Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-19

'NSSfSlha only actual diff.
b$S$sSN Guilty is. st. Paurs
sasznSH question: WHY
should 1T be thought thing incrcd.
ihie with you that God should raise
the dead?" still has but one answer
namely. that there Is no reason why
II should he thought incredible; be.
| cause raising tho dead, as the Amos.
TIC illustrates 1t In his Epistle TO the
Corinthians is the most natural and
usual thing In the world under certain
conditions. THAT which men SOW Ia
not 0uickencd except It die"
Life not only after, but through
and by means OF death, is tho univer.
sal law and tho universal event Only
there must come first the undoing by
decay OF the bondage within which tho
principle of the seed Ia held. So long
as II is imprisoned in the shell II is
bare grain" but when It's outer GOV.
ering is shed in the cocoon. or broken
In the egg, or rotted In the grain. then
! the latent life comes forth and God
gives 1t n body, and TO every seed it's
own body" SO after death and burial,
when the wrappings Of this earthly
flesh are dissolved and done away.
the body that shall be-" the body OF
glory" shall emerge In the fullness OF
| time.
The miracle or marvel of tho resur.
rection OF Jesus Christ. like other
miracles. lies in tho fact that II dis.
regarded the element OF time and also
| did away with the conditions OF de
cay. "He saw no corruption"
SO much for tho marvel OF It. Now
! for the meaning OF 1t.
First of all, of course, II means that
| all tho dead shall rise and live again.
If we believe that Jesus died and
rose again. oven so they that sleep
| In Jesus will God bring with Him."
Tho corollary TO the article In the
creed. the thiyd day He rose again."
| is the article II believe in the rcsur-
rcction OF the body. look for the
| resurrection OF the dead or from the
| dead" One does not need. one would
not dare. TO draw away the hearts and
hopes OF men from this great and
blessed revelation OF Holy Scripture,
| this strong and positive assertion of
tho Christian faith. But II is wrong
to postpone tho meaning OF our Lords
| resurrection to this final point OF hui
man history. II has clear and more
immediate application of what the
Apostle calls the power OF His resur-
rection.' dead indeed unto sin. but
alive unto God. through Jesus Christ
our Lord" This must be recognized
and realized as the immediate practi-
cal purpose and result Of the great
fact of Easter Day
What is its message to men and
women?
1t Is easy TO dream dream of hope
and delight about the future: easy to
have sentiment and emotion that en-
able us to face physical death with
an outlook beyond the grave and con.
sole us In the hour of bereavement.
God forbid that there should be any
shadowing of this hope. But the prac-
teal question concerns our daily life
now.
Humanity stands to-day, as ii has
stood for all these centuries. facing
the fact OF the wonderful life that our
Lord lived here on earth. with the
strange and inexplicable combination
of fieahly reality without the restraints
and hindrances of the flesh And that
means in the first place, the pattern
| set. and in the next place the power
given to us 10 live our lives on higher
| lines
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