In a certain city in Romania is a burying ground called the "Mary Cemetery." The crosses that serve as tombstones are ornamented with carvings, paintings in bright colors and even amusing epitaphs. They express, of course, the Christian''s belief in the resurrected life.

The Communist government, which wrote the travel folders describing this cemetery and its unique tombstones, until recently described the Christian hope expressed on the tombstones as merely "the expression of a certain philosophy regarding the way of facing death."

Ah, but it is far more than that; it is not so much a philosophy but a faith, an inward assurance about the very nature of death. That faith springs from a Christian''s relationship to Jesus Christ who assures us, "I am the resurrection and the life; if anyon…