EASTER AFFIRMATION
About 1930, the Bolshevik, Bukharin, journeyed from Moscow to Kiev. His mission was to address a huge assembly. His subject, atheism. For a solid hour he aimed his heavy artillery at Christianity, hurling argument and ridicule. At last he was finished and viewed what seemed to be the smoldering ashes of men’s faith. “Are there any questions?” Bukharin demanded. A solitary man arose and asked permission to speak. He mounted the platform and moved close to the Communist. The audience was breathlessly silent as the man surveyed them first to the right, then to the left. At last he shouted the ancient Orthodox greeting, “CHRIST IS RISEN.” The vast assembly arose as one man and the response came crashing like the sound of an avalanche, “HE IS RISEN INDEED!” Jesus said, “I am he that liveth . . . and, behold,I am alive evermore.” (Rev. 1:18)
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