The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-08-01


- - N--..1-7 -. ed on Revelation
Xxx, 8. It was announced that next
Sunday he will address similar con-
venton in London. He said
The resurrection Of the dead seems
to be the most difficult thing in the
Bible for the worldly to grasp
by faith. This must be because the HUI
man mind inst1nctively realizes the
majesty of the Power and Wisdom
necessary to the reproduction of the
same individuality which lived and
thought centuries ago. before passing
into the silence Of the tomb. The BIZ
BILE makes no denial of the stupen-
dousness Of the resurrection miracle
SO far beyond the widest flights of
human imagAnation-it confesses this
and calls upon us to exercise faith in
the great Creator, the Omnipotent One.
whose greatness we can but feebly
sense and surely cannot comprehend.
Hence, the doctrine of the resurrec-
ton OF the dead, from It's first an
nouncement in the Scriptures, has call
ed for the strongest faith on the part
Of believers and has excited the gen.
eral resentment Of unbelievers, who
seem to find it easier to believe any
thing else respecting the dead. I'm
doubtedly this Is the reason why SO
many who give evidence Of general in
telligence accept the absurd theory that
when dog dies he Is dead, but when
a man dies he is more alive than1ever.
These properly claim to hope for
everlasting life, but not having faith
enough t. believe In the Divine power
to perform the resurrection Of the
dead, they are driven to the theory of
Plato. Indeed, who has not heard
Plato quoted~by ministers and other
learned men when discussing the flu
ture life? They do not quote Jesus
and the Apostles, because the explana-
tons of Jesus and the Apostles are all
to the contrary, proving that the dead
are dead, and that the only hope Of a
future existence is by resurrection.
Jesus'' Answer to tho Sadducees.
Note the answer Of Jesus to the Sad
ducees Of Els day, who, we are told,
specially denied the resurrection of
the dead. Jesus answered, THAT the
dead are Ito bel raised was shown to
Moses at the burning bush," when
Gods message was, II am the God Of
thy fathers, the God of Abraham and
the God Of Isaac and the God Of ia
cob" (Mark XII, &c; Acts vii, 32.)
Jesus commented that God would not
declare Himself to be their God If they
were dead In the absolute sense that
brutes die. Jesus argument was that
the fact that God still recognized them
as persons while dead implied that
their souls merely slept and will be
granted resurrection Of the dead, in
Gods due time and In better bodies
under more favorable conditions than
those under which they died
We remember that st. Paurs letters
and sermons abound in references to
the dead. We call to mind his great
resurrection chapter q Corinthians
XIV, In which he declares that "As all
die in Adam, so all shall be made alive
In Christ-every man in his own or
der" Verses %, 23.) He does not
say that every man Is alive, but that
they shall be made alive In the resur.
rection. The intermediate state he de-
clares Is a sleep, from which, by Di-
vine arrangement through Jesus, they
will all, be awakened in the resurrec-
ton morning, at and after the second
coming Of Christ.
We remind you afresh Of his positive
statement that II there be no resur-
rection Of the dead, then all whom we
have supposed have fallen asleep have
persisted Oversees 1919 But that
God is able to raise all the dead he
declares is demonstrated by the fact
that He raised up Jesus from the dead
on the third day; and so likewise on
the Third Day Of larger scale~-the
third thousand-year day from the tiufe
Jesus was raised-God will raise up all
those who have died because Of Ad-
ANS sin.
That Third Great Day, the Millen-
mum, will be the Great Seventh Day
or Sabbath. So to speak, our Lord
gave Himself a Ransom-ptice in the
Ftfth Day, from which the Seventh
would be the Third DaI, the day Of
the worlds resurrectid 1.-The last
Dny"--the end 'of the pl sent Week
Of 1000-year days In which 4 b and death
have reigned, ushering in he glorious
Epoch when Gods will sh Il be done
On earth as 1t is done in He yen.
Tho Chief Resurrootl h.
The tenor OF all the Scripth ks is that
The Church alone will particA tie in the