THE VICTORY THAT LASTS
The International Sunday School Lesson For June
17 Is "The Risen Lord"—John 20:1-18.
SY WILLIAM T. ELLIS
The story opens with a woman
weeping before a grave. A familiar
enough scene; especially now women
weep because they have borne most
of the world's suffering. The vicar
icusness of womanhood is at once a
great sorrow and a great glory.
are oftenest caused by death;
there are worse griefs than this one,
i but over it we weep most. The mys
* terv, the silence, the separation of
i death stirs the heart's deep foun
tains.
This woman had best cause for
weeping. In the grave beside which
she stood had been buried the body
of her Healer, her Teacher, her best
Friend; the personal loss was beyond
measure. And in the tomb also had
been laid away the hopes of a band
01 eager disciples, hopes for the re
demption of Israel and for a new
reign of righteousness for all the
world. On Jesus these friends had
builded everything: with him in the
grave the house of their hopes had
toppled about their bowed heads.
Now at dawn Mary and the other
women had come—the alertness of
love is woman's—bearing spices for
their dead: the cold body of their
Lord was all that they expected, but
God is always doing better than His
children expect or think. Mary and
the women entered upon a new es
tate that day which has been be
queathed to all womanhood since.
As Mrs. Browning sang:
"Not she with traitorous kiss her j
Master stung;
Not she denied Him with unfaithful i
tongue;
She., when Apostles fled, could dan-1
ger brave.
Last at His cross, and earliest at 1
His grave."
What Is in a Name
Jesus is never beyond the reach of (
the tears of His friends; He would ;
not even leave the comforting of |
Mary to the angels by the empty
tcmb, but He himself stood by
though she knew not His nearness. ,
Christ often comes when eyes are;
holden, and the comfort that He
srives is not always recognized as
from Him. Mary thought she was
seeking help from the gardener, but :
it was the Lord. Even when He ten- '
derly said. "Why weepest thou," she
did not comprehend; He had to call
her by name before she understood. I
AH the sweet adjectives that love
bestows upon a loved one are not so
meaningful as the personal, familiar
name, with the melting tenderness
and deep significance that may be put
into it. So when Jesus turned and
said: "Mary." she knew Him in- 1
stantly: no one else could pronounce
her name like that. The Good Shep-I
herd calls His sheep by name, and
each is. as Mary was, a beloved per- j
sonality.
In a transport of rapture she 1
would have flung herself at His feet j
and clung to Him, but the Master re- I
strained her; the risen Lord did not <
keep the same intimacy of human
relations as before: He had new
pewers and new work. Mary, too. j
had an immediate mission: she could!
not sit and adore, for the brethren
awaited the glorious news, "He is 1
risen!"
The Messasre of Mary
The first preacher of the full gos
pel was a woman. To Mary it was
given to utter the word that unfold- j
ed the complete significance of the'
acts and teachings of Jesus. What a
revolution in feeling and outlook the
news must have created in the minds
of the disciple?: All was clear now:
the sayings that they formerly had
been unable to comprehend shone
with divine meaning. Jesus had
risen, even as He had said. He had
done exceedingly abun4antlv above
all that they could ask or think. Not
defeat, but victory was their pro- j
gram.
Now the infant Church had a mes
sage for the world, the very message
of hope and life which is most need
ed. The last great enemy who had j
blanched the cheek of the bravest, j
had been conquered. Men need no j
longer be prisoners to dread and
fear. A new attitude toward life and
death had been created. Thencefor
ward the disciples would go forth, as |
thousands since have done, facing
every martyrdom sor.gfully. The
world's wonderment. "Behold, how
these Christians die!" would be a j
new gateway to the kingdom. The
resurrection hope is the capstone of
the edifice of Christian truth. "Be
cause I live, ye shall live also:" this
is the word which the Church is now
to cry aloud above the din of thej
world's battlefields as the comfort 1
for all the bereaved: and as the
sure stay of all who face death.
Our Own Day's Chief Question
Every day's newspaper contains a
special mention of those who have
solved the problem of Immortality;
and of those who are deeply, imme
diately and supremely concerned in
it. Tliey will be found In the death j
notice column, and the first group
are those who have died, and the
second group are the families and
near friends of the dead.
No question is more ancient, more
Insistent, or more profound and im- j
pcrtant than this one, "If a man die,
shall he live again?" To some de- j
gree it is certain at some time or
other to engage the thought of ev- I
ery mature mind. With the daily dis- J
patches from abroad fairly reeking
with news of bloody deaths by the
myriads, the problem is one that
thrusts itself inexorably into the.
consideration of even the frivolous,
minded and the heedless.
Every poet, every philosopher, has i
speculated unon the theme. The hu- i
man mind has always experienc ed I
"Intimations of immortality." The
conviction that this supreme flower
and fruit of the universe, the human ;
scul, was not born to fall and perish j
utterly and that this earthly life is!
by many signs, only the preparation
for some higher form of existence, i
lies deep down in the thinking of
every normal person. Addison put
the thought Into a few lines:
"It must be so— Plato, thou reason
est well!
Else whence this pleasing hope, this
fond desire.
This longing after immortality?
Or whence this secret drea< and in
ward horror
Of falling into naught? Why
shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at de
struction?
•Tls the divinity that stirs within ]
us:
'Tls heaven itself that points out an |
hereafter.
And intimates eternity to man.
Eternity; thou pleasing, dreadful
thought!"
Creed's Effect Upon Character
The chrism of earth's friendships
is the hope of the resurrection, which
sacredly anoints them for two j
worlds. All our highest conceptions;
of love are bound up with the expec- ,
tatlon of a life beyond the grave.
Grounded In the resurrection j
teaching is the Christian's hope of j
Christly character and of future
glory. "If ye then be risen together j
with Christ, seek those things which |
are above." "Now is Christ risen :
from the dead, and become the flrst- |
FRIDAY EVENING,
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
fruits of them that slept." "If Christ
hath not been raised, then is -our
preaching vain; your faith also is
vain." "If we have only hoped in
Christ In this life, we are of all men
most miserable."
Every day. in every section of the
world, there are rage arguments
about religion. Men cannot be re
strained from speculating about this
supreme theme. No aspect of these
discussions strikes an observer as
more significant than the fact that'
so often men debate as if there were |
no authority above their own reason
to which appeal might be made.
They talk as though historical facts
were to be decided by "hcrse sense;"
and as if one man's opinion were as
gcod as another. In other words,
they leave the Bible entirely out of
their discussion, and airily put forth
their own immature opinions as if
they were the last word on the sub
ject. Every reader of these lines!
has probably heard controversies on
the resurrection, without a single ap.
peal to the Bible as historical evi
dence.
The Real Evidence
That makes only one of two
courses possible. Either the Bible
must be discarded utterly, or else It
must be accepted as the only scien
tific and valid evidence available up
to the present upon the subject of
the resurrection. To reject the teach
of the resurrection is to reject the
New Testament; for it is full of the
fact and of the implications of the
resurrection of Jesus Christ. And
apart from this Book we have abso
lutely no other historical evidence
of the raising of the dead to life.
I take a concordance and follow j
through the words "raised." "risen," j
"resurrection," and find one hundred I
and twenty-three separate references
given to resurrection.
When the sorrow of death enters a
circle of love, it is not to the barren
philosophy of the ancients that we
turn for comfort, but to this Book
of the immortal hope, whose words !
of sweet assurance are repeated |
daily over thousands of biers, im- |
parting the light of eternal sunrise
to the dark day of grief.
The Finn I Proof
Assuming the historical validity of 1
the Bible, we find that the resurrec- j
tion is established by many wit- j
r.esses, and that it is as completely!
buttressed a fact as any event in an
cient history.
There remains one final proof of |
the resurrection of Jesus Christ, I
which in the case of millions of per- j
sons, makes all the other evidence |
unnecessary. That is the fact of per- |
sonal, present relationship with the,
living Christ, to whom a long line of [
martyrs and saints bear testimony,
saying with St. Paul. "I know whom '
Ihave believed." That relationship j
is for multitudes more real than any
transaction with merchant or friend. (
"Nearer is He than breathing,
Nearer than hands or feet."
/
A Canadian in the tropics might
be jeered at for his talk of lee and j
snow: and the black philosopher
might conclusively prove that such a j
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LOOKING UP AND BOWING DOWN
Terse Comments On The Uniform Prayer Meeting Topic Of The
Young People's Societies—Christian Endeavor, Etc.—For
Juno 17: "What Is Reverence And Why Should We
Be Reverent?" Heb. 12:18-20.
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS
Every great soul is revtrwnt. Only
the small anri the Ignorant are heed
less of proper claims upon man's
veneration. The braggart spirit,
which professes to have respect for
nothing and nobody, lacks the essen
tional disposition of the true think
er and broad minded seeker after
truth. A keen and wide observer of
men once said. "No" man who is
without the spirit of reverence can
be truly great.
• • •
We prove our own height by our
attitude toward things sacred.
• • •
He who makes the sacred common j
robs God of His due.
• • •
We hold so many meetings In
church nowadays, and have so many
religious organizations, that it is
very easy for us to forget that God's
house is not like other buildings. The
sacredness of a church is a lesson j
which we should often con. Loud
speech and laughter, careless be
havior of any kind, and public ex- i
erclses of a secular sort, are out of
place in a building dedicated to the
worship of the Most High. The house 1
of God is holy.
• •
Reverence is God's right.
God asks much but He gives more. !
• • *
Reverence is a root virtue of the 1
great.
* • •
God lifts up all who bow down
before Him.
• • •
We can only honor God in His j
own way. He has appointed the
manner in which He would have men
show Him reverence, and if we fail
to heed His word irk this respect no I
sacrifice of our own devising will be I
accepted by Him. The first divine j
institution was the Sabbath. Through 1
i* God electel to have been render j
Him obedience. He declared that He
was to be honored by the sacred ob- j
servance of this day. When we dis- 1
with "I know, for I have experienced ■
ice and snow." A Greek sophist
might have caught Peter In the mar- i
ket place at Antioch and argued the j
impossibility of the resurrection; but
Peter could erushrfiim with a simple. |
"I saw Him dead: and then I saw
Him alive." A personal experience
of the risen Christ is the final argu- j
ment for the resurrection; and thtt
one most sufficient proof of immor- ■
tality.
"BAB BOY" IS QUITE
EXTINCT, SAYS TEACHER
Chicago. June —WH&t has be
come of the "bad ooy?"
He is extinct, William J. Bogan,
principal of Lane Technical High
School, said in an address before
the members of the Irish Fellowship
Club in the Hotel LaSalle.
"In the old school," he said. I
"American boys threw teachers out 1
of the windows with great enthusi
asm. New methods give attention
to the individual needs of the pupil, j
"The bad boy, under the influence .
of modern educational methods, hasj
gone the way of the dodo."
HARRDSBURG TELEGRAPH
honor the Sabbath we dishonor God.
■ An offense against it is an offense
against Him. The glory of God is in
i separably bound up with His holy
S day.
• * *
I Merely to be glad and grateful Is
i the best way to give God His due.
j He cares more for the fragrance of
1 1 prniseful lives than for the odor of
; costliest sacrifice.
Among the sacred things to be
reverenced we may count the ideals
and convictions of our hearts. Some
-1 times beautiful aspiration* are scof
j fed at by a rude world, yet in truth
i they are more worthy of respect
; than the opinions of the world it
self. To our own loftiest conceptions
of life and duty we should pay ut
most deference; they are divine
promptings, and. followed, will lead
us into a royal heritage. Countless
1 lives have come to disaster because
j they failed properly to retard their
I own best beliefs and revelations.
Reverence for. the right promotes
i righteousness.
The pith of patriotism Is a true
j veneration for the country's flag and
I all that it represents.
• • •
Irreverence Is a twentieth century
j sin which Is none the better for be
i lng modern. It especially marks
! Americans. We are not as devout In
j church as many other peoples. We
I do not esteem positions, titles, hon
■ orable persons, as highly as do our
1 cousins across the water. Our
jYankee independence keeps remind
' ing us that we are "as good as any
' body else." and thus, figurately
speaking, instead of bowing the knee
: to a person of distinction, we clap
I him on the back. Our independence
i would be faner and stronger if we
! were not inclined to be so bumptious.
; We would be improved by the culti
j vation of the spirit of reverence.
: There are people and places and
j things to which even an American
' may profitably show veneration.
RID CHILDREN OF FEAR!
The July Woman's Home Companion
1 says: ,
j "No other one attribute contributes
more to, peace of mind in this life
than an absence of fear. To attempt
to govern a child by frightening it
is a crime, for in children the powers
of imagination are exceedingly acute.
| Children do not reason, they believe.
A normal child has no more fear of
the dark than of the daylight, but :f
such a child is put to bed. alone, in a
; dark room, and told the 'goblins' will
get him if he does not go right to
I sleep' the dark for years afterward
will mean a place of vast terror filled
' with horrible possibilities. Wakeful
-1 ness, mental strain and nervousness
are as sure to follow as day follows
night. If fear does show in a child,
jlt should never be ridiculed. Fear
. may be destroyed if a little time is
j taken to explain why there is no rea
, son to be afraid."
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"Black Valentine is a very hardy
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ltvel. This causes the water to drain
away from the plant; (5) planting too
early, especially corn, lima beans and
cucumbers: (6) too many light, sur
face waterings; roots seek water, and
a wet surface causes a growth of roots
there, which are later parched by the
sun; such watering tends also to form
a hard crust over the surface; In gen
eral, there should be less watering
and more hoeing; keep a loose layer
of soil on top to retain the water that
Is present; If you must water, aoak
things well, hoe as soon as the soil
dries a little, and then leave the gar
den unwatered several days, rather
than sprinkle lightly each day; (?<)
the raising of too many different vegi
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era' Bulletin No. US.
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