Oh
the Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him.
Oh!
From the world famous south rim of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, the
national broadcasting company in cooperation with K. T. A. R. Phoenix and
the National Park Service presents its 17th annual broadcast of an easter
sunrise service
In returning to the shrine of the Ages for a continuation of our easter
devotions. He recalled an incident in biblical history that must have had
much in common with this moment and the tensions of our times. The great
prophet and reformer Elijah, sick of the way in which its people had
forsaken God left them for the sanctuary of a famous mount there while he
reflected on the tragic ways of his world, a great and strong wind rent
the mountains and break in pieces the box and after the earthquake came a
fire and after the fire, a still small voice. It was the voice God in an
hour of need
for the inspiration of another unforgettable Grand Canyon easter sunrise,
we take you now to grand viewpoint some 14 miles to the east. This is the
highest point along the south rim nearly 7500 ft above sea level. Our
observer Howard Pyle? Yeah, this is grand viewpoint and certainly no other
one word could describe it more perfectly Coronado who more than 400 years
ago became the first white man to see the Grand Canyon. He's believed to
have made his astounding discovery in almost this exact spot. The physical
dimensions of all we can survey from here include more than 1000 square
miles of the most colorful and spectacular country on earth. At this
particular point, the Grand Canyon of Arizona is from 15 to 17 miles wide
And more than five ft deep. For the first time in several easters, we are
watching the sunrise from a spot where a considerable expanse of the
centuries old Colorado River can be seen. From here. The thickness of the
lead pencil would measure the slate gray with to this powerful stream as
it roars into a sharp turn. Thousands of feet below us disappears in the
gloom of what looks like a bottomless pit. The easter son has already
kindled a tremendous fire in the east, hi along the skyline to the left of
its blazing beauty to great wall and the dome of a world famous mountain
are sharply silhouetted in the distance nearest to us, but still many a
mile away ranges the heavily fluted line of the desert policy on across
the winding canyon of the tributary little Colorado River rises the
perpendicular sweep of the echo cliff. Still farther on. In fact, more
than 100 miles away stands the sacred shrine of the Navajo Navajo mountain.
These are but the visible highlights to the east. In between and out of
sight are the primitive Hogan's in the isolated haunts of the wandering
Navajo. The rolling beauty is a painted desert glen canyon, marble canyon
, and all of the vast wonderlands of the upper Colorado Above it all, in
this thrilling hour of revelation another Grand Canyon. Easter sunrise is
slowly glorifying everything within reach. The lazy glow of a few moments
ago is now a flaming reminder that the resurrection promise of Easter
could have no finer parallel in reality than the daily drama of the sun Ra.
Not once has God Son ever failed to return from the twilight of its last
setting? Not once has it ever failed to return to the same old world, your
world, my world! And this mysterious world of rock bound titans, temple
and tumult known as the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The wind warn weather
beaten faces of a lot of our old friends are beginning to put in an
appearance. Now Yonder is water and thrown across the flat top massiveness
of this gigantic pillar of stone. We can see the warm sunlight running
westward along the north rim from Cape Royal and Cape Final. The heroic
spires of the temples of Zorro Astro brahma and diva have been lighted to.
She'll show any point a part of the sheer south rim wall to our left is
now hundreds of feet deep in sunshine, Far below. The striking beauty of
these soaring summits. The Grand canyon is still filled with the brooding
twilight. The east wall would be as black as midnight, were it not for the
fact that we are looking at it through a misty curtain a velvet soft
sunday. What a contrast there is between the heavenly magic of the
sunlight and the earthbound hardness of the lines across which we are
watching that sunlight fall with such an easy grade as the easter sun
moves on, we pause for a moment to examine that earthbound hardness in the
light of known history. It all began more than a billion, 500 million
years ago when God in his wisdom unleashed the forces that gave us the
earth on which we live. Since then five geologic eras have passed this way.
two of them, leaving virtually nothing by which they might be remembered
At one time. One of these ancient tablets of 500 million year old slab Was
represented in this area by a mountain range from 18 to 20 ft high. The
winds and the tides of the ages past wore it away, and what is left of its
beveled edge, though still faintly visible in the north korean war to the
Grand Canyon can be measured by the width of your finger. Seven oceans and
untold numbers of freshwater lakes have flowed across this ancient plan.
The rock on which I'm standing, though thousands of feet above sea level,
is covered and filled with the fossilized remains of seashells and other
forms of marine life against such a background. The entire life of man is
nothing yet we think it's everything how desperately the men and the
nations of our world need to camp for a while along the rims of the Grand
Canyon of Arizona, where the combined ego of all concerns might be brought
to its knees before greatness! That is great man! Here. The pinyon pine in
the mountain mahogany, lived side by side in peace Heights and depths
complement each other. The reds, blues and grays of widely separated
centuries harmonized to perfection. There is life and death, sunshine and
shadow, and always the still small boy of God! Oh, oh,
oh,
oh!
For our easter morning prayer from the Shrine of the Ages. We present the
reverend Kenneth, poor resident minister at Grand Canyon, reverend pori,
Our father. We thank thee for thy son, jesus christ our risen and
triumphant Lord and savior. We gather at the Shrine of the Ages, this
glorious easter Morning to honor and adore him. Look down in mercy. We
pray thee on a world torn with strife and confusion, give us strength and
courage to follow the way of the cross, send our light into the hearts of
those who sit in darkness and transform them by thy love and power, soften
the hearts of those who rebel against the and help them to find the way of
salvation. We rejoice in the knowledge that thou art no respecter of race
or color, and we pray for the day in which those of every tribe and nation
shall bend the knee at the I name and every tongue, confess the Lord all
this! We pray in the name of our redeemer who loved us and gave himself
for us. Oh men
morning mary
a man sorrow. Her master was nothing,
she loved it,
so much sorrow went oh
boy
guilty
in christ of Lord is reason
mm Our Grand Canyon minister for this morning is the reverend tm pile
pastor of the community church at buckeye Arizona and father of one of the
co founders of this Grand Canyon easter sunrise service series, reverend
pile
resurrection is the greatest event of all time and we can little conceive
of its mighty effect upon the character of mankind.
It is right and fitting that we should observe this day with the spirit of
joy and deep consecration. The inspiration of this sublime experience is a
divine revelation of the majesty and glory of life. God has not only given
us the written promise of the resurrection in his word, but with each
succeeding spring we see the reality of it in each blade of grass and
fluttering wings. Mhm mhm
yeah, yeah. Mhmmhm