The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-14

revelation. Nowhere else than in the
New Testament is it irrefutably set
forth. No Scalpel of science is sharp
enough to cut out the tissues of the
doctrine of the resurrection from the
body of the teachings and life of Jesus,
and from the testimony of the New
Testament writer's. If you want to
know the comforting and inspiring
truth about life after death you will
find it, not in rha psodieS upon nature;
not in material philosophy; not in
spirit-ra ppings and writings: but in
the clear declarations of the inspired
word of God. Personal immortality
may be denied only by a reputation
of the Scriptures, which bind together,
like Siamese twins, the two vital truths
of the resurrection of Jesus and the
risen life of the believer here below
and his eternal redemption.
For weeks past I have personally
been dwelling within the shadow of
the mystery of death; and only few
hours ago I stood beside the open
grave of my father: so I am not writ
ing as a casual and uninterested COM
mentator upon an abstract theme
There is neither comfort nor hope for
the bereaved except in the truth of a
risen Redeemer. The words of the Bible
hold the assurance which is lacking in
all nature and in all other literature.
The Good News for which the world
waits is found only in the record of
which the story of Mary of Magdala is
credible part
Beyond the Natural Order.
''The Spring blew trumpets Of color;
Her Green sang in my brain
I heard blind man cropping
'Tap-tap with his cane;
81 pitied him in his blindness
But can I boast, I see!
Perhaps there walks spirit
Close by who pit1es me-
"a spirit who hears me tapping
fiVa-SpnSpd mind
Amind such unguessed glories-
That 1 am worse than blind"
This present Eastertide finds the
world agog over the wonders OF the
Learned and ignorant, |
rich and poor, the great and the COM
are enthralled by the mys-
terry and by the satellites of wire |
less. Factories are unable to supply |
the demand for radio outfits. Day
and night the upper ether is filled |
with song and story and sermon and |
speech and music and news. which |
the currents above the earth carry |
to limitless regions. This mornings |
paper told of a ship two thousand |
miles from shore hearing a program !
broadcasted from Newark, n. j. What !
4 jolt for the materialists who Will |
believe only what they can see ara
A writer in the Worlds |
Work suggests that the voices spoken |
into space thru the radiophone are
carried out on the limitless sea of
INTO cnQlGSS ages OF Tune,
so that they may almost be called |
eternali
All this seems beyond the natural |
order. 1t is like the opening of a |
oeep-hole into Gods unrevealed
world. which "eye hath not seen, nor
ear heard" limitations of the spir-
tual possibilities involved make il
Easy for even an unima ginative per-
son to conceive the powers of the
rec life beyond the grave which God
has prepared for those who love Him.
There is a spiritual body. and there
g a natural body" said the Apostle.
Are we yet to learn anew that one is
Is real as the other? For answer. we
urn back to the sublime story which
Nary shouted to her friends. that
Jesus, once dead, was alive again.
AL the glorious possibilities of the
esurrection life are dependent upon
he resurrection fact. hmm ortality is
he greatest reason for mortality. IF
e then be risen with Christ, seek
hose things which are above" "A