Dr. Louis H. Evans, until a year ago was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, the largest Presbyterian
church in the world. Now as Minister-at-Large for Presby terian Church, USA, he is denomination's official spokesman.
to stars could He do that for all man kind? Men never saw God so clearly at work as during those three years before the tomb. Now He was to die—would that be the end of all this magnificence? They had seen philos ophers at work before but not this force of life-changing power. This was it. Now would death end it all? Then Christ in answer laid down the issue. “ Destroy this body and in three days God will raise it again. If I do not rise from the dead it is the end of what I am and what I brought to you. If I do rise then swing behind me and wager every
thing on me. I will have my third day!” He had His third day! He arose at dawning and as Christ was im perishable and eternal so are the things He brought to us— recupera t i on, regeneration, redemption, change, pardon, renewal, victory. Those things, thank God, are as in destructible as is He. “ He is alive— the tomb is empty.” It spread like a prairie fire over land and sea. His program, His pardon and His power are alive forevermore and are the eternal gifts to all who want them. The Easter experience can become real to you today and you, too, can
“ be raised to walk with Him in new ness of life.” You can personally walk out of the tomb and sarcophagus- of your secular, defeated living; you can drop the habits that bind you round and round as graveclothes; the napkin of doubt can fall from your head and you can believe; as a caters pillar leaves its cocoon and with wings flies in the sky-blue yonder so you need not always drag along worm-like, despondent, earthy and secular. The sun of a new life for you can rise as surely as this sun this morn ing. “We may have Christ. He is alive. And we live!” END.
APRIL 1954
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