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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · May 7, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 18.

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The Resurrection.

THERE is no doctrine more clearly taught in the Bible than the resurrection of the dead. Christ has assured us that "the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth." The redemption of our bodies, as well as the redemption of our souls, is assured. Over against the grave, Jesus has placed the resurrection, and over against death, he has written life eternal, so that death is robbed of his sting, and the grave of its victory. A belief in the resurrection of the dead, with greater or less distinctness, prevailed among the heathen nations of antiquity, as well as among the Jews. But it remained for Christ, by his own resurrection, to illustrate life and immortality, and for the vague conjectures of the ancients touching the possibility of such an event, to substitute the certainty of the fact. While philosophy must ever remain at fault in regard to the mode of the resurrection, Jesus in his own personality has furnished the key to the great fact, and assured us of its reality beyond a rational doubt. He has made positive what was before, to a great extent, a matter of speculative faith. He has demonstrated that death is a conquered foe, and that his reign is broken. With the apostle we may exultantly exclaim, "Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." His resurrection is the pledge and assurance of our resurrection. As surely as he rose, so surely shall we also rise. This is a fact in which we may well rejoice, and one which the church may celebrate with joy and gladness. With grateful hearts we should hail the day that saw him rise. We may now, in full assurance of hope, lay our loved ones in the grave, and our own feet may enter its gloom, for we know that if a man die he shall live again; and he that liveth and believeth in Jesus shall never die. He is the resurrection and the life.—Methodist Recorder.