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Easter joyous! Easter bright! Birth of day and death of night; Man is risen from the dead; Death and hell are captive led. Death and hell—ye twain accurst! Death and hell—your bands are burst. Christ is risen! Christ the first Life and immortality! — John H. Samans. “Now if Christ be preached that He rose from the dead, how say some among vou that there is no resurrection of the dead? . . “But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen, “And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yetin your sins. “Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. “But now IS Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fimits of them that slept.” (1 Cor. 15:12, 13, 17, 18, M ). THE FIRST FRUITS It is the Easter time. The church is centering its thoughts upon the risen, glorified Christ. To those who have meditated upon the Word, He is visualized as a glorified Man whose hands and. feet and side speak,always of our sins and of His sacrificial suffering, and assure us of our personal relationship to Him, and our position with Him in our glorified bodies, which must he like His own hody. _ . This is the sentence passed upon us who as criminals, subject to and worthy of eternal separation from Him, crouched at His wounded feet at the cross and received at His hands the full pardon for our sins and the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit who sets the seal upon us until the day of our redemption,—that day of all days—day of gladness- day of eternal joy—day of reunion with all of the saints—when, with bodies like unto His own precious glorified body, we shall be with Him forever. The thought transcends human comprehension, but faith grasps it, glories in it, goes gladly into all the world and honors Him by testifying to it, and lovingly gathers with His saints around His table as often as pos sible in obedience to His holy command, so that the Holy Spirit may strengthen our faith and deepen our desire to be with Him and like Him, while we wait for the fulness of His promise, in the glory.—T. C. H. THE ROYAL RESURRECTION Is the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ in question? It is denied by'many preachers and teachers now, just as. they deny so many other things that affect His glory. It is not denied by fair-minded, square-
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