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HOW WOULD YOU LIKE A CONGR EGA T ION LIKE TH IS? The tkree Ambassadors of Ckrist are Floÿd Pierson and kis sister, and Miss Fraas, tkree former Institute Students DENIAL OF THE RESURRECTION
siah, the Eternal Son of God, the Savior of the world, by Whose teaching and example men were to be enlightened, by Whose Blood men were to be redeemed, to Whom all the children of men were bound to pay the homage of their obedience and their love—the answer would have been, because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead. What becomes of the death of Christ if it was not followed by His resurrec tion? It at once descends to. the rank of a purely human event. It does not differ in character from the death of any other high-minded and disinter ested man for a cause to which he is attached.—Canon Liddon. ate ate “REJOICE ALWAYS” There was much good sense in the remarks of Matthew Henry, the com mentator, when robbed of his purse, “Let me be thankful,”, said he, “ (1) because, I never was robbed before; (2) because, although they took my purse, they did not take my life; (3) because, although they took my all, it was not much; and (4) it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.” Now, although there are severer trials than being robbed of one’s purse, yet the man who could introduce a principle like this into one trial 'will do it in another.
AUL says solemnly, “If Christ be not risen, our preaching is vain, your faith is also vain.” Paul will not allow that this faith in a Christ Who has not risen from His grave is any Christianity at
all. According to him, if it is a religion at all, it is another religion; it has nothing really to do with the faith preached by the apostles. To deny or ignore Christ’s resurrection is to aban don Christianity. It is to give the very core and heart of the faith. The beliefs that remain may have an interest of their own; but it is the sort of interest which belongs to a corpse. It may remind us of the past, but it has no longer any place in the land of the living. ; Why can not a man be a true Chris tian believer who rejects the resurrec tion of Christ? How is it that the rejection of this truth can make vain or empty the faith which still clings to much else, but denies this particular doctrine? The answer is, because the resurrec tion of Christ is the foundation-fact on which the Christian creed rests, in a believing soul. If any of the apostles had been asked how it was that they knew that Jesus was the promised Mes
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