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what it all means—these flowers, this music and the gay apparel. He loves everything t h a t i s HEART OF beautiful—but above THE LESSON all He loves to have us T. C. Horton think of Him—Him self. We put the pic ture of our loved one on war wall or mantel or dresser, but«we have no true picture of Him. No artist could make one, though the best of them have done their best. The Holy Spirit alone can paint His picture, and that He does through those wonderful word-pictures in His Book. Some of them are so simple and'homelike, some so strangely serious and solemn and some superbly awe-inspiring and grand. All of them supernatural to us, who walk the pil grim path in weakness and weariness. In the picture today He is walking with two disciples, whose eyes are veiled to His personality, but He was revealed to them when with uplifted eyes He asked the Father’s blessing upon the bread. Then we have Him showing His' wounded hands and feet to bewildered disciples in the upper room. Again we see Him building a fire and preparing a meal for the hun gry fishermen, and then we see Him with hands extended bestowing a part ing blessing upon His beloved followers as He ascended in the clouds to the glory. Every picture of our risen Lord should be precious in our sight. Through the open heavens we see Him rising from His seat at the right hand of God to receive the spirit of the martyred Stephen and to welcome Him to Heaven’s Court. And so, if our Lord tarry He will also receive us. The Apostle John gives us a descriptive pic ture of Him, walking among the golden candle sticks, in the Revelation. We know that He lives and how He looks; of what avail would be the Cross upon which He died, if He liveth not? There is a gloom about a tomb which fills us with dread. There is no voice which
speaks, save that of eternal night. We would sorrow without hope, we would cry aloud and the only answer would be the echo of our sad cry, but the empty tomb of Jesus voices an eternal hope for those who have cast their lot with the hated, crucified Nazarene. The empty tomb interprets to us the scrip tures—God’s plan for the ages begins to unfold before our eyes and its won ders are revealed; mysteries are dis pelled and we face the fact of our faith. His soul must live. He must not see corruption, so reads the Word. The whole structure of our faith is built upon the supernatural power of this Man to break the bars and come forth from the tombs. And this well attested fact that He did do this, enables us to stand by His vacant tomb and shout the shout of victory. He was raised for our justification and we are therefore “jus tified from all things from which we could not be justified by the law of Moses.” He lives to intercede for us and hope is radiant with expectation, for, “this same Jesus shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.” There are three great witnesses to us in this connection—-the Bible which has stood the storm of cen turies and stands unimpeached; the Church steeples which lift their heads in valley and on hill and tell of the millions whose lives, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, testify to His resurrection; and the Lord’s day, upon which the saints assemble for His worship. It is the resurrection day—the glad, glor ious day upon which we commemorate His death, His resurrection, His inter cession, and His coming for us. Let none be seduced by Satan from the firm faith of our Fathers. PRACTICAL POINTS- (1) No earthborn saw the resurrection but the newborn saw the resur rected One. (2) Angelic messengers proclaimed His birth; attended Him in the garden;
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