IN LOVE AND WAR:

 

 TESTIMONY OF GREAT SCIENTISTS:

 Patriot Quotes:

 THE FAMILY ALTAR - F.W. Herzberger (1922)

April 11.

"Him God raised up the third day, and showed Him openly;

not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God,

even to us, who did eat and drink with Him after He rose from

the dead." Acts 10:40-41

    No other fact of history is so well established as the resur-

rection of our Lord. The character of its divinely chosen witnesses

is unimpeachable ; their testimony in its behalf, unassailable. When

we read the story of our Savior's resurrection as it is preserved

for us in the four gospels and in the letters left by the apostles,

we see that the risen Lord appeared to His disciples for forty

days at different times and places; now to one, then to several,

then to the Eleven, even to five hundred of His followers at

one time. And He did not appear only for a moment and then

suddenly vanish again, but He spake with them, ate and drank

with them, and had them feel and touch Him in order to convince

them, as we read Luke 24, 39 : 

"Behold My hands and My feet that it is I Myself: handle Me and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have." 

    All attempts made by unbelievers to weaken such clear and unmistakable evidence of our Savior's resurrection only serve to strengthen and increase its convincing power. 

    When these prejudiced enemies of the Gospel declare these holy witnesses to have been deceivers, we can ask them :

"Since when do deceivers practise their deceit for the reward of

prison, stripes, persecution, and death?" That was the only reward

the disciples found on earth with their Gospel of the crucified

and risen Savior. When others declare the disciples to have been

honest, but self-deceived visionaries, who only imagined that they

saw Christ alive again after His death, we reply: 

"The disciples never expected their Master to return alive to them; and He had the greatest trouble to convince them of His resurrection.     When, finally, the story of Christ's resurrection is declared to be a story which arose only in later centuries, the well-proved fact remains that the disciples preached and proclaimed it ten days after Christ's ascension, at Pentecost, and were persecuted for it by the Jews and later by the heathen authorities. Unbelievers might just as

well try to extinguish God's sun in the heavens as to disprove

the well-attested truth of our Savior's glorious resurrection.