The Detroit times., 1916-04-19
In the Religious World
THE WORLDS SPRING OF HOPE.

am by the grace of God, and His
grace bestowed upon me did not
prove Intellectual. But labored
more strenuously than ALI the rest
yet II was not I, but Gods grace
working with me. But whether IL
Is or they, this Is the way we
preach and the way that you came
10 believe.
But II Christ Is preached as hav.
ing risen from the dead, how Is II
that some OF you say that there Is
no such thing az resurrection OF
the dead? II there is no such thing
as a resurrection OF the dead. then
Christ Himself has not risen TO life.
And II Christ has not risen, II fol-
lows that what We preach Is a delu-
sion. and that your faith also rs 4
delusion. Nay more, We are actual
ly being discovered TO be bearing
false witness against God. because
we have testified that God raises
Christ to life, whom lie did not
raise. II in reality none OF the dead
are raised For IL none Of the dead
are raised to life. then Christ has
not risen. your faith II vain thing
you are still In your sins. II fol-
lows also that those who have fall
len asleep in Christ have persisted.
IL in this present life we have a
hope resting on Christ. and nothing
more. we are more TO be pitied than
all the rest OF the world.
But. in reality. Christ has risen
from among the dead. being the first
to do so OF those who are asleep.
For seeing that death came through
man, through man also comes the
resurrection OF the dead. For just
as through Adam all die, 80 also
through Christ all will be made
alive again. But this will happen
to each in the right order-Christ
having been the first to rise, and
afterwards Christ's people rising at
His return. Later on. comes the
End, when He Is TO surrender the
Kingship to God. the Father. when
He shall have overthrown all other
government and all other authority
and power. For He must continue
to be King until God has put all
His enemies under His feet Cps.
viii. 8; OK. ~.
1.-THE last enemy that Is to be
overthrow is Death; for He will
have put all things In subsection
under His feet And when He shall
have declared that "Ail things are
IN subsection" It will be the mani
fest exception OF Him who has re-
duced them all to subsection to Him.
But when the whole universe has
been made subject to Him. then
the Son Himself will also become
subject to Him, who has made the
universe subject to Him, In order
that God may be all In all"
Words and Their Meaning.
Instead OF making an extended
comment upon the passage, sug-
gest that the reader carefully per.
use again these great words. seek
ing TO comprehend their obvious
meaning. Let us be fair about II.
regarding language only In It's ordi-
nary and accepted sense. This pas
sage means what II says and not
something that subtle and specu-
lative mind may read into II. The
letter OF which IL In q part was not
written for halr-splitting theologians
or fantastic metaphysicisns. but for
a group Of plain people freshly out
OF heathendom, who had no doubt
whatever OF the resurrection Of
Christ Himself, but who had been
troubled by doubts concernins the
Immortality of men. So Paul wrote
10 set these doubts at rest.
OF the Resurrection itself. II has
been often said that at IL the best
attested fact In history" II can
scarcely be rejected without rcpudi-
ating the entire Christian Scripture
and the mnbroken belief OF the his
toric church. Some skeptics would
put the Kesurrection On . basis Of