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their time. Never before has man been sent
to perform a task without limit in time or
space. To all nations throughout all times
those men were to teach the whole revela-
laid upon them by the command. Well
might they tremble before undertaking to
fulfill it.
When Jacob in the land of Haram was
unjustly treated by Latan, his father-in-'
law. the Lord said to him: Return to the
land Of thy father, and will be with YOU"
We knew the result. Despite the many
dangers that beset his path he returned to
his own land in happiness and prosperity.
When God commanded Moses to go to Pha-
raoh and lead forth the children OF Israel
out of Egypt Moses made answer: Who am
I that | should go to Pharaoh and should
bring forth the children of Israel out of
Egypt?" And God said to him: Il will be
with thee" Despite all the obstacles that
bring his people out of the land Of bondage;
When jeremiah learned that God had
chosen him prophet to the nations he de-
INJURED, feeling that he was unfit for a task
said. "Ah. Lord God, behold I cannot
speak, for I am a child" and the Lord
said to him. "Say not 4 am child for
thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee;
go with thee. 1 have made thee this day
fortified city, pillar of iron and wall
of brass over all the land to the kings Of
Judea, to the princes thereof, to the priests
against thee. but shall not prevail, for I
am with thee said the Lord This, then,
Is well known and frequently employed
idiom in the language Of the Bible. Where
ever 1t occurs it has but one Specification.
If our divine Lord did not mean that His
duly commissioned teachers were always
and everywhere to teach His very truth
without fall He should have made choice
of other language. While if He did mean
to make it clear beyond yea or nay that
His own divinity stood sponsor for their in
fallibility. He could not have found a form
Of words more entirely to His purpose.
We are now in a position to understand
the full import of our Lords words to the
apostles. Going. therefore, make disciples
OF all nations. teaching them to observe ell
things whatsoever have commanded you.
and behold l am with you all days, even
to the contamination of the world" They
are but men like jeremiah or Moses: like
them, also they shrink from the super
human task that is assigned to them: their
commission Is to teach the whole revelation
or Jesus Christ to all men, of all after
times; they are fully aware of their own
limitations. No one knew better than they
their many and grave shortcomings. They
need no assurances that they are liable to
go astray in expoundlng and interpreting
the message Of heaven. But the fullness Of
time had come; the desired of nations was
among them; the Prophets promise that all
should be taught Of God was now fulfilled;
tor clear and strong came the promise Of
God, ''Lo. I am with you all days, even
to the end of the world" Thus, as plainly
and as emphatically as the Jewish idiom
could express it. our Lord assured them.
and in them all men who thirst after truth,
that those whom He had sent to teach
would for all time teach as unerringly as
himself could teach all the truth that He
had brought to earth For His words tbere
is no other meaning. Ingenuity cannot tor
ture them into any other sense: they carry
with them Gods unerring certainty that
the teaching of these men will be all that
He wished it to be- God has left among
men an infallible teaching authority.
What the mind longed for God has grant,
ed. In the affairs of the soul, where a mis-
TAKE would be fatal. He has rendered a mis-
take impossible. All who would be saved
and come to a knowledge of the truth. need
but hearken to this teaching of the church.