OF accident In our complicated
life. "A thousand times. yea, every
perilous moment, God saves us from
dying."-Phillips Brooks.
2. by turning our minds away from
the physical death We must all die at
length. to him and his life. I'VE are
all passing into the likeness OF that In
which we believe. A man who wor.
ships money to wear the like.
ness OF a moncy.worshiper down tn
the tips OF his fingers. The Hindu who
worships Brahma sleeping on the
stars In immovablc calm, gets TO wear
a fixed expression Theodore r.
Munger, ID. ID. So the continual
thought OF Christ. who overlooked
with invincible life, implants that life
within us.
3. by upholding us in the very
hour OF physical death. when a com
munity Of religious I'M in Paris.
during the fury Of the French Reyolu-
ton. we're condemned to the guillo-
tine. the youngest victims passed to
their execution raising In serene
voices the sublime hymn, "Veni Gre
ator." The celestial SONG did not cease
p,hAn thnv .,..pl,t ,k. ,tatr, ~ thA
BcafrOld. and the work OF butchery
went N. Voice after voice had to
drop from the chorus, az face after
face bent under the ak: and at length
n voice was heard alone sustaining
the holy strain. eve while the bloody
blade fell and sealed the last mar
tyr's testimony."--Bishop Huntington.
4. BY awaking us, when VIC die, into
endless life. THE time will. seem no
longer than the four days which
passed before he awakened Lazarus.
We shall have no consciousness Of his
tarrying. He as In q moment,
to awake us out Of sleep."--Thomas
Arnold. the head OF Rugby school.
6. by freeing us from the spiritual
death. from sin. Massill0n, the great
French preacher. Justly sees in tho
dead Lazarus an Image Of the SIN
ner: "Become a mass of worms and
and corruption. he spreads infection
and stencil; and behold the profound
corruption Of n soul In habitual sin.
A gloomy napkin covers his eyes and
his face: and behold the fatal blind.
moss OF q soul In habltual sin. Ito