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be brought to a crisis when the anti-Christ is developed at the head of the latter and the Christ appears at the head of the former. The crisis will end in a complete victory for Christ and the kingdom of God, as is evident from the foregoing pages of this book. In the mean time, on the one hand God is gathering out of the world a people for His name; as James puts it in Acts 15 :14, '' God visited the Gen tiles, to take out of them a people for his name.'' The purpose of the preaching of the Gospel of grace in this present dispensation is not the winning of the whole world for Christ but the gathering out of the world a people for His name. Many people in these days raise the watchcry, ''America for Christ," or "The· whole wide world for Christ,'' but those who know their Bibles know that we shall not see ''America for Christ" nor "The whole wide world for Christ" in the present dispensation. The Gospel of Grace has not failed-it is accom plishing just what God intended it should ac complish, gathering out of the world a people for His name, the Church, the bride of Christ. These, whom God is gathering out of the world as a people for His name, are grow ing in the knowledge and likeness of Him-
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