The Power Of The Word Resurrection

The skeptical ïrnnd raay frame questious as ït will - death sternly refuses to give it any satisfaction. The love of money raay heap around us mountains of gold. All this is but to lower the ratio of that which a man is to that which he possesses. The fever of self indulgenee may rnulüply our eujoyments, but each new enjoyment is, for the common run of rueu, a uew want, and each new want is a new link in thechain of moral servitude, a uew deduction from our h:gh prerogative ot f reed om. Schemes of uegation may each for awhile fret and fume upoú the stage of human affairs. It is death, the great auditor of accounts, that reduces them, one and all, to their natural and small diinensïons. The present is Icuder than ever ifa its imperious demauds, but injured nature takes it upon her to reply tbat tl.e present is the life of animáis, aad the fnture is the life of c_i.:a In dovelopment of lusuiy, we ari . ..-.-.iu'cly ahead of the aiicieat Grcci, ritd we might have btvii piopottiocably mere successful in sLuaii g ulr tLc i.:.-..i n ings of the soul respectiug tbat which is to come had uot a new voice gouuded for th m ti.u worid Lu ].iu ,...,i -,urd resurrectiun, uce wh.ch it bas beeome im-possible, by any process within ou; resources, to stiíie (be longitigs f the human spirit to obtaiu the ccmüabd of some instrument fór meastiring view.