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notes the institution ; Sunday is the name
of the first day of the week.”— IW eb-
ster.
“ Sunday is of heathen origin [like our
designations of the other days of the
THE WATCHMAN
week], and means ‘the day of the sun;
or ‘sacred to the god of the sun. It
does not occur in the Bible, but is now
in common use for the first day of the
week.”— Schaff’s Bible Dictionary.
THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE
B P. GIDDINGS |
HE post-resurrection depends
on the ante-resurrection.
The resurrection at the last
day is conditional on the res-
urrection to-day, now.
Hereafter is here after,
which is after here, with an
identity that duplicates.
The reaping bears as . . . so relation to
the sowing. Gal. 6:7, 8. Our conduct
now is the sowing time of the kind of
resurrection seed we must reap of; for
mark you, it is “to every seed his own
body.” 1 Cor. 15:38. Wheat seed will
produce its own personal wheat body,
and tare seed here will rise from the
sod with kindred tare body —to every
seed its own distinct peculiar body.
Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he
also reap.
“1 am the resurrection,” Christ says.
But these words were uttered before he
hung on Calvary, and rose from Joseph's
tomb. That is the guarantee to you and
me that there is a resurrection in this
life which prepares for that to come.
Long before he gave up the ghost on
Calvary, he had given up everything.
He was the Lamb slain from the foun-
dation of the world. Calvary’s height
was but the execution of that writ pre-
arranged in the heights above in “the
counsel of peace” “between them both.”
Zech. 6:13.
The resurrection is the gospel. 1
Cor. 15: 12-21. It is the power of God
“according to the Spirit of holiness.”
Rom. 1:4. The Christian is a resurrec-
tionist. He walks in the resurrected life
— the newness of life.
ize: There’s death, a burial, and a resur-
Paul’s hope of
So to summar-
rection now in this life.
attaining unto the resurrection of the
dead hereafter was founded on his know-
ing here the power of Christ's resurrec-
tion, being made conformable unto his
death. Phil. 3:10, II.
The Christian commemorates the res-
urrection. “Ah!” says one, ‘that’s
why we keep Sunday.” Stop! that’s a
pretext rather than a text.
fit case.
Here is a
The theme is resurrection, and
Paul the resurrectionist is preaching.
Mark well — not on one chance occasion,
but three special times designedly, while
at that place: “And Paul, as his manner
was, went in unto them, and three Sab-
bath days reasoned with them out of the
Scriptures, opening and alleging that
Christ inust needs have suffered, and
risen again from the dead; and that this
Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is
Christ.” Acts 17:2, 3.
You see, then, his matter was the res-
urrection, and his manner, the Sabbath.
Thus you further see that in the days of
Paul the apostle to the Gentiles, the res-
urrection had not changed the Sabbath.
Nor will it do to say, “ He preached to
Jews.” He preached to both Jews and
Gentiles. In another place, on another
Sabbath day after Paul had preached the
resurrection to his mixed congregation,
“the Gentiles besought that these words
might be preached to them the next Sab-
bath.” Acts 13:42. And so according
to Gentile request on the resurrection,
“the next Sabbath day came almost the
whole city together to hear the word of
God.” Verse 44. Here is a clear case that
Grace, Resurrection, Jew, Gentile, and
Sabbath are fellow passengers in the one
boat for the one haven. Verses 42, 44.
The resurrection and its commemora-
tion is not a day, but a life. It is the
daily keeping power of Christ in the life
that breathes the sentence: “I am cru-
cified with Christ: nevertheless I live;
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” Gal.
2:20. That is the resurrected, sancti-
fied life — for that is the will of God,
even your sanctification; and the Sab-
bath is “a sign between me and them,
that they might know that I am the Lord
that sanctify them.” Eze. 20: 12.
MNMENDURE TO THE END
Way shouldst thou falter and {faint by the
way
Because of the burden thou art bearing each
day?
- Others have crosses and sorrow and care,
It is but right that thine thou shouldst bear.
Is the road dreary?
ahead.
Do the thorns pierce thee?
bled.
Is thy load heavy as ’'neath it thou dost bow?
Then Jesus will help thee, so ask of him now.
There are footprints
Here others have
Bear up a while longer; there may be for
thee
Rich blessings ahead, and thy burdens will
flee;
Keep hoping and trusting, press on to the
goal;
A blessing awaiteth the conquering soul.
—Emma Hale.
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THE INFLUENCE OF OUR DAILY WALK
Mollie Crockett
Our words and actions have a great
influence on the lives of all with whom
we come in contact. Our very thoughts
tend either to purify or to poison the
moral atmosphere. By our example
minds are directed in the path of purity
and righteousness, or they are turned
from the source of all light and truth
to the path that leads to perdition.
If Christ is abiding in the heart by
faith, the mind will dwell upon holy and
heavenly things. We will follow in his
footsteps, making him our daily pattern.
The life of Christ was one of loveliness
of character. All who were within his
reach felt the influence of his godly life.
So it is with his followers. ‘Their in-
fluence is felt by all around them, al-
though they may be unconscious of it.
By living in close communion with God,
we are not only molded after the Divine
similitude ourselves, but others also are
made better by our lives. One word or
act may seem a small thing; yet it may
decide the eternal destiny of a soul.
The eyes of the world are upon all
who claim to be looking for the coming
of their Lord. What is our deportment?
Do our words and actions show that
we are followers of the meek and lowly
Jesus, or do things of minor importance
absorb the mind? O the importance of
keeping our eyes fixed upon Jesus, that
by beholding we may become changed
into the same image, and thus reflect the
beauty of his character upon those
around us.