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great centers of education and places of influence have announced their denials of ’Christ and the essentials of Christianity.' But a great miany of the things that have been said in our own lifetime have got to be rewritten, and the fact stands out today that Jesus Christ was never more on the hands of people than He is now, and when men forget history and announce with unwarranted confidence their organization of atheistic clubs, our answer must be “ Go quickly and tell. . . He is risen from the dead.” They have to deal not with a tradition or a theory but with the living Christ who again and again has conquered the darkness of death ■and atheism and has come back in the life and thinking of the world in a new experience and new power. There has not been a time in a hundred years when It was easier for a scholar to make a case for Jesus Christ and the Bible than the day In which we are living. In a conversation which I had a few days ago with a man who is in touch with the student life of the world he said that, in his nearly forty years of experience with student life, he has never seqn so many inquiring for the realities of the Christian religion and Jesus Christ as the power to help men live the kind of life they ought to live, as within the last two years. Every bit of history that is written from the point of view of the failure of Jesus Christ and Christianity must be rewritten, and every Interpretation of history that under takes to interpret life apart from Christ will be proven false. Dora Greenwell, in asking that death may speak with plainer speech than life, says a thing that is certainly true regarding the death of Jesus Christ in the light of the Resurrection: "Through dark decay it pleads, through sullen care;
that he might have the opportunity to tell Him how he hated himself for his cowardly denial at a time when he should have shown his friendship. He thought he never would have the opportunity to do that, and there was nothing before him but a joyless, remorseful life from which every hope cherished in his great dream had faded away; but now he is told that Jesus is alive and that He “ goeth before him into Galilee” and will meet him as He has promised to meet him. He not only has,a chance to see Him but the opportunity to pour out his heart and life before Him and tell Him that in spite of all he has done, he loves Him with an undying love. So we need to tell the people in the world who once con fessed Jesus Christ and followed Him but were disappointed in their experience and are heartbroken and would like t It wins a triumph over earth’s despair:. It turns to truth Life’s failing prophecy, It tells us that the. Lord of Heaven was brave And strong, and resolute in love to save The world that He had made.” COMING IN JULY! * The first installment of the “CONFESSIONS OF A LAWYER ’S WIFE!” The true story of God’ s faithfulness to a forsaken wife. While, of necessity, published anonymously, this is not fiction, but a genuine account of the real experience of a real woman. The author says of her recital, “ If only a few are helped to more fully trust God in the time of severe trials and temptations, I shall feel more than repaid.” ItBJWK R E A D I T ! P A S S I T O N !
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