Article April 1, 1961 Issue

Signs of the Times

Irvin W. Emmons

The Marion Star

The Reverend Irvin W. Emmons in The Marion Star Marion, Ohio

Easter affirms the conviction that, in the providence of God, the good things in life finally win out. If you had stood on Calvary's hill on that first Good Friday you might well have believed that literally "'the world had gone to the devil." What chance was there for righteousness, decency, justice and love in a world in which the most meaningful life that had ever been lived could be done to death by the callousness of Judas [and] the treachery of Annas and Caiaphas? ...Surely the Gospel of the Galilean seemed then like a beautiful but empty dream. And with his death every decent thing in the world seemed to have died with him.

But that first Easter morning brought with it a rebirth of faith in the good life. In the broken sepulchre and the empty tomb the servant of God finds not only a living Christ but also the realization that every fine and decent thing he stands for has conquered with him.

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