The evangelisation of the world : a missionary band: a record of consecration, and an appeal . with them ;for surely the Eleven had got over their doubts by thistime. Many of the most learned expositors think thatthis was the occasion on which our Loud appeared toabout five hundred brethren at once. It does not muchmatter whether it were so or not. If He spake to theEleven, they represented the whole ; and if He spake tothe five hundred, they were nearly the whole of His fol-lowers here below. Anyhow, He must have spoken, notonly to those who were actually present, but to His wholeChurch ; bec
The evangelisation of the world : a missionary band: a record of consecration, and an appeal . with them ;for surely the Eleven had got over their doubts by thistime. Many of the most learned expositors think thatthis was the occasion on which our Loud appeared toabout five hundred brethren at once. It does not muchmatter whether it were so or not. If He spake to theEleven, they represented the whole ; and if He spake tothe five hundred, they were nearly the whole of His fol-lowers here below. Anyhow, He must have spoken, notonly to those who were actually present, but to His wholeChurch ; because in no other sense can it be true— Lo, Iam with you ahvay, even unto the end of the world ; forthey have gone, they Iiavc not remained unto tlie end of thedispensation. We do remain, and we take it that theMasters words were spoken to us all. Christ looked overthe heads of the centuries, and He saw us, and He saidto us who work for Him and serve Him in the preachingof the Gospel, yea, to all His people (for they all do this)— Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of Jiy Pel mission] [.1/, /(liisntorr iS Alabaster. REV. C. H. gPURQEOJV. / ftrl ccrtniit that soiuc of vott arc coi^cr to go for my Lore/ and Master Hltt-reirr lie not back, I pray you. Brother, make no terms with Got/. Put it, Here am I; send iiic—7vhcre T/iou ici/t, to the ivili/est region, or civn to the Jaws of death, I ant Thy so/dicr; put inc in tlicfront of tlic battle if Thou ui/i, or bid me iic in tin: trendies; give me ga//aiit/y to charge at the /icndof my regiment, or give nic silently to sap and mine the foundations of tlic enemys fortresses. Useme as Thou .wi/t; send me, and I tcill go. I leave all else to Thee; only here I ant, T/iy willingservant, ivliolly consecrated to Tliee. That is tlie right missionary spirit, and may God be pleased topour it out upon yon nil, and upon His people throughout the world. . , Let those iulio loveHim, as they perceive oil iinnnii
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