ith the breath of His mouth.'
"We preach not the gospel of the grace of God which, aforetime, before
'The Rapture,' was preached, that gospel which was good news of glad
tidings to all sinners. That gospel told how He had lived on earth for
over thirty-years--God inhabiting a human body, for God was in Christ
reconciling the world unto Himself--it told how He died a death of
shame and agony, a substitute for sinners, so that whosoever should
believe on Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. And as
many as believed on Him gave He power to become the sons of God.
"It told of His coming again to receive all those sons of God, dead or
living, unto Himself in the Heavenlies. Less than four years ago He
came. Thousands who knew the truth, but had not accepted it, before He
came, did so after the RAPTURE of the saints, and thousands of those
have already sealed, and many more thousands will yet, seal their faith
with their blood.
"The days of our testimony draws shorter now, we have few more
opportunities of warning you, and of witnessing to our God. But here,
once more, this morning, we preach unto you the gospel of the Kingdom.
The gospel of the coming Kingdom of Christ.
"'For He shall reign whose right it is, and of His kingdom of peace,
and joy, and love there shall be no end.' For nearly two thousand
years men have prayed 'Thy kingdom come.' It is coming soon, but
before He begins His reign, He shall put down all enemies under His
feet. None will be able to hide from Him for His eyes will be as a
flame of fire.
"Those who will _now_ seek Him, accept Him as their king, whether He
comes in their life-time, or whether they lay down their lives as
faithful witnesses to His coming, all such we proclaim, shall live the
glorious life which He has for such."
The crowd numbered a hundred thousand now, and the majority of them
kept up a sullen murmur against the preaching.
A native prince of a notable eastern realm, plucked a javelin-type of
weapon from his cumberband and hurled it full into the face of the
preacher. It never reached its mark, but, boomerang like, it returned
to the thrower and shattered and entered his right temple.
But for the density of the crowd, the eastern would have dropped to the
earth like a stone--for he was dead.
A way was made for a few to drag the body clear of the mob, then, once
clear, those who dragged it thence returned to the crowd. "Without
natural affect
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