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Identifier: threecircleshome00detl (find matches)
Title: The three circles: the home, the church, and the heavenly circle, or the home, the church, and the immortal life
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Detling, William Colbert
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Publisher: Cleveland, O.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s joined them in singing most charmingand soul enchanting anthems and songs; when Isee the worm has unfolded and developed itselfinto a beautiful winged creature, the unsightlybulb has come out of its slime and mould ofearth to a fragrant and beautiful lily; I ask, arethere not signs, symbols, and hints to me in allthese that when I am dead, that I, too, may beprivileged to arise and come forth into a new andmore perfect form and life than I now have?Yes, most certainly; these all do contribute awonderful store to our anticipations and hopesof the future. But there are yet stronger andmore incontestible proofs in revelation in Godsown words, and more still in the life, death, andresurrection of the Lord and Savior JesusChrist. Yes, the final answer must be in Christ,or there is no answer. The darkest hours of theworlds history were when Christ hanged lifelessupon the cross, and when He lay enclosed andsealed in the tomb; the saddest of men andwomen were those who lowered His body from
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SADNESS TO BE TURNED TO JOY. THE THREE CIRCLES. 179 the cross and anointed it for the entombment;and the refrain of all this sadness found itselfin the words of those who walked toward Em-maus when they said, * But we trusted that it hadbeen he which should have redeemed Israel. Itis no wonder that the clouds gathered in theirdensest darkness, presaging an ominous andawful event of the rending of the temple veil, theopening of graves and the coming forth of thedead out of their graves. Ah, dark indeed ifHe who had claimed to be the Christ is to sleepon with others. If so, prophecy has failed andhas no meaning; all has gone with the story ofidle dreamers of heathen nations. If so, Christwas not only not a good man, but was a badman — an imposter, for He claimed to be theChrist and the worlds Redeemer, and He wasall of this or none. If He is not risen, His state-ment, I am the Resurrection and the Life, Hispromise of Heaven with its many mansions, to-gether with all His other promises

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