perfectness for Himself, but like a sun in the heavens, which streams
out vivifying and enlightening rays to all that seek His face. If it
be true that Christ has risen, then it is also true that you and I,
convicted of sin, and learning our weakness and our faults, may come
to Him, and by the exercise of that simple and yet omnipotent act of
faith, may ally our incompleteness with His perfectness, our sin with
His righteousness, our emptiness with His fullness, and may have all
the grace and the beauty of Jesus Christ passing over into us to be
the Spirit of life in us, 'making us free from the law of sin and
death.' If Christ be risen, His righteousness may be the world's; if
Christ be not risen, His righteousness is useless to any but to
Himself.

My brother, wed yourself to that dear Lord by faith in Him, and His
righteousness will become yours, and you will be 'found in Him
without spot and blameless,' clothed with white raiment like His own,
and sharing in the Throne which belongs to the righteous Christ.

III. Lastly, notice the judgment of the world's prince as the
prophecy of the judgment of the world.

We are here upon ground which is only made known to us by the
revelation of Scripture. We began with a fact of man's experience; we
passed on to a fact of history; now we have a fact certified to us
only on Christ's authority.

The world _has_ a prince. That ill-omened and chaotic agglomeration
of diverse forms of evil has yet a kind of anarchic order in it, and,
like the fabled serpent's locks on the Gorgon head, they intertwine
and sting one another, and yet they are a unity. We hear very little