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and the Protestant churches so largely stiffened with for-
malism and honeycombed with infidelity, we see the apos-
tacy moving forward with such rapid strides that we again
conclude the end is near.

V. World-wide Evangelism.
"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all th
world for a witness to all nations, then shall the end come."
Mat. 24:14.
We ought just here to explain that while the Church is
the present agent for the world's evangelization she may
be caught away at any moment. Then the tribulation
saints those who will believe by the very fact of the
Church being caught away may become the agents, for
God will always have a witness in the earth. Later it may
be converted Israel. Lastly it is to be a heavenly mes-
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senger.
So we are simply to work while the day lasts, watching
and waiting because we have no sign nor event that stands
between us and the coming of the Lord.
But let us see what has been accomplished.
1
What is a witness ?
We have only one exemple or illustration in the Word,
and that is Jonah's three days preaching in the streets of
Nineveh.
Every nation in the world to-day has a testimony com-
paratively as great, with the exception of Tibet, Nepaul
and Bhotan and the Mohammedan countries of Afghan-
that the latter is crushing a bird against his breast, how-
ing the ferocious cruelty of his nature. This image has
been consecrated by the highest authorities of the Catholic
Church to represent the virgin Mary and the child Jesus.
On the pedestal underneath is this inscription in Latin:
"Our Lord, the Pope Pius 7th, concedes perpetually 100
days of indulgence, to be used once a day, to all those who
devoutly kiss the foot of this holy image, reciting one Ave
Maria for the needs of the Holy Church. June 7, 1822."
(4) Rev. 14:6. And I saw that dwell on the earth, and to
another angel fly in the midst every nation, and kindred, and
of heaven having the everlast- tongue, and people.
ing gospel to preach unto them