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Clinton, S. C, Thursday, April 2, 1953
Number 14
EASTER WILL COME
By JOSEPH R. SIZOO, In April Issue ChrisUan Herald
The heart of the world is kneel
ing again before’ the moving story
of the resurrection. Like bells of
hope—clear, resonant and harmon
ious—the song of the risen Christ
rings over land and sea.
Easter Sunday is the one day
whose sunrise is awaited by untold
millions. Indeed, there are those
for whom it is their wily excursion
into the spiritual world. We know-
now that the history of the mod
em world began when angels in
shimmering white announced, ‘He
is not here, He is risen.”
Chesterton once wrote, ‘‘A real
uncertainties. We have become
fussy and panicky. Despair is
gnawing at the lute strings of life.
Some are cynical, shrugging their
shoulders and saying, “What is the
stuff of eternity.
If w r e could lay hold of that as
surance, turn it loose in* the world,
implement it in our time with
courage, imagination and vision,
use?” Many are already despair-; this bewildered age would have a
ing of a new world before we have
finished laying its foundations.
To such an age comes the Easter
an irretrievable disaster. Golgotha
scarred their souls. It seemed like
the closing of the book—the last,
goodbye. There was nothing left j festival. We can look class hatred, |
but to pick up the broken threads! racial bitterness and crass secular )
of life and walk back into endless ism in the face and say: You can’t |
1 win! Evil hasn’t a ghost of a (
chance. In the long run, wrongdo-1
ing is alway^a dead-end street.
; Christ is still
the most omnipo-
new birth of freedom. The ser
mon on the Mount will outlast a
blood purge. The cross will outwit
the hammer and sickle. Jesus
Christ will outlive Karl Marx. Not
Pontius Pilate, but Jesus speaks
the last word. A man is a poor
Christian who does not feel the
steadying power of this story in his
pilgrimage through the years. Take
heart. This is Easter. Jesus Christ
triumphs.
God is still
Christ; love
loneliness. Betrayed by those He
loved, scourged by those He pitied
and, with a scarlet camp mantle
flung contemptously across His
shoulders, crowned with a crown of
thorns, He carried His cross to an i tent thing in th^ world. Issues m
outlaw’s grave. The setting sun! which God has a/stake may be de-
held no vistas.' He who had been;ferred and postponed, but they
born in a borrowed manker rode cannot be defeated. History is
to triumph on a borrowed beast coming out somewhere. History
Ch'nsUar who 0n Sl 1 e W vr ,: ;ho"ld‘d“o. and was laid away in a botfowed, belongs to God. I am Witting to
Chnstian-^wfto-Deneves snouj^ oo Their last act of devotion' believe that many things happen-
two things: dance, out of the sheer ^ ^ prepare and anoint His body in g in this wor i d t0 day can defeat
for burial. If they had thought
He would rise again they would
have brought Him garlands and
fruit. Not a single disciple believ
ed He would rise again.
Then something happened. Out! ™‘ov™r, social worker,
of the sepulchral glow of the :,ar~ lMdCT . ever y suf,erer
sense of joy; and fight, out of the
sheer sense of victory.’ Why is
that so? What makes this day so
profoundly significant for our
time? What does it say to us in
this hour of tension and bewilder
ment?
First, Easter is the story of a dis
covery—the discovery that Christ
lives. It has taken one deep fear
out of lif^—the fear of death. Have
you ever thought how visibly dis
appointed the disciples must have r
been with the events of those last
few days? Calvary was to them
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den of the Armathean came the glo
rious song, “He Is Risen.” They
were not alone. He had walked
back into their lives. Death had
no changed Him. His love had not
ended: His compassion had not
folded up; His forgiveness had not
shriveled. He knew Mary by her
voice, Peter by his faults and
Thomas by his doubts.
In the heart of the Easter story
stands the deathless assurance that
Christ lives, making Himself avail
able to our needs. We are not
alone. We do not make our way
alone through this world. As sure
ly as He walked the dusty roads of
Palestine, so surely He accompan
ies us on evejy highway. As sure
ly as He gave sight to the blind
and healing to the sick, so surely
does He open our
His will. What holds the universe
together is not chemistry, but spiri
tuality—not blind chance, but eter
nal purpose.
The fundamental question which
po-
for
truth, must ask is: Is it worth
while? r Will anything come of it?
On Easter you hear the ageless
assurance: There is no evil power
ful enough, nor hate bitter enough
to keep it in the grave. It may be
postponed but not conpuered: de
ferred, but not defeated; defaced,
but not effaced. To the man who
thinks, life is a comedy; to the man
who feels, life is a tragedy; but to
the mart who belives, Itfe-is >a vic
tory. The moral ventures you
make, the costly loyalties you en
dure, the unrequited love you suf
fer, the holy dream are not in vain.
Greed and hate are only illusions. <
At best they are like rockets dis-!
playing fantastic cascades of stars
for the moment. But they soon
fade and burn up.
1 Spires outlast spears; altars are
dom, truth, love, belong to The !
tual world and heal the hurts of more i as ting than armaments; free
life.
Christ is not a memory, but-
Presence; He is not a figure, in time,
but a timeless figure. When doors
close and life tumbles in, when the
lamps go out and the lights begin j
to flicker, when hope no longer'
sees a star and love no longer hears i
the rustling of the leaves, when j
horizons lose their crimson |
skies become leaden—then comes a |
voice saying, ‘Trust Me: You rae |
not alone; be not afraid; I live.” j
And because He lives we, too, |
shall live. In answer to the age j
old question, “If a man die, shall he ;
live again?” Easter declares, “As |
in Aram all die, so in Christ shall;
all be made alive.” The souls of |
the righteous are in the hands of.
God. No torment shall touch them.;
Over the broken waves of life
comes the golden glow: “He that
believeth in Me though he were
dead, yet shall he live. • Whoso
ever liveth and believeth in Me
shall never die.” We shall -see
them again in that better country
where we never grow old, never
know pain and where God shall
wipe away all tears from our eyes.
Easter is more than the discov
ery that Christ lives. It is the dis
covery that Christ triumphs. It
takes out of life not simply the fear
of death, but the fear of defeat. It
holds before us the guarantee of
victorious living.
If Christianity had ended in a
cross we should never have heard,
of it. If it offered nothing beyond
Calvary it would be a religion of
despair. If Christ had died and
remained in a grave, what Mephis-
topheles said to Faust would be
true: ‘The ultimate value of every
thing is nothing.”
Easter changed a martyrdom into
a triumph; it turned a disaster into
a coronation. On . Good Friday
the world said “No.” On Easter
Sunday God said, ‘Yes.” There is
no grave deep enough, no seal im- j
posing enough, no guard powerful
enough, no stone heavy enough, “to
keep Him in the grave. The world
learned for the first time that hate,
violence and greed are not the
most potent forces on earth. Cal
vary does not settle the issue, nor
close the book. Pontius Pilate does
not speak the last word.
The political double-crossers who
scourged Him did not speak the
last word: they only wrote them
selves into oblivion. The crafty
men who tried to push Him out
of the world did not speak the last
word; they only became subjects
of laughter. The traitors who sold
Him short did not speak the last
word; they only dug their own
graves. That is why Easter is the
esence of everything that makes
life worth living . It means that
truth is tnore powerful than error;
that principle is more eternal than
expedience; that giving is more di
vine than getting; that sharing is
more lasting than saving. That
needs saying today. We live in a
badly frightened world. A kind of
irrationality rests upon our world.
Issues seem confused. The age is
full of misgivings, anxieties and
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