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Christ, the love of Christ in giving himself, and the love of the Spirit in enkindling love to both, cannot fail to awaken love to our fellow-men; love to the whole race of men; love to that world which God loved; for which Christ became a propitiation, and for which the Spirit works; and love to men in their highest character and greatest needthat is, to men as immortal, and as exposed to everlasting misery.

This is the will of God, and this must be the will of all who love God. This was the spirit of Christ, and this must be the spirit of all his followers. This is the love of the Spirit, and this love must witness with our spirits that we are, indeed, the children of God. God's will to save the world led him to give his only begotten Son, and to work for its redemption hitherto in all the works of creation, providence, and grace. Christ's will led him to give himself a ransom and a redeemer, and ever to live, and reign, and

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In Gliding, on fearless angel wing,

One heart in all, one hope, one King,
Each an apostle true, a crowned and robed seer.
Sent as the Father sent the Son,

"T is not for you to swerve nor shun
Or power or peril; ye must go before-
If caught in the fierce bloody shower,

Think on your Lord's o'erwhelming hour;

Are ye not priests to Him who the world's forfeit bore?

The will of God, revealed as the ground of faith, and the law and measure of obedience, is not, then, it will be seen, revealed merely for the salvation of Christian nations, but also for the salvation of the heathen to the uttermost parts of the earth. This is the will and the work of God, on which he has set his heart, and to secure which he invokes the coöperation of all who love and obey him.

This is the end and aim of the Church, and of the gospel, and of every Christian. They are as light, as leaven, as servants, as co-workers with God, as an holy priesthood-that whatever position they providen

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OPPOSITION, DISOBEDIENCE, OR INDIFFERENCE TO THIS WILL OF GOD, IS SIN.

We have seen, then, what is God's will. Man is God's creature. Life is God's gift. Faculties of body and mind, opportunities for employing them, influence and means of doing good, all are God's talents! And what man ought to be, what a man ought to believe, and what a man ought to do, is clearly determined by God's will as revealed for his guidance.us-link

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