The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-28
Resurrection Power
 of Jesus-Dr. Wells

Sunday morning at the Highlands Meth odist church the pastor, Dr. Preston B Wells, preached an interesting and power full sermon before a large congregation his text being taken from Philippians third chapter and tenth verse: Ihat may know him and the power ol ms resurrection" pr. Wells said in part;
 The word which Paul here uses for power is the word from which we de- rive our strong English term dynamite Elsewhere Paul says that by the resur- rection Jesus was declared to be the so" of God with power; or, to give the more accurate English translation, by tis resurrection Jesus was powerfully ae clared to be the Son of God The resur- rection was powerful demonstratioii Ut the Sonship of Jesus
 "On the last past Sunday we spoke ot the resurrection as being the foundatioG of the Christian faith We endeaVored to show that men have tried to take 1rof' us the Christ of yesterday. and that tn 'H offer substitutes for the Christ of to day.
 This lorniug we are 70 consider the resurrection power of Jesus as seen III the chaneed lives of men and Tn lhe spiritual transformations of the world These are the living evidences of HiS resurrection power-the unanswerable ar eumen. for the Christian faith. dea' Christ could never transform the world nor speak life to the souls of men
 The transforming power of Jesus Ill the life of the world bears unmlstaKaoio testimony to His conquest of death anu mastery oyer the grave. The increasing wonder of the world is Jesus. Born in manager. from His birth we date the movements of history. Reared Tn ar humble home trained at the carpenter bench. He went forth to eshl blish king dom that should conquer the world anu last forever He did none of the things usually done by men who propose to es- tablish a school of thought or to set up a kingdom in the earth. He drew up ho code of laws. He gave no formal creed to men, He gave no definition Of re- ligion He formulated no articles or faith He wrote no book. He eStablshed no institution for the formal traln1ng oi
 men, He proposed no form or churcH government, left no formal constltutlo.t nor bylaws and laid down TO rules or order for His church. He did not rel! on money, nor force, nor argument, hoi diuolnnacy He adopted none of the ways of men in His plans for the world. Il" gathered a few plain people around Him. and said unto them: Go through the land and tell what you have seen ana heard Tell the world of Me. You wlu be hated by men, They will put you Ill prison I shall die for the world; but shall rise again. Go forth in My name and speak I shall be with you
 .Tn the realm of morals the power O, Jesus is supreme. His is the one VOTE that exercises full sway over the hu' man conscience. The words of men move us Godward only when they echo Ills words No doctrine that repudiates or de- nies what Jesus taught has any power over the consciences of men. Words or earthly teachers may quicken the intsl
 ect. excite the imagination and str the emotiona: but if contrary to the teach- ings of Jesus, they have no grasp upon the moral side of mans life.
 .'The Christ who died is the Christ who rose triumphant, who liveth to dle no more. The living Christ, He speaks WIZ power to the souls of men, The Cnrle' of history becomes the Christ Of experi- snca. and we know Him and the power of His resurrection with a certainty tha' cannot be shaken"