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Taranaki Daily News, 2 April 1921, Page 6

MARANATHA. MARANATHA. SIGNS OF CHRIST’S COMING. THE CHURCH SIGN. ‘WHEY found not the body of the LORD JESUS.” St. Luke, who records this great fact of the Resurrection, also gives us the clearest evidence concerning the Incarnation; and it is noteworthy that he was the physician Evangelist. The Empty Tomb is at the iVery heart of the Gospel. St. Paul makes that as plain as daylight in his great argument to the Corinthians. After that we understand why it is that the Apostles so persistently bore their testimony to the literal Resurrection, and so emphatically declared it was without corruption. Last year, in a public discussion on this subject, the late Bishop of Durham, Dr. Moule<Yold an unimpeachable testimony in a remarkable story of Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst. “The great lawyer in his old age was led. under unlikely influences, to humblest faith in Christ as Saviour and Lord.’’ Some of his legal circle, the Bishop went on to explain, thought 'his brain was failing, and a carefully-drawn law question was sent him as a test, and brought him a most reassuring answer. Then comes the point. “One day a devout friend was troubled by finding him at a table heaped with sceptical books. T wanted exercise,’ said Lydnhurst, ‘and I thought I would try the case for the Resurrec- ' tion; these are the adverse witnesses. Believe me, no court would not accept the evidence for the Christian’s belief.” Another reader wrote to confirm this testimony, on the evidence of his own grandfather, who was a friend of the distinguished lawyer, that Lord Lyndhurst “gave it as his deliberate opinion that no event in history had better evidence to support it than the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.” Let us make no mistake, as some would have us do. We wiF hold fast to the Gospel of the Empty Tomb. For if there had been no Empty Tomb there would have been no Christian Church; there would have been no assured hope for this life or the next. The apostate condition of Christendom is in nothing so clearly revealed as in the fact J that all the great world movements and latter-day religious systems deny the physical 'resurrection of our Lord. In ’ view of all this we may expect the soon ■ coming of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, s GOD cannot and will not tolerate apos-