The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-04-14
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the 'c1ecn o. festivals because !.
tel. 81 victory OF v:c>o"E We. deat2
and ,lc lave. it speaks o p3rdol ard
pea.c and Droc!aims ne ne as o.
hope and i,lIaort., ity. for it is he day
on whicn We commemorate the
triumph OF Jesus Christ over IL the
powers of sin and satan. NJ wonder
then that We decorate or churches
with flowers and s:ag oar gal ale
Has. And so once more tacse Chris
tians w~o emphasize each year the
stupenGous faces OF cur Lords life
rom "the mystery {: His holy incar-
aation' and wondrous birth, follow
ing him through his baptism, his fast
.ag and ter -;2n. Going With him
to the g1I~en ii Ge,Nscmanec,
ieying for His agony and bloody
sweat" his precious death endured fer
rs and burial" and keeping holy "the
Sabbath stiffness Of his rest in the
grave. Fastening with MARY and t2e
o.her women early in the morning Of
the first day of the week to find the
stone rolled away and the angel Of
the resurrection waiting to tell the
glad tidings that he who had lain there
was alive from the dead, and would
as he had said, go before them into
Galilee and now
Our JOY is full, for sorrows that had
shed
Their shadows on our hearts, no
longer nid7
Their truer meaning for our Holy
dead
Share in the triumph of the cruci-
fed"
So on Easter day grateful hearts
love to pay h image to their risen Lord
by bringing to his house the flowers
that he surely loved when he walked
in aGlilee,' and by lifting their
voices in praise to him
"Who did once upol tie cross
Suffer to redeem Our loss.
At ST. Lukes Episcopal church, in
the afternoon, the rector, the Rev. S.
r. Guignard, held divine service,
preaching from Rev. 1:17-1S.
Mr.. Guignard began his sermon by
alluding to laws Of nature as bearing
upon the great truth Of tae resurrec-
tion. The continuous, yearly leafing
of the tree after the winter baroness
the multitudinous springi1g 20 life
again, the more seemingly joyous no es
OF the birds on Easter morning, each
blooming flower seeming to have a
meaning, all this uniting to make the
day seem so different from any otner,
ard giving their answer to the long
asked question of Job, eli a man die
shall he live again" ?"
Even so They who fall asleep in
Jesus will God bring wi h aim by
that power which broke the bands
of death on the first resurrection
morning, "tley shall live aslo, Tor,
said ne "if l lie, We shall live also.
This is wat makes Easter Gay sves:'
50 diffe. ent from any otaer, why LIE
singing of the birds seems sweeter and
Why each blooming flower seems to
have is meaning, WY note OF glad-
ness seems everywhere to prevail, and
So today this glorious resurrection
day, le5 US feel the touch of his hand !
and hear in the text his own dec'ara-
ton that means so much to US" And
ne laid his right hand upcn me, say !
ing unto me, fear no.; am tle first
and the last: I am he that live.h and
was dead; and, behold am awe 1or
evermore. Amen; and have the keys
Of hell and of death" Death, said Mr.. !
Guignard. is rot the end of life, but
an event or experience by and
through which we enter the larger !
life beyond why, said Phillips /
Brooks, should We make so much Of
fnat Which our religion does away
wi5h?" To the man who has no vision
beyond the grave life here is every i
thing and when he fails he becomes al
coward and slave, bound by the COM
ing end of all that is of interest to
him. On the other hand to him whol
has conceived of the truth of the res
direction, death is only change and
he breaks over the tyranny binding the