ich He has done throughout
this age, will be done by Him to the very end. Indeed, while darkness
increases and the enemy becomes more active, God's people may
confidently expect that the Holy Spirit will also demonstrate His power
in the behalf of those who love and walk in the Truth. Some day He
will have finished the work for which He came, the Body will be
complete as to numbers; and when that crowning event, the coming of the
Lord for His saints, takes place, the Holy Spirit will have His part to
do. Not alone Christ will present the Church but the Holy Spirit as
well; and then He will leave the earth, no longer to be here to do the
special work which He came to do on the Day of Pentecost. He has
finished the work.

+Third+, the Gospel is still preached during the end of the age. As
long as the Church remains here the true Gospel testimony can never be
silenced, because behind it stands the omnipotent Spirit of God and the
power of Christ. But as the age closes the true Gospel is being more
and more rejected. We see this today; we hear on all hands that man no
longer needs to be born again, that the blood of Christ cannot save,
that character saves; that the soldiers who die on the battlefield
bring a sacrifice like Christ brought on the Cross, and that the hero's
death makes all things right in the past life and opens the gates of
glory. On all sides we see these rejections; the Son of God is denied
and every phase of His work is set aside. This is exactly what is
taught in the New Testament, that men would turn away their ears from
the Truth, and that the great mass of professing Christians would only
have a form of godliness and deny the power thereof.

When at last the Church has ended her ministry the sound of the Gospel
of Grace will no longer be heard. While this is true, on the other
hand the Gospel still preached up to the end of the age brings about
the completion of the Body of Christ. We see this today in a startling
manner. While amongst the so-called Christian nations the Gospel is
rejected, in heathen countries the Gospel is accepted by thousands upon
thousands, and thus the Body of Christ, the true Church, is being made
complete.

+Fourth+, when this age closes the whole body of the doctrine of Christ
and the Truth will be rejected. The foundation for this has gradually
been laid. It started over a hundred years ago in Germany, where the
modern criticism of the Bible started. This c