The debating business will bear a great deal of careful watching. Jesus never sent out the apostles to "deny that Jesus didn’t rise." Paul affirmed that Jesus was alive (Acts 25:19). The gospel is to be presented in an affirmative way. There was no divine intention to build the church out of people, who were negatively taught. Sinful man is dying without hope unless he is helped by a power greater than his own. A redeemer he must have or his life is forfeit. The Creator, whose existence and right to govern, and whose desire to help and save, are properly assumed, has revealed himself to his fallen creatures, and revealed them unto themselves. Jesus has furnished all needed means and power to correct man’s age-long errors, and make him eternally happy. This gospel is to be affirmed everywhere, till the age ends, by men who believe it, in order that all others who will may believe it, and believing it, may be saved. Let us press this duty. Let those who may dispute and deny. No one very seriously wishes sincere investigation who insists on having negatives affirmed. I will insist on no item of fellowship that I cannot prove to be God’s will. I ask no one to "prove that it isn’t." This is fair.