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Music: An unseen male soloist sing ing: “I Know That My Re deemer Liveth.” (Mother closes her Bible and bows Prayer for Other Mothers What do they do, O Lord—the lonely ones Who have not Thee through all their hours of'pain— The countless mothers who have lost their sons her head in prayer.) Reader (a woman):
Without the hope of seeing them again? How do they fill the long, lone empty years, Of which each day is but a bitter part? How do t h e y quench the ceaseless flow of tears * That finds its fountain in a broken heart? O God, for other mothers I beseech The peace which makes my heart a quiet place;
Move on their wounded spirits, Lord, and teach Each one the precious meaning of Thy grace . ; . And give them, for the sons they mourn this day,, The Son of God who w ill not go away. (Repeat last stanza softly if desired.) Instrumental Number: “Sweet Peace, the Gift of God’s Love." Benediction.
This ONE Thing This EDITOR’S NOTE: To a number of ministers, letters were sent contain ing this question: “What one truth in particular will you stress this coming Easter?” The following are some of the answers that were received. The writers are, in every case, men to whom, the Lord has given large re sponsibility and who nu'mber thou sands of listeners in their audiences. It is heartening to know that these lis teners—and may it please God, many others also-r-will find the Easter .mes sage this year centered in “Christ and him crucified,” the all-sufficient One. •
Biblical philosophy of life eternal through our Lord Jesus Christ. Un less the Christian hope of life after death is dominant in the minds of the multitude, sorrow w ill fall like a blighting frost ugon our people. Bereavement can very easily be turned to bitterness. Bitterness breeds discontent, and discontent fathers world-revolution. The bereaved must have a Sure faith to tide them over their sorrow and loss. As God gives me opportunity, I want to give them a true Biblical hope. WILLIAM WARD AYER, Pastor Calvary Baptist Church New York, N. Y. My Message Is: j “ T H E U P W A R D P U L L ” } Of the fact of the resurrection of Christ, there cannot be a shadow of a doubt. It is one of the indubitable certainties. But the power of a fact is to be distinguished from the fact it self. The power is the influence it ex ercises upon the individual. Thus Paul’s ambition was to know Christ
“ and the power of his resurrection.” It is this “ upward pull” that I shall emphasize this Easter season. Oncè when climbing a mountain by a rugged pathway, I came to a place which was perilous to negotiate. What a joy and relief it was t<5 me to hear a voice just above me saying, “ Give me your hand!” The thought that Christ was grip ping him, from the upper security of the heavenly places, turned the apos tle into a daring climber on the steeps that lead to God. Christ was above him—He was risen. He was stooping down to lift the climber up. Paul felt the urge of the true mountaineer which lies in seeking the things which are above. In union with Him, there was an upward pull. Paul turned his back upon thé lower things. Because Christ was risen, and above him, he must gain in Christ the heights of holy living. Was that, perhaps, not the dominant thought in his mind when he Wrote “the power of his resur rection” ? W. M. ROBERTSON, Pastor i Metropolitan Tabernacle Vancouver, B. C., Can. [Continued on Page 132]
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My Message Is: 1 “PERSONAL IMMORTALITY” I It is my plan to streSs the clear, Biblical teaching of personal immor tality this •Eastertime. I shall do this for two reasons. First, there are mul titudes in oùr church and radio audi ences who have been and are being bereaved through war casualties. In thè second place, now, as in the last war, the charlatans of Spiritism and other delusive evils are busy leading desperately bereaved and ignorant souls away from the truth as it is in Jesus the Son of God, who alone has immortality and who alone brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. Our country in the last decade has turned to gross materialism and has lost, in large measure, its sense “of God and eternity. But now that death is claiming so many of our young men in the mid-morning of their exist ence, our country is awaking to the fact that, for those who are left be hind, earthly life cannot be complete. The church must give to a deluded world the stabilizing, comforting,
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