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Easter Message

Events are again hurrying forward in Europe.

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ALL announcements ever made since time began, this Is the grandest.

It is the death warrant of man's great adversary. It is the Emancipation Proclamation to every slave of sin. It lo God's New Deal to every soul who battles with evil. It is the Magna Charta of the believer's liberty.

In the original it means, not something brought to an end, but to successful completion, nc- complishment, perfection.

Over three worlds rang out that ery of eternal victory wrested from the kingdom of darkness for us-and the devils cowered in defeat; the unfallen intelligences sang for joy;. and humun beings, helpless and hopeless, found the gates of deli- verance wide open.

WAS

ís "It

Anished." What Anished? Seven things were finished. Let us enumerate them,

FIRS

whose

life

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was one

IS FINISHED'

IRDLY, the power of the des

bondage." In

was

Fifthly, the refection of their King]

Thou," accomplished. "Art questioned Pilate of Jesus, "the King of the Jows?" Came the clear an awer, "Thou sayest." "Shall I cru- cify your King?" asked the Roman of the Hebrow people. "But they cried out, Away with Him, crucify Him." "We have no king Caesar." They demonstrated

but

it by killing Him. They fulfilled His prophecy of the wicked husbandmen.

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JESUS of Nazareth never rejected

the Jews. But when, as a nu tion, they rejected Him who had given them every proof by fulfilled works and supernatural prophecy that He

was their Messiah, what could He do? He was true hele to the throne of David, and they ac-: cused Him of treason to their na- tion. He was the Son of God, and they crucified in for blasphemy:

would have no Israel

king but Caesar.

The reason for all the subsequent tragedies of this saddest of all races

The

Average German

Conversations With Philip Gibbs

Although written before the latest crisis, an article by Mr. Philip Gibbs In Truth, headed "Conversation In Berlin," น significant as showing the atti tude typical Germans towards the danger of another European Extracts from this article are reproduced below.

war.

WEEK or two ago I was talking. to a German working-man in

La Colgotha. They are no longer a Berlin and after he had gone I made nation; so as a nation they cannot a note of what he had told me so accept Him now. But the only an- that 1 might have his exact words, swer to all the miseries and heart-They are more important than other aches and sorrows of the individual things I heard from people in high Jew is by the way of that same places because this man spoke the Golgotha. There, for the Jew, as thoughts and anxieties of his own well as for the Gentile, the Martyred class, that of millions of German One shed His blood for remission of working-folk. sins, praying, "Fother, forgive them; for they know not what they do."

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"We Germans," he said, "want pence above all things. Wo want FIRST, Christ's earthly life of per-

tranquility, so that we can get on feet obedience was ended. All

will our work without fear In our He had been given to do He had

sh * *

minds. We all want friendship with done. All His Father's command-

troyer was crushed. "Of whom

England and France. But this un- ments He had kept. Looking back a man is overcome, of the same is he

QIXTHLY, the vindigation of God's certainty is frightful. We have For four

law and His mercy was complete. black screen in front of us and can't over His fe, He could have, no brought

have two boys 15 regrets. Looking Into a heart, He thousand years that tyranny had held could be conselous of no stain. No man in its thralldon Usurper Sa. If that law could have been in any see through.

is he transgression kllied. They know what war is all where this world."

"I've told them about it, I was bad- man ever lived, before or since, tan was, but one the less "prince of have died Sated, Jesus need never and 17. I don't want them of 16 of perfect Adam fell, the second Adam had pre- of the law" and "the wages of sin is right and don't like the idea of it..

valled. "Now Is the crisis [accord- death". Therefore Christ, the sin-

of this world," less Christ, who was made sin for ly wounded three times. Certainly obedience.

Ing to the Greek] And now

that perfect life has the Saviour bad said of the conflict us, was under the condemnation of Hitler has done great things for the law. That broken luw de- German folk, but most of us are reached its end-leath by crucifixion He faced: "now shail the prince of that

the nge of thirty-three. Those this world be cast out," In wilness minded the death of Him who took wondering wliether all that is going graves were our place. If that law had not been to be spoilt by another war in which sons would be sacrificed. We t

save in of that victory, "the

of the irrevocable, He need not have died. our hands, never outstretched

many bodies opened; and

The fact that He had to die to satisfy don't understand why England and blessing, cease to move. Those feet, saints which slept arose, and came

which after Munich, never moving Bave in ministry of but of the graves after His resus-, its demands on our behalf forever Germany are at cross-purposes-es love, cease to act. That heart, never rection, and went into the holy city, vindicates His own word concerning pecially

many." Cap it in Matthew. "Think not that I beating save

in aching tenderness, and appeared, unto

STORM AFTER MUNICH death dungeons, prophets: I am not come to destroy, ceases to throb. Those hards have lives from the enemy's dark realin,, ant come to destroy the law or the hoped would bring peace and good- They thought the Munich agree- been spiked by sin. Those feet have trophies of the triumph of Immanuel! but to fulfill. For verily I say unto

hate. That heart He died in order that through death you, Tlll heaven and earth pass, one ment was the prelude to a new era been pierced by has been broken by ingratitude. But He might destroy him that had the lot or one title shall in newise pass of peace and friendship wilt Eng- no more pain, no more loneliness, power of death, that is, the devil: from the law, till all be fulfilled." Iand based on justice, and they were and deliver them who through fear Christ, therefore, certainly did not

section of the English Press and have immortalized political world broke out into so would no more sorrow now. The struggle of death were all their lifetime sub- repeal the law He gave. To have disconcerted and dismayed when a saints done is all over.

darkness is past. ject to bondage." These "It is finished"-Is He of perfect whom His death had liberated He transgression, obedience lived always in the shadow presented to the Father as the oh- iltypical wave sheaf, the flest fruits of the cross.

and earnest of the resurrection of the just at His coming.

The

the im-

released from his

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not

we

torn

of rage against the British Primo Minister and shouted the words "Be- trayal!" and "Surrender!" They were even more disconcerted when they

British rearmament immediately

T

meetings.

BY HIS life He proved that the law heard of the tercine Intensification of * ***

could be obeyed, by grace. "I have kept," He said, "My Father's following the Munich agreement. It seemed to them inconsistent with commandments." "If ye love Me, y Mr. Chamberlain's peace policy, and SECONDLY, the old dispensation of

keep My commandments."

to hold some kind of threat. It was Hia death He proved the reason, they thought, why Hitler Yesterday came the news of types and shadows was termin-FOURTHLY, the all-suficient sacrt will fice was made, once for all. Let By longer were

the lw could

spoke harsh words in the first the Italian invasion of Albania, juted. No

"He broken without death. God did not Anglican Prayer Book puts it: an attempt at territorial acquisi-memorial sacrifices and rites which there be no doubt of that. As the that

polnted forward to the Lamb of God made there by is one oblation of change His law, for it is righteous-Speeches he had, made after the I found that this thought slill met anti-Himself once offered] a full, perfect, ness, the revelation of His character; tion that is as impudent as that emcacious. Type had so successfully undertaken by type, for that Lamb had been slain, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and but in His unfathomable mercy for

own Son, our subsillute. So love the controlled news in their Press And that is scriptural. world," Herr Hitler in Bohemia and "When the loud cry, It is finished, satisfaction for the sins of the whole sinners, He sacrificed Himself in His rankies in German minds. Owing to

Christ, the

found a way to be just, and yet "the and the machinery of propagandu came from the lips of

Germany, people in Why, then, the frequent repeti- justifler of him which believeth in the ordinary priests were officiating in the tem-

church Jesus. "For what the law could not without other means of information, Moravia.

of that sacrifice on ple. It was the hour of the evening tions How is this eternal aggression sacrifice. The lamb representing altars of 10-day-in the Eucharist do, in that it was weak through the do not know or understand the sud- Christ had been brought to be slain, where, it is belleved, His very body nesh, God sending His own-Son-in den realisation that came to our in actuality is broken again, and thus the likeness of sinful flesh, and for own Government and people during Clothed in his significant and benu- the Son of God is crucified afresh? sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the September crisis of our deplor

the righteousness of the law might able weakness and of the grim and tiful dress, the priest stood with "Why do ye also transgress the com- lifted knife, as did Abraham when mandment of God by your tradl be fulfilled in us, who walk not after urgent necessity for intensiva rear- ho was about to slay his son. With tion?" "In vain they do worship Me, the flesh, but after the Spirit." On mument after an experience when risk a world war with that threat, men." Once for all He and mercy was complete.

harshly made, behind his demands. intense interest the people were teaching for doctrines the command- Calvary the vindication of God's law their own leader had not hesitated to

But the earth trembles died, when He died for all; and to

We could not submit again to that * * ** looking on.

kind of diplomacy. and quakes; for the Lord Himself kill Him again, even in the Mass, if draws near. With a rending noise He were there, would be to repeat the inner vell of the temple is torn the murder of the Jewish priests.

* * * from top to bottom by an unscen hand, throwing open to the gaze of

to be stopped?

It must eventually lead to war on a devastating scale in Europe. Are dictators really maniacs, as pyschologists firmly insist? All their actions seem to point to an element of truth in the accusation. To what other reason can be attributed this lust for power that has gripped them to such an extent that they be come men without honour-men to whom treaties are as much scraps of paper as was a famous pact in 1914?

What an Easter message Mussolini has given to the world!

Real A.R.P.

ments of

A

aro

their

"DARK DESTINY" ND lastly, the work of redemp-

But they

uneasy in tion was finished. "My meat is minds, like that working-man whose to do the will of Him that sent Me, words I have quoted. It was not a and to finish His work," declared the working man but one of high rank

in His the multitude a place once filled with THE ransom He paid was sufficient. Saviour. And

Gethsemane who expressed the sense of some evil "Jesus paid it all." That pay prayer, He said, "I have finished the spell which hangs over us all in this the presence of God. ... But lo, this

was not in purt. It covers work which Thou gavest Me.to do."

time. vell is rent in twain. The most holy ment place of the earthly sanctuary is no every sinner who will accept. The Now "It is finished."

check is made to "whosoever be- the Lamb of loveth." "Behold longer sacred.

God, which taketh away the sin of the world."

* 58 * ALL IS terror and confusion. 'A'

The priest is about to slay the victim; but the knife drops about the lamb is nerveless hand, and escapes. Type has met anti-type in the death of God's Son. The great sacrifice has been made. The way Into the holiest la lald open. A new and living way is presented for all. No longer need sinful, sorrowing humanity await the coming of the high priest. Henceforth the Saviour was to officiate us priest and ad- the moment the answer is "No."vocate in the heaven of heavens. It was as if a living voice had spoken The authorities are silent re-to the worshippers: There is now an garding the repeated calls for cod to all sacrifices and offerings for

sin..

"By His own blood' He tunnels, which can provide the enteret in once into the holy place, only true shelter in this Colony. having obtained eternal redemption They take too long to build: they

Is Hongkong to be given full protection against air raids? At

for us.

are too expensivo: the Govern- miles already surrounded by ment has a plan for mass evacua= | war? tion of population.

By all means let us have tem- The question of protection for porary shelters and gas-proof the Hongkong citizen admita no rooms. Keep on the good work But the delay. We are not a day, nearer already undertaken." proper shelter from mass air more urgent problem of real pro- raids than we were when tection must be tackled bombers were first recognised as quickly as possible. civilisation. .to

B

menace

..

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We may never need' air raid Tunnels should be no more shelters. We may be lucky. expensive to dig in Hongkong If, which God forbid, we are than roads and nullahs, Mass involved in a Pacific war, we avacuation? Where to, in this will pay the penalty of procras Colony of a few hundred square tination, and pay heavily.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

-L. A. W.

By Lichty

"Mr. Fizzbee has such a lovely temperature to-ilay, too're ́teating. all the thermometers on' him!"'

"There is some dark destiny," he said, "which prevents friendship be tween Germany and England. It is not the fault of the

peuples, who want peace with each other. It is a class of political forces without rea- son on either side. I am afraid of this race in armaments. If it goos on it will lead to an explosion. I am Afraid of the conflict and chollengo stirred up by the Press because of rival ideologies. The Left Press in England insists that Germany is the enemy. They seem to want a war with us. Do they want it?"

Talking to people in Berlin, in high places and low, I became aware tho of certain ideas prevalling In German mind. The September crisis has not altered in any way the de- aire to the whole people for friend- ahip with us except by intensifying It, But they are deeply axious over the possiblity of a new crisis arising from political and econorate cnutes. "We must export or die, said Hitler, but they are aware that their exports are declining heavily and that they are losing, the power of purchasing many of the raw? materials necessary for their in- ternal need and the machinery of their life.

TO THE SOUTH-EAST For that reason they believe, right- Ty or wrongly, that they need colonies whitoli "they could adminis ter with German currency, useless | in other markets, but they know that. | this: question is, for a time at least,- outside... practical possibilities be- cause of the tempor" of these days.

They look towards South-esat. Europe as their only means of econo- mic expansion, not by conquest but. by trade preferences, but they sus pect that we wish to cut them off in that direction. If your Govern- ment adopts a dog-in-the-manager- policy," 1 was told by Himmler nearly a year ago, "and tries to draw a ne against us, In South-east Europe, it will be one of the ronds. to war."