We can all read together from memory the words of Jesus: “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” The end can not come until this is done. Just so surely as the Lord lives in heaven, the end will come as soon as that is done.GCB April 5, 1901, page 78.8

I have seen calculations over this text. I have seen a map of the world spread out, and figures given as to how far the gospel has been preached, the languages into which the Bible has been translated; and I have seen it, I think, stated that there is not a country under heaven, nor a people, to whom the gospel has not been preached. So I dare say that there are many people who think that the gospel of the kingdom has been already preached in all the world; for I suppose it is true that there is no country where something, at least, of the gospel has not been proclaimed. But the Saviour says that as soon as the gospel of the kingdom, of which the Saviour spoke, has not yet been preached in all the world for a witness to all nations. If it had been, the end would have come; for the Saviour says that when it is done, then shall the end come.GCB April 5, 1901, page 78.9

The gospel is that of the kingdom. When Jesus was baptized, He knelt upon the banks of Jordan and prayed, and while He was praying, the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, lighted upon Him, and not simply upon Him, but came into Him and filled Him; and, driven by the Spirit, He went into the wilderness, and there, in the power of the Spirit, for forty days and nights He wrestled with the devil; and then, in the power of that same Spirit, He came back. We read in the fourth chapter of Matthew: “Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of infirmities [R. V.] among the people.” Mark that. There is a point worth thinking about. Our Version does not make any real distinction. Our Version says, “All manner of sickness and all manner of disease.” Literally, it is “all manner of sickness and every kind of weakness,” all infirmity, among the people. “And his fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought unto Him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and He healed them.”GCB April 5, 1901, page 78.10

He went about preaching the gospel of the kingdom, the very same thing that must be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations before the end shall come. Do you not see that whoever does this work must do exactly the same work that the Lord Jesus Christ did—nothing else than that? He set the pattern. He began the work. It is now committed unto those who have heard to carry it on. He has gone ahead, not to leave us behind, but to fit us for the work which He was to do. So you have it in the fifth chapter of 2 Corinthians: “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation: to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word [R. V.] of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.”GCB April 5, 1901, page 79.1

Who is it that has this ministry of reconciliation?—Every one who is reconciled. It is not merely Paul, nor Peter, nor John; but every one who is in Christ, and who is a new creature, and who in Christ Jesus has been reconciled to God, has put into him the ministry and the word of reconciliation, and is an ambassador in Christ’s stead to do the very same work that He did; and as God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, so He is in His people reconciling the world unto Himself.GCB April 5, 1901, page 79.2

I think some of us have read the Saviour’s words incorrectly. We have read it as if it were stated this way: “This gospel concerning the kingdom shall be preached in all the world.” Is it not so? Well, that is all right, so far as it goes; but it is not what the Lord says. He says that, and more. It is not simply to state the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ will come soon and set up a kingdom on this earth. That is the gospel concerning the kingdom, but it is the gospel of the kingdom itself that is to be proclaimed in all the world. It is that gospel of the kingdom which the Lord Jesus proclaimed when He came saying, “The kingdom of God is at hand.” The gospel concerning the kingdom is the truth familiar to you all, that the Lord “with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God,” “shall descend from heaven;” and “then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air;” and then after the Judgment has been completed, the New Jerusalem will descend upon this earth, and the earth will be made new by the fires of the last day, and then there will be one Lord over all the earth, a new heaven and a new earth, wherein righteousness shall dwell. These are all to come; but before that new heavens and that new earth can come, there must be a people corresponding to a new heavens and a new earth. When that time shall come, as spoken of in Revelation 21,—“I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,” and “he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new,”—O, what a glorious time it will be!GCB April 5, 1901, page 79.3

But now this day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears: “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.” There will be a new heaven and a new earth, but there must be new men to inhabit that place. When that new heaven and that new earth are created, he that sits upon the throne will say, “Behold, all things are become new.” When that new man is created for Christ Jesus, he that sits on the throne says: “Old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.” And all things are of God. That is the gospel, not concerning a kingdom to come, but of the kingdom of God here and now.GCB April 5, 1901, page 79.4

When it was inquired of Him when the kingdom of God should come, he said, “The kingdom of God cometh not with observation”—not with outward show. Neither shall they say, Lo, here! or lo, there! “Why,” you say. “I thought that there was going to be a great deal of outward show when the kingdom of God came.” You know how prone we are to answer back when the Lord speaks. He says it “cometh not with observation;” and then we say, “Well, I thought—.” We have no business to think anything, except what the Saviour thinks. He says it “cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo, here! or, lo, there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”GCB April 5, 1901, page 79.5

It is true enough that when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels clothed with fire, the earth shall be lightened with His glory, and His light shall shine from the east to the west, and no man will need to say, lo, here! or, lo, there! for “every eye shall see him;” but that will simply be the culmination, the finishing point. Jesus Christ is king to-day. He was crucified as king. And do you know that the cross of Calvary was the throne of Jesus Christ? The Spirit of God prays for us, that we “may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to upward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the Church, which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all.”GCB April 5, 1901, page 79.6

Many people read that, and don’t know what it says. Who is the one that is all in all?—God, who is above all, and through all, and in all. What is it that is the fullness of Him that filleth all? It is the Church, the body of Christ. “In Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are made complete in him.” And the apostle prays for us, that we “may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.”GCB April 5, 1901, page 79.7

There are some marvelous possibilities for the Church of God. They must be realized before the end comes. The shorter the time, the greater the work necessary to be done; but when the Church is filled with all the fullness of God, the time will be shortened. Take the Seventh-day Adventists—professedGCB April 5, 1901, page 79.8

Seventh-day Adventists as they are today. If they were all indeed joined to the Head, partakers of the fullness of heaven, filled with the fullness of the Head, increased with the increase of the grace of God, and then should obey the Scripture injunction, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel,” how long would it take the whole world to be warned?GCB April 5, 1901, page 80.1

But we would have to leave our homes. Well, some people do anyhow. Many a man leaves his home for a longer period than would be necessary if all were faithful, and had the fullness of the power of God. He would only have to leave home for a few weeks, in order to go home for eternity.GCB April 5, 1901, page 80.2

Now, we have Christ seated at the right hand of God, far above all principalities and power and might and dominion. What lifted Him there?—The power that was revealed in Christ when God raised Him from the dead. When we preach Jesus and the power of His resurrection, is that anything else than preaching Christ and Him crucified?—No; for when Christ was crucified, the resurrection followed as a matter of course. It would not be otherwise. Therefore, is it not correct to say that when Jesus was lifted up on the cross, the cross lifted Him up to the place where He is now? It certainly is. The cross was the throne of God. And as Christ was lifted up, God has lifted us up, raised us up with Christ, and made us to sit together with Him in heavenly places, far above all principalities and power and might and dominion and every name in this world and in the world to come. We have been raised up to where Christ sits, at the right hand of God.GCB April 5, 1901, page 80.3

“If ye, then, be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.” You can not find these things unless you go where they are to be found, and that proves that we are to be where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God, far above all principalities and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and that is the gospel of the kingdom. Christ is a royal priest upon the throne of God. He is a king, and when we are made to sit together with Him, we are kings with him; for in the fifth chapter of Romans I read these words, “If by one man’s offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.” When do we reign in life with Him?—Now. Do not be afraid of the marvelous possibilities that there are in the gospel. The gospel presents such infinite gifts to man, it sets before us such heights and depths and breadths and possibilities, that we shrink back and are afraid, and we say that is not for us.GCB April 5, 1901, page 80.4

Let me read you another text, here in the first of Revelation: “Unto him that loved us, and washed us [loosed us] from our sins in His own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God, our Father, to Him be glory forever and ever. Amen.” What has He done? Loosed us from our sins in His own blood. How has He done it?—He hath loosed us from our sins in His own blood. Are you free from sin? Do you know the victory over sin? Have you got the victory over the world? Just as surely as this is the case, you are a king, and you know kingly power; for it takes nothing less than the almighty power of the King of kings to break the power of sin, and He does it by His own life, which comes to us day by day from the throne of God. Don’t be afraid of these things. There are inspiration and enthusiasm in them. You may call me an enthusiast if you will. I am glad of it. What is an enthusiast?—One in whom God is; a man filled with God. I would not dare to call myself an enthusiast; but if God will call me that, I will thank Him forever. If God is in you, you are kings.GCB April 5, 1901, page 80.5

Let me tell you something more about this. Thank God, I know what I am talking about. “The Lord hath prepared His eternity in the heavens, and His talking about. “The Lord hath prepared and the heaven of heavens are but a part of the kingdom of God; yet “the kingdom of God is within you.”GCB April 5, 1901, page 80.6

The high and holy One inhabits eternity; and His name is I Am. What does that mean? That means that in God (and there is nothing except what we get in God) the fullness, the power of eternity, the power of the universe, are compressed and centered into every moment of time. Christ, who is our Priest-King, and priest by the power of His kingship, is priest after the power of an endless life. We have an altogether too narrow idea of what the eternal life is. Eternity is not simply mere continuity, continued existence; it is much more than that. Eternity is broad as well as long. Eternity is not simply the drawing out of life through unnumbered ages, but it is the breadth of the mind of God. And this present eternity is for every man, for God is with us. I claim that that is practical.GCB April 5, 1901, page 80.7

There is a train that leaves the station at 2:30, we will say, and there is only one train a day going to that place. The train starts exactly at the moment, 2:30: and a man gets down there 2:31. How much too late is he? [Voices: “One minute.”] He is twenty-four hours too late. In that one minute twenty-four hours’ time is contained.GCB April 5, 1901, page 80.8

Here is a man who goes about flattering himself that he is a Seventh-day Adventist, a subject of the kingdom; and he comes up at last—like one of the foolish virgins. They have neglected to become filled with the oil of the Spirit of God, and the Bridegroom has entered in and shut the door, and when they come and knock, and say, Lord, Lord, open to us, it is too late. They come immediately after the door is shut. How much too late are they?—eternally too late. The whole of eternity is contained in that moment.GCB April 5, 1901, page 80.9

O, how many times (and who knows what particular moment it may be?) a decision for eternity may be made, and the convenient time let slip! That is one side of it. But the glorious side of it is that the power of eternity, the power of the universe, the power of the endless life of Christ, which is as broad as it is long, is concentrated into every moment, for the benefit of every soul who submits to the power of God; so that these sins that have bound me with chains that I have striven in vain to break, have all the power of the eternal God, who is my refuge, to snap them in sunder. I am glad of that.GCB April 5, 1901, page 80.10

And so while it is a most serious thing to think that in a moment a decision may be made, or a decision may be neglected, which will work ill to the soul for all eternity. I am glad that the decision may be made which will be well for the person throughout eternity; and then every moment of that person’s life, so long as he is submitted to that power, he may have the power of the whole eternity to bear upon him and in him.GCB April 5, 1901, page 80.11

In everything that God has made, his everlasting power and divinity are revealed; also in man, whom he has made. And we read, Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. But I left out something. Oh, think of that! He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. To what extent? In what line?—“According to the power that worketh in us.” And the power is here; for his name is Immanuel, God with us, God dwelling in the flesh.GCB April 5, 1901, page 80.12

With whom dost thou delight to dwell?—Sinners, taking on himself sinful flesh, coming into your flesh and mine, abiding there, standing there, enduring all the shame that we heap upon him, bearing all the reproach, patiently enduring all the sin that we have heaped upon him, all the disgrace, all the uncleanness, all the vile abominations that his soul hates; and yet waiting, waiting, waiting, with that eternal power. What for?—That we may turn on the connection. That is all that is needed to be done. The power is there; but the connection is not made.GCB April 5, 1901, page 81.1

There is a train standing on the track, and on a siding there stands a single car, and the train backs up to it. There is a mighty power in one of the huge locomotives, with all the train that it wields. That power comes down against that single car, and it is powerfully moved. You have seen it often. Then the engine is reversed, and the train pulls away. What about that car?—It stays there, because the connection was not made. How many times the power of God has come down upon his people! We have seen it. The power of God has come into congregations, and souls have been moved, and mightily moved. And then time went on, and they remained where they were. What was the matter?—The connection was not made; they were not bound to the power. Now what is God waiting for?—It is that power which is here waiting for us, and which is in us even now, shall be joined to us with everlasting bonds; and then we will not only move, but all the power will be manifested in us. That is the gospel of the kingdom.GCB April 5, 1901, page 81.2

And when that takes place,—oh, here is such fullness that I can not do anything more than to present it for a moment to-night; but he has made us kings with himself, to reign with him, and he has given us authority as kings. When he came, there was a question of authority. He came into the temple, and the scribes and Pharisees and rulers gathered around him, and said, By what authority do you do these things? What right have you to do this? Who gave you permission to do it? To do what? What had he been doing?—He had been healing the sick; he had been speaking words such as never man spoke, that healed the soul as well as the body. What was his authority? It was his power to do it. And that is all the authority any man on earth needs.—and he who has this power within him from God, has the authority, and is sent forth, and has divine credentials.GCB April 5, 1901, page 81.3

The Son of man is like unto a man who went into a far country, and gave something to his servants. He gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work. He sent forth his disciples, and gave them power and authority over all devils, over all principalities and powers, and to heal all diseases, and to preach the gospel of the kingdom. That is what he has given to us. We take counsel too much of precedent, or of our experience. We need not throw that experience away; but instead of looking back, we want to look forward to things that have never yet been experienced. And even if I preach to my own shame I know that these things are possible; I know that these things await us to-day; and inasmuch as all eternity is compressed in a moment, even to-night the connection may be made, each soul may be yielded to God, and cleansed from all filthiness: and then the eternal God will dwell in every one, and he will do whatever God wants him to do.GCB April 5, 1901, page 81.4

In a very little while you will see the grass springing up all over the country, and all who have eyes, and have been in the country, know that soon there are cracks in the ground. The ground opens all around, and you see the blades of corn and of grass springing up opening the earth. Did you ever stop to think how many blades of grass and corn will soon be coming up at this season of the year? Suppose you had all that power that is silently working. Suppose all the power manifested in these blades of grass, were all concentrated into one place. What kind of earthquake would there be? What sort of gap would appear in the earth? With all these openings put together in one place, it would be a power greater than any earthquake ever yet known. Yet this mighty power works silently and quietly. O, how many questions are answered in this! When God made man in the beginning, he made him king. Male and female made he them, and gave them dominion over all the earth. What does God expect? What does he want?—That every one of his people shall be kings, a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation, a royal priesthood.GCB April 5, 1901, page 81.5

Let me tell you something good. Our God is a King of kings. God is very particular, and will not have any rank in his kingdom lower than kings. Do you know that? There are no mean people in his kingdom; they are all kings.GCB April 5, 1901, page 81.6

But some of you may say, Didn’t we hear the other day that there was to be no kingly authority?—Ah, well, you heard last night how that was explained. God has given to every one authority; but he has given no one authority to exercise on somebody else. Every person, however, is a king. Well, if every person in the earth were a king, where would be his kingdom? Over what could he rule? Here is it (in the heart). “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”GCB April 5, 1901, page 81.7

Let me tell you something more. The man who, by the grace of God dwelling in him, has power over himself, over his spirit, over his flesh, over his appetite, his lusts, his passions, so that they are loosed from him, and they do not hold him any more, that man has power in all the universe; for it takes nothing less than the eternal power of God in the soul to break the power of sin, of depraved appetite and lust. But it can do it. Therefore I say that the man who reigns in life with Christ is a king with all the power of the universe; yet he rules over no one but himself.GCB April 5, 1901, page 81.8

This settles all the religious liberty question, too. We are placed far above all principality and power and might and dominion. He that overcomes has power over the nations. The word is, “Thou must prophecy again before many people, nations, tongues, and kings.” We have something to give to the kings of the earth—nothing to get from them.GCB April 5, 1901, page 81.9

It is useless for us to run unless we have a message to give. We want to know what it is. It is the gospel of the kingdom. We want to know what we are to preach. In the first chapter of Mark, we read of a man in the synagogue on the Sabbath day with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, and Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him; and when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him, and they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? What new doctrine is this? For with authority commandeth he the unclean spirits, and they obeyed him. Talk about new doctrines. Well, brethren, there is necessity for new doctrine. Christ commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man, and it obeyed him. That was the doctrine of Christ. There was no argument about it, no splitting of hairs, but it was the doctrine that drove the devil out of a man. What is the application? “Whoso committeth sin is of the devil, for the devil sinneth from the beginning.” What is this thing in me that makes me sin? There are only two powers—Christ and Satan. If Christ is not ruling in me, who is?—“The spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.” Now what is the power that every preacher of the gospel must carry with him, if he is indeed a preacher of the gospel? What is preaching for?—To save men. From what? From sin. But in order to save man from sin, what has got to be driven out of that man?—The devil. Then if you and I are called to be ministers of the gospel, the power of our preaching drives the devil out of a man. But first it has got to drive the devil out of ourselves. That is a new doctrine. That is the new teaching that we want.GCB April 5, 1901, page 81.10

Now still further: There has been talk here about doing away with sectional lines; that is right, that is exactly what this does. Read Ecclesiastes 3:11: “He hath made everything beautiful in this time: also he hath set the world [eternity] in their heart.” When God puts himself into a man’s heart, and abides there, the man has got eternity—the universe—in his heart; he has breadth of mind, breadth to comprehend what is the length, breadth, depth, and height. That is to say, when a man gets heaven into his heart, he has got the whole world there, and not simply his garden, his territory,—“my Conference.” He will have the spirit of John Wesley, who said, “The world is my parish,” because God has made him debtor to all men. Then wherever he is, wherever he may be in traveling, that is his field. He can not get out of it, he can not get out of his Conference, out of his territory, because wherever he is, he is king, and there he rules, and his work is to proclaim the gospel of that kingdom.GCB April 5, 1901, page 82.1

But in order to be king, we have got to serve. God’s kingdom is an absolute monarchy. “There is one King, and there is none beside him.” He says. “I am God and none else,” and I am glad of it. He is absolute ruler, and he gives absolute authority. But that one who, as a king under God, because a child of God, a child of a King,—that one who has that absolute authority over the devil in him, that he can say to him, “Get thee hence,” and he will go,—is the one who is bound with the everlasting chains, not of darkness, but of light: who is bound even by the nails that fastened the Lord Jesus to the cross,—a slave of Jesus Christ, a free man. Why, yielding, we rule and reign with Christ.GCB April 5, 1901, page 82.2

O, that glorious liberty! You have read that the creation itself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glory of the liberty of the children of God. Do you know what that means? Well, you have talked about the saints’ inheritance, you have talked about the earth to come, you have read some of the glorious descriptions of the marvelous beauties of the earth to come, when the wilderness shall rejoice and blossom as the rose, when there will be no more curse, no more sin, because the former things have passed away; there will be joy, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. What is that? That is simply the bringing of the creation to share the blessedness that the children of God have been sharing. The creation itself shall be delivered into the glory of the liberty of the children of God. And that liberty is ours now, because where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, and the Lord is the Spirit; but what is the liberty? O, it is freedom from sin, from that vile passion that holds with bonds that would not be broken. We would make stern resolutions; we would pray, and fast, and resolve, and we would think that we were freed from it, and days would pass, and weeks would pass, and possibly months might pass, and we think, I am free from that; but we would be brought up with a round turn, and lo! it is all there still. You know how it is, and how it would like to tantalize us. But when, in the of God, and knowing God, we find that there is a power in us that we never knew before, that is a wonder to ourselves, working in us and keeping that sinful thing in abeyance, O, what marvelous joy it is! O, what a blessed thing it is, to be free! What a glorious thing it is to be set free from bondage forever.GCB April 5, 1901, page 82.3

Well, then, I say there is that absolute liberty, but it comes only by absolute subjection to God. The whole missionary question is involved in this. Sometimes people have asked me, “You are working for the General Conference, aren’t you?”GCB April 5, 1901, page 82.4

“No.”GCB April 5, 1901, page 82.5

“O, I thought you were a General Conference laborer: I thought you were working for the General Conference Committee.”GCB April 5, 1901, page 82.6

“No; I am working for the Lord.”GCB April 5, 1901, page 82.7

“Well, the Conference Committee are paying you, aren’t they?”GCB April 5, 1901, page 82.8

“No; the Conference Committee do not pay me any more than I pay them. They pay their tithe, and I pay my tithe, and they are supported out of the tithe, and I am supported out of the tithe, and we are both, mutually, supported out of it, by each other. I pay them, and they pay me;—no, I do not pay them, and they do not pay me. I get pay from the one I work for. I am working for the Lord, and I get pay from the Lord. I get it before I begin.GCB April 5, 1901, page 82.9

We are troubled sometimes about our living; but the man who knows the love of the Lord Jesus in him, the man who knows that power in this life, will never be troubled about living. He has got his living assured to him to all eternity, and it does not make any difference if some day the Conference Committee should cut him square off, and say they would not pay him any more. He would not get discouraged, but would go right on and work. And the one who sent him forth, and gave him authority, and the one who could provide him authority, and cover him with the life which was authority, would see to his living. But all questions will be settled when we get to reign as kings with Christ; when we know what is the hope of our calling, and the glory of the inheritance.GCB April 5, 1901, page 82.10

The Lord was lifted up by the cross, far above all principality and powers. We get into touch with him at the cross. “Thy gentleness [thy humiliation] hath made me great.” What a glorious thing it is, that when we surrender ourselves to him, flesh, soul, and spirit, that we may be filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God; humbling ourselves before him, and continually humbling ourselves before him, then we are kings; then we rule. Then we can say, even as Christ did to Satan, Get thee hence; and he will go.GCB April 5, 1901, page 82.11

I thank God for this gospel of the kingdom. What is the sign of the Lord’s coming? “Behold, I and the children whom thou hast given me,” are for signs and wonders. I do not in the least discount the importance of the signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars; but I will tell you, my brethren, the greatest sign of the coming of the Lord—the greatest sign that can be—is this: a people filled with the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. And when you see a people,—there may not be very many of them,—but when you see a company of people united together in the bonds of the Lord Jesus Christ, with one mind, and that Christ’s Spirit, and Christ’s life, so that they have in them the testimony of Jesus, and give the same testimony that he gave, and have the same teaching that he gave—that teaching which drove out devils—be sure that the Lord’s coming is very near then. Christ raised from the grave to heaven, and present in his fullness in all his people, is the great sign of his coming. May God grant that every one of us may have that marvelous power that we may stand as signs and wonders in the world, proclaiming the testimony of our Lord Jesus, faithful witnesses together with him of the power of the kingdom of God.GCB April 5, 1901, page 83.1

THE NEED AND PROPER USE OF FUNDS

IN THE REGIONS BEYOND