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brought home from a foreign battle field or is lost at sea. This Easter, the Lord willing, I shall stress the fact that the Christian fam ily will be reunited through resurrec tion'. It cannot be dissolved nor de stroyed. It lives*on forever. This is our Easter hope. CLARENCE E. MASON,-Jr., Director Boardwalk Bible Conferences Atlantic City, N. J. Already blue stars oh our service flag are turning to .gold. Precious, lads, many o f them who know the Lord Jesus as personal Saviour, are out there somewhere on the firing line defending the liberties of our nation. 4t home are anxious mothers and fathers, .some having received the news that a son is missing in action and others wandering whether such news will come to them.- Easter is a time of hope, and hope is needed today as never before. What is the Easter hope? Is it not that God meets death with resurrection, ahd promises that broken family circles shall be united again in that glorious hour when “the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up to gether with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air” ? In my Easter message, I shall -lay the emphasis on that blessed word “ together.” Separated from one an other now, when He comes to call His own to meet Him in the air, those who trust Him will be “together” forever with the Lord. Only resurrection hope can make this, possible. R. S. BEAL, Pastor First Baptist Church Tucson, Ariz.
My Message Is: “SALVATION AND SOUL-WINNING”
My Message Is: CHRIST IS ACCESSIBLE”
One truth. I shall emphasize this coming Easter is the truth that Christ is alive, a Christ accessible, a Christ active in the world. This mightily- alive Christ acknowledges no mastery in hostile circumstances and keeps .pace and ahead of the most unexpect ed challenges,» offering the inexhaust ible fountains of His strength. . To Him is given all power in heav- - en and in earth. This Christ is our omnipotent help—so near we need not miss Him, so certain we have no cause *to doubt Him. This living Christ is among us, to make the power of God usable to the neediest of us. As His burial hallowed the tomb, so the breaking of the seal on His sepulcher was the breaking of the seal on every sepulcher. And the ascension of His humanity to heaven is the warrant of our own ascension—and its entire and eternal perfection is the assurance of our own perfection in all the honors of joint-heirship with Him in the many-mansioned house of His Father where He has gone “to" prepare a place” for us. CHRISTIAN FAMILY” j A ll over our land, families are be ing rent asunder by the cruel neces sities of war. These partings are pain ful, but doubly so to untold thousands because, not knowing the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Saviour, ahd recog nizing the real possibility of loss of life in action, they have no assurance « that they w ill ever/ see each other again. No wonder that dread pos sesses the hearts of multitudes. What a difference Christ makes! When our loved ones who leave us know Christ as their Saviour, we know (1) that He is with them "unto the ends of the earth” ; (2) that they are safe in His Care, and that nothing can touch them but in His w ill; (3) that if death should come, in His ¡per missive will, all that it can do to our loved one ds to provide for him a doorway into more abundant life add take him the more quickly into the very presence of the Lord; and (4) fi nally, that body—so dear to us as the home of the personality we loved and the instrument of its expression-will be raised again, strong, glorious, and eternal, when Christ returns. Espe cially comforting is this truth to those whose loved one’s body cannot be ROBERT G. LEE, Pastor Bellevue Baptist Church Memphis, Tenn. My Message Is: | ; “THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY { I 1 OF THE
The one truth I w ill emphasize this coming Easter as never before is sal vation: He “was raised again for our justification.” A n d of course the handmaiden of this foundation truth is soul-winning. The stressing of sal vation and the winning of souls for. Christ will hasten the completion of His body and thus speed the return o f our blessed Lord. W ill you permit me . to add this? God has convicted me of the sin of neglecting children in preaching this truth of personal salvation. Think of it: there are at least 14,000,000 chil dren under twelve years in America who have no religious instruction of any kind! These w ill be our coming Communists and criminals, if we fail to reach them for Christ. I w ill em phasize from now on in my ministry —this Easter and all the other fifty- one Sundays in the year, should the Lord tarry—the desperate need of win ning boys and girls for Christ.
DAVID OTIS FULLER, Pastor Wealthy Street Baptist Church Grand Rapids, Mich.
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ment days were saved by looking for ward to Christ’s death, and by trust ing in that foreseen sacrifice. In this dispensation, we look back and are saved through faith in . the sacrifice of Christ already accomplished. Bible Institute FAMILY CIRCLE
In the World Field At the invitation of the only Chris tian couple in a near-by village, Doro thy Gruber, ’39, and other workers in the Indian church at Abbott Mount, Lohaghat P. O., Almora Dist., U. P., India, were given the opportunity of preaching Christ to the whole village. Miss -Gruber is praising the Lord for the testimony of this young Christian couple and is pfaying for their con tinued witness to His name. Richard (’38) and Mrs. Dilworth (Florence Wessel, ’39) in September, 1942, had the privilege of starting a new station in a tribe not touched by the gospel, at Geita, Butundwe, Tan
ganyika Terr., Africa. They were able to purchase, at very reasonable cost, a 1936 Chevrolet station wagon and some used building materials and tools which were a great help. A l though their home was completed be fore the rainy season began, there are other buildings which are needed—a -chwrch, a school, and perhaps a small hospital. There are four tribes, with the attendant language problems, within their borders. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Preedy (H. Roberta Tewksbury, ’31) and family are reported well and residing at 216 San Marcelino, Manila, P. I., in a Bap tist mission home.
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