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TIES ARE NO EXCUSE FOR DISOBEDIENCE.

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that the heathen should be given to Christ, and the uttermost parts of the earth as his possession. A thousand questions and controversies may be originated about the heathen their responsibility, character, and doom-but this is God's will. A thousand claims of home, and family, and church, and country, will demand your time, your purse, your interest, and zeal, and sacrifice; but none of these claims, nor all combined, can interfere with the will and decree of God, that the heathen shall be given to Christ for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession, nor with the divine requirement, that this decree shall be carried into effect by Christ's believing and obedient people.

There can therefore be no truth, no faith, no obedience, no safety, no hope, no prosperity, no full and final recompense, where the will of self, or family, or friends, or church, or country, is allowed to interfere with and set aside the will and commen

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until the heathen shall be given to Christ, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession.

And as a man may even be finally saved,. and yet "suffer loss," and behold his many selfish hopes and schemes burnt up and destroyed, and he himself. only saved so as by fire, to become one of the least in the kingdom of God, and reap sparingly, and shine faintly in the firmament of heaven; therefore, let every minister, elder, and church-member lay it to heart, that his faith, if genuine, must be the spirit of missions; that his obedience, if sincere, must be the life of missions; and that in all he does, for self, or home, or church, or country, he must aim supremely at what is the supreme will and decree of God, that the heathen may be given to Christ for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession.

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GOD'S DECREED WILL MAKES FAILURE IMPOSSIBLE.

God's decree is the law of this spiritual kingdom. It combines his will and his power. It is his expressed will, and his exerted power. It is, therefore, to this spiritual kingdom what the laws of gravitation, attraction, and repulsion are to his

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kingdom. It is universal, invariable, fundamental. It is necessary. It excludes all ideas of contingency, irregularity, and caprice. It is independent, and far above all human interference, or Satanic hinderance. God has willed that it shall be so, and God's power secures that it will be so. It is the fixed and unchangeable law of the kingdom; and the history of the kingdom, and the innumerable multitude already redeemed by it from among men, and the millions now passing through it to the kingdom of heaven, evince the presence of God's unalterable will, and irresistible power.

This kingdom then must universally extend just as certainly as the sun must continue to rise and set, and in its course irradiate with its light, and enliven with its heat, all the nations of the earth. The one is the type, and emblem, and pledge of the other.

Am of the Lord, awake, awake!

nations shake!

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