THE TWO VITAL THINGS by Alexander Maclaren

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 9, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 19.

THE TWO VITAL THINGS.

By Alexander Maclaren

"THIS do in remembrance of Me—this is My body broken for you—this is My blood shed for many for the remission of sins." There is the point out of which all the line is developed; there is the fact from which all the energy that Christ wields in the world does spring. It is the death of Christ and the resurrection of the Christ who dieth no more, from which everything else that is blessed and powerful and deep and wise and illuminating in the Christian teaching must be derived. We are not to forget His blessed words of wisdom; we are not to forget the magnetic influence of that marvelous personality, as it walked yielding light, and healing—like the beams which fall upon those affected by lupus—all manner of foulness with which it came in contact; we are not to forget the works of power which He did; but central to them all is this—He died, and He rose again.—Alexander Maclaren.