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Title: Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation

Author: S. D. Gordon

Release Date: October 16, 2007 [EBook #23038]

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QUIET TALKS
ON THE CROWNED
Christ of Revelation
BY
S. D. GORDON

Author of
"Quiet Talks on Power",
"Quiet Talks on Prayer",
"Quiet Talks about Our Lord's Return"

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PREFACE

Crowning the Christ is an intensely practical thing, whether taken in
the _personal_ sense or the _world_ sense. He has been crowned in the
upper world. With wondrous patience and graciousness He pleads for the
personal crowning in our lives. Some day--no one knows just when--He
will begin to _act_ as the crowned Christ _in all the affairs of our
earth_.

The initiative of all action to-day on the earth is in man's hands. Some
day the initiative of _governing_ action on the earth will be in the
hands of the crowned Christ, even while the personal initiative of each
man's life will still be in his own hands.

God is intensely practical. Jesus was never concerned about speculation
nor mere discussion; He was too intent on helping people. The Bible is
wholly a practical book. It is concerned only with helping us. It does
not tell us all the truth there is; we shall be constantly learning more
in the future life. But it does tell us all we need to know now. And its
purpose in telling us what it does is wholly practical,--to urge us to
right choice, and to lives that square with the choice. This is th