T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S cannot lie, that having ‘raised up Christ Jesus from the dead,’ He ‘shall give life also to your mortal bodies’ (Rom. 8 : 11 ). “ And when the bodies of the saints shall have been raised from the dust of the earth, and reunited to their spirits, these glorified ones are by no means to be confined to the limits of this little globe; for they who shall have part ‘in the resurrection of the just’ (Luke 14:14), shall be ‘as angels in heaven’ (Matt. 22:30), and with them shall roam over all the vast universe, and shall explore with glad surprise the wonderful works of God!” Ji/ 4 . M '¿k A SOVIET EASTER Formerly at the Easter season all newspapers in Russia were obliged to print in large type on the first page the Easter greeting, “ Christ is Risen” ! The Record of Christian Work says that, on the first Easter under Soviet rule, the Bolshevik papers printed on their first page, instead of this greeting, “ One hundred years ago today Karl Marx was born” ! Rather a sinister substitution, most of us would think! It is significant, however, of the ten dencies at work, not only in Russia but everywhere wherever the Bolshevist has an opportunity of free expression. INTERCESSION If the Lord’s Prayer is to be the great model of Prayer, as it surely is, how much intercession ought not our Pray ers to contain! This extraordinary Prayer is so constructed that it is impos sible to use it without praying for all other Christians as well as ourselves. Intercession, instead of being a clause added onto it, is woven into its very texture. Break off the minutest frag ment you please, and you will find inter cession in it.— Edward M. Goulburn.
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(v. 7). And then, appealing to the sober reason of his skeptical Roman judges, he asks, ‘Why is it judged in credible with you, if God doth raise the dead?’ (v. 8). And further on he de clares that in his preaching he had but reiterated the teachings of Moses and of the prophets, viz., ‘that the Christ must suffer; and . . . that He first by the resurrection of’, i. e., from among ‘the dead, should proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles’ (v. 23). “ In the 15th chapter of 1st Corin thians this same apostle, in his great argument on the resurrection of the body, places the vital importance of this doctrine before us in these forcible terms: ‘For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised: and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins. Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable’ (vs. 16-19). And in the 8th chapter of Romans, by a bold fig ure of speech, he represents the whole lower creation, both animate and inan imate, as groaning and travailing ‘irl pain together until now, . . . waiting for the adoption’ of the saints, ‘to-wit, the redemption of our body’ (vs. 22-23). To which we need but add these words of ‘the disciple whom Jesus loved’, in regard to the coming again in glory of our adorable Redeemer, ‘Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if He shall be mani fested, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him even as He is’ (1 John 3:2). “ Yes, the resurrection of the Son of Man is the sure pledge of the resurrec tion to immortal bliss and glory of all His believing people. And ‘if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead’ indeed ‘dwelleth in you,’ then be assured on the testimony of Him who
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