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also the conditions of the after-death exist
ence. He was glorifed. He was changed
from the visible to the invisible, from the
earthly to the heavenly, from the physical to
the spiritual. During the forty days between
| his first and final post norton appearance
his body may have been transformed by the
powers of his glori6ed spirit. He not only
manifested himself; he revealed the truth
concerning mans Immortality. Living and
dying, and again manifestiDg himself, he was
not only the revelation of the Divine in hu-
mainly, he was also revelation to humanity
of its own inheritance and destiny. The res
direction of JESUS from the dead is both the
pledge and the pattern of our own. 'Now
hath CHRIST been raised from the dead, the
first fruits of them that are asleep" q Cor.
XIV. 20. The first fruits were the pledge of
the harvest. Just as truly as JESUS now lives
by the power of COP will all mankind live
beyond death and be transformed into his
glorious image by the same spiritual law and
Divine power that glorified him. ''If we be-
lieve that JESUS died and rose again, even so
them also that are fallen asleep, will GoD
bring with Him" The temperance of JE-
sUs after death was demonstration to his
disciples and apostles that he was alive and
could be and do all that he had promised.
Without that event they could not have been
prepared for their mission. They knew that
he hao risen and they rose with him to new
ness of life, believing that because he lived
they also should live with him, whatever else
should be their fortune. Receiving from
their risen Master a renewal of their apostol-
ic commission and baptism from on high,
they went everywhere, and as they went they
preached 'Jesus and the Resurrection" The
resurrection of JESUS CHRIST from the dead
was the very cornerstone Of primitive Chris
tianity. This one event is the historical
cause of Christianity. 1t is indeed the "cen-
trail fact" in the history of humanity. 1t is
the foundation of the eternal hope that an
chors the soul to the future and awakens as
pirations for higher and holier living. The
resurrection of the dead by the power of COP
manifested in his Son JESUS CHRIST is the
eternal hope of humanity. BLESSED be the
GoD and Father of our Lord JESUS CHRIST,
who according to his great mercy begat us
again to living hope by the resurrection of
JESUS CHRIST from the dead, unto an inner
itance incorruptible and undefled, and that
fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you
who by the power of GoD are guarded through
faith unto salvation Il Peter i. 3-5).
In CHRIST we behold resurrection in the
spiritual body, and assumption of life in the
world to come. This is fully demonstrated
by the facts given in the gospel record, and
this is required by the exceptional pre- emf
nence which the New Testament accords to
CHRIsT's rising from the dead. But one in
stance of verltable resurrection has been
vouchsafed to our knowledge, as a sure pledge
of that which is to come. This is manifestin
the risen CHRIST, who thereby was declared
to be the Son of COP with power. (Romans
l, 4. THE Gospel Of the Resurrection, VIII
ton.
Living, dying, and rising from the dead in
profoundest harmony with the Divine Will
and order, through faith identified with his
inmost personal consciousness, in the Inf
mite One dwelling in him, and in all things
animate and inanimate, CHRIST is our fullest
revelation of GoD and of the Divine life in
the soul of man.-The Story Of the Resm1ec-
ton, Furness.