The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1913-03-21

eloquent of pulpit orators. in his
Easter message to his congregation
most fittingly remarked that some
thing happened nineteen hundred
years ago In the gray light of the
first Easter morning which trans
formed and TRANSPORTED the face of
the earth. History began new and
gladder thrill. Henceforth and for
ever. beneath the all beholdings sun,
inere Is nothing which is too good
to be true" 1t has entered into the
heart of man to conceive good
which is better than the reality of
things. But we are afraid of imagi-
nation. 1t is vain thing, and
must be yoked to servile mass of
matter lest 1t soar upward and out
ward, into the blue sky. above the
mountain tops, toward the glorious
sun, and lose itself in the eternal
light and eternal truth of God.
o brother-man or sister-woman,
are you afraid of your own prayers?
He is God. He is the Father-God,
the Motherhood, the God of the but
tercups and the daisies, of sunshine
! and spring, the God who cares for
the sparrows and clothes the lilies,
who spreads out the heavens as a
curtain and calls all the stars by
name, who longs for you as the
child of His heart, and loves you
with an everlasting love, so that
sin and death cannot separate you
from the might of His affection nor
quench His hope in you. Morning
light shames our midnight fears And
the shame is hat in the darkness
you were not sure of the coming
dawn. You ought to have known that
after midnight comes the morning
in the blacklist night of the year you.
ought to have kept Gods sunshine ii
your soul. Angels have rolled the
stone away from the grave of your
ascending Lord. Clouds turn to sol
Id rock beneath your feet. And
Christ is risen indeed.
The High Tide of Easter.
Shadow and sunlight, ebb and
flood. mourning and rejoicing are
not more opposite than the subdued
and sorrowful mood befitting Lent,
and the triumphant gladness of Eas-
ter. AS Good Friday in the solemn
passing recalls to us the day when
the darkness of the cross made the
sun ashamed to shine, so Eastern
Sunday. with supreme radiance. iD-l
dicates the hour that is the coro-
nation of humanity. Jew and Ro-
man combined in the crucifixion of
Him who came to save but they |
could have had no power against |
Him and He not willingly offered |
to atone for the sins of he |
world. Il am the good shepherd"
He said. IL lay down My life for
the sheep. ! have power to lay II |
down and / have power to take 1t |
again" No mere man could have
made that assertion.
Well might the sun in darkness hide
And shut His glories in,
When God. the mighty maker, died
For man, the creatures sin.
Christ died and we must die. There
IS an hour in the unseen future
Known to God, but unknown to us,
when our friends and kindred will
Jay of us, one by one, HE is gone"
She is not here" But Christ arose
gain from the dead, and so shall
ye We shall live again. Not in
his poor world of change and loss,
nut in a far more beautiful one,
nto which death cannot enter
Because Christ lives, we shall
I've. This is the joy of Easter, and
his is why when Lent is over and
inter Is past and spring has return
d. Christian life reaches its high
st water mark on the shores of
ime in an exultant allelma that
everberates around the globe.