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 grave, and be made partakers with Him
 of His resurrection. It tells us that He
 and He alone won that triumph. % tre-
 mendous in its nature. 80 far reaching
 and eternal in it's results. It tells us that He thus hung wlde' open the Eate Of ev--
 erlasting life and opened the Kingdom of
 heaven to all believers. It tells us that
 He only Is the Resurrection. It tells us
 that in Him and in Him alone shall all
 be made alfve.
 Sccond-How many blessed and comfort
 ing truths. indeed. does the Easter festi-
 val teach? For instance. that most Gl0-.
 rious truth that Christ has overcome
 death. death. the great enemy of man (as
 we are won't to regard io. death the chief
 cause of bleeding and sorrowtng hearts.
 But Christ hath overcome it. Not tn-
 deed. that death has ceased for tho body,
 here below. But 1t is robbed of its sting.
 It Is no longer death In the former sense
 at all. Now, 1t is but the realizing of the
 imprisoned soul to take\ on new gicries.
 new life. Christ hath overcome death as
 mans enemy. For It is now man's . friend.
 # indeed man is the follower of Death's There Is another thought in connection with death. It Is this: If we are raised from the dead tthat Is from sin, for sin
 l: dsath,. we de no more more sour bodies die. death hath no more dominion over us.
 Nay. we have dominion over oeath.
 Trampliag upon death we rise into new
 ness of lIfe-life hid with Christ in God.
 Third-Further, by His resurrection, Christ opened to us the gate of everiast- ing life. This calls to mind what we kuow of gate and a life at tho dawn Of human history as set forth in Holy Writ. You remember our foreparents, hav- fUK broken fhA law dffvan fraYx1
 Paradise. Its gate was guarded against them. Thus they were debarrcd from ac-
 cess to the tree of life which would nave immortalized them. But now comes Christ in this later age. He comes, having the nature belonging to us all in common the seed of the woman. He fulfis in him- self every requirement. of the violated
 law. In His cross and passion and pre- cious death He exhausts the penalty thereof. Yes, and He does more still. As representative of humanity He breaks an entrance for Himself into thu. Heavenly Paradise. He then turns and filings wide open the gate for the redeemed of His brethren to enter tn and partaxe of its joys Rightly therefore do we sins of Him
 hadst overcome the sharpness of death Thou didst open. the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers."t Foursh-Again. By His resurrection our
 forth from the grave with resurrection bodies. This means that our hodies shall have certain we'll defined Characteristics | as indeed the Scriptures so clearly indi- cate. l Identity of Body--we shall rise with the | same bodies. This does not necessarily mean that our bodies will be made up of
 the same atoms that now compose them. Identity of body. identity of the individ-
 uais does not depend upon identity of | atoms, identity of particles. Each one of
 you for example, is the same person. the s diuoniad Isw1htns reaS.r Sni,yyos y0 | fant in your mothers arms: But there is not in your body now a single atom of
 the material that was in 1t then,
 PersonalityvOur personality, too, our
 individuality viii remain intact. Our souls
 do not become, at death. a part of the enc great soul-god, as the Buddhist teaches. for instance. No. for this would mean that sonality. our Individuality Is destroyed or absorbed entirely into that of another, it is virtually annihilatton, the end of us.
 The apostle teaches the truth about this
 point most clearly When he says Gin speaking of our resurrection bodiesl ITO every seed his own body" you drop a grain of corn into the ground. It comes
 up corn and it comes up nothing else; You your loved one will rise and not another, Just as every seed in the physical world
 has its own body so does every soul in
 And just as the seed retains its own body throughout every change of form, so shall | 1t be within our bodies.
 Recognition-of course there will be
 involved in personality. is an inherent 1 element, Our Lord. you remember, rose
 with a resurrection body. Yet. His dis ciples and friends knew Him. So shall | we recognize our friends and our friends l shall recognize us. If this were not SO, | most of the joy and blessedness of the resurrection would be destroyed. Why, we would not know even our Lord. Him. | cnlf t~ 4a .ax rAA Aratt fs. ( hm l Resurrection. Certainly We shall be able ! to recognize those whom we have loved
 and lost awhile, and they will be able | to recognize us.
 l Body Further our resurrection bodies shall be incoruptibie and immortal. Re-
 call the Apostolic declaration. The cor ' ruptible must put on interruption and this are also told of our risen Lord, Christ | being raised from the dead, dieth no | more, death hath no more dominion over
 Him." So shall 1t be with us, if we are Christ's, Why and how? Because Christ | will be in us, and we shall be in Christ, l and where Christ Is, death hath no more | dominion, therefore. no dominion over us
 in our resurrection bodies, and where
 death for mortality and corruption) has no dominion the opposite Immortality
 and incorruption) must of course prevail ! No More Sin,-Nor will there be any
 sin in this immortal and ineorruptible
 cause of death. and death begets corrup- | ton. But If the body is incapable of be- ! ing corrupted (hecause inimortaD. there | can not possibly be present that which I eorrupts it, hence no sin. The influences | of iniquity cannot he brought to hear up- | on that body. for it will be fiawless and | perfect, standing forth pure and without | spot or blemish in the presence of God. There will be no More Patn.-Nor Will | there he any pain. For pain is one of
 the chief characteristics of the mortal | body But the resurrection body will be | immortal, hence pain cannot be present.
 1t IS largely by meags of pain of some | sort or other that the mortal body is | overcome. If pain. by the very nature of the case. could exist In an immortal body, 1t would cease to be immortal. But | our bodies will he immortal. hence no
 pain. with its attendant weakness and
 watchingS. and fears, and aching hearts l and bodies, and death and decay.
 l There Will he no More Sorrow. Nor will thera be any more sorrow. IL Is sin and pain that cause sorrow, remember | But they shall have been done away
 with Christ Himself will have destroyed them. Therefore. no cause for weeping no cause for anxious fears. no troubles and trials or sickness and disease to l rend the heart or rack the body. Sorrow and signing shall flee away.
 Our resurrection bodies will be ike unto l Christ's own glorious body-And finally
 most blessed and wondrous truth of all | our resurrection bodies will be made like I unto Thrit'e own Si0rtiInS bOdy. Now