The Archive · 1928

Our Limited Philosophy

In the midst of their bewilderment we are told that two heavenly. visitors appeared. We shall not attempt to give a rational explanation as to who these supernatural beings were except to say that there avo more thingy in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our Limited philosophies. We are content to leave the matter as our records state it, Well, these ethereal visitors made as their first announcement the amazing statement that Jesus was risen, but such a statement was so overwhelming, that it) over-reached itself - and merely stunned the minds of the listeners. So the heavenly anrnouneers came to earth; they met the distressed women on their own ground; they linked their message with some association they knew to' be hidden in the recesses of the listeners' minds, "Remember how He spoke unto you," they said, Look into your own minds and see if the whole explanation la not there already, buried away in some cell of the memory. They helped them to recall; they stimulated their memory by quoting one of the earlier forecasts that Jesus had made:—"Remember blow He spoke unto you while Me was yet in Galilee.

Then something: happened in their minds. Ideas which had dwelt apart sprang together. A flash of illumination lit up. the whole of their world. "They remembered His words." All was now plain; everything was explained. The key: to all life's mystery wan discovered, and perhaps the most wonderful thing about it all was that they had deen in possession of the explanation all the time, if they had only recalled it, It' was there, but buried hidden in the depths of their minds..It needed something release it, to bring: it leaping to life. Such wax the effect of the empty tomb. Those earlier announcements which appeared to make no impression whatever at the time came leaping to their newly-stimulated memories, lit up with meaning, was now remembered and by being Femembered was explained,

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