Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

382 THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOMthe joys and sorrows of life, after all its struggles andcares, after its shortcomings and its crimes, with death" like stivaks of morning cloud they melt into theinfinite azure of the past." lNothing therefore could be more distinct eitherfrom the philosophic doctrine of a qualified post-existence of man's spirit, grounded on the pantheisticnotion of an universal mind, or the popular mixture ofincertitude, sorrow, desire, and despair as to a life ofman after death, than the peremptory doctrine, Christis risen from the dead to be the Judge of all men,who likewise shall rise in their bodies from death todie no more. As the same Christ who had beenfied who had been laid in the tomb rose in thvery body in which He had suffered shame and tment, so each man should rise to receive erood or