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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 292, 7 December 1872, Page 4

* Christ's Kesubrectio]*. — The Apostles Buffered that a world's attention might be called to the fact that their Master, whom they had known for years, with whose person they were familiar, had been crucified, dead and .buried, and had afterwards, upon. the day foretold, reappeared to them in life. Nor were these sufferings in vain. Unaided by power, opposed by the combined prejudices ot . a hostile world, their simple and honest statement wrought its , way to universal credence.' Before it sank the heathen fane, the philosophic school, the pagan altar; while on their ruins rose the fair and graceful edifice of Christian truth, the dispenser ofllight, of joy, and of happiness to a benighted world. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ then, lives, His resurrection from the tomb was no legend of superstition and imposture, but a fact based' on evidence beyond the power of scepticism, to overthrow. The iwhole process of restoration now going on, may - be called a process of resurrection. It is through resurrection out of corruption and decay that God is building up all things anew, and adorning them with a glory and beauty which would not have belonged to them but for this strange process through which He is bringing them. It is through resurrection • that' .this ' Tjqdy is to he per- ,. fected and .adorned; and it may be said to to be 'through a species of resurrection that. this, material .creation is to be beautified in: the day when Christ is [to make all things new, "the "times i of the restitution of all things." -Resurrection is, always spokeu of- in Scrip WryW' a far higher display ;of power -than} creation. It required >yast power ;, ; jndeed, to Create a . world;; but it required vaster still to make it: new when ruined and defile;d bysin. • ; Ii is^this l'-'ressut rectiqii; !:power; thirds calledj • : f'fjjki i exceeding jgreatness-^ His r p;pweri'' ■ rirowe^ ' ; ;is appw^r that baia raise it , i rthefs^ejin wW^ ,z io^M^f'^efjb)meSy[ p^^S^vyia.ypbiN&ry '" ; enough in God to effect its -resurrection; "j 'Wpmj&fii'iß ; by Vihis^ :' i resurrection-power, of the Holy Ghost that a B^ul isqijickened and enabled '.io, believe.- -, yfgjiti^^ y}