Arizona republican., 1913-08-18
RESURRECTION
 |S THE FACT
 ESTABLISHED
Need No Longer Be De nied. Best Proven Fact of History, Says Dr. Deere. Let Him Deny 1t Who Can.

] ceived from the readers of this paper 1 on pr. J. Harvey Deere's sermon on "Sanctification," which was printed | in the columns of this paper about 1 two weeks ago. that pr. Deere pre- | pared the following manuscript upon a sermon on The Resurrection" l which he recently preached, at the 1 request of members of his congrega- 1 ton, and the same is printed here | with in full.
 l My brethren. I hope you will not 1 be disappointed this morning when l I announce to you that I have not 1 planned to take half an hour out of 1 your lives seeking to prove the res urrection. We grant it. The battle i has been fought and the victory 1 has been won The best established | fact in history" the resurrection has 1 been authoritatiyely called. So far 1 as | am concerned I am going to let | the man who wants to deny it prove 1 the contrary if he can. For it is a great deal easier to support the l fact than it is the denial of it. If l Jesus did not come forth, then the | five hundred million Christians in l the world today are believing a lie, and all the men and women in the
 nineteen Christian centuries past who I have suffered for the truth and died | in the truth have been sWayed by 1 delusiOn. If the tomb sill holds the Son of God then let our sceptic ac- | count for the growing power of the church and the spreading influence
 of the kingdom today. He would as well say the street car can run with 1 out motive power or that the canal
 can keep on flowing without a source | of supply to say men can preach and people can ne converted. sin be overcome and righteousness made | triumphant apart from the power of a living Christ.
 Far more concerned am I this morn | ing to have us know something of the power of the resurrection. Like the apostle of old we would know the power of his coming forth. Not the physical power, but the spiritual; not
 the apolOgetic power, but the spirit uaI: not the intellectual power, but the spiritual; not the moral power.
 but the spiritual It is as if Paul had said: Here is the greatest dy- mamie in the greatest life that has ever been lived; Oh that I might
 get some worthy conception of it's spiritual significance and it's spiritual
 grip upon mems lives"
 pr. Torrey. in his little book Talks to Men" devotes three chap ters to the resurrection. In one of
 these he points out the fact that the resurrection carries with it a sevenfold proof of other things. Civ
 en resurrection what follows? Along this line would I carry you this morning. For the resurrection IS like a package which we bore away from the ten cent store in Indianapo- lis. We found an article on one counter and. purchasing it, we had it wrapped up. So we passed from counter to counter buying something
 here and something there until at last We had so many packages that said to the last clerk: Wont you please to put 5ll of these bundles in One?" She cid so and we car ried it away. So the resurrection of
 Christ has enfolded in itself many. many truths. all of which become
 our spiritual possession the minute we accept the fact.
 The resurrection proves the Jesus
 Christ is the Son of God Paul
 was right when he wrote: Christ
 is declared to be the Son of God
 with power by the resurrection from
 the dead" The resurrection did not
 make him the Son 4of God He was
 that already. It is like the hay
 frame announcement party I saw late
 ly back East< Several young girls
 riding on a wagon with a bride to be
 sitting in the center holding on to
 a staff bearing a placard that told
 of the coming event Now that hay
 rack party did not make her an en-
 gagged girl If it had I suspect the
 farmers of Indiana would all have
 difficulty in keeping their hay frames at home long enough to get their work
 done. The hay ride was an an
 nouncement only of the engagement
 that had already taken place. and of
 the wedding soon to be. Even so
 the coming forth from the grave pro-
 claimed to the world that Jesus
 Christ had all the while been the
 very Son of God.
 Such a decIara tion was needed. For
 Jesus Christ had claimed His divine
 Sonship. He said He and the Father
 were one. He said men should honor
 Him even as they honored the Father
 He claimed to be such a complete
 incarnation of God that whoever saw
 Him had seen the Father. Oh what
 boldness Nobody had ever talked
 like that before. None have ever
 dared to since. Was His claim true or was it false The world His lips had challenged and He must make good or go down in history as an inn postor
 Still further did He go. He said
 His enemies would put Him to death, but that He would come to life again They did kill Him. They nailed Him to the cross of Calvary for claiming to be divine They put Him in a rocky sepulcher; and they stationed guards at the tomb to keep His 1 friends from stealing Him away. thus fabricating a resurrection. What hap-l pened? Why, the breath of God swept l through the tomb and animated the lifeless body until in His coming l forth every claim that Christ had l ever made was established beyond l ,.ar,t1,ro of