Another Startling Knot.
F>ut as we approach a lillie near t<
the rilled sepulcher wu lind anotho:
Startling fact, "'i'he budy oi' Christ I:
gone!" you say. ls that the startlin;
fact'.' oh. no. I expo 'ted io lind th.
body gone. All historians have alludet
to this one fact. I expected to lind th
body ot Christ -one. Next I want t
call your attention to the fact that th
graveelotb.es were lying in th" crypt
just ns they were put there by Christ'
friends when Jesus' body wns lal
away in the tomb. "How can Hies
things be?" you ask. Then you realiz
that stones and doors and barred wit
dows were no barriers for him. Who
arose on Hie iirst Baster mor
he did not come forth, as did LazarUI
bound hand and foot with graveclothei
Ile (lid not Let up. ns we do of a mort
iii- by throwing Hie bedclothes froi
off our bodies, but he arose silentlj
swiftly, lie arose, and the graveclothc
were left in just the sam.
Christ's friends had placed then
"Come: see the place where the Lor
lay." Let me read to you from John
story. -And be. stooping down an
looking in. saw the linen clothes lyu
* * * and the napkin that was abo!
his head liol lying with tho line
clothes, bu? wiapp.'d together in
pl ice by Itself." christ arises, mov<
out of his -rave garments mid movt
through Hi'1 stone walls of bia pris*
and yet does not change the position <
ono stone. Only the great stoic at tl
entrance waa moved, and that by i
angel.
