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Show Bible Comment: Our Faith in Living Jesus Powers Religion pHRISTMAS is behind us for another year. From the light of the blazing star of Bethlehem we are soon to enter into the shadowed places,- the dark and terrible ways which lead to the brightest light of all E aster morning and the Resurrection. It is this the Resurrection the profound conviction of this fact in the life of Jesus which has been the motivating power of Christianity. It is the faith that Jesus lives, and that He is leading us onward. Consider the miracle of Christianity Chris-tianity itself. What less than conviction con-viction that Jesus had risen and revealed Himself to them coulc have arrested the disciples ir their hour of complete despair' What else could have sent thenr forth in a new-found faith, prepared pre-pared to serve, suffer and il need be die for the glory of spiritually carrying on the work of their King? Their faith, like their works, was the evidence of the transformation trans-formation through which they passed as they knew that Jesus lived, and they understood the words concerning His death anc Resurrection the words that but a few weeks before had seemed so incomprehensible. Would God that we. also, experience ex-perience fully in the days of ou lives the risen Christ as the disciples knew Him. Would tha we find the power that thesi humble men found through th Resurrection |