Arizona republican., 1913-08-18

route every honest enemy to the divinity of Christ. Does Unitarianism claim that He was only a good man with humanity hut without divinity and does the Jew rest upon the same sandy foundation. Then point Uni tarianism and the sons of Abraham to the resurrection by which Christ
 is declared with power to be the Son of God.
 A bold thing it is for Christ to ask a man for his heart, a maiden for her hand. a millionaire for his
 money, an athlete for his strength,
 a laborer for his toil a scientist for
 his knowledge, an editor for his pen,
 a merchant for his yard stick. every
 body for his confidence, conservation,
 service and life. 4 bold thing did
 I say. Yea, verify, a bold thing. And
 a bOldness that finds justification
 alone in the fact that Christ is de-
 clared to be the Son of God with
 power by the resurrection from the
 dead
 Only in this divinity of the Christ
 can you account for his influence
 adown the centuries Other men have
 come and gone, but Christ has come
 and stayed With Emerson we say:
 His me has been plowed into the
 world. " With Renan we declare: His
 life has been made a corner stone
 in the building of the race" With
 Lecky we agree: The simple record
 of the short years of active life has
 done more to regenerate and to soft en mankind than all the disqustions.
 of philosophers and all the exhorta-.
 tions of moralists.
 Oh His influencei How uncon-
 Cain nf
 meates every thing. We chant His name in hymns. We weave our pray, CTS about it. Our friends we point to it. We trace it on the pages Cf literature. We sec history built about it. We look upon art that has been fashioned by it. Sweetest name on mortal tongue. Sweetest carol ever sung" We believe it. We adore it. We rest our soul in it. Yea, though we walk through the shadow of the valley of death we will fear no evil" For Christ is declared to be the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead.
 The resurrection of Christ proves that all who are united to Him by a living faith shall live again. Give heed to the scriptures: If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. A popular preacher not long since said: Not a few are not at all sure that there is any life beyond the grave They wish it could be proven. So do T. But we can do no more than infer it from the moral constitution of the universe" wonder if this preacher had never heard of the res of i-t Cte n nothing to him? How did he account for the change of the day of rest from saturday to Sunday? How could he know that Christ had gained the victory over the grave without also being aware that Christ's tri umph was a pledge of our own and a guarantee of our passing into the life beyond
 Too late it is now for men to doubt immortality. The dream of the poets and the speculation of phi and natures intimations of seen in the rising 0f spring from the tomb of winter, have all given way to the demonstration of in the resurrection of the Son of Mary.
 And demonstration, you know, is more convincing than theory. Faith | without works is dead, and theory, 1 apart from proof, does not convince. Every evidence of immortality apart from the resurrection leaves the soul to doubt and guess. Marconi theorized about sending wireless messages l across the Atlantic. but it was not until the thing was accomplished that the words of the prophet became eff sective. Fulton believed that a steam ship could go up the Hudson to and Bell believed that he could send voice vibrations through a | wire. But not until these men had their claims did their 1 theories become recognized fact So the resurrection of Christ removes the immortality of the soul out of the realm of speculation into that of certitude. So we'll established is our faith that Paul now can urge: 'If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those l things which are above"
 Why do the sorrowing not get more | out of the resurrection? I wonder if it is not for lack of faith. | Not long since I talked with a bereft | Christian woman whose husband had 1 passed away leaving behind splendid | evidences Of his salvation. She seems | almost to despair not that she doubts | his preparedness, but because the re- urrection power to guarantee the l souls victory over death has failed i to grip her life more largely T wish | could get satisfaction she said. "out | of the thought that we shall meet | gain. But I confess that when death comes to my loved ones 1 give | them up forever" How plain it l seemed that one secret of her soul | anguish was a failure to view the l as demonstration of 1 Christs claim to bring with Him those who are united to Him by faith.
 The ship that has made ninety nine successful voyages may be | wrecked on the enc hundredth. But 1 Christ has come forth once for all | His victory is complete and final and l in Him our triumph is already ef- | 'ected. Oh, what comfort the heart | ought to take! What assurance that l ife's broken links shall yet be ce-