The Power of Christ’s Resurrection
By Editor
We wish that every soul in this Christian land could read this number of this paper, and pause long enough to contemplate what the glorious truth of the resurrection of our Lord means, and should mean. How the celebration of a mere day—and that a pagan festival—would pale into nothingness before the resurrection life and light, not of a day, but of all time. Thus the longing heart of an apostle expresses itself: "That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead"—"out from among the dead ones"—the first resurrection. "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection; on such the second death hath no power." But crucifixion must precede resurrection; death to sin must precede life in Christ and righteousness; and character must precede the first resurrection. The power of Christ's resurrection is power over sin.