THE RESURRECTION by C. W. Stone

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 10, 1879

THE RESURRECTION.

By C. W. Stone

BY C. W. STONE.

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ISAIAH prophesied of the resurrection in the following plain terms: “Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.” To make this language more clear would be about as difficult as to make a good argument on the proposition that two and two make four. To express the idea more forcibly, that dead men shall be restored to life again, and be brought up out of the grave bodily as they went into it, would be a difficult task. Isaiah’s hope most certainly was in the literal resurrection of dead men. “Thy dead men shall live.” But, according to the views of many, there are no dead men; it is simply the body that dies, while the real man lives on unceasingly. How, then, can dead men live again? That which does not cease to live cannot live again. But, however widely the view may obtain that men do not really die, there is no Bible for it, and no truth in it. It was the first lie ever recorded, and the devil was the author of it. Gen. 3:4. Men ought to know better. We see men die every day. And Isaiah says, “Thy dead men shall live.” Glorious thought! The same loved forms we used to see are to be seen again. The same dear mother that death took from our embrace, the same loved brother that went down into the grave in the morning of