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Rev. A. B. Winchester 85
particular shade of interpretation, or that particular conception of duty,
or that particular notion or theory is the only thing. Why? Because
we have allowed the mind to work on that one thing without constantly
bringing it to the Book, for through the Book the Holy Spirit gets the
light of Christ into our lives.
Oh, to be free from all trammels, from all bondage, to be only
Christ’s! He is the Sent One, and the Apostle, who is to rule in our
hearts and minds. By His obedient life and His sacrificial death He
was the Apostle, the Sent One of the Father.
’’And High Priest." Now that is a term that is very significant;
for the whole of this Epistle to the Hebrews really may find its very
center in that differentiating between the Aaronic and the Melchizedec
orders of the High Priest. Oh, the glory and beauty of this! "Con-
sider Christ Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession."
Greatness of the Opportunity
I would like to have had time to make some application of this, more
than I can possibly do. As I said at the beginning, I have yet many
things to say unto you, but I have not the opportunity of saying them.
As I lay awake last night, thinking of this conference, I was thinking
of the great ones of the earth that are not here. And I said to myself.
Oh, this great opportunity of one hundred and eighty-two millions of
people, liberated for the first time after centuries of longing for free-
dom, for light and education,—for something like eighty-five per cent
are without education and illiterate—longing for freedom in order that
they might have opportunity to worship God without any state church
saying to them, "Do this and do that!" Surely if the Church of Christ
were awake to understand the urgency of this call this place would
not have room to hold them. We are a small company, comparatively
speaking. And how many of us feel that this is such an opportunity as
the Church never had before, to go and give the Gospel to those people
and to that great number of Israel in Russia, more than in all the earth
beside! I think of the opportunities of preparing the way of the Lord
for them. And then as I think of the fact that we are so few, I say to
myself, "Are you discouraged about it? Not at all. Are you sur-
prised about it? Not at all." It is because the Lord has said, "I will
not give my glory to another," that every great movement He has
inaugurated has been not with a great display of wealth or power, not
with a great number, not with the great ones of the earth, but He
is pleased to take the things that are not to bring to nought the things
that are. And you, dear people, if you will consider the Lord, the
Apostle and High Priest of your confession, until you absorb of His
spirit more and become partners with Him in praying this matter
through, I assure you that there are enough here and more than
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