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Show EASIER SERMON if REV. WIUJAMM. PHA- Ho Takes Tor His Text, fw cause I hive. Yc Shall ml liive Also." Wi "Became 1 L,ivc, Yc Shall Live Al3 was the subject of an Impressive delivered Sunday night at the First p byterlnn church by the RCv. WllllaSil, Paden. In pnrt Mr. P.ulcn said; -'Wf "The voice of Euat)r-tlde Rneak.l, life, abounding, victorious life tiijl the voice of one crying In the wlhwRI 'Because I live, ye shrill h n Is the voice of the living Christ tnl that Is nllvo In the human soul "The words of our text wro mJS -il while it was yet winter, whhV it Z ill dark to all save Jesus The Si', w;ro huddled about Jesus a8 sheen v a shepherd. A few hours ln'tor tlii iZr struck the little flock: the ShoXru . slain nnd the ? hetp wore scnttertil T. W as the sun went down on that ti'rrik Friday the hopes of tho dlaclpto2 .fo nailed with Jesus to the cruel croj-j v 1 must have seemed as If God himself' j,, ft forsaken them. vS r "When the night is the darkem lVd comas the morn In the orient It u l, that the nun rises suddenlv fr0mT? ocean, a? with a shock, with wW? ,5J shock of glad surprise the sun bhi li-forth li-forth after that solemn midnight nffi ' teen centuries ago living wonen 4 loyal men had arisen whilo it ni-J . night; they had arisen to UUt0 tAi ? ' burdens of living death, moanlnu 'L tV fled, dead and burled.' Hut alt at o , tholr dying or dead hearts came to ti They are running hlihw nnd thlti. Vi thoy are finding their friends; ihv i , -crying, 'He Is alive; He is rlnon v ever sweeter voice In IIiIk wriilcrni world? Ah we hear the so 1-3 oT tK iB Ing and tho dead give waj to the 1 of tho living ns they And that dMThi' ri swallowed up in life, we understand wh ii' Jesus meant when he said. MSccauiw U live, ye shall live also.' cautj The church was prettily decorated -wi nn abundance of palms, lillos and ot appropriate Ha.-ler decorations, and t choir delightfully rendered a number! rf t special Knster anthems. A, |