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Did not Jesus himself diet another asks. This question requires a chapter in itself. We can make but a few suggestions for you to think out. Man is slow to believe a new teaching. Jesus found dull ears and himself declared that his words and life should be gradually interpreted to men.

Jesus taught by word and by deed. He demonstrated his doctrines. After declaring death but a "sleep" and that Truth's followers should not taste of it after annulling that "sleep" in otters and showing that man need not be holden of death, he had yet to give his greatest object lesson. In order to prove the powerlessness of death, he went through all that it claims to be and came forth the same Jesus.

One has said, It was as a mother saying to her child who feels afraid of a dark room, I will go through the room first and then you will know there is nothing there to hurt anyone. Here is a verse that presents this same idea: "Since, then, the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also partook of the same that, through death, he might bring to naught him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might deliver them who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage." Here it is shown that the "devil" --- the lie only has death in its power. Jesus proved to men the nothingness of death by passing through the tomb, demonstrating that death has no power over life, and