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Show llfBATTLE Creek v "And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. "He is not here: for he has risen as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay." Nearly two thousand years have come and gone since the angel spoke these memorable words. Since that first Easter morning, great and profound changes have been wrought in the world. Thin vision, toil and research, man has , pushed back the horizons of the unknown, until the gigantic forces which created the earth may now be unleashed for its own destruction. destruc-tion. The atomic bomb which fell on Hiroshima ten years ago had the force of 20,000 tons of TNT, and a destructive spread of seven square miles. There is now in the process of construction an H-bomb H-bomb which will equal the explosive explo-sive impact of 60,000.000 tons of TNT, with lethal spread equal to the State of Virginia. "If this bomb were incased in cobalt," said Civil Defense Director Val Peterson, "its detonation could spread across a continent a radioactive cloud of such virulence as to kill every living liv-ing thing within its path." Thus after centuries of patient and ingenious effort man has brought within easy grasp, the means of blasting himself into eternity. Thus by his untiring work with material things and the forces of nature, the scientist has brought humanity to the brink of oblivion. The contemplation of these inescapable in-escapable facts should be sufficient at this Easter season, to bring us all to. the stem realization that material strength and the power to destroy lead nowhere except to ultimate ul-timate doom. It is a sad commentary commen-tary on so called Christian civilization, civiliza-tion, that the greatest scientific discoveries have come when men have been seeking more effective methods of destroying their fellow men. And so, twenty centuries after the first Easter morning, mankind has nowhere to turn for safety against the monsters of his own creation, except through the philosophy phil-osophy of the Man of Galilee. "If a man asks for bread, will you give him a stone?" he questioned of those who would exploit the poor and oppress the unfortunate. "I am come, not to destory; but to give eternal life." he said to these who would pillage and kill in order to strengthen their tyma-ical tyma-ical domination over the masses. When. Easter morning' dawns again over a civilization fraught with fears and obcessed with newly-acquired materialistic powers, the souls of all good men will yearn for peace and security. The peace that can come only through simple adherence to the admonition admoni-tion of Christ. His helping hand has been extended all these years; but few have had the active faith to grasp it. "I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in Me. though he were dead; yet shall he live, and whosoever that livoth and believeth in Me shall never die. Peace I leave with you; My peace I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." So long 'til Friday. |