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1:6-10). It is perfectly evident from all these passages that the whole world is not to be converted before the return of our Lord. "But," some one will ask, "how then shall we explain Matt. 24 :14, 'And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.' Does not this predict a converted world at the coming of the Lord 1'' It certainly does not. The explanation is found in noticing what is said: (1.) :B,irst of al], this verse tells us that the Gospel is to be preached "for a testi mony," to all the nations, not that all the nations will be converted. The Gospel has certainly been preached for a testimony throughout the United States, but no intelli gent person would hold that all Americans are converted. ( 2.) In the second place, in a sense, and in a Scriptural sense too, the Gospel already bas been preached for a testimony to the ends of the world. Paul could say even in his clay, ''But I say, did they not hear 7 Yea, verily, their sound went out into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world" (Rom. 18 :18). He could further
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