HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1986-04-02, Page 14PAGE 14. THE CITIZLN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1986.
From the Minister's Study
This minister has seen many 'resurrections
BY JAMES H. CARNE, PASTOR
HURON CHAPEL MISSIONARY
CHURCH, AUBURN
It was Sunday morning. In spite
of the fact that it was February the
flowers were fragrant and the birds
were singing.
The assembled people sang too:
"Up from the grave He arose" -
and there, off to the right, cut into
the hillside, was the grave about
which they sang, open and empty!
That worship experience in the
garden where Jesus is thought to
have been buried, just outside the
walls of Jerusalem, has made this
Easter special to me. It was an
exhilerating experience, just a
month ago, to stand by the empty
tomb.
It has been my lot to stand by
many graves over the years. The
experience has always been sober-
ing as 1 have officiated at the
commital of the body to the ground:
"earth toearth, ashes to ashes,
dust to dust." The circumstances
sometimes have made it especially
tragic: the daughter of friends of
ours, 15 years old, who took her
own life; the wife and mother who
was beaten to death by her
husband in a drunken frenzy.
Then, there have been the funerals
of some, that, despite the sense of
loss, have been downright jubil-
ant: the aged widow who used to
stand up in church almost every
Sunday, and with radiant face,
glorify the Savious Who was her
constant companion; the saintly
man who, during his last illness in
the hospital, could only sing in a
delirium of joy, "My Jesus, I love
Thee, I know Thou art mine." At
funerals such as these, my pulse
has always quickened as I have
read the time-honoured words,
"looking for the general resurrec-
tion in the last day, and the life of
the world to come, through our
Lord Jesus Christ."
I believe in the resurrection, not
only because I have stood at the
open tomb, and because I have
known some saints whose experi-
ence of God took them clear
through "the valley of shadow of
death," though they died, but I
believe in the resurrection because
I have seen some resurrected
people. No, I was not present at the
moment that Jesus died and "the
tombs broke open and the bodies of
many holy people who had died
were raised to life. They came out
of the tombs ..." (Matt. 27:52) but I
have seen some come out of their
graves, nonetheless.
1 remember well the man whose
alcoholism finally drove away his
wife and children. They were gone
three days before he began to
suspect that there was something
wrong. When I made him aware of
the circumstances later, he was
still insisting that he didn't have
any problem. He began to come to
church and, one Sunday morning,
he bowed at an altar of prayer and
found a satisfaction for which he
had been looking all his life. It was
later that he confessed that, all the
years that he had been drinking, he
didn't know that his wife and
children even existed. He had been
"dead" in his sins. But now he was
alive from the dead, and his
resurrection was no less miracu-
lous than that of Lazarus.
Ah yes, I believe in the
resurrection because of the empty
tombs I have seen, and those who
have come to newness of life. And,
some day, all of the graves of those
who have died with faith in Christ
as their Saviour, will be empty and
open for, "because He lives, we
shall live also."
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