324 TH E K I N G ' S B U S I NE S S minded, thoughtful men, those who are accustomed to weigh facts even if they do not accept Christ as thiér own personal Saviour,—and by “ born- again” ones, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, it can never be questioned. The facts are so tremendous that it is impossible for a well-balanced mind to deny them. Our Holy Bible, with its indisputable testimony, stands or falls on the statement that Christ, by His own power, came forth from the tomb with a physical, glorified body, and will also raise us up by His own power. The Old Testament testified to it: “ Thou wilt not leave my soul in Hades; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” The testimony of all the apostles sets its seal to its verity. For forty days He was with His chosen witnesses, manifesting Himself in bodily form, eating with them, fellowshipping with them. His wounded hands, feet and side spoke sorrowful words of His suffering. Two men from Heaven stood beside His disciples as He was caught up into Heaven, and testified to them that He would return “ in like manner.” Stephen saw Him through the rent veil of cloud, standing at the right hand of the glory of God. Paul heard Him speak, calling him by name and declaring Himself as the persecuted'Jesus, The first day o f the week (our Sunday) speaks every day in seven of His bodily resurrection. The church of the living God, the departed ones and the living ones, are indisputable witnesses to His bodily resurrection. Unless you can destroy the Bible, blot out the Lord’s Day and the mil lions of saints, the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ stands out as the one supreme fact, impossible of refutation, Now, what shall we say to the men in our schools and churches who set themselves up as scholars and tell us that Jesus Christ did not rise again in bodily form, and that He is without a glorified body today ? What shall we call these men who deny the testimony o f God’s Word, of the,Lord’s Day, of the Church,—and who would rob God’s dear children of the joyful anticipation of seeing Him in bodily form and being like Him? What is their motive? Who is at the bottom of this propaganda? What is the purpose underlying it? Can these be God’s men? Nay, verily. These are Satan-serving, soul-seducing enemies of our Lord and of His church. Why not challenge them publicly? Why not eliminate them from the church by the process of separation and pray for them as we pray for other hard-hearted, devil-deceived victims of Satan? Awake! Awake! Ye saints! . __T. C. H. JOKING ABOUT JONAH A professed professor in the neighborhood of Los Angeles has been enlightening the benighted people hereabouts with some supposedly sci entific scintillations emanating from his brain cavity. We have not heard him personally, and doubt whether our meager and immature educational advantages would enable us to grasp or grip the full import of his wondrous words; but there have filtered through our thought receptacle a few fragments of his wonderful story—a story so marvellous in its makeup that we wonder how even the Twentieth Century could have produced a human being.with such a prodigious capacity for-flying!
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