The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-12-16
9aturday Digit
TaIkc By Rev. F. E. DAWSON
/uttNS Rutland, VI
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
THE EVERYTHING KING.
International Bible Lesson for Dec.
10, '1o-(Matt. 2s:1-2o).


spread the earth. But the brightest
planet begun the following Sunday
morning, when the Mighty Victor
arose in triumph from the broken
tomb in the Garden.
DO not waste valuable time at
tempting to prove the resurrection.
You might as we'll occupy your in
genuity in proving that the sun
shines, that water flows, that birds
sing, that the seasons come and go.
1t would be possible perhaps to find
skeptics who doubt that the Pilgrim
Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock,
but it is easy to see that such unbe-
levers must explain how the ninety
millions of people OF this country
were deluded into the belief that they
did land, and how it happens that
traces of such an origin are found in
our Constitution. in our religious
and educational institutions, and in
our annual festival-Thanksgi
So he who doubts the resurrection of
Jesus Christ must explain how mil
lions of the noblest, most intelligent
people have been made to believe
that He rose, and account for the
origin Of the strongest purest and
best civilization on the face of the
earth. That will give scepticism a
cud to chew on for quite an extend
ed period
Let us all avoid the error of the
weeping women on the morning of
resurrection day of seeking the liv-
ing among the dead We spend too
much of our time going backward
when we should be going forward,
standing at the stern of the boat,
watching our luminous track, in
stead OF in the pilot house steering
our craft into unknown seas. There
are thousands Of preachers who are
fixing the eyes of their flocks upon
the historic Christ, instead of inspir-
ing them with the desire to go out
and find Him in the person of His
disciples, who need a cup of cold wa
ter.
The Tomb Empty.
That church which hugs to her
heart Holy Sepulchre, which per-
sists in obsolete ceremonies and ef-
fete customs, and dead usages will
have little influence upon the world
of to-day. II Christ is anything at
all He is a leader into the bound
less future, not the custodian of an
cient relics. The most abundant and
D1 nr.if Of hA te ~,
the present and the future, all new
and good ideas, all novel but sacred
impulses all healthy civilizations
are hers, part Of her unsearchable
riches. The tomb is empty, never
to be occupied again. Let it go. 1t
needs no adornment Of flowers, no
decorations, no repairs, no lavish
expenditure OF affection. Christ, once
out Of it never went back to shed sem
timental tears over the place where
He rested for three days.
Where Christ Is Found.
II you want to find Christ these
days, look for Him in orphan asy-
iums, and homes for the unfortunate;
see him accompanying the Red Cross
nurses across bloody battlefields and
binding up the wounds Of friend and
foe alike; find him in halls of legis-
lation. inspiring enactments in be-
half OF the laborers and all who are
oppressed: behold Him knocking of
the shackles OF superstition from the
nations who for ages have sat in the
valley OF the shadow of death. Christ
Is not in the cradle, neither is He
on the cross. nor in the grave. There
is no man living on this planet to-
day, in any country under the
sun, who is so much alive, who
80 persistently thrusts himself into
society, law, politics, education, reli-
ligion as He does There are a
multitude of things that could have
been done once, that cannot be done
He has to be reckoned with. Men
can sneer or snarl, blubber or bias
pheme, vote or not vote, the thing
fails, simply because Christ is alive.
They tried to stop Him by killing
Him. Then they tried to stop Him
failed both times.
Thou fool" he said, that which
thou sowest is not quickened, except
II die" No seed ever went into the
earth saying. Let me die, and be
forgotten" The seed says, Put me
where you will, only connect me
with the ministry OF nature. and I
will come back to you, and will do
it thousand fold. Bury me that
may live" So when Christ broke
out OF that rock-hewn sepulchre in
the garden, he filled the whole earth
with His presence. He was gone
from the tomb. but not destroyed.
into each century He comes. At
the very moment that Mary was
complaining that they had taken
away her Lord the Lord Himself was
looking at her. Oh, dry up your
tears, ye mourners, look for Christ
in the church, in the school, in the
library, in the law-courts, in the
rulers palace, in the poor mans
house on 'ChanPe in halls of Iegia.