Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-27

death. May every soldier receive this
| Christ as his personal saviour and LORD,
and may we men of the 7. M. G. A.
have an increasing measure of His spirit
in our hearts, that we may really serve
the men with whom we mingie day by
day in a manner that shall be acceptable
in His sight
Building 7e--Fred r. Bunker.
The resurrection OF Jesus CHRIST on
which the Easter hope is based was not an
event by itself. 1t was co-ordinated with
all that he taught His great theme was
the introduction of Eternal Life into the
human lives and affairs of men While
still in the body on earth.
Immortality is an abstract conception
Of religious philosophers. Eternal Llte IS
the common experience, as well as con-
ception, of believers In Christ.
The resurrection of Christ was the
demonstration of the truth Of what he
taught regarding Eternal Life. he
taught to Nlcodemus to the woman OF
ing from the dead of Lazarus and others,
and intensively to his disciples, that
Eternal Life was not merely future hope
for another world, but a present expert
ence to those who had faith in COD
That life might be hindered in it's func-
tioning through the physical body, tenn
porarly, from various causes, but It's
eternal persistence and development was
assured.
In Gethsemane the suffering of body
and mind might call forth the plea that
the cup might pass; on the cross the
out the cry my God, My God, why hast
thou forsaken met! But as soon as the
agony was removed by physical death,
the Eternal Life again functioned and
the resurrection was inevitable.
The resurrection of the believer will be
on the same plan. The diseased tired or
age worn body of the believer may not
function the high tide of faith to the
ht1 E,tarn11 ,ifP which he has
experienced under physical limitations
will again begin to function in another
and spiritual sphere of being in accord
ance with its fullest tide of his expert
ence of the saving and controlling power
OF Christ.
In my own personal experience in At
RIGA | have seen the Easter Hope accom-
pliSh in a few months or years what If
takes evolution ages to accomplish.
Drummond in his Tropical Africa says;
1T is wonderful thing to look at this
Wierd word of human beings. 1t is an
education to see this sight--an education
in the meaning and history of man. 1t
is to have watched the dawn of evolu-
ton. 1t is to have the great moral and
social problems of anthropology of eth
no1ogy and even of theology, brought
home to the Imagination in the most new
and startling light"
In the environment of which Drummond
speaks, have repeatedly seen the man
Of the stone age by accepting Jesus
Christ and his message pass over all the
periods of evolution and stand forth a
new man in Christ Jesus, a Christian
gentleman, courteous, educated, and eff
f1cent, in the brief period Of one gene
ration.
Twelve years ago met a boy in Africa
as gross and sodden as man can be-
His environment was wholly against him
and his heredty was of the worst To-
day he is a student in Hampton Insti-
tuition. honorzd and respected by all in
that high class institution and gives
promise OF the highest attachments
| know of no power which could have
accomplished these results but the Eter-
nal Life which Jesus Christ taught and
demonstration in His resurrection.