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to go forth and proclaim that the very people receiving of the Holy
Spirit, who are to receive the latter rain and the glory that is to lighten
the whole earth, were Babylon. Did the Lord give these messengers
their message? No, for it was not a message of truth.
The Church the Light of the World
Although there are evils existing in the church, and will be
until the end of the world, the church in these last days is to be
the light of the world that is polluted and demoralized by sin. The
church, enfeebled and defective, needing to be reproved, warned,
and counseled, is the only object upon earth upon which Christ
bestows His supreme regard. The world is a workshop in which,
through the cooperation of human and divine agencies, Jesus is
making experiments by His grace and divine mercy upon human
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hearts. Angels are amazed as they behold the transformation of
character brought about in those who yield themselves to God, and
they express their joy in songs of rapturous praise to God and to
the Lamb. They see those who are by nature the children of wrath,
converted and becoming laborers together with Christ in drawing
souls to God. They see those who were in darkness becoming lights
to shine amid the moral night of this wicked and perverse generation.
They see them becoming prepared by a Christlike experience to
suffer with their Lord, and afterward to be partakers with Him in His
glory in heaven above.
God has a church on earth who are lifting up the downtrodden
law, and presenting to the world the Lamb of God that taketh away
the sins of the world. The church is the depositary of the wealth of
the riches of the grace of Christ, and through the church eventually
will be made manifest the final and full display of the love of God
to the world that is to be lightened with its glory. The prayer of
Christ that His church may be one as He was one with His Father
will finally be answered. The rich dowry of the Holy Spirit will be
given, and through its constant supply to the people of God they will
become witnesses in the world of the power of God unto salvation.
There is but one church in the world who are at the present
time standing in the breach, and making up the hedge, building up
the old waste places; and for any man to call the attention of the