“There is a line from Lead Kindly Light (Hymn # 97) that moves us gently to a subject that is to all of us of some concern:
“. . . And with the morn those angle faces smile; Which we have loved long since, and lost awhile!:
“It is given to all of us, sometime, to ponder the length of life—the love of loved ones—the loss of loved ones. We come alone; we leave alone. We leave our loved ones or they leave us. Life moves one way. We can’t rerun it. And so with all of us there is deep searching of the soul.
And in this context comes the reality of the resurrection, and of all that pertains to everlasting life. As the record reads, the resurrected Christ was in the company of others, “. . . being seen of them forty days, . . . ” with one or two to 500 or more witnesses. We have no reason to quarrel with the witness of the record, nor with the reality of everlasting life.
If a man die, he shall rise again. And to you who have lost loved ones, we would witness that He who gave us life here, has given us life also hereafter, “And with the morn those angel faces smile, Which we have loved long since, and lost awhile!” “Believest thou this?. . . Yea, Lord: I believe.” ~ Richard L. Evans
From the ‘Richard Evans Quote Book’ Publishers Press, 1973 p. 237
