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Christ has made the ground and limit of his presence and blessing to the end of the world; and which is given also as the measure of this world's duration, seeing that when the gospel shall have been preached among all nations, as a witness to the people, then shall the end come. This, in short, is the "promise of the Father," which the disciples heard from Christ, the times and the seasons for fulfilling which the Father hath put in his own power, and which therefore it is not for man to know. "But," added the departing Saviour, "ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses. unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."

Here then is an exposition of his will, given by God himself; sustained and interpreted by innumerable promises, prophecies,

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informed, that they who listened to our Saviour's last annunciation of this "promise of the Father,"-that these all "continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women."

Let it then be understood and felt, that it is the will of God that the heathen should be given unto Christ, and the uttermost parts of the earth as his possession. This, be it understood by all men, is not merely God's secret, sovereign, and absolute will; this is God's will, revealed and declared. This is not merely God's will, as that word implies God's willingness that this should be accomplished. It is God's desire. It is God's decree. It is God's decree, declared and ratified. It is God's decree, consummated by the actual establishment of his spiritual kingdom; by the incarnation of his only begotten Son; by the inauguration of Christ as King upon the holy hill of Zion; by his exaltation to the throne of heaven; by his endowment there with all power in heaven and on earth. This is that will of God which

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the extension of Christ's kingdom; by its
preservation and propagation through sixty
centuries; through people and realms of
every tongue; against powers of earth and
hell combined; through ages of persecution
and seas of blood; gathering to itself, in its
visible organization, through every successive
generation, from among its enemies and its
most determined, active assailants, millions
of devoted-because convinced and convert-
ed-friends; and collecting together, in its
invisible form, "the kingdom of heaven, the
general assembly, the church of the first-
born, the heavenly Zion;" the millions of
millions who, through faith and patience, and
manifold tribulations, conflicts, and victo-
ries, shall have passed from earth to heaven,
from time to eternity, from faith to vision,
and from hope to the full fruition of unspeak-
able delight.

Lord, who, to set thy pardon's seal,
To us thy Godhead dost reveal,

And on our skies the signal plant

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GOD NOW ACCOMPLISHING HIS DECREE IN TWO SUPER-
HUMAN FACTS.

Let us dwell upon two of the marvellous facts to which we have alluded. Although superhuman in their character and cause, and most wonderful in their development, and of extraordinary force as proofs of the divinity of Christianity, they are greatly overlooked both by the friends and by the enemies of the gospel.ing

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