Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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4 f . git-4wi Q :',mnIllW7 -5 .ffg W f,..fw7 f?:s? X 4 F ,, Z 'ca ias:i1.,.1,,L wrt Q , ' 1 if S 'M ' T Christus lmperator gy, CChrist is Loran w Q A: g In the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John we have given the record of an H outstanding event in the relationship of Christ and his disciples. It is the story of 5 , Thomas and Jesus in that moment of moments when the doubter is commanded to X l place his finger in the nail print, and to thrust his hand into the spear-riven side. The heart of Thomas melted within him, and in faith believing he answered: lVIy l V, Lord and my God. His doubts were swept away. They found their culmination l ,Q and climax in worship and adoration. He may have been a doubter, but to doubt is n human. The other disciples too would see before they believed. In every case the I , result was the same. To each one Jesus became Christ the Lord. I YVe too, tonight, call him Christ the Lord. Our misunderstanding hearts some- ,1 times covet an experience identical with that of the disciples. Our imagination would of lead us back with lXIary lXIagdelene toithe door of' the .empty tomb, there firstito IQ ' f meet him face to face, and first to call him, Rabbon1, which is to say lllasterug with X Peter and john into the sepulchre to witness the forsaken graveclothes: with the Q, disciples to the upper room where he breathed on them the Spirit of Peaceg or even fi y N with Thomas to be commanded to reach hither our finger. But Friends. retrospect is ,' f Q useful only insofar as it does not obscure our prospect. Our Lord promised to give ' log us a Comforter in his stead. One who should tell us the things that then we could T0 5 l not bear. One who should lead and guide us into all truth. One who should show l unto us the things of the Blaster himself. One who should be an interpreter of ' , the revealed VVord. And to this YVord we turn for a few glimpses at the lklajesty I l , of the Lord jesus Christ. One of the outstanding truths is the utterance of Paul wherein he makes him 5 6 the Lord of time, of creation, and of eternity. By him were all things created, N wg that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible. Alllthings were ' D! created by him and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist , B ' CCOI. 1:16-i7D. This sweeping utterance reaches back to the beginning, back to X 4 the infinite and the eternal. Reason follows to the brink of infinity, there to pause , and gasp at the stupendousness of the revelation. Is there actually such an one whose E A existence is not from time immemorial, but from eternityg with whom finite mortals ll I ,, are vitally connected, and thereby assured of immortality? , ' , The apostle says, In him all things consist. He is the controlling agent of 0 ii the universe which he brought into existence. The abounding and endless forms of ' life, the circling worlds, the planets seen and unseen, all have their existence, their V y 1 center, and their unity in him. He is the creator of them all. VVhether, in the - , X M heavens above, we think of the rolling spheres pursuing their trackless way through K 1 countless milleniums, or of those myriad shining intelligences who on hovering wings , 9 are ever ready at the divine command to 'post o'er land and ocean without rest' ,- li g all were created by our Christ and for him. And, whether, in the earth beneath, We r f think of its massive mountains, or its fearsome forests, or its swelling seas, or its 4 rushing rivers, or its limpid lakes, or its priceless hidden treasures, or its limitless life l 2 in the ocean, on the earth, and in the air, rational and non-rational,-all were created ' ' Q by our Christ and for him. Q , ff But this is too wonderful for us. The rationalist revolts, and the man of faith 1 S is overwhelmed. Each thinks that such stupendous truth cannot be so simply explained. , S Each would ask: Was not the universe always in existence ? But the word always A 9 involves endlessness, infinity, and we cannot conceive infinity either of things visible f will L . x x' T' ' t W f ' Z I4 iMNv ' r'r ., ' I J Y ,245 ..,.....- M .,,:fr,'24.a.,'f..fa,....msiaf?2...Q....1,-Wq?M 22

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Q K. l s I my ii , , ..., ' l ,fffw f-ff. - , f111 X 'ff.1.v rf1.N-N X- , ,, 1 ,W ,f,. V, X , i 1 Y If ll sENIoRs Y . S1 J X or invisible. Our imagination can sweep back over multiplied milleniums, backward N and backward into the glimmering dawn of the hoary past, but not infinitely back- ' ll ward. Again, reason pauses on the brink of the infinite and confesses that there W l E must have been a beginning. But it cannot conceive of the act of creation. It cannot ,ii l understand how something could be made out of nothing. It can understand how i something could be made out of something. It can even comprehend how something M ilf ll .l could evolve from the amoeba. But it cannot comprehend an infinite and eternal Qi ll h i creator who was before all things and in whom all things consist. Reason leaves l E l us in hopelessness. It has no answer for the existence of the things about us. Revela- ,' l 110 tion refers us to Christ the Lord who is the image of the invisible God, the creator -l of all things: whether they be thrones or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all 11 5 things were created by him and for him. ,J ff If Christ is Lord of creation it follows that he must be the Lord of life. Paul - 1' 1 says, In Him we live and move and have our being. Not only is he the cause of T of our existence, but also tllle cause of folur continuedhexistencs. gffdhe brought us Iinlto F I Z being, if he made us in is image, i e gave us c oice an se - etermination, i e '3 was made in the likeness of menu and died for us, it then follows without fail that N ! y he will never cast us off if we make him Lord. VVe are his by creation, we are his W by preservation, we are his by redemption, we are his by consummation. fl 1 ln our quest for an explanation of life science gives us no consolation. Vernon ff le l Kellogg, a present-day leader in scientific fields, says it has not enlightened him to any ra Q degree about the origin of life or of conscience. Nor has it answered the question N y l which he most often and most insistently asks, and most wants answered: whether ix N J he has an immortal soul or not. He says it has never explained and does not know. l ll f Science pauses with reason on the brink of the infinite. Life has its origin beyond that ,Q ' ' unknown shore. It emanates from him in whom all things cohere. i lf f , The Lord of life will indeed bear some relation to death. Life and death are A fl, if eternal opposites. Jesus claimed lordship over both when he said: I lay down my Q2 Hg life that I may take it again. The great foe of mortals is death. Our first parents ,Sf 9 realized this. Adam, however, clung to the promise of a Redeemer who should over- L l vig throw the prince of -death. He called his wife's name Eve because she should be M the mother of all living. Her seed came forth in due tune, a partaker of flesh and ' 1 f blood. As a partaker of Hesh and blood he became a partaker of death, and every ' g 9, human heart would know if through death he could destroy him who had the power Q E of deathv? If he lays down his life, can he take it again? This question burned N itself into the lives of the early disciples. Their answer was given in the negative. They knew not that he would be raised again. They knew not that it was impossible ' I , for death to hold him fast. They understood not that if he would conquer their tbl enemy he must close with him in battle. They knew not that if a sacrifice would be l Q l V sufiicient to liberate from death it must itself partake thereof. If he would be the 1 4 Lord of life he must prove himselfl the Loig over death. If death is swallowed Q up in victory' then can we exulting y cry: death, where is thv sting? O grave 'X where is thy victory? Thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our 5 Lord jesus Christ. Upon this fact stands the structure of the Christian Church. il bg The existence of the church is the first and final proof that he rose again. If he lx' 2 has not risen again then our faith is vain. The resurrection is the keystone of the Q X ,W Arch of Triumph over death. lt is the rock on which the waters of unbelief and Q scepticism have dashed themselves to spray for nineteen hundred years. It is a monu- ment bearing the inscription: I am he that liveth, and was dead, and behold, 'I am Wm Z ahve forevermoref' The natural man stands with reason and science upon the brink 'S wb ' T t gxqgriiivr s 'i1',i ff ' ssss 24