Verily, Verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath Life in himself: so hath he given the Son to have life in himself. John v. 25, 27.
Nearly nineteen hundred years ago there lived a man, who, to human sense appeared like other men, who walked among mortals like others, but who declared he was the Son of God. This man's life was beyond the reproach of the strictest moralist, and his constant efforts were directed to relieving suffering humanity, and to teaching the people that God was the only source of Life and power. He healed disease, opened the eyes of the blind, and the ears of the deaf, gave the hand of compassionate forgiveness to the penitent sinner, and raised the dead. He was constantly preaching, and teaching others to proclaim God's power to heal the sick and cast out evils; and so well did his disciples come to understand his method, that they too performed many cures. He declared, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, to set at liberty them that are bruised."
Isaiah prophesied he should "open the prison doors to them that are bound."
