The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-12


 The Corinthian Christian were in ser fous doctrinal error. Some among them were saying. "There is no resurrection of the dead" But their offense may al- most be condoned. It led to the writing of this resurrection chapter: con containing L a fense of the doctrine. Honey came out
 The heart of Paurs creed is here. It is: ssChrist died for sin. He rose again. " Renan, in his Apostles" affirms that "the nervous imagination of one woman (Mary Magdalene) has changed the state of the world" It sems. However, from PauPs account, that there were some men also possessed of nervous imaginattons-five hundred of them, in facti Besides these witnesses, most of whom are still living then the entire company of the apostles. And finally he makes his personal de- position. This testimony would be consid- cred unimpeachable in any court. 1T 1t tory can be discredited by the same methods.
 tablfshed by the apostles argument, 1t Is next affirmed to be the antecedent of which the general resurrection Is the con sequent. Christ Is the Head; believers are members of his body. What happens to the head must hapen to the body and to the members of which it is composed. Denial of Christ's resurrection draws af- ter 1t a chain of denials, each link in which is cold and crushing. Preaching and faith are vain. apostles are false wit nesses, the dead are annihilated. But Christ is risen! The evidence of this is the harmony of the fact with the predictions of Scripture and the testimony of living witnesses. And Christ. being first of a class, what is affirmed of him must be affirmed Of individuals com posing the class.
 sistent inquiry of incredulity. Paul turns the question to advantage. You never sow living stalks of wheat, only the stalk less grain. God raises the blade out or suited to its species. So God will provide celestial bodies for celestial beings as he provides material bodies for the mundane. There is one manner of flesh for birds, fishes, and beasts. The body provided is suited, one to air, another to water, next to earth. So in the resurrection the body provided will suit the sphere. AS that sphere is spiritual, new body Is requir- ed; for the material (desh and blood) can mot inherit the spiritual. Out of the cor ruption, dishonor. weakness, and natural the soul with an incorruptible, glorious, powerful, spiritual, and immortal body.
 One can not follow this splendid argu- anent to its conclusion without jubilant nnticipations The risen Christ will give bus the very victory which 1t semed the law, the grave, and death were about 10 achieve over us Paul bursts out in rap kuue, Thanks to God!" And in view of all lhis he urges to steadfastness.
 The Teachers Lantern.
 When the facile pen of Charles Dickens Hroppped from his hand in the midst of the writing of his Mystery of Edwin Drood,' a sensation of regret was felt by his admirers that he had left a story half told. Had the evangelists laid down their pens before narriting the resurrect- Ion 1t would not have ben passing sen eation to regret, but the universal heart would have been torn asunder between faith ana doubt. The unfinished 'Mys- kery of Jesus Christ" would have grieved all readers. But the last event essential to the symmetry of the Divine person is not wanting.
 The Crusades were a fight for a will-o'- khe-wisp. The holy sepulcher, so called, bs in the heart of the city, and. it is now Eenerally conceded. can not have been the blace of entombment. The true site is lost. It is well 1t is. We reverence not khe place, but the person.
 The resurrection of Jesus was. in a Neilse, an esoteric event. It is probable fhat the soldiers were only conscious that Something preternatural was happening. They did not see the risen Lord. In the korty days before the ascension none but believers saw him. The propriety of this