Easter: Theme of Reverend Brown

Nevada, 1924

"Easter as the Triune Revelation" was the subject of the Rev. Edward Tanner Brown at Trinity Episcopal church. "Easter is the revelation of the heart of God who answered the triumphant life of the Son by raising Him from the dead," he said, adding, "There is a vibrant life just beyond our vision responding to the life of righteousness. God as shown by the cross and resurrection is a God of love. The character of Jesus was shown by the empty tomb. Love went all the way when He came to this earth for our redemption; it went even as far as a restriction of knowledge, and was shown in weariness of body.

"Jesus was human and fought with human brains and a human body. He achieved a perfect life with the means at our command. He was human and because of the triumph of Easter was shown to be indeed as God. 'God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.' The divineness of the Saviour was proved at Eastertide. And man — Easter shows the glorious possibilities of our nature. Man is a changeable being, still in the becoming, whose end is yet unknown. We have seen once and for all the power of the life of righteousness. And yet man is still content to live on the plane of his lower nature. The light of the resurrection shows his marvelous possibilities. How can he be content to live on the plane of the sensual when sonship with the Divine is his rightful portion."

—Nevada State Journal, Reno, NV, April 28, 1924, p. 8.