El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-04
; In The CHURCHES.

tual realty or prospective re6l1ty
what he is in his reunion with God.
this is an actual reality. KNOWING
that Christ being raised from the dead,
dieth no more; likewise. reckon
ye also yourselves to be dead indeed
I'm to sin. but alive" reunited, ito God,
through Jesus Christ our Lord" God
in his great love "hath," not will,
''quickened u.s." ''hath, not will, made
US sit together in heavenly places,
Again says the apostle, "Ye are dead
God," in so much that "when Christ
who is our life shall appear, then shall
we appear with him in glory" True
we have not yet entered into the full
ness of heaven, but the earnest hath
been given, and that Is an assurance
that the whole will some day be
realized. Then let US not put God and
Christ and heaven far from us. They
are nigh to US, and 1--WE have through
entered into sthem already. Heaven,
just as hell, be gins here ON earth.
believe q proper understanding and q
careful attention ito the fact of our
risen state, will help US to be more
worthy of it.
Is said of Alexander the Great, that
on receiving an invitation to run race
with the common multitude, he gave
this answer, "Were l not the son of q
king, 1 did not care what company 1
kept: but being prince, 1 must en-
ploy myself in such company as is suit
able to my birth and breeding." So l
believe that clear understanding Of
the fact that we are raised with Christ,
that we have become membe. 9 of the
household of God, that we are child
rem of the king, will lift us both in our
lives and our experience, high above
the ordinary indulgencles OF the unre-
generate multitude.
Second: The resurrection of Christ
guarantees a'bodily resurrection, Mar
vel not at this, nfor the hour cometh
in which all they that are in the graves
shall hear his voice and shall come
forth" Christ the first fruits; and
afterwards they that are his at his
coming. Then cometh the end, when
he shall have delivered up the king
dom to God, even the Father; when he
and power" The conflict between
Christ and the devil is not ended. The
devil still has power to destroy the
bodies even of Gods children, aud
drag them down into the grave. And
oh! how dark is dismal and terrible
has he made the tomb to many a heart.
But Christ hath taken away the ter
ror here. For he hath conquered death.
and at his own time.we shall conquer in
actual realization, and come forth even
IS he did. 1.-The last enemy that shall
be destroyed is DEATH
0, how these two resurrection applf-
cations should thrill our hearts, and
make every hour Of our lives, one
glorious Easter-morn. Children of
God, why do we go so often to the
grave of our dead past and seek to
open it and wrap the grave clothes Of
lin and condemnation about us again?
Why do we sit and mourn so often
around the sepulchre of our dead, as
+ these graves would never open
again? When Jesus rose from the
lead he never went back to the grave
put once, and that was to stimulate
hope in q weeping woman's heart, and
cad her with him in his march
His march after this,
was away from the darkness of the
grave and towards the light of heaven,
Until one day he climbed the SUBMITS |
If the clouds;'a and borne upwards by |
angels hands accompanied by celestial |
;hoirs, he went home to God. And do |
you 60 back to the grave of the soul |
Ind of the body because he has gone is |
lid away? Look up. Some day those |
clouds will open, and Jesus will come |
gain, and take us to be forever with |
he Lord.
Then let us hail this Easter day with
.nthems Of praise and songs of rejoic-
ng. Let brightest flowers be twined |
and wreathed in garlauds
lpon every chancel and every altar, in
very church, in every home, in every
and. Let all the people put on their
ichest garments and divinest acts:
While every child of the resurrection
watts with patience and flial obedience
nd faithful industry the hour when
le shall come again. Knowing that,
when Christ who is our life shall ap-
i'm in glory