played in Christian belief. To be a Christian has always meant, not a mere adherence to some of the principles which Christ taught or membership in a particular organization, but to believe in Christ's resurrection as the seal of authority which God set on His life and teaching, and as the divine qualification for founding an organization which should be known by His name. Belief in the resurrection then, is not some special test by which a Christian is to be tried, but is the natural starting point of all his faith and practice; and the existence of Christianity to-day with its millions of adherents is itself evidence for the basis on which it rests.

Christ, as the source of life and strength and power for every individual man, is the meaning of the resurrection; for as Christ overcame death, the great obstacle before mankind, so those who put their faith in Him may rise above the real difficulties and hazards of life. That has been the record of Christianity, a line of men and women who strong in faith have exhibited that renewing and overcoming power which their great leader showed. From every walk of life and every age have come such people whose lives have been a living witness to the power of the resurrection in transforming

weakness into strength and fear and cowardice into courage. It is not just those whose names have gone down in history as saints and martyrsthough their crowns are not to be taken from them -who have given proof of the reality of the resurrection; but in both palace and tenement, rich villa and rough shack have lived plenty whose lives have been lifted from the commonplace by that same power, even though the secret has been known only by those with whom they came in contact.

It is then as the Christian triumph that the resurrection should really be known. Philosophers have come and gone and left wise words of counsel and comfort which have helped many, leaders have organized religions that have played large parts in the world's history; but no one yet has had his whole being made over with new life and purpose through accepting the advice of a philosopher or joining a new system of religion such as has come to those who have entered into the meaning of Christ's resurrection. It is not new thought, stimulating as that may be, or new ideals, much as they may inspire; but it is new

life in the power of Christ which itself brings new thought and new ideals.

It is this aspect of the resurrection,-the moral and spiritual triumph, which has most interest for us today; for everyone can see the value of such a power in the midst of daily existence, while few are deeply concerned in that which is to come with death. Nor is this to minimize the importance of Christ's physical resurrection and its bearing on the destiny of human life. But just as in Him the physical victory was the necessary and subsequent result of His moral and spiritual triumph in life, so for ordinary mankind that new birth and strength must come first and the other may be left to follow naturally in God's own time.

It has been through no mistake or accident that Christians have made Easter the great feast of the year with its weekly remembrance in the Lord's Day, for it has stood for the greatest and deepest truth in Christianity-the one thing which must remain though all else change-the ever present power and triumph of the new life from within.

Utah Health League.

Logan is to have a local branch of the abovementioned League, and that means more than the title would seem to indicate. The Utah Health

League is not a cult for the promotion of new breakfast foods or the advocacy of the simple life in forty chews, but it has a very definite and practical purpose. Its object, as the Constitution adopted at a mass-meeting of Salt Lake citizens on March 2nd says, is to be "the promotion of the public health. It shall study the sanitary questions and needs of the state, shall assist in securing the enactment of suitable laws and measures for the prevention of disease, and shall further the dissemination of information relative to the public health. It shall aid in the movement to establish a National Bureau of Health, and shall encourage and foster local health organizations as branches of the league within the State of Utah."

With such a program, the League cannot fail to be productive of great and lasting good. The general awakening on questions of public health has been developing throughout the country of recent years and people are beginning to see that the responsibility of combatting disease rests with them. A matter like this, which touches everyone so closely, cannot be left to the mercies of chance or the feeble efforts of a lone health officer. The proverbial ounce of prevention is not only worth more but is pleasanter to take than the pounds of cure offered by the doctors.

To doubters of the value of the league it may be said that organization is the great method today of securing results, and this organization has some very definite things which it can work for in Logan in line with its general purpose. There is, for instance, the safe-guarding of the public water supply, the proper inspection of food products offered for public sale, dairy sanitation and care as to the physical condition of the animals furnishing milk or meat, plumbing and ventilation, and other features of building construction, etc.

No one can say that Logan does not need to have its people stirred to united activity along