The Resurrection of Jesus Christ – The Easter Message

1913

WE ARE BEGOTTEN AGAIN
BY THE REV JOHN WEIDLEY,
Lutheran.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the connecting link between this world and the eternal world. Easter is the fitting occasion for our recognition of this. There is no need or additional argument to prove the life beyond. If He is there, then it is a real world, and men can live in it more fully than they can live here. If He rose from the dead then there is an unseen spirit mightier than the strongest material power, a God who is thinking to bring us all out of evil into an eternally happy condition. By the resurrection of Jesus from the dead we are begotten again unto a living hope, for He is able to guide all men into a condition like His own.


JOB'S QUERY ANSWERED
BY THE REV. DONALD C. MACLEOD,
Presbyterian.

The Easter message has three great notes, the act of the resurrection, the pledge of the resurrection, and the obligation of the resurrection. The age-long question of the human heart finds its expression in the words of Job, "If a man dies shall he live again?" God answered this question in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The empty tomb on the day of Pentecost, the increasing sway of the Christian propaganda, and the Christian Sabbath unite in an eloquence that overpowers every form of wickedness and proclaims that Christ has risen, and has triumphed over death.


BASIS OF FAITH AND HOPE
BY THE REV. SAMUEL H. WOODROW,
Congregational.

Easter, the day we rejoice in, stands as the culmination of the life of Christ, and is the foundation of the Christian's faith for the present and hope in the future. Jesus our Lord announced that the proof of the worth of His ministry was shown when He had been crucified and had risen again. Paul said, "If Christ be not risen from the dead, our faith is vain, our preaching is vain, and those who have died are perished." The fact of the resurrection established, our faith and our preaching is not in vain, and those who have died have not perished, and are present in spirit with the Lord.


AN EASTER PRAYER
Jesus, who at this very hour, at God's Right Hand, in Pomp and Power, our nature still doth wear; Oh let Thy wounds still intercede, and by their simple silence plead Thy countless merits there. Oh Christ, the Risen Son, send Peace on Earth to every one. Amen.

–Washington Post, March 23, 1913, p. 10.