Now it is most important that we should be clear in our own minds Meaning of the Kingdom of God But we ought also to consider our! Lord's teaching regarding his kingdom. 'This subject has greatly occupied the minds of scholars. One! fof the most scholarly of them is Bishop Headiam, lately Regius Professor of Divinity in the University' lof Oxford. In his new book "Ti life and teachings of Jesus Christ he reviews fully all the passages [where Christ speaks of his kingdom, fand he concludes that there are three meanings, firstly God's} sovereignty over' those who fulfil secondly" "Christian some of its aspects the Christian Church," and thirdly "a time at the fend of all things when God's sovereignty will be universally establish-fed." All these three aspects are plainly discernible in our Lord's teaching and they are all being fulfilled, in the hearts of individual Christians, in the spread of the Christian "society through the: }world, and in the course of history which is leading up to the day in
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