Excerpt from They Rise: Suggestive Inquiries Concerning the Resurrection of the Dead, as Taught in the New Testament Bring light, and comfort, and Spiritual life, to some souls, which they may not find even in the venerable and authoritative teachings of orthodoxy. And if even a few souls should be awakened from a mere formal, lifeless, churchly belief in a long, future, earthly res urrectionh to a personal, conscious realization of the life-giving power of the resurrection and the life in Jesus, it will be an abundant reward for all the labor these inquiries have cost, and, at the same time, reach the end aimed at. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.