means whereby the sins can be forgiven, whereby one may be born again, and then, after the change, bring forth fruits meet for repentance. The burden of sin drops from the sinner at the bottom of the hill and he has all of his strength for the climb upward toward the perfection of the Heavenly Father. A load of sin is heavy enough when one is travelling down-hill-it would be impossible to carry such a burden up-hill.

Christianity has been described as the Gospel of the Second Chance; it is more than that; it is the gospel that offers forgiveness to any who come in true repentance, no matter how often or how deep they may have fallen. Where else can one find so complete a plan of salvation, one so suited to man's needs, and one so in harmony with the nature of a God who is all-loving?

A Salvation That Makes Good

But there is one final argument in support of God's plan of salvation, foreshadowed in the Old Testament, explicitly declared in the New Testament and completed on the Cross of Calvary, namely, that it can be proved by experience. Hundreds of millions bear joyful witness to it, having experienced a sense of forgiveness and having proved their gratitude

by a new life. This is positive testimony that no negative testimony can shake. One man who can see is a more credible witness to the beauties of nature than any number of blind men, just as one person who can hear is better authority on music than any number of deaf mutes. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (1 Cor. 2: 14).

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Believers, accepting Christ's salvation by faith and testing it by experience, cannot be answered by any number of atheists or agnostics who, being blind to the heavenly vision and deaf to the call of Christ, blasphemously deny that there is saving power in the blood of the only begotten Son of God.

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HE fifth of the disputed questions to be considered deals with the Resurrection of the body of Christ. Did Christ rise bodily from the grave?

Let us first examine the evidence from Holy Writ:

Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.

For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:

And they shall scourge him, and put him to death; and the third day he shall rise again (Luke 18:31-33; see also Matt. 16:21; Mark 9:31; 10:34; Luke 9:22).

Jesus said:

As Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (Matt. 12:40).

Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is