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clared," he says,
ito be the Son of God with power,
according to the spirit Of holiness, by
the resurrection from the dead" q AZ.
Paul wrote these words not more tiian
thirty years after the event. If Christ
had not risen, 1t would have been an
easy matter to have proved their falls
ity. Paul knew they were true. AS
Luke says, Christ showed himself to
be alive after his passion by many In
falllble proofs, Being seen Of them
forty days and speaking of the things
pertaining to the kingdom (Acts 1:3).
In recent years the resurrection of
Christ has not been given the place 1t
should hold in helping us to answer
Christ's question-perhaps because
pulpit and pew had imbibed too much
of German criticism. Now that 1t Is
no longer popular to peddle wares
made In Germany, we may consider
afresh this phase of truth, as an EVIL.
dence Of the deity Of our Lord.
The resurrection of Christ is the
best attested fact of history. Gilbert
West, lawyer and skeptlc, found 1t so
when he set out to demolish 1t. And
so will any honest mind today.
The proofs of Christ's resurrection
may not satisfy all minds, for IL Christ
Is risen, he Is the Son of God with
power; and certain people do not want
a Christ before whom they must bow
and confess that he Is Lord to the
glory of God.
1t is not the purpose at this time to
adduce the Scrlptural proofs Of
Christ's resurrection. They are, at
hand for anyone to study who will.
Suffice 1t to say that there are fourteen
witnesses and classes Of witnesses to
the resurrection of Christ Do you de-
sire to know who Jesus Christ is?
Then / challenge you to study, with an
unprecedented mind, the records con-
talned in the Scriptures This thing
was not done in corner; neither are
we without the record Of 1t. The Scrip
lures are filled with the proofs of the
resurrection of Christ, and they are
open to all men for their consideration.
Bodily Resurrection.
But what are we to understand by
the resurrection of Christ? Many talk
today as If all that Is meant by 1t is
the continued existence Of the person
atty of Jesus after death. OF course
1t means that, but as the very word IT.
self indicates, it means the rising up
of that which has fallen down, its
standing forth again.
The resurrection of. Christ, then, has
to do with the body of our Lord, which
was buried and in which he again
stood forth from the grave. 1t means
that the risen Christ is not a dlsere-
bodied spirit, but a spirit embodied in
that easement of which death robbed
1t. This is the teaching Of our Lord
"Handle me and see; a spirit
hath not flesh and bones as We see me
have" was his word to his wondering
and doubling disciples, when after the
he stood In their midst.
1t is proved by the fact Of the empty
tomb the disciples found on that Easter
morning. II was an embodied Christ
whom Mary mistook for the gardener.
It was a corporeal being who walked
and talked with the men on their way
to Emmaus. It was Jesus in his rls-
en- body who assembled into heaven
from the Mount of Olives.
German Critics Doomed.
Is II not a pity that German criti-
clsm has been allowed to dim this
and precious truth Of the
bodily resurrection Of our Lord? Let
US vow that we are done with It. and
return to the teaching Of the Scrip
lures Perhaps this good thing. with
many others. will come out Of the war
that we win not permit German Inf
dels and. skeptics to interpret our Bible
nor TO do our thinking for us: nor ac-
cept their conclusions In spiritual
things as final any more than In other
things.
Too long has America breathed the
foul gases Of unbellef from the gas
bombs exploded on our shores by the
Iong-range religious guns Of Germany.
Is It not time to protect our sons and
daughters. as well as ourselves. from
German inildellty7 Religious pro-Ger-
mans In professors chairs and pulplts :,
should be elected. They are the pup I
pets Of German religious autocracy.
that has tried to hold America and the
rest Of the world In the bondage Of I'M
belief. We do not want German-made
Christianity: we want the Christianity
Of the Bible. which offers peace to
every troubled heart