Show VICTORY OF HOPE easters Ea sterns teaching Is tile the dispelling of gloom gloam from the hearts clearts of mankind OPE that springs eterna inthe lInthe F T horn W 0 human breast does riot not de JL JL pond upon the latent intent fatalism in dumani humanity lly for its JustI fica tion lion such a chopo holds no key hey to event and without tills this key hope Is ie lut lilt in reality a ho lio expectancy vents governed ly by that outstanding law of reprobation by which flegon beracy arid and decay follow all things in the inu mutable table course of nature would bring mankind back to the stags kage of and leave to him naught but the material environment of his ammo diate activities E events must bp be conquered regulated subordinated controlled troll ed even glorified hope springs exultant in ili the human breast because there Is something ethIng eliat can certify to hope tills this Is tha divine spark in ili the human breast becoming in many cases a luminous ray that shines upon the entire pathway of life it wits ana fitting that when the women came to the tomb early eaily upon tile the first arst easter morning they should find that nil an un on gel was the announcer of the victory of hope over the most malignant ud ad verse event of exper experience lence the event of death nor is it strange that the consciousness of this victory for till turn men lias has transformed human life and causes chiuses the christian to take on n glory of effulgence that la Is to be derived from nothing else that sure and certain hope if there here were no resurrection fron from tho the dead then wore were we of till all men the most miserable wrote the whose life was luminous with the light of a certified liepe ft a hope ciopa victorious over events that lor for ward ard in ills his missionary itineraries throughout asia and into europe nn nil turo ture wits was turned to by him to disclose tho the analogy for tile tho open doors of af the tomb scripture tas ns likewise turned to and ills his own knowledge of the resurrection ur of jesus wits was last of nil all culled called into play in order to point his man clous discourse upon the thu lection of the dead nature revelation and ami personal perso nill testimony nil give the ali same account that death Is robbed of sting and grave gme of victory r easter aster la Is proc loui to tinman kind because it that nil things may bo be conquered ly by a hope that Is based upon living falth faith in god cod und and ills good pur linse to give life rather than to le antroy to impart blessing rather than to withhold to grace human life nud and to alpo out the dis disgraces graceg of lumen human f fallar undimmed liobe of liu humanity manity in the final triumph of the good Is based largely upon the testimonies to the triumph of the ineffably rood good one over the might and dominion of death faith has garlin garlanded ded hopp hope thus graced it scorns to consort with fatalism falth faith has given of its precious bi blossoms os for the decking of 0 hope rind it will not compon companion lon in the lark dark with mere re material destiny tile skies look down upon the riven tomb the open tomb reveals the glorified angel the bingel discloses dle closes the fact of the resurrection re atlon of the dead event direful and universal event death itself testifies to the power of the meo hope of mankind made precious pre cloua through jesus hope eternal the undimmed hope cannot be clouded by the shedding of blood did not inot tho old law that pointed to tile tho stricken forin fona of calvary say that without the shedding of blood there Is 1 9 no remission of sin the undimmed hope that triumphs owr the battlo battle roar of f the artillery or of tho i nations did not moses hoses endure endur 0 the thunders of tile tho of revelation sustained by the still small voice the undimmed hope cannot be challenged by the despair of suffering rs la not humanity told that liti as aa lie ho suffered being tempted temp teI lie ho Is 19 ablo to succor thoe who arit aio in any trouble across the horizon of nt easter aster 11 pass the figure of hate arid and carr carnul itil ambition and the myriad crimes against humanity that lie at the door of tho the nations of spoilers cra yet tile the of humanity I 1 Is un ull Al tinned the how horm that triumph over event and through event reaches to the Is the easter hope of glory and of goodness and of grace jesus the first fruits of them that slept tins has risen and po points ints to lo tho the eternal hope eipl li pl of humanity ai arid and the 11 pro visions odthe of the grace of god that bring and redemption both to the individual and to the race tho the open tomb to Is the silent testimony to tile the risen find glorified jesus lie he sits ut nt the right liand hand of Joh jehovah oyah who in turn looks upon tile the potty of princes and will hold in derision they who lift themselves mp lup the government of his son bon |