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Show - .1 . L , V t hi y j lilt ' t who to e : w liter Ian tires on new ears sinterlis cry. of a bird. The moon was gone. Darkness was all about, except for the brilliance of the angel and the dying fires. Then the angel rose,4 clasped his arms across his breast, and bowed his head. The light from the wings on his . shoulders towered even higher than the tomb. IX. A: The opening of the tomb was black." But all at once, a light as powerful .as the sun shone from inside the tonTb. I shall surely die now, thought centuriorii The light brightened. Then, in the entrance appeared a figure even taller than the angel, too radiant for human eyes to endure, moving with majestic grace and power, its features lost in its own brightness. The air shook and began to blaze about it. The earth quivered again under the , step of the Figure. - The closed fell his He centurion eyes. to the ground and covered his head with his arms, waiting to be struck dead by Him who had left His tomb, "rte could feel the light even through his closed eyes, his sheltering arms. Did He " pause by the centurion for a moment? The officer did not know, but later he was sure of it Had there been love in that pausing, that glance? Later, the officer was certain oiit all. v . - A- ; rthe-trembli- ' il ' ' ir L if I (I if; I) (Continued) , , Hi . v - r ' - ' j-- ' ' " ' " y gray light of dawn would appear there. His bbdy ached heavily, yet he was not sleepy. All at once t he was overcome with a wild restlessness. He tried to control it When the sun came up, he could leave with his men. It would not be long. But the restlessness in him increased. He stood up. His .subaltern came to him. No, he needed nothing. He was merely cramped. He would walk about a little. He checked his sleeping men, . like his he himself, men, fallen, Hadunconscious? When he could open tried to 'i rain-soake- P.. . such an awesome silence. Once more, the centurion looked at the east Was there just the faintest tinge of pink over yonder - silent mount? Thank the gods. He would rn to his men. He swung on his heel, then reeled. The ground 'suddenly shifted under him, as from an earthquake. He "staggered, flung out his arms. Then he saw a tremendous flash of light from ;the direction of the tomb. Something was happening there! He steadied himself, light showing re-tu- 10 Family Weekly, April 17, I960 d 1111 ' . -- 'I highly-polishe- - t N . skid-resistan- d : hat is wrong with me, and what IAI for? he asked himVV am I waiting self. He looked toward the east again. Would the sun never come up? This had been the longest night of his memory. Not even the night he waited for his. young wife to give birth to their son had been as long as this. Now. the jackals were silent, going into their lairs before the dawn. A wind rose suddenly, strong and quick, and then ( dropped. Never had there been - - -'- si , i his eyes and raise himself, the first sun was slanting on that desolate valley, and the mountains were bright as brass, The angel was still there, waiting, shin" v "A V.' Ving like the sun itself. And two women I -- A were the approaching the tomb-alon- g T5 I long plain. The angel turned and ; ; ; j watched them come in their mourning ' garments. The soldiers' on the ground surface . . . one of 87 tests Atlas Tires must pass! on this wet, IN TESTS, Atlas Insists on extra country road like this, because YOU CAN "STOP ON A DIME' IN EMERGENCIES with Atlas Plycron Cushionaire Tires . . . even on a did not move. Hie fires had died. ' '"Tl wWVV w II -- Raised jveakly on his elbow, the cen.. turion watched from his .distance. 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The angel, with the lightning on his faceT" looked againat 7 the cehturionT" Then he was gone, and the world gliW sun and crowned with shimmering light lently, unable even to lift his hand. seemingly of lightning, upon the cenhim go. He could not move. Terrified, he Then his heart almost died in him. his heart roaring in his ears. The earth The strange and unearthly angel . tered in sunshine on the first Easter. turion. It had the repose and calmness looked at his meh; They had fallen to rising from its shoulders. The stone Was that a man there, rolling back the steadied, too, and he ran" quickly toward "He had surely risen," the centuricjn. waited, and the centurion waited. The of a thing not of earth, and its eyes were rolled back like a curtain in the hands 1 the ground as though struck dead or. stone at the mouth of the tomb? No, it the tomb. said to St. Luke, "I saw it ,with my of the creature. Then the awesome pink shadow of the coming sun was serene and bright. Apparently it saw unconscious. He tried to raise a shout, was not a man, though it had the form He had almost reached the circle of own eyes." brighteninjg over the mountains. There the centurion clearly, and the centurion visitant sat on the stone and, for the but his voice would not spring from his of a man. It was a creature of kingly red firelight when it seemed as if a was an absolute silence, not even the looked back at it, trembling most vio- first .time, turned its face, fashioned throat. He seemed to be paralyzed. height, clad in glowing robes like ,the great hand seized him and would not let S3 smile at those who were awake and playing again. No, he would walk alone, just a short space. They must not allow themselves to be less alert. They saluted him, and he 'walked slowly away. They murmured among themselves. What was wrong with the Old Man? 9 ng pro-rate- d l 38,000 SERVICE : Trwl-mr- k . . ; Family Weekly, April 17, I960 - 11 |