we must confess that we too stand with bated breath, before the problem
which its consideration presents, for we are confronted here with
mysteries. But the mysteries are not closed, and are not utterly
incapable of solution."

Again he says: "Christ's visits to the earth were few and brief after
His resurrection. Where then was He during the forty days when not
visible to His disciples? Not in heaven, for He had not yet ascended.
Neither was He on earth, for if any one truth was constantly more fully
enforced by Him, it was that through His death He had passed beyond the
sphere of the earthly. Where else then could He have sojourned but in
Hades--that unseen world of the dead into which all men pass when they
lay aside their mortal bodies, and begin to live in spiritual bodies."

Again: "To the penitent thief on the cross Jesus said, 'To-day thou shalt
be with Me in Paradise.' The Saviour, therefore, must have gone to the
regions of the dead, for to the Jews, Paradise meant the locality in
Hades to which the blessed dead were received."

Again: "St. Peter not only assures us that Christ descended into Hades,
but also tells us why He went thither, 'Because Christ also suffered for
sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to
God; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit,' in
which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison."

Again: "Again 'For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the
dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live
according to God in the spirit,'"

Again: "These passages of Scripture, as well as the whole drift of the