The Resurrection by Charles L. Boyd

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 13, 1882

The Resurrection.

By Charles L. Boyd

BY ELD. C. L. BOYD.

IN comparing the present with the future state, Paul says, “The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from Heaven.”

We are not able here to fully realize what it will be to be there. We know with what wonder and amazement, a little company looked upon the resurrection of one man, from among the hills of Judea. What must it be when that unnumbered throng from every tribe and nation, who have been washed in the cleansing blood, hear that same life-giving voice, and respond to the divine mandate?

“He has been dead four days,” was urged as an objection; they have been dead as many thousands of years, and yet the bands of death will be burst asunder, and the startled skies will reverberate the shouts of victory over death, hell, and the grave.

The sons of God, who, at the beginning, shouted for joy as they saw a new race added to the Creator’s universe, now join in anthems of glory, that their God has not only power to create, but also to redeem.

Faraday’s little silver cup was knocked into a jar of acid. “It is lost,” says the doubter. At his leisure, the great philosopher introduces some chemical into the jar, and gathers together the shapeless mass. He sends it to the silversmith, and, in due time, receives his own precious cup.

The infidel says to us, of our friends in Christ, “They are lost;” but we know that as Faraday’s cup was restored, “So them also which sleep in Jesus shall God bring with him.”

Dear readers, of you who are trusting in the merits of a Saviour’s blood, let me ask, Shall not we who dare entertain such a hope as this, seek to purify ourselves even as he is pure?