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19 hope is that Jesus will claim every purchase of his blood, And if his blood be on us here, his favor will be on us there. The believer may go tremblingly down to death, but he will find the rod and the staff awaiting him. Death has been swallowed up in victory. Jesus has passed that way and robbed it of its Sting and now stands waiting to present him to the Fallen saying, This is mine, I died for him, he believed in me, let him pass into fullness of joy. What would our hope be worth today if all this were not so. How truly did Paul say if X be not risen our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain, ye are yet in your Sins. We do not make enough of the resurrection of X. We live too much on this side of the grave, we hope in his sufferings, but do not glory in his triumph. We Stop Short of crowning him Lord of all. This thought is brought out in the granduer of a climax by the Apostle Paul in the g" [gospel?] of Romans