The Pledge of Our Resurrection.
The resurrection of the dead is a great mystery. We cannot fully understand its possibility when viewed only in the light of reason. But when we come to a study of the subject from the light of revelation it is vastly different. Many things are not clear to reason which are nevertheless true. Revelation states the fact clearly that man shall rise again. It matters little to us how this shall be accomplished, as long as we believe it. That it will be done is as certain and plausible as any other fact stated in the Scriptures. These are matters of faith, and as such may baffle our minds, but to the infinite Creator this is no more difficult than to create a universe and hold it together by his own omnific power. The Scriptures, however, declare Christ to be the pledge of the resurrection of all his children. He is "the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming." When we are in doubt concerning this subject, we find the solution in him who is the resurrection and the life. He it is who solves every mystery, who settles every doubt, and who lightens every avenue of human faith and reason. In him and by him we have hope, for he it is who overcame death and the grave and ever liveth to make intercession for us. He is the pledge, assurance, cause of hope of our resurrection, for he is abundantly able to open the grave of every mortal, and to speak to every sleeper in the words, "Come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."—Sel.