Evening star., 1914-04-11
Revelation of His Resurrection.

Strange to say, they knew not that it
was their Lord that they had invited
into their village home. Just as the
evening meal was about to begin, We are
told that 1T came to pass. when He had
sat down with them to meat, He took
the bread and blessed it. and brake it.
and gave to them, and their eyes were
opened and they knew Him" Can we
imagine the surprise and the JOY that
must have filled their hearts when their
eyes beheld in the stranger none other
recognized in the breaking Of bread. They
recognized him and then he vanished.
Jesus did not leave them until He had
impressed Upon their minds the message
of the upper room. In the broken bread
that He left upon the plate there was the
call to enter a life of seif-sacrifice. self
denial and surrender, SO that they, too,
by suffering might be fitted to share
with Him His glory
The darkness was no impeachment to
them, for they returned quickly to Je-
rusalem and went to the upper room
to relate to those who were already filled
with awe and wondernent by the testi-
mony of Peter and the women that they
had seen the Lord and that He was
risen from the dead. When they added
their story of their blessed and joyful
experience of all that had happened to
them how His message and mastery in
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the sermons of the Master the unknown
stranger had recalled them from their
dependence. dismay and despair, and in
the breaking of the bread they had
seen Him alive and summonins them to
learn the gospel of grace and glory writ
ten in the sorrows of life, the leaders
doubted them.
The revelation of His resurrection con-
tains a message of cheer. comfort ana
consolation for every troubled heart His
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life. prophetic of the Christians resur-
rection. when our Lord shall appear
again The power by which Christ broke
the forces of death on the first Easter
morning will enable all that love Him
and look for His return to conquer
death. The resurrection of Jesus demon
strated that there is vitality within
the physical life of man which when the
outward forces OF that life appear to
be dissipated. can draw them back and
reconstruct them. transforming the body
until it shall transcend some OF the lim-
itations that exist preceding death
The character of the change rs nor
clear. but it contains the suggestion OF
undeveleped and undiscovered powers:
dormant within our personalities, that IL
developed are susceptible of exercising. a
still larger power over our phas,csi inds NE
Just as Jesus drew near the, two dis-
ciples upon the way to Emmaus, SO he
draws near to us to equip US Win tne
power by which. we can master me aiiii
culties discouragements and despair OF
the present age. What the unthinkiDg
world calls defeat has been changed INTO
victory. for us by the resurrection OF
our Lord He has secured for us vic
tory of life over death, of regeneration
over degeneration. of construction over
destruction. of conformation over de
formation that. ought to fill all men with
hope as: they recall the Christ Jesus
that. died, yea rather, that was raised
from the dead, who is at the right hand
of God, who also maketh intercession for
u.s. So that tive by looking unto Him
might catch a glimpse of the glory OF
the resurrection that awaits all who fol-
low Him in a life of self-denial, sacrifice
and service: for humanity.