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Show EASTER RESURRECTION. This is tho day of tho risen Lord of tho World, .Redeemer of Mankind. It is tho anniversary ot tho resurrection, the day which is typical of I ho Christian hope. On that resurrection in tho Lord docs the vital core of Christian leaching leach-ing depend. For, as tho apostle to tho Gentiles says, "Tf Christ be not raised your faith is vain." And, again, "Tor as in Adam all die, oven so in Christ shall all be made alive." And, further, fur-ther, "If in this life only, we have hope in Christ, then' wo arc of all men most miserable." Tho risen Lord, then,1 being the essence es-sence of faith and hope, tho anniversary of that resurrection is justly the high . festival of the faithful, second only to the glorious Christinas day, the anniversary anni-versary of the Lord's birth in tho flesh. And so this day is joyously celebrated as a festival of deliverance from the power of death, and (he triumph of that spiritual life which the apostle had in mind when he wrote, "this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal mor-tal must put on immorlalitj'. " Tho thoughts of this dn- must turn to that immortal life, of which this anniversary an-niversary is the memory, and the sign. Tt. is a glorious thought, a shining hope. And in that hope let every heart put on the spiritual armor, ward off evil, and eschew all forms of wickedness, in order or-der to obey tho apostolic injunction, "Awako to righteousness, and sin not." Mindful, always, however, of tho imperfection of human nature, and that a perfect compliance with the whole requirements of tho divine will is not altogether within human abilitj', let ' us all do what, we may to reach such degree of excellence in obedience as we may, and leave the rest with our Heavenly Father, who knows us all much better than we know ourselves. |