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as well as by His spirit. Thus we find, that those cured by Jesus could not be restrained from showing their joy, and testifying what Jesus had done for them. The leper cleansed, "went out, and began to publish it much and to blase abroad the matter" (Mark 1: 45). The two blind men whose eyes Jesus opened, "when they were departed, spread abroad His fame in all that country" (Matt. 9: 31). The deaf man with an impediment in his speech, when his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, though charged to tell no man; "but the more He charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it” (Mark 7: 36). The woman healed of her infirmity, "immediately she was made straight, and glorified God” (Luke 13: 13). The man born blind, whose eyes Jesus anointed, said, "I went and washed and I received my sight." "One thing I know that, whereas I was blind, now I see" (John 9: II, 25). The saved will bear testimony for Jesus in Heaven; "Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen" (Rev. 1: 5). The saved will Jesus. John the

also try to bring others to Baptist said, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world" (John 1: 29). Andrew "first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, we have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted,

the Christ" (John 1: 41). Philip findeth Nathaniel, and said unto him, we have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth" (John 1:45). The disciples scattered abroad, by the persecution of the church, after the stoning of Stephen, "went everywhere preaching the Word." "And the hand of the Lord was with them; and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord" (Acts 8: 4; 11: 19). These were not duly appointed ministers, or missionaries; but believers scattered by persecution; and wherever they went they talked about the glad tidings of Christ; and the Lord was with them: and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord.

Before His ascension Jesus told his disciples, "Ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both at Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1: 8). Every child of God is a witness for Christ, wherever he may be. He is not only so by talking of Christ, and telling men the Gospel or glad tidings, but is in his life and conversation a living epistle, "known and read of all men; forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart" (II Cor. 3: 2). With Paul he will say,

"Christ shall be magnified in

whether it be by life, or by death.

my body,

For to me

to live is Christ, and to die is gain" (Phil. 1: 20).

THE CHILDREN OF GOD MUST GROW.

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A CHILD Who does not grow in knowledge is virtually dead. True life in man combines health, growth, activity and happiness. The Christian who does not grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, is likewise virtually dead. "Faith if it have not works is dead" (James 2: 17). The barren fig tree will be cut down. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away" (John 15: 2). A branch that does not grow cannot bear fruit. Joined to Christ, as the branch is to the vine, and drawing life from Him, we will be constantly growing, and bearing fruit to the glory of God. A child of God, when born of the Spirit, has passed from death to everlasting life. His sins are atoned for. "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us" (Psm. 103: 3, 12). "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. 5; 1). But he is a child just beginning to live. He is saved, but he must work out the salvation he has received; remembering that it is God who worketh in him both to will and to do. Saved by the grace of God he has to grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ continually. Peter closes his epistles with, "Ye

therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and for ever. Amen" (II Peter 3: 18). Men have lost the knowledge of God, "and even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness," &c., &c. (Rom. 1: 2831). We must grow in the knowledge of God in Christ. In His prayer for His disciples, and for those who shall believe on Him through their word, in the 17th chapter of John, Jesus said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee: as Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him. And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent" (John 17: 1). He had before told them, "All things are delivered to Me of My Father; and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal Him" (Luke 10: 22). The children of God who have received this revelation, and have eternal life, are therefore told to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus

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