SOAY SCiluuI:
THE POWER OF RESURRECTION
International Sunday-school Lesson
" for Aprl 9, 1950
Memory Selection: Thanks be to
God who gave us the victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ" I Corinth
ians 15:67.
Lesson Text: I Corinthians 15:1-8, 20
21, 57-58.
Man in every age has been baffled
by the mystery of death. Yeans ago,
Tennyson wrote:
"Thou wilt not leave us in the
dust;
Thou madest man, he knows not
why;
He thinks ho was not made to
die;
And thou hast made him; thou art
just."
In the scripture given for our les
son this week, the Apostle Paul is
giving the basic essentials of his
preaching.- His messages were not
based on speculation, nor on ideas, the
truth of which is so probable that they
offer a good basis for logical reason
ing, not on the argument that con
ceptions so beautiful ought to be true
and, therefore, must be true. (His
preaching was based on facts on the
revelation of truth in actual history.
Christ died and rose again, not in the
imagination of pious men, but in their
sight, in their actual experience. Ahd
in the. power of this mighty fact, bis
followers have gone out to tell the
good sews to a world which needs sal
vation and is finding it in the gospel
of the resurrection. The Christian
hope has its basis in fact
It took the fact of .the lesurr&tian
of Jesus to give that "something
more" required to make the disciples
into apostles flaming witnesses for
their Lord. After their contact with
the risen Christ, they went forth as
witnesses of the resurrection, with
the power in their lives.
Henry St George Tucker, in "The
Living Church," declares "This is the
true and abiding meaning of Easter.
It is God revealing his Son in us as he
did in St. Paul. We are not complete
Christians until we have experienced
within ourselves resurrection of hope,
courage, and power which comes from
contact with the living Christ It is
an experience that we can create for
ourselves.
"Easter tells us that Christ is pres
ent in our hearts. The promise is
'Seek and ye shall find.' For those who
have responded to the Easter invita
tion and found Christ, this world is
no longer a vale of despair. St Paul's
words are true for thenr: 'If any
man be in Christ he is a new creature;
old things are passed away; behold all
things are become new - -,'
"What the world needs today is a
body of Christian men and women
who have had this Easter experience.
Shall we not, v then, al; this Easter
season pray that Christ will come to
us, saying: 'All power is given to
me in heaven and in earth. Go ye into
all the world and preach the gospel,
the good news of the saving (power of
God through Christ, to every crea
ture;' ,
John Cunro Gibson says: "That
there is continuity of life, is of course
implied in the very idea of resurrec
tion; but true ljfe resides not in the
flesh, but in the spirit and, therefore,
the continuity will be a spiritual con
tinuity; and the. power of God will
effect such changes in the body itself
that it will rise out of its fleshly
condition into a state of being like
that of the angels of God." .
; 'A personal faith in the resurrection
and of the immortality of the soul is
the strongest possible incentive for
proper livings "The business of loy.
ingor hating, of being pun or Im
pure, of spreading peace or wear
ing bitterness into the fabric of life,"
says Rufus M. Jones, "is eternal busi
ness, for aU the time as one acts;
one is forming the atmosphere ir
which, he is going to live eternally.
This life and the life beyond are not
two things but one, or at least parts
of one whole."
' 'Therefore, wa should, as Lucius H.
Bugbee declares, Think and act to
day as if - tomorrow might, begin
eternity." .t-
BE A BETTER
CITIZEN!
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GO TO SOME
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VISION OF THE
CROSS
A great stone cross rises from the
.rugged peak ol a lofty mountain, and
pious people often journey there to pray.
At some devout women prayed, the
cross suddenly seemed to be transfigured,
and a bleeding figure appeared stretched
upon its stony surface.
The suppliants
stared In wonder, but
the drooping figure
lifted its head and
said softly:
"I suffered much for
thee."
The vision vanished
and the devout women
went away strength
ened in mind and soul.
They had seen a vision
of the Christ.
People who suffer
for others are too often unappreciated.
We do not see them in our visions and
dreams. Yet millions of lives have been
redeemed or have been blessed and
Strengthened because somebody loved
them and suffered for them.
The Cross glorified by Jesus is the
symbol of this suffering too. For those
who bear the burdens of others, and
suffer for their sakes, are His brethren
and partakers of Hit sacrifice.
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