Editorial by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 20, 1905

Editorial

By Editor

“He . . . Is Risen”

SORROW and perplexity were changed into astonishment when the two men “in shining garments” said to the women at the tomb, “Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen.” Although his enemies “made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch,” yet the sinless One triumphed over death, and over the rent sepulcher he proclaimed, “I am the resurrection and the life.”

“Vainly they watch his bed, Jesus, my Saviour! Vainly they seal the dead, Jesus, my Lord! Up from the grave he arose, With a mighty triumph o’er his foes; He arose a victor from the dark domain, And he lives forever with his saints to reign: He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!”

The resurrection demonstrates the rightfulness of Christ’s claim to oneness with the Father. The resurrection furnishes the ground of confidence for the forgiveness of sins. “If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. . . . Ye are yet in your sins.” The resurrection establishes the certainty of Christ’s power over the grave: “I am the first and the last, and the Living One; and I became dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.” In the likeness and the power of the resurrection we are quickened, and enabled to lead the life of righteousness: “We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.” Thus the resurrection is a corner-stone of the Christian faith. And the time is near at hand when “them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” We need to be often reminded that “He . . . is risen.”