These verses are without peer in the Bible. The New Testament tells the story of how Christ suffered and died in the working out of an infinite and eternal sacrifice. Yet it is to such discourses as the one here delivered by Samuel that we must turn to learn why that suffering and death were necessary. Christ died that salvation might come. He died to bring to pass the resurrection of the dead. He died that all men might be redeemed from the effects of Adam’s fall. He died that all men might enjoy the eternal union of body and spirit and that there might be a way whereby they could again attain-this time forever-the presence of that God who gave them life.