Our Lord Jesus Christ came down and found the human race like that: consumptive, wan, pale-faced and dying, and He took on Himself all her death and rose the third day and took all the pathos out and all of the pity out. Now she comes leaning on the arm of her beloved. She comes walking into the presence of God, and He presents her not as a poor pitiful wretch whose forehead He kissed when she was dead, but as His happy bright-eyed bride, to be partaker with all the saints, worthy to stand beside Him and be His bride in the glory. What is her authority, what is her right and by what authority
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