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Show fflielllcitiiiiipfffislei" T7io True Gladness of the Easter Day Dy Rev. William Oyrne. (Calhoun Vl.ar Honrml ArhdlaoMM of ll.,.l..n i l', AHTMIt Sunday la the day on dl which the rhiuru oimmemoratea ? the resurrection of wir Inl from the dead My raising lllmaetf from the dead, Clirtat trlamphed over all Ills enemies, ene-mies, aal gave the nxiet cnnvlnclng proof of Ilia divinity. lie foretold fore-told Ills reeurreelloH The Hon ot .Man shall be three day and three nights In the heart of the earth,' (Mall xll. 40 ) Speaking of the temple tem-ple of Ilia body. Me aald: "Destroy this temple, and In three daya I will raise It up" (John II, 19.) "On tho third day lie shall rise again." (Matt is, 1!) ) "I lay down my life that I may take It again I have power to lay It down and lake It up again." (John x, 18 ) Thn reeuriettlon ot Christ waa a The Hope, Memory nnd Reality of Easter fly Hev. Albert Parker Htch. (Of lh fonsnaallonal Churali ) r-w'11'' lloeurrectlmi, which we coir 1 1 brate on Kaater day, means ono vj of two things to most tieople. It s either a memory or a hoie. To the roimg Into whose souls the wise year nave not ground their experlenen of lain their proof ot the utter unrea-wnableness unrea-wnableness and malignant cruelty of life. If this II fo here were all, In them Haster Is a far-off hiding memory ahlch has no especial significance for today. Jesus' resurrection Is nn Infinitely In-finitely remote event, n magical wonder. won-der. It oerurred under other skies, In a distant land, nmld u womout and forgotlon civilisation. To be sure there Is historical ovldunco for It, hut they accept It. If they accept It nl nil, with about as much vividness ut per ceptlnn as they accept tho death of Alexander or Iho assassination of Julius Caesar. Then, to older men and women, tho resurrection Is not so much a memory as a hopu. It. Is a hope born of a drsporato necessity. Wo romomber lltllo children who sleep In liny graves to-day and our hearts domand that they bo Itaster grnves. Wo re-member re-member great souls, passed on now. The Question Answered By the Resurrection Dy Rtv. Reuben Kldner. (Of the i:pla-vMl Chun ID (lli: moaning of the resurrection if" Is that It confirms tho belief In H tho Immortullty of the soul, which all mankind evorywhern have held, Hocrates, Just beforo tho end, says to his friends: "Hut that which I somo tlmo slnco argued at length, that when 1 havo drunk tho poison I shall no longor remain with ou, but shall depart to soma happy stato of tho blesaed On an ancient Orrvk tomb wo read' "Mother, loavo thy grief, rememborlng tho eoul which Zctu baa rendered Immortal and un decaying to me fur all time, and ima carried now Into tho starry aklua ' Tills la another (lrcek utternuco "Dying, thou art not dead I thou art tmlraih that In noine'hlng srwmd 'the power of an) nested bob to effect (lirut by Ilia divine oe recalled 111 soul to III bo-lf, and arose from the tomb glorious sad lm mortal II appeared freipMofy tr Ida apoatlea and dlaclpla aftet Ills reaiirrectlon; and lo cure the fcutit Ing mind of 8t Thomas, aDonei him to touch the wotinda The true significance ot I hla festival festi-val la well expressed In the gitdual and sequence of the Hunter lltargy "This Is the day tho Uird lialh awde; let tie rejoice and be glad. Ckrlet, our Pch, la Immolated." "IM Christiana offer praise t the Pasehnl victim The l.amb haa re deemeil the flock. The sinless Christ haa reconciled alnner tb his Father Death and I.lf waged a wonsVoua contllct. The Uird ot Life by dying Uvea and relgna" . . The resurrection of Christ U the modal of our spiritual regencrntloaand the pledge of ' yQ our Immor- w Ci'.l'S to whom wo gnvo our worship In our youth. We haro lived bosldo Uem and seen their deathloss enrirt, Uelr fnrreachlng aspiration, their virtue, strength, wledoui, power, light-all tho peraletent heroism ot tho soul. And then, when tho highest ststlon hail been reached, when tho noUeat song was quivering nt last upon their triumphant lips, we've seen It all end. Virtue, strength, wisdom. sr, light, all vanished! Nothing left but dust to dust, ashes to ashes, rotten ness to mother earth. And, seeing all this, the resurrection Is not a fading memory to such souls, O, not It stands for a desperate hope There must be something beyond. Bone-where, Bone-where, sometime thoso shall live again. Hut to the Christian, to that happy man whom Joans has found, tho renr-recllon renr-recllon la not a memory and not a hope; ho forgets both of thoso In Ms Joy In Its present reality. Tho Batter assurance of Immortality Is not a far-off far-off promise, It Is a present gift; act a futuro hope, but an Immediate possession. pos-session. Kor (In) has coma Into him nnd taken possession of him, SBiklio Is living for tho things oT Clod n Ino eternal light nnd power of 0d, and ho Is already ono of tho Immcrtnls. Rone to a happier country And In tho Isle of the blest thou tejelcest, nnd thou shalt nut hunger or thirst any more Yea, and thy goi aro thy light, and glory Is ever upon thee." Thoughts like these occupied Iho minds of the blest and wisest long before the Christian era. Intltsstlons or Immortality abound In all lltera tores The resurrection Is not a bolt out of a clear sky. It Is rather a stage In a process of evolution. - It builds upon that which has Bono bo-lore. bo-lore. It udds to what Is already known. It conllrma what wai aur mlaed It gives form and ihlpo tc shadowy, but persistent and tndo-structlbln tndo-structlbln hopes and longlnxs The thought of tho ages prepared the way for belief In thu resurrection, und, when It happend, Millions rtBvol)ra cL |