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one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and straightway there came out blood and water.” Later that evening, when Joseph of Arimathea went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, Pilate summoned the centurion who had charge of the crucifixion, and did not give permis sion for the removal of the body until he was satisfied that Jesus was dead, and officially affirmed it. If further evidence is needed, we have only to remember the embalming, when linen bandages and about one hundred pounds weight of spices were used; and the laying away in the tomb —either of which was enough to suffo cate our Lord if He had survived the awful agony and horrors of the cross. And it must also he remembered that with all their malice the Jews never once put forward this theory. They invented other stories, hut they never claimed that Christ never died at all! Our Lord Himself asserted it more than fifty years afterwards: “I am He that liveth, and was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore.”—D. L. Moody. a» as JESUS RISEN—JOHN 20
CHA S. M . ALEXANDER Who, with Dr. Torrey, has been holding a great campaign in Los Angeles. Meet him face to face in our next issue. for our justification.” Resurrection, therefore, meets the need of the soul, as it regards the question of sin. Have our hearts been broken and bereaved by the stern, rude hand of death? Has his cold breath chilled our affections? What is the remedy? Resurrection. Yes; resurrection, that great restorer, not merely of “tired,” but of ruined nature, fills up all blanks —repairs all breaches—remedies all ills. If the conscience be affected by a sense of sin, resurrection sets it at rest, by the assurance that the Surety’s work has been fully accepted. If the heart be bowed down with sorrow, and torn by the ravages of death, resurrection heals, soothes, and binds it up, by se curing the restoration and reunion of all who have gone before: it tells us to “sorrow not as others which have no hope, for if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.” (1 Thess. 4:13, 14.) It is commonly thought that time fills up all the blanks which death has made in the affections; but the spiritual mind
EEP and varied as are the necessities of the soul they are all met by the death and resurrection of Christ. If it he a question of sin that affects the soul, the resur rection is the glorious proof
of the complete putting away of it. The moment I see Jesus at the right hand of God, I see an end of sin, for I know He could not be there, if sin was not fully atoned • for. “He was delivered for our offences;” He stood as our representative; He took upon Him our iniquities, and went down into the grave under thq weight thereof. “But God raised him from the dead;” and, by so doing, expressed His full approbation of the work of redemption. Hence, we read, “He was raised again
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