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forth throush the prairie, advancing, ,ucthine
added 10 II, going on by its own power,
and yet sReeping Onward and onward. as
long as there Is substance for it; and then
notices these characteristics. the first of
which is that the progress of Christ's
klngdom on earth, the progress of his gos.
pei, the progress Of his truth (for his word
Is TRUTH, is gradual; it begins small as
the cry of the infant, it sweeps on, until,
with its volume it fills the whole earth;
and, ultimately, as in the second lesson
we read, shall fill the whole arches Of he av-
en-. And this gradual increase is often
times set forth in various figures by the
prophets, and, by the Lord Jesus CHRIST
himself. Thus, the prophet Daniel, rep
resents the kingdom of Christ as "a little
stone cut out of the mountain without
hands," The prophes was in Babylon,
away to the north were the noun
tain ranges ofthe Medo Persia. He seems to
have stood in spirit, and, far beyond the
range of the human eye, from the plains
of Babylon, he seems to have seen that
range of mountains, and just on the top
of it little stone, the top of rock be-
Came detached. No blow struck, no effort,
it was done without hands, it started, the
little table-like form, and began to roll
down the mountain side; and as it rolled
it increased, it bounded over every obstacle,
came sweeping down the valley, struck the
image he had seen (which was an image Of
the Kingdoms Of the earth) scattered them
into pieces like che1f, and rolled on un-
| til it
| FILLED THE WHOLE EARTH.
This was the kingdom of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Commencing without
observation, without human aid, without
hands. So the Saviour takes up the same
hgure and say1: "The kingdom of heaven
is like unto leaven which a woman hid in
| three measures of meal, until the whole
was leavensd," the little leaveu spreading
until the Whole mass was leavaned. And
how ne brings his figures i0st to suit the
&C m mnon:o5seryation and the common com
pIehension of man. Again he says: st
rs like the grain of mustard seed. small
among the seeds,growing to hecome among
the largest OF herbs," SO is the kingdom of
heaven. Now it is this gradual increase
that IS noticed by the prophet: chich, a
son, a ruler, a ruler with might yattributes,
until the governments OF the earth become
bis, and ''of the increase of his government
and peace there shall be no end'
'Tnto Us a child is born" is the fulfill
ment of phophecy. Early in the history
of the human race, when our parents fell,
the promise was given that 'ths seed Of
the woman should bruise the seroent's
head;" and 1 suppose Eve looked forward
to the coming of her delivery from
amongst her posterity, and when she
clesped in her arms her first born son she
called him Cain, for she said II have got
ten man from the Lord" She gave him
the name of ''Gotten" or 'Received," and,
Ipresume thought that this little. boy given
her was to be the one who was to bruise
the serpent's head, and SO named him.
But, as he grew up, he WIGS not the deliver
er. Her heart was made sorrowful, and
her eyes closed in darkness, the darkness
of death, without deliverer having come
She looked onward, and, 1 presume, was
cheered before ske departed, by some pro-
phetic glimpse of the coming one who
should perform that great Office. But it
pleased God that man should be left to
himself, TO try to save himself-by philoso-
ply, by reason, by inventions, by efforts of
his 0wn-and the world was allowed to be-
come intellectual and beautiful and grand,
but yet no Savior appeared.
Unto US son is given" Generally
speaking, in governments, the heir is
son, and so here, he rises from the small
ness of the infant child into thu son OF
promise,
THE HEIR OF TIE THRONE.