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GOD IS ALIVE
Casualty lists are depressing but we ought never get used to
them. Death is horror. It aboundsin war and traffic news and
even in entertainment. It ought not be headlined in theology.
The tragic death in the gospel has a sequel. We sing about
an old rugged cross but make it of polished brass for our
altars. Realism is indelicate. We don’t talk of a man with a
‘scourged back being spiked to a cross-beam, bleeding, writhing,
oisted up with his weight on the nails, left hanging and
noaning to die in the blazing noonday sun. I can’t imagine
ary, or John, or Peter saying, “I love that old cross!”
The tomb was not lovelier than the cross. None of the dis-
ciples lingered near it but fled until they met the Lord Himself
ve, bearing wounds but walking and talking. It was then
t lillies bloomed, that courage to live and die was given
‘intravenously to the band of men and women whose hopes
had been long deferred until their hearts were sick.
Whatever coherence may be in the four differing stories
f the unwitnessed disentombment something comes to our
pirits that finds voice in many-noted Alleluias of Christian
ongregations. Mortal bodies continue to be terminal. But
the good mews that God is alive will bounce from earth to
elestar across the world and back to lift us out of our feeble
s to triumph through our everlasting spirits.
Rev. Charles H. Gilbert
Rev. Gilbert, who served Carver-
ton Methodist charge from 1936
to 1946, has made his home in
Mount Zion since retiring in 1959.
2 is Protestant Chaplain at Valley
rest.
Easter Sunrise services help the Couples Clubs of several Back
orshiper to remember the first Mountain churches will sponsor a
aster, when the women went to 6 a.m. service at Dallas Outdoor
tomb of Jesus “very early in Theater. Carverton Methodist
? Charge will worship at the same
While many churches have their hour at Memorial Shrine, Carver-
wn Sunrise services, others find it ton. Everyone is welcome at both
n appropriate time to join in wor- these services.
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JESUS, PETER AND JUDAS
Crises do not make the man but they do reveal him. Jesus,
Peter and Judas fell into three classes when they faced the
cross. Going up to Jerusalem Jesus was popular and Judas
clung to him to claim the advantage. Butwhen the tide turned
Judas forsook Jesus and took care of Judas. Tradition says
Judas hanged himself with his moneybelt. Whatever he used
broke and his body plunged down into the Vale of Hinnom
which was the garbage dump of Jerusalem. How fittingly
later scriptures said “He went to his own place.”
But Peter knew his Lord. He wept bitterly and he also
returned to his Lord. Peter’s conduct in the face of the cross
was shameful, but his Lord, when he called him from his
boats and nets said “I will make you.” On Pentecost the
same Peter who lied, swore and disowned his Lord was the
preacher under whose apppeal the church started at none,
and by night counted in its membership three thousand.
The third of this group was Jesus himself who “set his face
steadfastly to go to Jerusalem.” As the world again walks up
the deepening shadow of the cross we all know well we are a
part of one of these groups.
: Charles H. Frick
Rev. Frick served Huntsville
Christian Church for thirty-five
years. Now retired, he lives in
Benton. At the age of 88, he still
enjoys working around the yard.
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AND YOU
The Resurrectiorn: of Jesus Christ from the dead
pletion of the Great Act of God’s, Love for man,
experienced it, share of it, with each other, in s
taneous way, at Christmas time, in the Incarnatio
It is an extension and accomplishment of the Gr
it was so dramatically exemplified on Calvary’s
the Redemption of all mankind, of each race, creec
Living our lives, one day at a time, in that
Him in Bethlehem, gaining strength, through Hist
and Death on the Cross, to carry our own dail
suffering, misunderstanding, anxiety, uncertain
and the jumble of other discouragements, we agai
at Easter, with NEW HOPE, new courage in ou
souls, new joy and happiness, through God’s (
continue to share ourselves with God and man, ci
very image and likeness of God.
In that thought, we pray and wish each and
Blessed and Joyfully Happy Season of Easter Da
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