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Show II Present Meaning of the Resurrection j ' Subject of Rev, P. A. Simpkin I 'lnc h?v- . Simpkin. pastor of) '' y the Phillips Uon.uroeational church,! i' ' , proji-ehcd a forcible pennon Sunday' H'( ' jnornini; on 4,Thc Prosi'iit Meaning o'f H1; I The Rcfeurrcction." The church was j HJ 1 ' I lica ut iftilly decorated with Easter flow-' Hl( J cn nnd special music was furnished by I . 'he church choir. In part Dr. Simpkin 1 H ' No one Willi eyes to see. nnd mind to : B ti brood on the marvels of the spring spread j , In all Its beauty for our delight and Joy, ' H' .. cnu lie lnsensiile of the leason it holds for 1 , I men. Hl ' The loom of light that weaves llu- ten- H 4 dor morning beauty nnd the tapestry of j i it heaven hung across thft evening west. 1, , ,nnd that nils the hours between with j V the glory of life, kltised from seed and HH .spore and bud. speaks of the free undv- Hji ' . Ing which seenu. -to hold renewal uuenil- -Ji - I ' im?. brings us to feel by its power that f the soul's Intuitions are not vain things; H)' that, tlie undying hope of the soul shall be Hl' ' 1 answered in the substance that will fix , f Hut all the. hope and intuition, all N'n- j ) lure's suggestion and the cosmic life's (1 - r message, are. not satisfying. H I . The Easter message holds Hie Easier 1 . .J . joy hftcauso it brings to men spiritual I I if. ' and expcrhnent.il affirmation of that j H. 1 M which before could, but lie longing. For. f ' mji some master chord will take the ' haunting bits of inelod that liave ug-gested ug-gested harmony enravishlng, and swep them into ordered rhapsody and beauty, so the truth of a risen Lord tnkes nil tho broken tones of nature and moral intuition in-tuition and in the ehorrf of his own perfect per-fect realizing of life above earth, strikes for the human heart tlie song of hope no discord may mar. no doubt or despair de-spair bring to unworthy cud. The Easter fedst In worthy all the music mid the worship, all the ritual and the Joy that a Christian civilization lavishes lav-ishes upon It. For that, which to tli" Jew was a truth astounding, to the Turk a innd vagary, and to the Roman an absurdity. Is a living liv-ing fact, whose evidence is as widespread as tho Christ-life Is In human possession. posses-sion. Slowly witli tlie Hying years "ink into oblivion the man-born things which have divided the hosts of God. and surely rise to loftier height the living, eternal facts about which Christians gather. To no other plai! than the nuinger-ciadlf or the cross does tlie whole mass of Christian believers turn ns to the open giave of Christ. And they turn In a common faith, wonder and Joy. The charm of I hat resurrection morning whu through the gray duwn broke the light celestial, ami the crucillctl one row; to bring life and iiiiinorlxjlty to light, does not llu in tht- mM wonder of his : riding, but in. .the power that it speaks to the" ago, 1 1 ' |