Eternal Life in Christ

On opening an Etruscan tomb, it was found to be occupied by the skeleton of a king. After thousands of years, he still wore, amid the gloom and ghastliness of the grave, a remainder of his former state of majesty. A rough fillet of gold had been placed around the skull--a mocking satire on his present condition, was a memorial of his previous greatness. Such a crown man wears in his hopes of immortality. Like indestructible gold, they have survived the fall and its spiritual death, though they are only vestiges of his departed glory. Of himself, and until quickened by Him who is the Resurrection and the Life, he cannot wear them as his crown; but when the Son of God raises the soul from its death; then He brings life and immortality to light, and life, kingly and eternal, becomes his blessed and abiding possession.