320 keep in His footsteps and we must keep on speaking to Him. One day—per haps this very day—while thus speak ing to Him, He will become as real to us as He was to the disciples in Galilee. And then we shall be satisfied. Then we shall not trouble ourselves about the evidences of the Resurrection.” THE ROSEWATER GOSPER Men have no use in the camps or anywhere else either for that matter— for a milk and rosewater, diluted and dilettante Gospel that claims no power to deliver a man from sin. Our Gospel is no mere code of petty rules that deals in pretty and sweet expressions, neither is it merely, the exponent of social theories nor for the correction of social conditions. Our business is to face and fight moral death as actually as any surgeon fights physical death. It is no mere jolly-joshing business. If a man has not a Gospel which drives him to prayer; incites him to Bible reading with eagerness; which makes him kind, and not of the soft mushy kind; which makes him detest a lie and strikes smashing blows at sin and iniquity—but never attacks it without a heartbreaking love for the man broken by it—that man has not the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The man who has an apology for the Gospel with power to deliver from sin is an apology for a Christian.—-Frank W. Ober. CORRECTION The attention of the writer has been called to an error in the “Heart of the Lesson” for January 5th, Page 39, which reads as follows: “The Book of Exodus covers 2200 years of the history of Israel,” etc. This should have read “the book of Genesis covers 2200 years,” etc,
THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S WHO RAISED JESUS?
C R I P T U R E affirms that “God raised up Jesus from the dead.” But the Lord also participated in the Resurrection. The Angels said, “He is raised: others were raised, He rose: it was
a conjoint work of the God-head, in which His was an equal share. “I lay down my life, that I may take it again. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again” (John 10:17). Twelve times He is recorded as fore telling His death in words free from all type or figure, and once only (Matt. 26:2) without naming His rising from the dead in the same breath; and the figure He especially used—the Temple rebuilt in three days—formed not only the ground-work of capital charges (Matt. 26:61), but was correctly under stood by His enemies as a specific prophecy of resurrection (Matt. 27:63). “What sign showest Thou unto us?” “Destroy this temple,” our Lord an swered—-for the Resurrection is the only sign to be granted to this genera tion (Matt. 12:39)—“and in three days I will raise it up. But He spake of the temple of His body” (John 2:19-21). , Both temples, alike shrines of Godhead (Col. 2:9), both born in one spot (Psa. 132:6), and both rent with death-pangs together (Matt; 27:50), perished for reconstruction, our Lord in three human days, the Temple in three Divine (2 Pet. 3:8). Every other resurrection was a response to a call from the out side: none had ever come forth clothed in eternal flesh: therefore the moment the truth burst upon Thomas, the cry was inevitable—“My Lord and my God!”-—D. M. Panton. II I . He that has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be con stant in prayer shall know what it is to have a pure heart.
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