Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-28

missed them saying ''Ye have a guard go make It as sure as you can So they went and made the sepulchre sure, seal ing the stone, the guard being with them Easter Day is the answer to all this q
 What should this mean for us today7 What has become of the high hopes we cherished few years ago as to what would be the final outcome of victory In the great war; We were animated by the hope of seeing a world regenerated by the awful suffering through which 1t was pasisng. I cannot. need not dwell upon this. We all know that our hopes have not been realised . the brotherhood of nations which seemed ct one time a possibility seem no nearer than ever, and for many Christ seems to be crucined. dead and buried.
 This being so the Pilates. the world wise. the practical politicians are ready to openly express their contempt for those ideals which once they feared to condemn because there were 60 many who seemed to believe in them. At the great conference of bishops of the Ang-
 lican communion held at Lambeth last
 summer. the committee appointed to con sider the subject of information reia-
 tions. said. At the present moment
 there are two alternatives before the
 world. On the one hand we may relapse into the old conditions. with an at- tempted balance of power, the piling up of armaments with their attendant ex. ipenditure. until the world Is ready for
 another and even more hideous war. On
 the other. hand we. may work for the
 ideal for mankind which shines before ui
 in the pages. of the New Testament I guided by the principles which we hay,
 learned from the Lord Jesus Ch-ist.''
 This second alternative seems to man,
 to be dead. SO dead that it may safely b, , treated with confempt. These fantas,i,
 hopes; these ideaiistic schemes are reall, not worth bothering about they are dead and 1t does not matter much whether yoi . seal and guard the tomb In which the, are buried. for they can never come t life. and if any should be so foolish a to attempt to revive them. why what in
 Snence can a few fanatics a few cranlzs a few dreamers. a few Christians exer i! else in the world7 Suppose we admi that this is al true :. that all those hig Christlike hopes we cherished of bette world are dead and buried for we can
 not be false to ourselves as to thin
 that these hopes and ideals were utterl false and foolish; they had. their origin 1 the Spi1it of the Christ.
 Grant that our ideals have been kfliet , killed by the hard facts of experience , and the practical issues of actual If,
 how shall we face this?
 } Yes" we may answer. i'the ar dead. but dead as Jesus was dead" O r that Saturday when the ,Pharisees cam I to Pilate. and then went cut to mais | the grave of Jesus sure who could hay thought that, That Deceiver'' and tn , absurd story of His resurrection wou, gain the ear of the world.
 ; So 1t is with the Christ principle | life. Though men buried it scorned t made 1t so sure that 1t seems to have n [ practical influence in human affairs yet n will arise and demonstrate It's powe, f As the bishops say If penitence an . faith be found fin the earth. then the ma e terials will be there for that new create f from God which is the one hope for r. corrupt and stricken world"