at the last day. That was in his mind only the end, and outcome, and
fruit, and perfecting, of men's rising from the dead in this life.
For he tells these same Corinthians, and the Colossians, and others
to whom he wrote, that life, the eternal life which would raise their
bodies at the last day, was even then working in them.

Neither is he speaking only of a few believers. He says that, owing
to the Lord's rising on this day, all shall be made alive--not merely
all Christians, but all men. For he does not say, as in Adam all
Christians die, but all men; and so he does not say, all Christians
shall be made alive, but all men. For here, as in the sixth chapter
of Romans, he is trying to make us understand the likeness between
Adam and Jesus Christ, whom he calls the new Adam. The first Adam,
he says, was only a living soul, as the savages and heathens are; but
the second Adam, the Lord from heaven, the true pattern of men, is a
quickening, life-giving spirit, to give eternal life to every human
being who will accept His offer, and claim his share and right as a
true man, after the likeness of the new Adam, Jesus Christ.

We then, every one of us who is here to-day, have a right to believe
that we have a share in Christ's eternal life: that our original
sin, that is, the sinfulness which we inherited from our forefathers,
is all forgiven and forgotten, and that mankind is now redeemed, and
belongs to the second Adam, the true and original head and pattern of
man, Jesus Christ, in whom was no sin; and that because mankind
belongs to him, God is well pleased with them, and reconciled to
them, and looks on them not as a guilty, but as a pardoned and
beloved race of beings.

And we have a right to believe also, that because all power is given