U38 DAY, APRIL 22, 1924,
EASTER SERMONS.
THE RESURRECTION.
Preaching in St. John's Cathedral on Sunday morning on the text:
Phil 3.10 "That I may know him and the power of his H. .Rev. Resurrection," the Coplay Moyle said: Whenever the Jews asked Jesus Christ for a sign, He gave them one aign, and one sign only, aid that the was his Resurrection frim dead on the third day.
stirred in spirit when we see men and women who have heard of Christ and been baptised in His name, wasting their lives in an senseless of round The and extravagant frivolity or soul destroying pursuit of wealth.
Jesus Christ was rising from the dead, but the belief that the living Jesus is with us still has been the faith of the Church ever since and is continually being reinforced endless. experience. by Christian Resurrection of Jesus is not merely a An historic fact to which we look back, but it is a dynamic fact by This we may unhesitatingly which we are enabled affirm, that anyone who is really a the action today to live the Christian life. Christian, who knows anything of Some people seem to think of Christ and the power of His Re Christianity as being the imitationsurrection, can never rest content of the example of our Lord, the till he brings others to know Him making by us of more or less too.
legible copies of His life. That Is far from being a sufficient view He foresaw and foretold his of our religion. Christianity is a death and Resurrection-and that life lived in such close contact in itself is a very remarkable fact, with Jesus Christ that His power History he thought did not recordis continually flowing into us. Christ is our highest example but any other instance of a foretelling the circumstances of He is much more than that. The his death. The future is velled trouble about an example is that front us. If we could forsee allt lus not the power in it to enable our future it would take the charm out of life, for pur life is full of the glamour of the unknown. Jesus Christ alone knew beforehand the cfrcumstances of His death and knew also that He would rise from the grive. The evidence for the Resurrection is ample to confirm the faith of the Christian, though
man
not suffice to compel It may the belief of the non-Christian- .God's wily is never It to compel belief. Even the ex- stence of God is a fact for which the evidence falls short of absolute demonstration thanh to most of us it is sufficiently evident. So it Is in harmony with God's usual method that something should be left to faith in the matter of Christ's Resurrection. Yel the amount of evideure is considerable. St. Paul, writing within about 20 years of the cari appeal to the event, testimony of more than 20 people the alive who had stu Jesus
after His Resurrection. We hav
you to set hin a statue
the
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dearest Friend, their hope in Him throws backs its light upon well nigh shattered but loving Calvary. The Cross was a thing still, in spite of "disappointment, of shame to every Jaw but the as only good women can. They
Resurrection transßgured it into a reach the garden and find the tomb thing of splendour."God forbid opened and an angel sitting up on
The trembling women that I should glory," cries St. Paul, Why i "save in a Crosa," the stone. too afraid to question, wonder
Because in the light of where He is..
Resurrection death is not just martyrdom, but an atonement. It as a sacrifice to which the sacri fices of all the ages had pointed. At the Cross man receive the forgiveness they need because He who died there rose again.
"Don't be afraid," says the angel. I know you are seeking Jesus who was crucified-He is not here, He is risen." The grave These words altered the current is empty, Jesus is alive. of human history. They changed the face of the world; they set of them the church of Jesus men in a large universe. Because
thrill that must have passed Christ was born. But, Of the through those who fir heard Gone! The gave Is them, empty! Alive! The body had not been removed or sblen by friends or foes, but Jesus had risen. The resurrection mas of the whole personality, body and soul. The grave could not hold Him. The women had come to anointa corpse "He risen." but instead they are told of a Their hopes were born again. "He was alive!" They passion. Their love was rekindled to a ran, jov surging in their breasts, to bring His disciples wond
"Ye shall be witnesses unto Me." sald Jesus to His discioles, and that is what Christians have heen all through the ages, and un- less we are witnesses to Christ we have missed the real purpose of The birth of personal religion, our life. the religion of experience as con trasted with the religion of habit, is needed amongst us to-day. If our religion is real for us there must come to each of us a time when the truths and principles which we have long been taught. become for us a vital experience. world, The message of the Resurrection
Do we living Christ. man is a is a message of power.
feel the love of Christ constraining If it is, let us go for us? Is it an active, driving power in our life? ward in His strength to win the world for Him. If it is, not, then let us meditate on His Resurrec tion till His power lays hold of our lives and energises them so that they are filled with His power, and joy and peace.
anyone to copy it. If a boy wishes to be a sculptor it is no use for down before carved, by Michael Angelo and say that is one of the finest statues in copy it." And if a sinner it is no use pointing him to the life of a Saint and saying copy that," for he cannot do it What he wants is power, and Christianity is power. It says to the sinner "There is a power which can free your sin, the power of the Risen Christ." "I am He that veth and was dead and he hold I an alive for evermore" was the message of Jesus to St. John in Patmos.
have
Preaching at St. Andrew's, Kowloon, on Easter Sunday from the text. He is not here, He is risen. St. Matthew 28
In these two simple statements
who
All the excitement and confusion
was
;
the
These men and women lived'in
the power of His Resurrection. Jesus was Hving. They needed no further proof that
Out of the deepest sorrow they had known had come joy inexpres- sible.
Josus lives! Our hearts know
well
Nought from us His love shall
sover: Life, nor death, nor powers of
Hell
Tear us from His keeping ever.
ALLELUIA!
CHEFOO NOTES.
[From Our Quen Correspondent.),
CHEPOO, April 6,
Mr. Stuart Lupton, U. S. Consd for Chefoo, has been transferred to Bulgaria. Mr. Putnam has cone from Fuchow to take his place.
Dr. Patton, the Chairman of the Committoo of the Industrial National Christian Council, has been in Chefoo recently for. A The empty grave meant that the
25, he addressed a representative grave was conquered. It is not BRITISH WORLD FLIGHT. short stay. On Tuesday, March gathering of Christian Workers of for naught that we are told that
BAGHDAD, April 20
this port at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. of the bad weather Squadron Leader MacLaren has a splte tomb they found an angel there.. when the women came to the They were looking for "a dead arrived after a non-stop flight of some fifty persons were present, body, but they saw an angel;
No, death is not the was uneventful, but the airman had Patton delivered a very interesting Intimately Industry and Triumphant life in the place of seven hours from Ziza. The trip Mr. Yuan being in the Chair.
guidance of the air mill. The Christianity were connected, and death. last life of all," as Horace said, it some difficulty in following a address during which he showed is the gateway to glorious life.ploughed track mide for the how
After Dr. Patton had Before the Resurrection of Jesus distance covered on Sunday was what good results could be nb Christ men saw little in the grave nearly six hundred miles. Squa- tained if they went properly to- tears." But we who know that
the presence of the High Con- finished his address the meeting but darkness and delition and dron Leader MacLaren landed in gether. Jesus died and rose again can
John Salmond. He will resume Messrs. Hsu, Booth and James his flight on Monday morning-Woo spoke. repeat the angel's wards when fasiner and Air Marshal Sir was thrown open to discussion.
Reuter. dearest "He is not hers, He is we gather at the grave of our risen."
Christ A
SHOOTING.
Dr.
Mr. and Mrs. Gillingham and child left a few days ago for Eng- land on leave. Mr. Gillingham, who was the local agent of Messrs. Butterfield and Swirp, has been relieved by Mr. Courtney.
But most significant of all, perhaps, the empty grave assures This is
On Sunday. the tenth shoot for of that glad day are reflected in that Jesus is livi g
accounts of the Resurrec-not merely an anniversary of a
Mr." Arthur Rouse of Messrs. the
to-day sented by Mr. J. W. Swire for James McMullan and Co., Ltda tion in the Gospels. But they past event. We repass in the the Talkoo Challenge Cup pre- only serve to prove the truth benefit which is ours
now competition between members of has left for England on a short of the great facts, in which because He who died is
: all they
testify. that the living. We shall lose the whole the staffs of Messrs. Butterfield and business trip.
On Saturday March 29, the álive. What Was the think of the past only; that is the Tafkos Dackyard and the China C. I. M. Boys School played the grave was empty and that Jesus meaning of this Festal Day if we Swire. Taikoo Sugar Refinery.
lege at Football, A close game significance of the emply grave?ore danger of all such festivals. Navigation Co. took place at the Temple Hill Anglo-Chinese Col First, it was the assuance that Let the thought possess you this Taikon rifle range. Quarry Bay..
Twelve competitors entered, Mensued, the score being I all. Jesus was, true. He could be happy morning that Jesus is living
The usual paper hunt took place depended upon. His enemies had to-day. The time that has passed W. J. Eldridge being the winner
10 obscure the fact. cap of 6, making 80 The second Hogg laid the trail. The weather Resurrection proved that He was tended
yourself 1 think place went to Mr. Nesbit with 75 was ideal, although a strong breeze said That deceiver." but the since that first Easter morning has with a score of 83, plus his handi-on Sunday, March 30, when Mr. neither a deceiver of dhers nor Accustom
Jesus
alive. plus a handicap of 14, making 89.rather played havoc with the paper. Macartney himself deceived. He had not, of
Christ Himself gave Mr. CH. Summers was third, his Unfortunately Mrs.
suffered a very nasty spill, but. made false claims, or built up for Jesus 10
His friends false hopes. Jesus the meaning of the Resurrection score being 83 (scratch),
luckily the results were not serious, in the early dawning in
was vindicated. The disciples whon- Ho said "I am with you
The Card at the end of the Hunt, A Good Liniment that never-to-be-forgotten Sunday,
Rah Chamberlain's Pair Balm on the stood Mr. Swaney, first, Mr. always" said Jesus What will it painful spots it is netrating, starts Villers, 2nd,; and Mr. Donald..3rd. bringing spices to anoint the hody had left all and followed and He always." "He is not here." said
On Thursday evening, April 3, of the Lord they loved so well, had not failed them. He was the angel. "Lo! I am with you You can see them, their eyes wet
The Resurrection also declared mean to you, to be united to the up the giezulation which evries he con
Think what it gastin and pressure thats the pait the Inter-Club Bowling Competi with tears, hurrying along in the semi darkness to the sepulchre Him to be the Son of God with Living Lord? in the garden. Trus. Nicodemus power." The rejected of men was brought to the disciples, for Jesus Thit is how it ho!ns rheumatic ostation resulted in a win for the
Customs Club's 1893. Powers of mind to had already anomated the body the exalted of God Jesus was no is the came to-day. He gave them ama bicho, nusia, le Chefoe Club, by 1982 to the
of mere religious teacher but "The new Powers. with
to bc their Way, the truth, and the life," as ponder the deep things of God and that? This was
But He had said. The Cross had to interpret the Cross. Powers of own offering of devotion.
Powers of who shall roll away the stone shattered men's hopes in Him as restraint as they faced the taunts guarding the rock hewn tomb. It the Messiah, but the Resurrection of a mocking world.
God. Jesus Christ was worthy not and slanderers. Power of Hope is a task far beyond their punyerated their conviction in Him as love for friend and foe, persecutors task of winning the world. Power strength.
only of their trust, hat of their as they essayed the impossible worship (Phil. 2. 9, 10,11,)
Again Resurrection reveals the of contentment and cheerfulness Cross in its true light. Easter for life's daily toil and difficulty.
come
If you are satisfied with yourself and your life then the gospel of the resurrection will not appeal But if you have been to you.
The Rev. G. R. Lindsay sald: weak where you should heen strong, if you have, beea slack where you ought to live we get the significance of Easter bean energetic, if you have been Day. The grave is empty, Jesus You remember the to have exercised self-denial, context Faithful women to remember that the Resurrection self-indulgeat where you ought is iving."
reach the owed so much Tesus had of Jesus Christ was not a single abnormal event in an otherwise you have failed to normal career. The whole life of standard of life which you set yourself, then Christ's Jesus from His wonderful birth before was outside the ordinary and the power strengthens you for victory, We ought to be discontented The Resurrection is part
of with ourselves instead of which norinal
series of', 'a: consistent
most of us are discontented with events recorded of Jesus in the
Nothing but the Re- our position or our possessions of Gospels.
our relatives, but quite content surrection of Jesus Christ can explain the existence of the Christ-with ourselves, Jan Church. How else can you for the fact that the account Apostles, who at the crucifixion and terror scattered
were a
stricken number of individuals went out into the world as a con- fident and united band of men to through Jesi15 the proclaim redemption of the world?..
Not only was the Christian Church founded on the bellef that
the.
We are told that when St. Paul came to Athens "his spirit was stirred within him when he saw wholly city
given to idolatry Is our spirit ever stirred within us as we see the masses of people in this place whose only Idea of religion is a fear of evil spirits, and who have never heard the good tidings of a Saviour who can help them? Or are we ever
spices,
but what
Yet they have na thought of retracing their, steps. Without logic or reason, but under the constraint of love, they haste
on to the grave where lay their
worthy of their trust.
nching joint and museos Bold and reninlet everywhe
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