American messenger . IF I HAD NOT COME BY REV. CHARLES CARROLL ALBERTSON, D. D. Pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York CHARLES CARROLL ALBERTSON, N the last discourse of Jesus,spoken in the upper room—the historic upper room inwhich the memorial supperwas instituted, in which, later,Jesus appeared to His dis-ciples after the Resurrection,and in which still later each apostles brow wasmitered with the Pentecostal flame—He saida most suggestive thing: If I had not come—I had read these words a thousand times andthey had never particularly impressed me untild
American messenger . IF I HAD NOT COME BY REV. CHARLES CARROLL ALBERTSON, D. D. Pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York CHARLES CARROLL ALBERTSON, N the last discourse of Jesus,spoken in the upper room—the historic upper room inwhich the memorial supperwas instituted, in which, later,Jesus appeared to His dis-ciples after the Resurrection,and in which still later each apostles brow wasmitered with the Pentecostal flame—He saida most suggestive thing: If I had not come—I had read these words a thousand times andthey had never particularly impressed me untilduring the recent Lenten season, when, forsome unexplained reason, the sentence thrustitself upon me and kept repeating itself withinsistent force. Without a doubt this is the greatest IF ofhistory. More things have been wrought byHis coming than by any other single act withinthe chronicles of time. The absence from his-tory of the single fact of His coming wouldmake a vaster difference in all subsequent timethan would the absence of any other fact ofwhich we have knowledge. Let us see if it isnot so. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume ofthe book it is written of me,
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