The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-03-26

tOleration are encouraging, and every
nation has tasted the gospel and it
proves to be "the power OF God unto
salvation to everyone that b~elieveth.n
DagoR ID shattered before the ark of the
Lord; and idolitry and it's snperstitions
must 60 down before the gospel OF O
risen Christ. God Is yet bearing wit
ness @both with signs and wonders and
divers miracles and gifts of the Holy
Ghost, according to hi W will.n
!. Consummated in the general res
direction. The browning proof and
display Of Christ's resurrection power,
will be at the general resurrection.
Paul was looking forward to it when he
said .'if by any means / might attain
unto the resurrection OF the dead"
The possibility of this promised event
was proven by the fact that "many
bodies OF the saints which slept arose
and came out of the graves after his
resurrection and went into the holy city
and appeared unto many" What God
has done he can do again. It's surely
comingl Gloriou mornl
BAPTIST CHURCH.
As~upposition. l Cor. 1914, IF Christ
be not risen."
There have been from the first those
who believed in the nobility of Christ's
character, the purity Of his life, the sub
Unity OF his teachings, who recognized
him as a master. hero. martyr, yet re-
jected the transesndent fact or his resur-
~rection. There is TO such, q Golgotha,
q Good Friday, and q tomb, but no
radiance, no angel, no life. Have you
thought what the world, what Christi
anity, the gospel, would be without the
resurrection? They would not be the
same. Sunlight, and liberty, and health,
are enjoyed without appreciation until
we are deprived OF them. So 1t ID with
this fact-this doctrine. We live in its
glory and radiance and comfort, with
out appreciation OF it. Christ's ministry
brought life, and his resurrection
brought immortality to light. Consider
what would be the consequence "If
Christ be not risen."
/. We should have no refuge, nc de-
~liverer, no rescue from sins penalty
death. No answer to the old inquiry, "If
a man die shall he live again." Write
on each grave, "To dust shalt thou re-
turn. The best goodness can be- de.
feated; the highest nature overcome by
the unworthy; another tragedy is added
to the rest; another life is ended in dark.
ness. The resurrection reveals sou
struggling, triumphing. Without it tbs
gospels ioy-bells are mutfied.
Q. If no resurrection, then sims thrall
dom prevails. All mans aspirations
after immortality, crumb'e to dust. I
the divinest man could be vanquished b.
J death, how shall we prevail? II he did
; may he not bring as of ''more than con
querers?'
8. II all our hopes end in this life, vi
are only to be pitisd. Tf He is not risen
we are hopeless.
Do you say we should live r~ighteousl.
for righteousness sake? Doubtless! Blu
? the gospel excites q hope that becaus
, He is risen we shall rise and live. II tina
: be a delusion, / for one want to know i
new. / have q strong ~antipathy to be
: ing deceived. / cannot endure to be de
!. lgded, decoyed on with q false hope. II
Christ be not risen, we are yet in on
: sins, our preaching is vain and your faitl
is vain."
: But He is risen, s'The first fruits" al
Him we shall all be made alive" Resur
~rection triumphs over the worlds prisoI
house to show us the radiance, the glory
the angel, the life. We worship not
! dead, but a living Christ. Because Ell
lives, we ehall live also. ...s~
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