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ANNIVERSARY-EASTER
EDITION
The Roundup
Record
PART THREE
VOLUME V.—NUMBER 1.
ROUNDUP, MUSSELSHELL COUNTY, MONTANA. FRIDAY
MARCH 29. 1912.
$2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Resurrection
OF JESUS
By REV. G. EDWARD HUTT
Pastor FirstMethodist Episcopal Church
TEXT : "He is not here, but is
risen" Luke 24:6.
M ORE than nineteen hundred years
ago the greatest event in the history
of the world took place. A young
man, who had led a very remarkable life for
about three years in Gallilee and Judea^ in
healing all kinds of diseases, in restoring
sight to the blind, in giving life to the dead
and restoring them to their loved ones, and
befriending all who were in need. This
young man, although a friend of men and a
helper of the needy, was accused of treason,
tried and convicted and sentenced to death.
He was to die the most ignominious death
known—that of crucifixion. He was cruci
fied with two criminals. He was treated
better than the usual criminal, for his body
was given to his friends for burial whereas
most criminals were not given burial.
A strange thing occurred on the third
day after the burial. Some of the women
who loved this young man came early in the
morning of the first day of the week to finish
the preparation for burial, for when the body
was laid away the Sabbath drew near and
they did not have time to complete the burial.
When they arrived they found the tomb
empty. They were surprised. They were
disappointed. Jesus was not there. They went
away sorrowfully. But Mary Magdelene
wept and as she wept someone spoke to her,
saying, "Mary, why weepest thou?" Mary
knew that voice. She knew it was Jesus.
He was her Savior. She worshipped Him.
Then He appeared to Peter alone on
that first day. Ah, what a privilege for
Peter ! We have no account of that meet
ing, but it must have meant much to Peter,
for Peter had denied Jesus on the night of
the betrayal; not only had he denied Him,
but he cursed and swore. But now- Jesus is
favoring him with a visit alone. No wonder
Peter could preach on the day of Pentecost
with such eloquence and power that three
thousand souls would give allegiance to
Jesus as their Savior. He appeared to the
two disciples on their way to Emmaus ; He
appeared to all the disciples save Thomas on
that first day; He appeared to all the dis
ciples on the next Sunday ; then to the seven
while they were fishing; He appeared to all
the disciples in the mountains of Gallilee;
He appeared to five hundred people at one
time; then he appeared to His brother,
James, and lastly to the apostles at Pethany
on the day of the Ascension.
Why recall all of these appearances after
the resurrection? To show that the resur
rection faith is based upon the resurrection
fact. The Christian church is built upon
the resurrection faith and if there is no resur
rection fact to sustain the resurrection faith
then it is built upon a foundation of sand and
cannot stand.
If Jesus did not rise, then we are preach
ing a false faith and raising a false hope. As
Paul says, "If Christ hath not been raised,
then is our preaching vain ; your faith also is
vain and we are of all men most miserable."
The whole plan of redemption, His miracu
lous birth, His excellent life and beautiful ex
ample, His crucifixion and death are all vain
if He "be not raised from the dead."
But, listen, Christ was raised from the
dead. This fact is as well attested too as
any fact in history. We believe not in a
dead Christ but in a living Savior. We look
not into an empty tomb but to the throne of
the Father on high. Our hope is not in one
who was vanquished, but in one who tri
umphed over every foe, even the last enemy
—death and the grave.
This glad Easter time, when nature re
minds us of the resurrection—the grasses,
the flowers and the trees returning to life
again—we look away to the skies and be
hold the Risen Savior, and say, with the poet,
'Tis the spring of souls today :
Christ hath burst his prison,
From the frost and gloom of death
Light and life have risen.
All the winter of our sins,
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e do not know the beauty of ftls face.
Hnd yet no countenance has been so wrought
Upon by artists, seeking thus to trace
In outward guise the the glory of Fils thought
IClc do not know the music of bis speech,
Hnd yet no words have ever lived so long
Nor had such power the hearts of men to reach
In precept or in song.
H ND now and then some band divinely gifted
has limned a likeness that, however dim,
has made us dream Clme's curtain had oeen
lifted
Hnd we were privileged to look on him.
Xwas such transcribed this vision, for If ever
Che face Divine by mortal art was shown
de have It here to charm the world forever.
Chese features are his own.
Birth and Growth of The Record
F OUR years ago this week the first issue
of The Roundup Record made its ap
pearance. A new town had been born
and it was as natural as the day follows the
night that a newspaper found its home here
soon after. It was an unpretentious sheet
to start with as the facilities afforded at that
time were not of such a nature to permit the
publication of a big metropolitan newspaper.
Freight service from the East had not
yet been regularly established and when the
time came for the publication of the initial
number it was found that there were shy a
number of the essential things with which to
get out a newspaper. This, however, did
not hinder the wheels of progress. With an
empty type case as a desk and a nail keg as
an editorial chair, the copy of the first edition
was written and work on the mechanical end
commenced with some drawbacks. The
forms were finally put to press and on Fri
day, April 3, 1908, the first copy of The
Roundup Record was drawn from the blan
ket of an Army hand press. The few resi
dents of Roundup at that time could hardly
realize that the town had already grown to a
size where it needed a newspaper about as
bad as it needed anything, and the first issue
was somewhat of a novelty. The boosting
spirit had already manifested itself at this
Long and dark, is flying
From his light to whom we give
Thanks and praise undying.
"Hallelujahnow we cry
To our King immortal,
Who, triumphant, burst the bars
Of the tomb's dark portal;
",Hallelujah" with the Son,
God, the Father, praising;
"Hallelujah" yet again
To the Spirit raising.
T OCl know the scene—hove one hod come to find
Gtcrnal life through doing God's commandai
how by blo very mien may be divined
Che Lord's reply i how eloquent hie hand»!
If thou vcouldet gain the riches» that endure,
Che wealth that wastes not, and "wouldst perfect be,
6c!t that thou hast and give it to the poor
Hnd come and follow Me."
C "'1 IV6 Is the key-word—give; give of your treasure t
*J| Give health and happiness: give heart and
mind i
Give from a hcapened and o'erflowing measure
Of service unto God and humankind -,
Give of your solace to the broken hearted i
Give of your life till self (s sacrificed,
for only by your giving Is Imparted
Che message of the Christ.
early stage and Volume 1 , Number 1 of The
Record was replete with desriptions of the re
sources and advantages of Roundup and pre
dictions of the future greatness of the city.
The path of The Record was not all
strewn with roses. About the worst diffi
culty encountered was the mailing of the
weekly edition which soon reached a com
fortable figure in point of circulation. The
new town did not yet boast of a postoffice,
the office not yet having been moved over
irom Old Roundup. The papers had to be
mailed there, going out from there by stage.
It usually required about two weeks for the
t aper to reach Lewistown, then our county
seat. Not until June 22, 1908, was railway
mail service established.
The growth of The Record has been
synonymous with the growth of Roundup
in fact the publisher has always aimed to
keep a little ahead if such a thing was pos
sible. Before it was a year old the old Army
hand press was discarded and a power press
and gasoline engine installed. Other labor
aving machinery and new material was con
stantly added, electric power was substitut
ed for "Old Maud," the gasoline engine, and
newspaper publishing became a pleasure.
By far the greatest improvement The Record
has undertaken was the installation of a
Mergenthaler Linotype which was added to
ilie plant last October and is now in daily
operation in this office. The Record now
boasts of one of the best equipped newspaper
offices in the state of Montana.
During its career The Record has exper
ienced only one event of a disastrous nature
and that was the fire on November 17, 1911,
which partially destroyed the plant. With
out losing an issue, however, the work of re
construction was immediately commenced
and The Record emerged better than ever.
The Meaning
Of EASTER
By REA'. LA ROY A. LTPPITT
Pastor First Congregational Church
7 E A 7 : "It a man die, shall he
live again?" Job i.j-.i /.
I t A MAX die, shall he live again?" For
centuries that was the supreme query of
mankind; the quiry that none could ans
wer though the wisest sought to, and the
most ignorant wondered. For within man
was something that told him that when he
laid his dead away, that was not the last.
There was something within him, he knew
not what, that he felt could not die. Yet he
bttd no tangible proof to oiler in support of
this instinct, either to another, who came to
ask comfort in distress, or yet to himself as
lie saw himself steadily and surely approach
ing the black abyss. Or when, with weeping
eyes and broken spirit, he saw the body of
the one, long dear to him, laid away and rea
lized that never again on earth could he hope
to see that face or hear that voice.
.lias lor him who never sees
y he stars shine through the cypress trees;
II ho hopeless lays his dead away.
A 'or looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play.
But those days are past. l ew, indeed,
today in civilized lands, whether thev ac
knowledge thi" Mighty Naze re ne as their
Master and Savior or not ; whether they
lake 1 lis name upon their lips in most solemn
prayer and devotion, or whether thev take it
only on their lips in prolane blasphemy;
whether they live in devotion to the cause of
uplifting mankind in the Spirit of the Christ
and by the ways which He taught and used,
ot spend their hie in a greed}' orgv, debasing
their fellow men and themselves; vet. today
they accept the truth first proved by Him:
the truth, one of the most precious of all to
mankind, li a man die, he shall live again.
But when Christ rose from the dead
and thereby proved the truth of His teach
ing, that death was but a sleep from which
men will awaken at the call of Cod, He did
it not primarily to prove the fact ot immor
tality, but to prove a far greater truth. No
doubt it was a unique service which He ren
dered to mankind in proving to them that
there was a life after death, but that was so
insignificant that lie Himself scarcely men
tions it for itself, and men catching the em
phasis have fallen into the same attitude.
J he churches today do not celebrate It aster
because on that day Christ manifested His
power over physical death and proved that
there was a future life, much as that act alone
is worth}' of the celebration. The great
hosts of the followers of the Christ celebrate
that day because in that resurrection was
proven to humanity that there was a resur
rection from the death in sin as well as the
death in the flesh. The Christ had in His
life proclaimed a ( iod of love and forgive
ness. He had claimed that He himsetf was
the Son of Cod sent forth to teach men that
truth and many other great truths of life.
But those truths required the verification of
God Himself. I he resurrection came as
their verification and the verification of the
life of Christ. It was the verification of the
fact that God so loved mankind that He gave
His only begotten Son that whosoever be
lieveth on Him should not perish but have
everlasting life. Christ saw realities where
we see but the shadow. Physical death he
called a sleep, but to arouse men from spir
itual death He came to earth and gave His
life. H is idea of the comparative importance
of the two is shown in His statement. It were
better for a man that a millstone be hung
about his neck and he be drowned in the
midst of the sea than that he should cause
one child that believ ed on Him to stumble.
When from that rock-hewn sepulcher
He came forth on the first Easter morning
there arose not only Jesus, the Nazerene, not
only the Christ of the living God, but with
Him rose Humanity. The tomb was there
opened that every soul buried by sin might
find life by following Him who opened it.