Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-13
Comfort For a Troubled
Subs criber
BY JOHN T. BoIFEUJLLET

J0AAN . DOlFE UILLEJ
TINE editor of The Atlanta Journal has
i ae1elreo 70 me to answer communi-
r.. cation addressed to him for publica-
tlon by E. W. Satchwell, of Greenville,
~ G., from which I quote as follows.
NOT long since | read an article in your
paper by John T, Boifeuillet relative to
memorial speeches in the United States
senate ON memory of Senator ingalls, ct al.
was indeed surprised that any man sup
posed to be learned should have no knowl-
edge. or information relating to the Bible.
which stands above all books and written
by inspiration. His question, will man
live again?' he says, has never been an
swered.' His statement ranIS1ad in
my bosom"
At the very outset of my reply COM
mend to the grieving North Carolinian the
comforting words of Christ to His disciples
as we find them recorded in the GOSPEL of
st. John-"Let not your heart be trou-
bled Or, as St. Matthew tells us, our
Lcrd said on another occasion to His dis
dressed disciples: BE of good cheer" Or,
as the little silver plate on the casket says
REST in peace"
| never made the statement over which
Mr. Satchwell laments, and when he fin
1shes reading what 1 have to say I truly
hope that his bosom will cease to
rankle, at least SO far as I am concerned
Senator ingalls, Said Tt
j.
ingalls, said in his remarkable memorial
tribute to Senator Benjamin H. Hill, and in
connection with the published quotation
said that it contained certain startling
thoughts. The extracts which l quoted
from ingalls, concluded with these words:
These are the unsolveds the insoluble
problems of mortal life and human destiny
which prompted the troubled patriarch to
ask the momentous question, for which the
ages have given no answer: If a man die,
shall he live again?'" a9
Job, the rich Arabian, the man whom
Satan smote with sore boils, and who. wor-
SHIPPED the true God originally, asked the
question which grieves Mr.. Satchwell, and
to which Senator ingalls, referred.
Mr.. Satchwel in his letter to The At
lanta Journal quotes Job as thus answering
his own query:
"All the days of my appointed time will
l wait, till my change come. .o
Thou shalt call, and l will answer thee;
thou wilt have desire to the work of thine
hands. - For l know that my Re-
deemer liyeth, and that He shall stand at
the latter day upon the earth; and though
after my skin worms destroy this body,
yet in my flesh shall I see Cod, Whom
shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall
behold, and not another; though my reins
be consumed within me-
At My Mothers Knee
AS I knelt at my mothers Presbyterian
knee she wove around the life of Jesus "the
sweetest stories that ever charmed the ear
of childhood" and in those hacyon hours
of my boyhood she taught me, what l
ever since believed, that Jobs question was
answered by God himself in the resurrec-
tion of His only begotten son from the dead,
have always accepted her assurance that
the ascension of Christ was 'tthe pledge,
the hope, and the precursor of my own res
direction.
She taught me that the empty tomb on
the day of Pentecost proclaimed that the
Saviour had risen and triumphed over
death; that His resurrection was the con-
Meeting link between this transitory world
and the world eternal; and there was no
need of additional argument to prove the
life beyond the grave.
Won a Glorious Triumph
When the light Of the Easter dawn
found the stone rolled away from the door
of the sepulcher, and revealed an unsealed
and empty tomb, the truth was everlast-
ingly established that the glorious LIFE
which began as "a righteous Sufferer in
the manager, in helplessness and humility,
sounded all the depths of human experience,
whose sorest sorrow and deepest grief
sprang from the intensity of His sympathy
with His sorrowing and suffering fellow
men," life Of unspeakable tenderness and
self-forgetfulness did not end on the hill OF
Calvary, but VIGOROUSLY rose from the
world of the dead, and is living and reign
ing at the rlSnC mana OIL dOQ CH6 dIH6I
Almighty in a realm 10. of uncomfortable
glories.
l have always thought that the resur-
rection presents incontrovertible, indissolu-
BILE, and inextin punishable evidence Of the
divinity of our Lord.
Christ rising from the dead, dieth now
no more, death shall no more have domin-
ion over Him."
Surprised at Our Ignorance
Mr. Satchwell says in his letter, referring
to me, that he twas indeed surprised that
any man supposed to be learned should
have no knowledge or information relative
to the Bible" l have already quoted from
John, that disciple whom Jesus loved -
and from. Matthew, whom the Greek and
Roman churches commemorate as martyr
| will now ask Mr.. Satchwell to take to
his ranked bosom" the following words
of St. Paul, "a Hebrew of the Hebrews"
the Apostle to the Gentiles the greatest
man of the Apostolic Age: IF Christ is
not risen from the dead, our faith IS vain,
our preaching is vain, and those who have
died are persisted" AS the fact OF the
resurrection is established, our faith is not
in vain the preaching of holy men IS not
in vain, and those who have died have
not persisted, and are present in spirit
with the Lord.
If we did not have a profound faith in