are not the same in
principle--and, alas, they are awfully different in issue. 'Some
shall wake to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting
contempt.'

Let me beseech you to make Jesus Christ the life of your dead souls,
by humble, penitent trust in Him. And then, in due time, He will be
the life of your transformed bodies, changing these into the likeness
of the body of His glory, 'according to the working whereby He is
able even to subdue all things unto Himself.'

THE DEATH OF DEATH

'But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
first-fruits of them that slept. 21. For since by man
came death, by man came also the resurrection of the
dead.... 50. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth
corruption inherit incorruption. 51. Behold, I shew
you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed, 52. In a moment, in the twinkling of
an eye, at the last trump, (for the trumpet shall
sound;) and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed. 53. For this corruptible
must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put
on immortality. 54. So when this corruptible shall
have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have
put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the
saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in
victory. 55. O death, where is thy sting? O grave,
where is thy victory? 56. The sting of death is sin;
and the strength of sin is the law. 57. But thanks be
to God, which giveth us the victory, through our Lord
Jesus Christ. 58. Therefore, my beloved brethren,
be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in
the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your
labour is not in vain in the Lord.'--1 COR. xv. 20, 21; 50-58.

This passage begins with the triumphant ringing out of the great fact
which changes all the darkness of an earthly life without a heavenly
hope into a blaze of light. All the dreariness for humanity, and all
the vanity for Christian faith and preaching, vanish, like ghosts at
cock-crow, when the Resurrection of Jesus rises sun-like on the
world's night. It is a historical fact, established by the evidence
proper for such,--namely, the credible testimony of eye-witnesses.
They could attest His rising, but the knowledge of the worldwide
significance of it comes, not from testimony, but from revelation