Death, Resurrection, and Immortality
Alexander H. Peacock, one of the multi-millionaires of Pittsburg, offered the physicians of that city one million dollars if they could save the life of his friend, Dr. Ridgeway. He is worth fifteen millions, and declared he would have given every penny in the world. “I loved him,” he tells us, “as a brother, and it was awful to think of him having to die.” Death is awful, and there is no power in the human to stay its hand in the ultimate; only One can do it, and He is the Lifegiver who has passed thru the grave. We can not buy it of Him; we must get it of Him by simple faith in His great love and mercy. To those who trust Him it will be given without money and without price. Death is “the last enemy” that “shall be destroyed,” and the grave will give back its prey, and those who go down clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ will come up clothed with His immortality.