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Show XUJ tasiors Revelation Has Openffftg ppr New Vistas. Jjjp Ozr Natural Science Silent In'thatpreeene tZjr of the Great Belief and Expectation. spjpg Easter brings completion to tho sd- ggAJIgir All the secular sciences conduct man iSpS; as far as death, and thero they stop. Tho door of the tomb Is a wall, tnlL jjj" strong and insurmountable by them, jwjj. Geology, geography, astronomy, ggSjgrfg chemistry, physiology, biology nnd its "7rhtf other divisions bring us on, with an al ways Increasing precision, to an un-gfc un-gfc dorstandlng of life's functions nnd nc-Cslt nc-Cslt t,T,t'es "P to that point There tlicy p S. drop us, for beyond death nntural scl f J enco has not lcarnod to travel. It has VJcn no tormulae to exiiress anything on -S&Ssv tho otlior sldo. of tho closed door of x death. And after much bruising of brain, and vain beating of hnnds against that obstacle, It confesses Itself bcaton, it has come to an impasse, It declares that becauso It cannot pass, that there I Is no passago, nothing boyond the tomb is tho end of all I scpulcher Either that or It accepts the Kaster he stooped miracle as lt must, If It wl bo fair jpulchcr. towards evidence, towards historical wlilto sit- revelation and towards theology, "the 1 tho other qucCn 0f all tho sciences" and ac-If ac-If of Jesus knowledges that EaBter's revelatloa crowns all human knowledge, and oman, why opens before It new, endless vistas for into them, exploration and future progress, away my it wouid De n sorry conclusion to all thoy have aclence If it brought us only to an end. Ing in the corruption, the annihilation thus, .sho of death. And an unsatisfactory end-saw end-saw Jesus jng lat It was por the great majority of mankind never has, and never will believe that ,man wny the closed tomb ends everything! Life test thou? here is too full of Inequalities to make gardener, that Just! The analogies la nature, have borne which n0 deflnjt0 ending for any thou hnst ura ' 0 tho time 1 and god- I :ess of bo- . . A ... sry group 0We,t churoh ln , Ith a sun- thing else, but Ufo, help to pre vS It ttn-fires ttn-fires and true I And Justness and truth are the roddess of koystonea upon which natural-acience queen of builds up all Its theories to arrive at wns wor- ultimate fact J China, In Science, which la perhaps the projec rltaln and tlon of the ripest and best of btuaan lty, needs Easter. ' For Science cannot avert deatlij Men live to their threescore and ten, atlon. or beyond that for a few years of labor 7sai.f im nnd sorrow, as they did ln the Psalm-uf Psalm-uf v '8t s (layB' l)eforo oclenco had traveled Bk veryfar along the roads of dovclop- But since Easter rolled away the wall from Uio tomb, science may now claim to bring men onto tho threshold of a new nnd glorified life, the resur JlB rcctlon Ufo. Tho tomb is now but an H episode in lives which were always H wero Immortal. iPLv Easter shows tho tomb Is open on HiH the other side from us open onto a '.wsB new garden of Kdenlc soul life, the 39H Paradlso of God. And some day It Is ril riB to open on our side also, and let thosa t< A H blessedly resting ones out Into re-n0WC(1 re-n0WC(1 hodlly life, which cannot bo Y -f'B bound between n birth nnd a death. ''I'tE For ono man actually, undeniably 4LaB wcnt through the tomb Into that Pnru- "Jl$Ptf disc, and came back at Easter with jSgfeS an everlasting, undying body I flQpjjHj Just ns tho llttlo crocus looks up )EEEg& stiff and straight, as a prophecy that 5?S all Uio temporarily dead bulbs and '.W roots and 6eeds will nriso ln their own , fA Ume. ,.j ' Sdenco teaches the imperishability - If-' o nistter, and It Is true logically en 1 "il dowed when, advancing a etcp, If 2;ij teaches nlso the Immortality of man. Ktfnr " Then tlicro Is but another step an. lJ 3vV$S ward, to a grateful acknowledgment ot ?&Yjj$V"a tho truth taught by tho well attested k i fact of tho Itesurrectlon, that ns Ho v-roso 80 Blm11 n11 our Cll1 nlso nrlB0 nt .?i2ji the great Easter, which Bhall fulfill tho promise of all the Springs I Hjvu It Is tho mission of tho Church I yMjjHH which Is His Body here and now to J TgjnHPI complete Uio thus Inspired teaching ot jiitV t),o natural sciences, and show us thnt rTt1!S every one who renlly desires so to do may spend eternity along with Its ilted at the KjnB and Owner, after tho Inst Easter In Grand has opened for over the tomb of death 1 ' dd toW J |