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TRUTH THAT IS OFTEN DENIED —BUT UNALTERED! “Jesus said, I' am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” “The hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth.” “I f the Spirit of. him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glor rious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself."
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A FORM OF INFIDELITY By the late JAMES H. BROOKES, in The Brookes Quarterly
firstfruits of them that slept,” triumphantly writes the Spirit of God. The man wbo denies the resurrection is, therefore, a mad man. If we were to see the head come forth from the grave, we should know that the body must follow; and as Christ, the Head, has surely risen, the church, His body, shall surely rise with Him. Away, then, with your scientific objections and nonsense! Bring God upon the scene, and your difficulties vanish into offensive smoke. Some will say, “How are the dead raised up ?” The only answer the Holy Ghost deigns to give is, “Thou fool.” Mark it well: The same body that dies, that decomposes, that is burned, that crumbles into dust, that it taken up into vegetable matter, as the scientists tell us, that is sunk to the depths of the ocean, that mingles with the1dust of ten thousand other mouldered bodies, that is scattered upon the winds, arises. M artial It is a martial resurrection. “Every man in his own order [band, cohort, company, brigade, division], Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s, at his com ing.” “The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout . . . the dead in Christ shall rise first” ; then the living, changed in a moment, shall be caught up in clouds together with them. It will be in military array. Some regiments will be in advance of others. Some will be placed over ten cities, and others over five. Some will re ceive a reward, and others will be saved, yet so as by fire. The place assigned us in the magnificent procession that will sweep before the gaze of myriads of admiring angels, will be according to our fidelity; and may God help us to remember it every day. G lorious It is a glorioils resurrection. “There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory [Continued on page 117]
I t is one of the numerous indications of coming apos tasy that so many in evangelical churches deny the resurrection. If any one doubts this, let him set on foot an inquiry in any congregation he may select, and he wills'oon be convinced of the truth of the statement. He will'find that unbelief as to the rising of the body from the grave is wide spread, and that the doctrine and the fact are disfcarded and rejected, sneered at and scouted, as impos sible'on scientific grounds. It will be in vain to bring to bear tipon these unbelievers the authority of Scripture, for such persons, some of them in high official position in the church, will set aside the testimony of the Bible with the cool contempt of arrogant infidelity. f lit his form of infidelity is as old as the days of the apos- •uu ties, and more than eighteen hundred years ago, the Holy Ghost met it by showing the tremendous conse quences of denying the truth. ■ ' First, if the dead rise not, then is Christ not risen, for in the nature of the case, the two resurrections stand or fall together. Second, preaching is vain, for there can be no preaching of the gospel that does not involve the resur rection of the dead. Third, faith is vain, for if there is no resurrection, there is nothing upon which faith can rest. Fourth, the apostles are found false witnesses, for the resurrection was the center and circumference, the sum and substance of their testimony. Fifth, we are yet in our sins, for the resurrection is the only proof we have that the great sacrifice for sin has been accepted. Sixth, our beloved ones who .have fallen asleep in Christ are perished, and “ever lasting despair” may be inscribed on the tomb. Seventh, we are of all men most miserable, for we have lost this world, and all hope of the future is torn from our grasp, as we drift upon a dark and stormy sea without one star in the sky. ; “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
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