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Show Hope Arose Out of the Emptyf Yyj Tomb Easter commemorates and Incarnates Incar-nates the resurrection of ClirisL It is the annual festival of eternal hope, inspired by that fact "He Is not here; for He Is risen as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay." They looked and ttie tomb was empty. Christianity rose out of that empty torn!). Christian civilization with all of Its physical, mental, moral and religious re-ligious phenomena, rose out of 1L Christian art In architecture, sculpture, sculp-ture, pulntlng nnd music, comes from the same source. Philosophy and science follow a risen Lord. The uplifted up-lifted moral and spiritual life of Hie Individual and the world Is a vital witness to this fact. Rain finds Its radiant proof In blooming (lowers. The resurrection of Christ finds similar proof In the growing life and Institutions Institu-tions of Christianity. The human witnesses wit-nesses lo the empty tomb nre gone, hut ChrKtlanlty Is a living witness giving Incontrovertible proof of a risen Lord. Sin registered Its ver ! I rt against Christ lo the crucifixion, but the supreme court of the universe reversed re-versed this Judgment In the resurrection. resurrec-tion. Cod steps out of the shadow In the resurrection of Chrl-t. The resumption resump-tion of Christ brought "Immortality to light." The vague was darkened by doubt, was rhanged to the assurance assur-ance of a dominant faith, and human despair was changed to radiant hoo. Let us try the pragmatic test. Poes the theory of Christ's resurrection work? Emphatically. It does. Rev. II V. Knickerbocker averts. In the Houston post. Put to the tc-l of pnic-. pnic-. Ileal u-e, ll ncconiplhhe divine result, re-sult, and the (ruth of the theory Is proved by Ihls fact. Can n lie be Ihe source of truth? Can bell be the source of heaven? Is Chrl-t lanlty with lis righleou-iie-s the product of s stolen dead body? You may determine deter-mine the nature of rt cnu-c by Its effect. ef-fect. I.Ike begets like. Chrl-tl-mliy rose out of nu empty tomb The res urrcctlon of Chrl-I Is proved bv the fact of Christianity, ami the truth of Chrl-llnnlly by Ihe resurrection of Christ. The spirit of Christ Is rising Into ihe lienrt of hmuaiiily. nnd one day the moral resurrection from Ihe dealh of sin will be complete In n Chrlsllike world. This Is "the one far off divine cont toward which the whole Creadon mines" |