The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-06-20
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Especially Prepared For Readers
of The Republican.
SUNDAY. JUNE 23rd

of The Republican.
SUNDAY. JUNE 23rd.
The Significance of the Resurrection.
adult Topic.) Mark 1920. Read
Matt. 28:1-20; Luke "a; John 20, 81.
Now hath Christ been risen from the
dead. Cor. 1920.
U. S. WRIGHT.
THE DAY OF WONDER.
'The year the war ended and the
Court of Nations was established will
some day be the marker for worlds
events. 1t will be another milestone
set up on the way to the Kingdom of
God and for all time it will be wonder
like that other day that gives US every
date on every paper that is written be-
cause it is the boundary between the
earth's heartache and hope. Every
Sunday trumpets the event. Every
church shouts it aloud. Every book,
newspaper and magazine prints it on
its foremost page. What happened?
Jesus wound the worlds clock and set
it in harmony with Heavens time. The
reign of Death was ended by the rule of
Life. Christ rose from the dead and
became the first fruits of them that
sleep. Mary with loves eagerness out
sped the burdened women, saw the open
door and rushed away to find Peter and
John. The women with their spices for
the body found instead the two angels
of emptiness and order and as they
hurried away in fright and wonder and
yet hesitant to set out with such hair
Drained reports had no chance to stop
the three runners to the garden. Mary
is met by her Lord while the two are
occupied with the grave and then the
women are accosted by the familiar
figure. He walks with two to Emmaus.
He appears to Peter possibly while they
are returning to town. He meets with
the ten and others in the Upper Room.
And always it has been not the most
loving but the most needy that has
claimed His ministry. A week later He
meets the eleven. He entertains seven
beside the Gahlean lake. He talks
from some hilltop to the disciples and
the crowd. He speaks to James. And
Olivet concludes the recorded appear
ances. And the world has accepted the
evidence as sufficient to mark the day
of resurrection as The Day of days.
The UNCHANGED CHRIST.
Every item of the record emphasizes
the identity of Jesus. He meets His
friends. He bears the marks of His
past experience upon hand and form.
He still ministers to the group which
had been gathered into Christianitys
Preparatory School gathering up the
details of completed message so that
there should be no uncertainty in the
proclamation which they carried out in
to the world. Explanations impossible
before Calvary are now made and the
Scriptures are illumined as never be-
fore. 1t was still the Teacher at the
Oi4 LAohs EAI4NA ~ 10 GlilS ulal liOh THESE
days parallel the old ones. Both begin
in Jerusalem among interested souls.
1t is continued in Galllee among the
fishermen along the Lake and the old
call becomes the recall to fuller min
istry. Then in the presence of throng
He gives from a mountain a second in
oIIc,1rol RI th.. hi.r,y,l,.,
caught by Matthew (2S:l7-20. | am
convinced that the 500 were auditors
here for the eleven had ceased to doubt.)
Then He leads them back to Jerusalem
for the closing scenes which end upon a
mountain outside the city walls as the
other had done. We stumble slowly
and YEARLY over an unfamiliar road in
the dark; again we may pass over it
swiftly in the day when its relationship
to the surrounding valleys and hills is
clear. These Forty Days are the ILL
umined years over which He had led
the Twelve in the dark 1t is the sec
ond edition of His life with foot-notes
NY tuS nuIlIOl' always IL is lDe un- /
changed Christ and it is not piece of
ancient history as we read it TODAY but
the record of an eternal Presence as
Yividly real to men as to John or Peter.
He left nothing but his clothes in the
grave.
The IMPOSSIBLE DEFEAT.
The Resurrection proclaimed moral
world under moral government. Peter
sensed the truth when he said, at was
not possible that He be holden of it
DEATH" The very foundation of life
would be shattered if such life as that
of Jesus could perish. If He could be
held in the grave then indeed the world
is out of joint and all moral endeavor
useless. But he emerged CARRYING the
credentials of an ordered universe in
His hands. Then it follows that we
may rest our hearts in glad content
while our hands fght for the establish
ment of moral forces in the earth for
these can not be oyerthrown and ub;lo