The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-04-23
Christ the Lord Is
Risen Today

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Today the heart of the world is break
ing In the trenches the sons OF mothers
who have given more than life for their
country, spent with the long march and
the weary vigil, are going back in thought
to the home and the village church, where
the voice of the organ is pealing forth IN
triumphant, victorious song the re-birth
of the Savior Of the world.
Mothers kneel before the altar, upon
which the Easter sun shines glad radiance,
and pray with anguished heart to the God
of Peace and of battle. The bride, in the
glory of the Easter day, lifts UP her voice
and sings the song of the resurrection,
hearing even as she sings, the crash OF can
non and the roar of battle, and hearing, her
voice breaks over the song of triumph.
Little children, father1ess, with carols OF
praise, cover the Easter cross with flowers
that are fadeless.
And because they are fadeless, because
these flowers that deck the cross can never
die, those who have gone down in the
depths of the waters of Marah, or who have
spent long vigils in the Garden of Gethsem-
ane, look up and sing.
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All over the world songs of praise and of
ioy are pealing forth in all the churches of
the Christian nations, and wherever Chris
tianity has quested for it is the day of
resurrection.
Death is swallowed up in victory"
Deep in the hearts of all people, there is
the faith in immortality; there is the con-
viction that somewhere, somehow there is
new life and new chance. However we
may deny it, however we may dispute it,
however we may scott, deep in the soul of
the world is the conviction that God is
good, and that good must triumph, in the
end.
1t is this that gives the mother courage
to buckle on the sword and to speed forth
her son at his country's call to arms. It is
this that prompts the bride, with breaking
heart, to bid her soldier husband Cod
Speed with smile. And it is this which is
taking the breaking hearts of the world and
steeling them to courage.
In spite of the world war, in spite of the
fact that nation has risen against nation
and kingdom against kingdom, in an age
when the battle cry is drowning the voices
of the world, still through the tumult is
heard the cry is the soul, the voice of the
spirit, high and triumphant.
1t is this voice which is girding men to
battle, it is this which is speaking to women
of courage and of faith.
st came not to bring Peace, but sword.
1t was the very Prince of Peace who
spoke these words. And so through, the
hours of strife and of darkness, through the
conflict and the turbulence, there comes the
belief that somehow, in the end, the lives
that are going out, are to count for the sal
walton of the world, that the hearts that
have been pierced by the sword, will be
healed by the hand of the Master.
Just as the finite mind cannot grasp the
infinite horror of the conflict, so the mine
of man cannot see beyond the present
struggle. 1t is given only to the soul, tt
the spirit to sense that somehow Cod;
hand still guides, that He has not with
drawn His face from His people, but tha
Jehovah, God of Battle, and Christ. the Sor
of Righteousness, are one
And as we hear the voice of the worlc
ringing out in cry of death and destruc
ton, above and beyond the tumult and tn,
shouting, if we listen we may hear still tn,
song of triumph:
Death is conquered, Man is free,
Christ has won the victory.