The Christian's Cheer

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 29, 1864

The Christian's Cheer.

THERE is a day coming when all shall hear the voice of the Son of God and come forth from their graves. "I am the resurrection and the life." "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."

Here is the foundation of the Christian's enjoyment, mainspring of all his pleasure, the secret of all his happiness. In view of this, he is enabled to distill sweetness and comfort from the things of this life as he makes them instrumental in laying up treasures in heaven. The bright and glorious future spread out before the Christian is that which enables him to surmount the difficulties and troubles, to overcome the trials and temptations that beset him on every hand through life's devious journey. Oh, were it not for these bright and precious promises of the glorious Gospel of the Son of God, how cheerless and gloomy would be the journey from the "cradle to the grave!"—Journal and Messenger.