Publisher's Synopsis
THIS declaration is not only the conclusion of our Creed and crown of our belief, but also its foundation and support. "I believe in the resurrection of the body and life everlasting." With this triumphant assurance the Christian Creed ends. On this also the whole Christian religion is erected. Life everlasting. What a promise and hope beyond imagination! Unsurpassed bliss! How much encouragement, how much consolation, how much strength and energy emanate from this belief! Life everlasting. If there really is life everlasting, then it is not such a dreadful tragedy, that my earthly life is continual pain and suffering. If there is life everlasting, then it is not such an insupportable burden, that I have to live my earthly life misunderstood and unloved. If there is life everlasting, then I am not appalled that death should deprive me of this earth I y life. If there is life everlasting, then in this earthly life only one thing is important: to insure by my present life that blissful life everlasting. O yes, if there is life everlasting. But what if there is none? Is it certain that there is? Can we say the last words of the Creed with absolute certainty: "I believe in life everlasting"? Is this not a mere fancy? Is it not a deceptive dream? An unfounded longing?
