And behold there was an earthquake God of all creation shook earth for our sake. The angel of the Lord descended The power of death was ended. He rolled back the stone See the pathway to God’s throne. Away from the door Passage open evermore! He is not here, but risen No more in death […]
Life is only a pile of rubbish. What have we to look forward to? Somebody is going to start a war, and we go into the arm. Then an atomic bomb will drop, and it will be all over. This isn’t what you believe, is it! But, this is the world and life view of […]
An event takes place every Sunday which contains the potency to answer the problems of the world. It is completely ignored. Throughout the week, throughout the month, and throughout the year an anxious, frustrated world tackles the problems of war, disease and social unrest. No answer is found. And then on a Sunday morning, a […]
The word, Easter, is only mentioned once in the King James Version of our Bible, (in Acts 12:4) and this is an incorrect translation of the original Greek. In the Revised Version and also in the new Revised Standard Version the word, “Passover,” is used instead of Easter, which is the correct rendering of the […]
Young people, did you know that it is almost Easter? Yes, that’s what I’m asking. That’s a stupid question, you say. Of course we know it’s almost Easter. Don’t we see the signs of it all around us? Does not almost every store window show something we should buy because Easter is coming? We see […]
From Iowa I received the following question: Dear Schuiler, My question is a problem that I think is facing many young men these days May a Christian enlist in the armed forces of our country? I asked this question mainly in view of the fact, that the young man assumes he will be called soon […]
The Passion season is again with us, that wonderful time of the year when in a special way we commemorate the suffering and death of our Lord and Saviour. And just a few more weeks, and another Easter Day will dawn, when “Torn the lips of old and young alike, we hear the old yet […]
The Date of Easter: Although the early Christian Church from the time of the Apostles looked upon the first day of the week as the Lord’s Day, as the day of resurrection, yet it was not until the Council of Nicea (325 A.D.) that it was decided that Easter, the pascha of the Lord, should […]
Easter is the time of new garments. Fifth Avenue in New York has its Easter Parade: Los Angeles has a similar show of new finery and spring array. Every church building on Easter will offer its display of new hats and coats and other things. Garment, new garments! Many of them. Thousands upon thousands. Ad […]
Easter morning. Bright and early, before the sun rises above the eastern horizon, people will be going in their cars to join in one of the annual “sunrise services”. Not all, but many at least. Not far from Redlands, in the neighbouring city of Riverside, a crowd climbs Mount Rubidoux. There the first sunrise service […]