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people came to offer a lamb as a sacrifice; but the Lord Jesus came in order to be the Lamb that “taketh away the......—,...,—. of the world” (John 1:29). Many things happened during this pass- over week, about which you may read in your Bibles; but at last, at the right time, and in the right place, the Lord Jesus suffered and died for you and me on a cross at a place which is called....... (Lk. 23:33). After the Lord Jesus’ death, two o f His friends who were very rich, .;— ------- ( Matt. 27:57) o f Arimathea and-----H H 9 (John 19:39), obtained permission from Tnhw 19:38) to care for the body of the Lord Jesus. Lovingly they took it down from the cross, and with pure white linen and many pounds of spices they prepared the body for burial, and then just as lovingly laid it in a ........... (John 19:41) sepulcher—a tomb—in Jo seph’s garden. Some of the women, too, who loved the Lord Jesus, stood near by, longing to do something for the One they loved. A great stone was placed in the door o f the sepulcher, and then the friends departed. How unhappy these friends of Jesus must have been as in the evening o f that sad day they went to their homes I The next day was the long-looked-for feast day o f the year. Every one was happy on this day—all except the friends o f the Lord Jesus. For them this was but a sad, sad day; the One they loved so much was lying in a dark tomb. At last the holy days were past, and the time came when the friends of the Lord Jesus could visit the tomb. Very early in the morning o f the .......—jSj.— day of the week (Matt. 28:1), some o f the women left the city to go to the tomb.. They car ried ..........—.'4......— (Mk. 16:1), that they might lovingly anoint His body, for that was the custom in those days. And as they walked along in the early morning, they said one to another, “Who shall roll us away the stone from the door o f the sepulcher?” (Mk. 16:3). But when they reached the garden, behold, the stone was rolled away from the door of the tomb. A beautiful angel with a shining face and pure white garments had come down from heaven and rolled away the stone, and a great *!-...............;......:..i— .... — (Matt. 28:2, 3) was felt. When Mary Magdalene saw that the stone was rolled away, she hurried back to the city to tell the disciples, probably while the other women entered the tomb. There they saw an angel sitting at the right side of the place where the body of the Lord Jesus had lain, and they were afraid. But the angel spoke to them and said: “ Be not affrighted: ye seek —.......— ................. ............... . . he is risen; he is not here: . . . B u t.......your way, his ■-___ -.,r.L--:iti« S 8 M I and1 that he goeth before you into Galilee (Mk. 16:6, .7). Amazed and trembling with fear, they quickly left the sepulcher to go back to the city. In the meantime, Mary Magdalene re turned to the garden and the tomb. She stood outside'the sepulcher^,.......................:. (John 20:11). And as she ...........;S. (John
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THE STORY C B y L o uis B o ys and girls, have you ever wondered about the life after death for one. who loves the Lord Jesus? God’s Word makes it plain that all who have received Jesus as their Saviour are to live with Him forever in a home He has gone to prepare. All nature seems to illustrate this fact which God’s Word tells us—that after death a beautiful, glorious life awaits the believer. I am reminded, too, of the little silk worm which has a wonderful story to tell. When I was a boy of ten, all my playmates at school began raising silk worms. One boy had five hundred. But while he had so many, I didn’t have a single one. One day at recess, one o f my friends came to me, and, with his hand outstretched toward me, said, “I’m going to make you a present o f a silkworm.” He then put into my hand a long wrig gling worm. O f course I wondered what I would do with it. I knew I couldn’t very well take it into the schoolroom, but as my home was very near the school, I decided that the best thing to do was to run home with my new pet. I had to run fast, for recess was soon over. I managed to find a box at home, and I placed the worm in it quickly and hurried back to school. “Watch the worm and see what hap pens,” my playmate called as I left school that day, and this I determined to do. I soon learned that mulberry leaves were the only food for silkworms, and these had to be gathered, washed, and cut up into small pieces. After a while, I noticed that the worm began moving its head, first to one side and then to the other, and soon I discov ered that it was spinning a fine silk thread about its own body. Day by day the worm continued spinning, until at last it was quite hidden by a tomb o f silk called a cocoon. All the time the worm was spin ning, a soft sound was heard, and when this stopped, I knew that the little worm had completed its work. “Wait,” my schoolmate said when I told him about the silken tomb, “and keep on watching? there’s something else that’s wonderful to see.” He came to my home, and from the silken tomb he removed a dark, ugly-looking chrysalis. Surely noth ing beautiful or wonderful could come out o f that! I shook it, and something hard seemed to. roll around inside. “Don’t throw away the chrysalis,” my friend said. I continued to watch it day by day. Imagine my surprise when one day I found that the chrysalis was gone. Then I dis covered over on the far side of the box a living moth with delicate wings. As I looked at it, it slowly moved away into the warm sunlight. I never dreamed that The picture on this page is used through the ^courtesy o f the Board o f Tourist In dustry, Japanese Government Railways.
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anything so beautiful could come out of that dark tomb of death—but it did. And since I have become a Christian, I have learned, boys and girls, that some day, for all those who have died believing on the Lord Jesus, the graves will be opened, and these loved ones are to come forth with beautiful, new, glorified bodies. If a perfectly formed moth can come forth from a dark, ugly-looking chrysalis, how much more attractive will be those men and women and boys and girls who will come forth from the dark tomb of the grave— those for whom the Lord Jesus died on the cross? The Story of the Resurrection S pr in g tim e is here again, bringing back the singing birds, the pretty butter flies, the fragrant flowers, and many other lovely things, but, best of all, it brings us the glad day we call Easter. To many, this happy day is only a time to buy a new hat or wear a new dress, but I am sure that to you boys and girls Easter means the day when we are re membering the resurrection of our Sav iour, the Lord Jesus. Wouldn’t you like to read this wonderful story for yourselves from your Bibles? You' will find it in Matthew 28:L10; Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24: 1-12; and John 20:1-18. Some parts o f the Easter story are told in all four of the Gospelsl* other parts are mentioned in only one or two places, and for this rea son you will wish to read them all. To really understand this beautiful story, you will of course want to read the one that goes before, the story o f the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus. No one knows all that happened during that wonderful week, but probably the events occurred in the order that is suggested in the following exercise, where the Easter message is to be com pleted with the right words as found in the references indicated : As passover time drew near, that spring time so long ago, the Lord Jesus “stead fastly set his face” to go up to the great city o f........................ (Lk. 9 :51). Many people with their bright-colored robes joined Him and His disciples as they jour neyed up to this great and beautiful city to keep the feast of the passover. . The
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