The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-03-24
PROOF OF THE
RESURRECTION
Stong Evidence of II in the Faith
Of the Disciples

Taking his text from Acts II-32,
This Jesus hath God raised up where
of We an are Witnesses" Rev. G. l..
ADAMS of the Calumet NJ T.. churcn
declared in his Easter sermon yester-
Cay morning that the minister of
The Gospel to be really efficient must
pe man OF profound convictions.
He must know the truth whereof he
speaks. At least he must believe il
50 FIRMLY as to be willing 10 die for
Il ana his faith must find support Il:
the word of God. Such was Peter, the
spokesman on the day of Pentecost.
He could say: This Jesus hath God
raised up whereof we all are Wit
statements by the authority of tho
Holy Scriptures.
For nearly four years these early
disciples had known jesus personally.
They knew. too. that he had been
crucilicd, was dead and buried, and at
the time they did not have any thought
that he would rise again. Yet during
the forty days after his resurrection
they saw him so often. under such
varying conditions and in such activ-
tiles, that every vestige o. coubt was
swept away and they boldly declared
this fact before all men. in the couh-
Gil chambers of their rulers and even
when life and liberty were at stake.
With equal confidence. we, too, de-
clare This blessed truth. the corner
stone of our Christian faith.
DO YOU ask why ! believe in the
resurrection of Jesus Christ? My an.
swcr is
"I--Because | was taught to believe
IL in my childhood days.
Il was taught ii in the home. in
the Sunday school. in the services OF
the church. | read the story in the
bible and in other books. do not
recall that in my earlier years the
thought of questioning this great his
torical fact ever came to my mind
The same is true of most of us here
today, and this goes 10 show the wall
ne of early training. Far more than
we realize our convictions of truth
eur faith in the great Vcrities of the
bible. are due to our early teaching
in The home and by the church. What
| might have believed had | been born
i'm an infidel or atheistic or even in q
Godlcss home only the imaginatloI
can picture
"II-Becausc my later reading and
study have thoroughly confirmed tho
carly teaching.
This does not mean that none oi
my early opinions have changed dur
ing these years Of study and expert
cncc. In many matters they have
changed decidedly. But 50 far as thu
resurrection of Jesus Christ Is con-
cerncd my later inquiry has only con-
frmed the earlier opinions. To me /;
is ulain that these early disciples were
not dreamers or fanatics, but hard
headed men of affairs. Il custom house
cnicial. hard headed fishermen anl
the like. men whose senses had been
disciplined by the stern facts OF eA-
perienCe. They knew that their mas
ter was dead, for they had seen his
agony and some of them had assiste,
in the hastv burial. They had II
thought OF his being restored to then
| gain. for the first reports that he nat
Lren seen alive seemed 20 them a.
idle tales aud they refused to be-
love them without the strongest eVi'
dences. So persistent were they II
their unbelief that II required repeat
ed appearances of Jesus on widelI
! differing occasions To Danish DOUBT
| appearances such that their senses
could not he deceived. They saw MIN
touched him. heard him. He SPOKE
] e. them of the very things that IN
| tcrcsted him before his crucifiSion an'
commanded them to preach his gospe
to all nations. They came To be s.
| strong i'm their faith in his resurrec
| tion that they were willing even t.
| die i'm defence of the same.
THE attitude Of the jewish au
| thoritics regarding the resurrection o
| Jcsus has helped to confirm my falth
their 5enseless attempt to conceal IN
| fact by bribing the guard to deciar
| that His disciples had come by higii
| and had stolen His oody while the'
sIent their later order forbidding IN
disciples To speak at all in the nam
of Jesus. and their futile effort TO 0e