Article April 29, 1911 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Edward S. Lewis, J. Y. Montague

[Outlook.]

To us the resurrection of Christ seems the most wonderful event in history; a sudden vision of a great peak rising into perpetual sunshine, seen once by the eyes of men when, for a moment, the clouds parted. To us it is a miraculous occurrence which stands out solitary in the long record of time. To the heavenly guardians of the tomb it was only the manifestation to men of an event as universal as birth. To the Christ it was a passing incident for which he made preparation as quietly as for a night of sleep; to him the morning which shines for us with a glory beyond the reach of speech came as normally as other mornings have come since the beginning of time, and he rose and laid aside the garments in which he had slept as quietly as we put aside the clothes of the night and go forth to the work and joy of the day.

His whole life and teaching had predicted the issue of that experience with death; the inexhaustible tide of life which poured in upon the world with his coming could no more have been arrested by the change we call death than the sea rushing landward in a fathomless flood of many waters can be held back by a wall of sand. That tide swept through and past the barrier with the tremendous sweep of an elemental power for which obstacles do not exist. Concerned with the giving of life, charging the very borders of his garments with vitality, healing with a touch, calling back the dead with a word, death was for the Christ but a passing shadow on the landscape of the world. To men it was a dense and awful mystery; to him it was a momentary clouding of the sun, powerless to destroy or even to obscure. When he spoke of it, his voice had no deeper note than when he spoke of the toils and sorrows of the human state; his tones were far less grave than when he spoke of the sins that imperiled the soul. Being what he was, his resurrection was inevitable; every word and deed predicted it.

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