Show I 1 THE RISING OF CHRIST in the month of april about eighteen hundred and sixty four years ago wonderful scenes were transpiring it the land of judea scenes that have bare left their lm iDreas upon all the world the jews had bad been looking for deliverance from the ibe roman yoke that bore heavily upon them they had bad listened liate ned to the voice of the prophet from the wilderness and be bad be come a 9 victim to the rage of the ruling power they bad seran one come forth with a strange for that time yet jet having a peculiar harmony with the desire of the age strange for iti arraignment of the unbelief of those who relied on gd for deliverance yet hormon harmonious ious with their hope hopeb in heralding the be deliverer they behold beheld the one who proclaimed himself the son of god but BB an his hie methods method did not comport with ith th their r ideas of what the christ should d do they khey followed that e course ou ree which they abey thought would dip prove rove abe claim he made and at their chest be heatHe he was rut to death tb and the be culminating act in that great tragedy of lot abo season of ago haa ban stood before the world from that time BB as irrefutable evidence of the wisdom of the saying baying that gods ways way are not as mans ways way J for in 11 the former there la in no failure the very means by which the jewish leaders sought to disprove dia prove the claim of jt feua sue of nazareth that he was the messiah stab the son of god sent bent to re deem the world became the mea meane no through the overruling providence of the oed god of israel to proclaim for all ages agea that some jesus as aa messiah Mec slab betl kleemer eemer deliverer to all mankind it was not alone the death of the L lord josue that accomplished the work there was the further great event of his return to lle life in the fleshly tabor taber neele naele he bad occupied upon earth therein was waa his trio triumph mph an aia a messiah Mew lai therein was waa the deliver deliverance stice that he wrought from the power of the grave the redemption he be brought to man kind from the cower of death others oth era had bad died before fore to in the cause of salvation but he woo the one to bring the redemption from the demo deao and from that time there has baa been a growth in the operation of the dispensation which he ajob ered in id abe extension of knowl knowledge edite of a risen christ in whose revivifying revivify ing was waa the example the door for the resurrection of all won men by the crucifixion there was waa almost blasted the hopes hopeb of those whom the lowly yet miraculously gifted noza noss rene no had bad gathered around him his e I 1 death earb had bad plunged them into the depths of a morrow borrow and hopelessness so 0 o great that no new prophet could I 1 I 1 renal them irom from it one thing sod and only one could revive their fallen hopes remove their disappoint bont and restore the supreme joy they had bad experienced in looking on RIM him whom bow they regarded an aa the christ there was waa but one thing to ave ve christianity to map mankind kind that abat n one alip amog was that chat jesus should live colln in ID toe flesh nothing short abort ol of that bat would to establish the disciples faith in hims and enable them mew to continue to declare him as aa the christ all that could be done in mortality was waa dune done and it required the triumph or of immortality to proclaim to the world that the redeemer Reu eemer bad come to earth hence jesus rose roee again anti and the corporeal resurrection of jesus became the prime fact of christian history it raised the joy sod and aita faith of the disciples beyond all they had bad known before and it became the burden and central feature of their testimony from that time forth with what body did he rise the apostles Apo etlea had seen him crucified and they ibey aaa him risen again communed with H m not for a day but for or a month or more and many malay others in judea communed also aleo there was wag no mistake as a to hla his identity it was jesus having baring the ame body that was nailed to the ibe cross the ibe body of floth flot h and bones which was pierced by the nails sod we spear with immortalize imm tog ing spirit that haa bad superseded the mortal blood which had been shed abed with what body do all the dead dea d rise with the body of flesh and bones bonea which they occupied to in mortal ty tv t v jeani esus to in the pattern and there is none done other hence benoe a similar resurrection a reunion ot of the spirit and of 01 the fleshly tabernacle come irom the grave the by the lord Is 1 the be only resurrection and to it ii all who are resurrected come andimo and RB surely as ae he wak waft resurrected so 0 o shall all men be nd his hie raising up la Is a living fact of which no DO other fact ot of history has hai such indisputable evidence the resurrection is established by the testimony ot of the disciples and of all the facts that follow in the history ot christianity but it was WAR not dot alse al ne in ID the eastern hemisphere that he left his wi nose inese here on the western continent at tha same game time that great events were transpiring in none the lose lesa important to this hemisphere were occurring with the agony on the cruis crimes there was instituted the operations opera tiona of judgment upon ine bo wicked in the convulsions of nature which buried cities desolated deBo valleys valleye rent the theroun MOUD into and shook the earth but the more righteous part of the people were to gather in the ladd bountiful 00 there they board the voice from heaven declaring ba behold my beloved son bon in whom I 1 am well pleased in whom I 1 have glorified my name hear bear ye him 21 2 1 and the people behold beheld as aa too the historian says aay and it came to pass as aa they understood they cast their eyes up again towards heaven and behold they ibey saw a man deac bescer erding ding out of heaven and he was waa clothed in a white robeana robe and he came down and stood in the of them and the eyes of the whole multitude were turned upon him and they durst not open their mouths even one to another and not what it meant for they thought it was an angel that had appeared unto them and it came to pass that he stretched forth his hand and unto the people saying behold f I 1 am m jesus christ whom the prophets lie testified stifled shall come into the world and behold I 1 am the light and the life of the world and I 1 have drunk out oat of that bitter oud CUD which the father hath given me and have glorified the father n taking upon me the sins of the world n the which I 1 have suffered the will of the father in all things from the begin ing and it came to pass that when jesus had spoken these words the whole multitude fell to the earth for they remembered that it had been prophesied among them that christ should shew himself unto them after his ascension ascenion into heaven and it came to pass that the lord unto them fla maying ying arise and come forth unto me th that t 79 may thrust your hands bands into my aide 1 of and also that ye may feel the prints ot of the nails in my hands bands and in ray my ti that ye may know that I 1 am the Q god adof of israel and the god of the whole earth and have been slam slain for the sins of the world and it came to pass that the multitude went forth and thrust their hands into his side and did feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet ad this they did do going forth one by until they had all gone forth and did 90 with their eyes eves and did feel witt with their hands and did know of a surety and did bear record that it was waa he of whom it wai wag written by the prophets that should come and when they had all gone forth wild had bad witnessed for themselves they cry out with one accord saying hosanna Hos annal blessed be the name of the f most high godl and they did ba a down at the feet of jesus and did fw ship him it WILE wae jesus who had bad been slain at jerusalem trie lue same that the dald df plea pies in judea testified as being from the dead in the book of MOT atoll won moo quoted from la Is the witness OB this land land of the risen redeemer resurrected christ chris to is the central fact faett of that history the burden of its ita who abl testimony add in ID this day angels angeli 04 trie voice of gd have bare declared to men the absolute truth of the book of mormon record it to la a record of triumphant resurrected christ in our own day to addition t the angelic declaration of the tra truth stated in the a clout records of t bible and book of mormon to ia me bull lurther further appearance of christ finif the resurrected redeem redeemer ar he to the boy joseph smith he AP P peered afterwards in the temple fi behr refit ed to his name and here la a record or of one of his appearances as ai perfo olly authenticated as a any other we joseph smith jr and sidney rigdon being in the spirit on oil the six ot of february in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and nu thirty two by the power of the spirit our were opened and our understandings understanding were enlightened so ao as aa to see and unde stand the things of god even those things which were front the beginning before the world wast wa which were ordained of the fathers father through his hia only begotten son who 1 in the bosom ot of the father ven even from the beginning of whom we bear record and the record which we bear is the f cluess of the gospel of jesus christ who is the tb son whom we saw and with whom we conversed in the heavenly vision in the new testament which contains the record of his first appears appearance ocil after his resurrection as an well as la 10 the be other works work named thore there is in promise of a still further lurther appearing when fie ele hall ball convince the unbelieving jews rt at lost that he e to 1 the one who vrho died di on calvary by showing tig to them the wounds to la his hie hands hande and side but to the people of today to bu all those who have dwelt on OD barth arab the past eighteen centuries the testimony ea of hla his resurrection gaii be been incontrovertible when jibed oed osre carefully fully and critically 10 lo s this dispensation of the fullness oi 01 times oil ah theme theae witnesses are beloat I 1 summation gag bored I 1 oto into one for the final sun can I 1 of the second coming of and in ID this annive sea atoo on of his resurrection and la in all to motile of the years year there should be unbounded rejoicing at the fast fact that bod had bad given to the world a witness resurrection of his hii son SOB that ot of the weepy away all doubts and fears of and loath death |