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IF CHRIST BE NOT RISEN! (Concluded from page 194)
The Effect of the Resurrection One other word and my task Is done. What was the effect of the resurrection? Those disciples were the worst beaten, humiliated, downhearted number of men one could find in Palestine when Jesus died. Remember how those two men on the Emmaus Road said, “ We hoped”— all their hope was in the past tense— “ we hoped that it' had been He who would redeem Israel; but He is dead.” What were they afterward? They were firebrands going everywhere with exhilaration of heart, with exultation of spirit, Jubilantly affirming the risen Christ present with them, all conquering, to whom all hearts should yield! And you who know the Acts of the Apostles need not be told by me how on page after page you read that they preached and affirmed the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. And »as keystone to arch, is the fact of that resurrection to all the apostolic preaching and to the apostolic Church. And Paujf came along, and yoii know how he affirmed and re-affirmed and affirmed again, that Jesus Christ was alive. Why, take the chapter from which my text comes, and in It he uses this remarkable language. He says, “ If Christ be not .risen, our preaching is vain.” And what he really said was, "Our preaching is void— it is a great yawning gulf that has nothing in it; there is no music there; there is no power there; there is no salvation there; our preaching is void, unless Christ be alive.” And then he said, “ Your faith is vain.” What is the use of your faith when the One in whom you place it is dead? “ Your faith is vain,” and “ the dead are perished.” Oh, that gets very near to me every Eastertide! Jesus Christ is alive, and therefore those I * have loved and lost a while are alive, for they were saved by a Jesus who said, “ Because I live, ye shall live also.” And today over all the earth there spreads the glad fact of the Easter morning. You can go tp every prodigal in the far off country today and tell him to 'go home to his God, because the living Christ does intercede for him, and is able to save to the uttermost all penitent souls. I went out in my garden last Autumn and did an unkind thing to bulbs of snowdrop and crocus and jonquil and daffodil, for I put them down in the ground out of the light and the air, and covered them up in the darkness and the dampness. And they did not believe me when I said, “ This is preliminary to a day when up above this earth again you will lift your heads, and at the sight of your beauty men will pray.; and inhaling your fragrance women will thank God.” But it all came true. I saw the Summer go. .to its death last Fall when the leaves fell piteously down from the trees, and the branches lifted their hands as if in appeal to God against the ravages of Winter. And the cold winds blew and the sleet fell * heavily and the hail rattled and the frost came. But sure as God it is. Spring! And the flowering currant is ringing its bells of praise on the hillside's, and the trilliums are sug gesting Father, Son; and Holy Spirit by their threefold form and appearance. And the grass is green as it was last year, and it is Springtime everywhere! And I saw Christ die. And when He died the sun refused to look; and men’s hearts failed them for fear; and the hope of the world was dead. But He said He would rise, and He kept His word. He came out of the grave and He led captivity captive. And it is Springtime in the souls of men because Christ is alive.
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