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Show IfCfSOES Or EASTER. Bishop,; Scailan Writes of the Appropriate Lessons Taught by the Feast of the Res-surrection. Res-surrection. !.' . v r (Salt Lake Telegram.) What'a wide contrast there is between lhe Christ of Good Friday and the Christ of Easter Sunday. How difficult to believe that the Christ of the res- tirrection'-is" the self-same Christ of the crucifixion, j and that this body which Easter morn is impassi- i bio and ntdiant with heavenly brightness, beauty ! and glory .is the same identical body which on Good Friday hung disfigured, mangled and dead on Cal- J vary' cross. What a wonderful change has taken place in so short a time. I low all human life is compressed into a few short days. On Friday we see man's mortal life with all its infirmities, vicissitudes, trials and sufferings. Tomorrow, To-morrow, Easter morn, we will behold man's spiritual spirit-ual and immortal life in all the plentitude, strength and glory of his transfiguration. How all the glooms, sorrows and agonies of short-lived Calvary hau "completely and forever passed away, and how speedily and ' surely they have been succeeded by the ineffable splendor, joy and glory of an eternal resurrection.!- How clearly do we see now, with St. Paul, "that the sufferings and sorrows of this life are not to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us,", and that the trials and crosses of the passing Good Friday of our mortality, if borne in a Christ-like manner, shall be quickly changed into the unspeakable exultation and happiness of an eiernal Easier. : O.v Friday ;we see Christ utterly weak and pow-erles, pow-erles, in. the hands of a cruel, relentless mob, who mosi shamefully abuse and scourge him and load him ;ith all kinds of . reproaches. -We see him hoKt' ascending the heights of Calvary, and from slypxhaustiOn and lack of strength falling' re-l(-n a ' tinder the heavy cross which he was coin-j'naYi coin-j'naYi earry. We, see him abandoned by his discing dis-cing nHpped of, everything even, his' clothes,' and -' Iateti'V',ar out'.' heart's blood aruVldymg Vfith ' 'V.ficU.ginV on ilie. uro'fcss amidst tliv jet,' uid SV;. an infuriated rabble. In the Christ of Cfc-LvS' the human eye can discern nothing but . ufterTveakness and impoteney. And the dying thief by1 his side, who understood the seeming paradox, pentrated that dense mass of infirmity and discovered discov-ered almighty power and strength at the back of it must have either a modern X-ray or an illuminating illuminat-ing shaft direct from the very throne of eternal lierht. The dead body is taken down from the cross and given to the charge and custody of Boman soldiers. They place it in a tomb hewn in a rock, securely fastened the door, against which they roll a large stone bearing the seal of imperial Caesar. They then set themselves to watch it day and night in the name and authority of Roman power. Friday, prolonged though it was by the extremes of sufferings suf-ferings and sorrow, finally came to an end, and so also will Saturday, yet nothing unusual happened. The body was still lying dead and motionless on the cold hard floor of the sepulchre; the door was still fastened and the stone unmoved. In a word, everything every-thing appeared to tend to the falsification ot Christ's prophecy that he would raise himself from the dead and consequently to the great satisfaction sat-isfaction and final triumph of his enemies. But early on Sunday morning, the third day, just as his disciples were on the verge of despair and humiliation and his enemies were about to rejoice and celebrate their expected victory, behold, the stone is moved away, the door of the sepulchre is flung open. The soldiers are confounded, terrified and dispersed, and the dead body of Christ, in spite of all the care, caution and vigilance of his executors execu-tors and in defiance of all the power of. Caesar, springs up from the frigid embrace of death, walks forth clothed with all the attributes of a glorious and eternal life in complete verification of his prediction pre-diction "Destroy this body and in three days I will build it up again." Oh, death, sin and hell, where now is your panthom victory of Friday |