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Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he Athenian wrote: Wonders are many and none is there greater than man, whoSteers his ship over the sea, driven on by the south wind,Cleaving the threatening swell of the waters around him. He captures the gay-hearted birds; he entangles adroitlyCreatures that live on the land and the brood of the ocean,Spreading his well-woven nets. Man full of devices! 278 Our Day in the Light of Prophecy Speech and swift thought free as wind, the building of cities;Shelters to ward off the arrows of rain, and to temperSharp-biting frost — all these hath he taught himself. SurelyStratagem hath he for all that comes! Never the futureFinds him resourceless! Deftly he combats grievous diseases,Oft from their grip doth he free himself. Death alone vainly —Vainly he seeks to escape; gainst death he is helpless. — Chorus from Antigone, What unspeakable pathos in the cry of humanitys help-lessness before death, the great enemy! But when Adamwent out of Eden, it was with the assurance of life from the
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JESUS RAISING THE SON OFTHE WIDOW OF NAIN The gift of God is eternal life throughJesus Christ our Lord. Rom. 6:23. dead through the promised Seed, if faithful. It is the mes-sage of the one gospel for all time—everlasting life in Christ. God so loved the world, that He gave His only begottenSon, that whosoever beUeveth in him should not perish, buthave everlasting life. John 3: 16. As there is none other name under heaven by which mencan be saved, so there is no other way of everlasting Hfe orimmortality, save in Christ Jesus our Lord. Life Only in Christ 279 When Immortality is Bestowed Christ said, I am the resurrection, and the life: he thatbeheveth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.John 11:25. He has turned death, that would have been eternal, into alittle time of sleep, from which he will awaken the believer.In the resurrection of the last day immortahty is bcotowed,*in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the lasttrump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead

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