"The Hope of the World"
By: Helen Steiner Rice
An empty tomb,
          a stone rolled away
Speak of the Saviour
          who rose Easter Day
But that was centuries
          and centuries ago,
And we ask today
          WAS IT REALLY SO?
Did He walk on earth
          and live and die
And return to His Father
          to dwell on high?
We were not there
          to hear or see
But our hopes and dreams
          of eternity
Are centred around
          the Easter Story
When Christ ascended
          and rose in glory . . .
And life on earth
          has not been the same,
Regardless of what
          the skeptics claim,
For, after the Lord
         was crucified,
Even the ones who had
          scoffed and denied
Knew that something
          had taken place
That nothing could ever
          remove or erase . . .
For 
hope was born
          in the soul of man,
And
faith to believe
          in God's Master Plan
Stirred in the hearts
          to dispel doubt and fear
And that Faith has grown
          with each passing year . . .
For the Hope of man
          is the Easter story,
For life is robbed
          of all meaning and glory
Unless man knows
          that he has a "goal"
And a "resting place"
          for his searching soul



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