HE KEEPS ON RISING!
“He’s alive!” cries the Roman centurion in Charles Rann Dennedy’s play “The Terrible Meek”. “I can’t kill him. All the empires can’t kill him.” Christ is ever rising again. Day by day men seek to bury him under the debris of history or embalm him in creed and phrase and definition or immure him within the walls of churches and institutions or smother him under a load of the cares and riches and pleasures of this life or stab him to death with the daggers of their sins. But always he rises, phoenixlike, from the ashes of the fires of selfishness and carelessness in which we allow his power over our lives to be destroyed. Ever and again he is lifted up out of the common things of life, a vindication of his life and a triumph over the power that did him to death, and all men are drawn to him as irresistably as the earth is held in…
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