The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-27
TD TIMES D1spAToH RoHlloNr VA SUNDAY MARCH % 1910


simply that by Cllrist's death and
resurrection the tyranny OF the old
law was broken, but that the quality
'of life was in itself to be changed,
and che was to be something now and
THAT was what he prayed
for. The promise OF Immortality finds
Its consummate satisfaction only in
close union with the other promise
OF regeneration. The two must go to-
gether, the new world and the new
man. In every respect IN which Easter
opens a new prospect before man, It
must also open new character In
man. Until 1t has done that. man has
not really known It's power.
What was 1t that Jesus did for the
world by His life and death? And
what was Ills desire to do for all OF
us by His resurrection? BY His life
and death He made the closest appeal
that has ever been made to the human
heart. He had taught men to love
Him. He called out tho deepest and
tenderes affection. With nll this, He
passed down into the grave. We saw
Him entor at that dread door, We
watched and waited after He had dis
lappearcd. TIL at last from the un-
known region OF the land beyond tho
grave wo saw Him return. still clothed
with our affection, still bearing our
hearts with Him. At once that strange
land lost It's Ehostliness. He was there,
unchanged-the same beloved Lord,
| the same tender Saviour. His life there
made it all very real to u.s. We UNI
derstood Him when He SAID Il ascend
unto My Father. and your Father and
to My God and your God" God Is
ours, as we'll as His, and ours because
Ho is His. Tho true Christian lives
In the spiritual world with Christ
even while he Is still hero upon earth
His life is different on this side Of the
veil because his heart has passed
through with his risen Lord into thu
realms beyond.
This Is .'the power OF tho rcsurrec
|, ton It is no far-off promise, 1t Il
d present gift. It IL not an offe. OF {
; magic hopc. but tho Joy OF the Chris
tiun possession. It Is tho power o
!, regeneration. Except a man be borl
!, again he cannot enter into the king
Z dom OF heaven
!. II the new life Is formed in mel
: here, you and may have eternal Iii
now abiding in US: cloggcd and ham
/, perered. indeed. yet genuine and vita
. The word OF summons comes. and tn
8 soul leaps to meet 1t. There is n
violence OF transfer. It Is but con
Il tinuation Of the same life. The gray
I. is only tho moat around tho lime
9 castle OF the King. across which III
a welcome. Far above any morbid d.
: sire for death there towers this cali
Christian confidence. ready to die. y,
Il glad to stay: counting both world
II Gods worlds. and SO neither despisin
the ono nor dreading the other. Th
e is the glorious light on the dark riv
o and the fields beyond, which stream
! forth from the opened door OF Jesu
o tomb.
/ This. then. is the great Easter trut
n Not that we are to live newly aft
IS death-but that we arc to be ne
d here and now by the power Of II
y. resurrection We must therefore IL
s. nobly now. because we are to Ii
r forever. Thus this power Is pow
n Of realized Immortality, a power
IT, personal regeneration, tho power
o. present risen Christ.
at oh! that you may know that pow
o. by earnest self-surrender, by patie
n prayer. and by childlike faith tn
a Willingly takes into your life t
O. loving living Christ OF this East
Day! IL