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Church of Christ
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The Lord has provided His church with capabilities and bless-
ings, that they may present to the world an image of His own suf-
ficiency, and that His church may be complete in Him, a continual
representation of another, even the eternal world, of laws that are
higher than earthly laws. His church is to be a temple built after the
divine similitude, and the angelic architect has brought his golden
measuring rod from heaven, that every stone may be hewed and
squared by the divine measurement and polished to shine as an em-
blem of heaven, radiating in all directions the bright, clear beams of
the Sun of Righteousness. The church is to be fed with manna from
heaven and to be kept under the sole guardianship of His grace. Clad
in complete armor of light and righteousness, she enters upon her
final conflict. The dross, the worthless material, will be consumed,
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and the influence of the truth testifies to the world of its sanctifying,
ennobling character....
Divine Experiments
The Lord Jesus is making experiments on human hearts through
the exhibition of His mercy and abundant grace. He is effecting
transformations so amazing that Satan, with all his triumphant boast-
ing, with all his confederacy of evil united against God and the laws
of His government, stands viewing them as a fortress impregnable to
his sophistries and delusions. They are to him an incomprehensible
mystery. The angels of God, seraphim and cherubim, the powers
commissioned to cooperate with human agencies, look on with as-
tonishment and joy, that fallen men, once children of wrath, are
through the training of Christ developing characters after the divine
similitude, to be sons and daughters of God, to act an important part
in the occupations and pleasures of heaven.
To His church, Christ has given ample facilities, that He may
receive a large revenue of glory from His redeemed, purchased
possession. The church, being endowed with the righteousness of
Christ, is His depository, in which the wealth of His mercy, His
love, His grace, is to appear in full and final display. The declaration
in His intercessory prayer, that the Father’s love is as great toward
us as toward Himself, the only-begotten Son, and that we shall be
with Him where He is, forever one with Christ and the Father, is