[Elsie at Home by Martha Finley]@TWC D-Link bookElsie at Home CHAPTER III 2/7
"The resurrection is the subject ?" "Yes; and what a glorious one! how full of comfort for all who believe in Christ! 'For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though after my death my body is destroyed, yet in my flesh shall I see God; whom I shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold, and not another,' said the patriarch Job; comforting himself in his affliction with that blessed prospect.
The doctrine of a general resurrection is expressly taught in both the Old Testament and the New, and I think we cannot spend our lesson hour more profitably than in looking up the texts on the subject.
Can you give us one, mother ?" At that Grandma Elsie opened her Bible. "Beginning with the Old Testament," she said, "here in Psalms xlix.
15 we read: 'But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me.
Selah.' Then here in Isaiah; 'Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise.
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