THE IMMORTAL YOUTH OF JESUS.
By Wm. Hauser
“His soul was not left in hades, neither did his flesh see corruption.” Acts 2:27; Ps. 16:10. A touching story is told by a London paper of some miners who, not many years ago, working far underground, discovered the body of a young man who had perished in that suffocating pit forty years before. By chemical means in that laboratory of nature decay had been prevented, and the body of the fine, sturdy young man looked perfectly natural—hair jet black, and not a convulsion mark on the face. No one knew him. A generation had come and gone while he lay sleeping under ground. But a tottering old woman, who had heard the news, came hurrying from her cottage. She knew him. He was to have been her husband on the day after that on which he died. There were no dry eyes when this poor woman cast herself on his dead body, and poured into his deaf ears words of endearment unused for forty years. It was a touching contrast, the one so old, the other so young. Time had gone on with the living, but had stood still with the dead. Jesus was crucified at thirty-three years of age—in all the beauty, glory, and strength of his young manhood. Just as he fell, so he rose. His flesh saw not corruption. And John says, “We know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”—Wm. Hauser, in Standard and Journal.