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RELIGIOUS.
The Resurrection.
The chief priests and pharisees, fearing that the prophecy of Jesus would come to pass, placed a guard around the tomb. As the soldiers slept the angels appeared, lifted the stone from the tomb, and Jesus, restored to life, rose. The guard then woke, and stricken with terror at this vision fell to earth as if dead.
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This story is founded on fact, and centers round one of those powerfully dramatic incidents which abound in Biblical history.
Coincident with the birth of Jesus Christ there was born a man, John the Baptist, who was destined to play an important, though quiet, part in the history of his time. He was a man characterized by a proud indifference for the opinions of men in general, and those who set themselves up as superior to their fellow-men in particular. He was known as a prophet and a religious teacher of his time, and his teaching, and often too true and outspoken comments, had a powerful influence on the minds of his hearers, and many crowded to listen to the eccentric man clothed in camel's raiment, whose diet was locusts and wild honey.
There was living at this time a king of the Jews, He"rod by name, who, though professedly leading a religious life, was, nevertheless, living a life of secret immorality and sin. The height of his wickedness was reached when he openly took as his consort his brother Philip's lawful and undivorced wife, Herodias, a beautiful, vain and unscrupulous woman, whose life of worldliness and love of pleasure was the talk of the common people.
When the news of this unlawful union reached John the Baptist, he boldly made his way to Herod's court, forced his way to
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