Take the Epistle to the Ephesians and feel how it reaches forward. It was written because Christ has programme, I might even say because Christ is a programme. The Epistle is almost. breathless with the effort to express its inspire ation. Like a glider finely poised the argument appears to be settling down, when up it goes again, soaring into regions of hope. Some fresh vision constantly appears to; summon the Apostle's thought, before he has finished his sentence. And in order to give you a text that is* grammatically complete, Ij have had to break its conjunci.ons. At any rate it will serve to give a sense of the Christian programme. "This is the mystery of God's will.
that in the dispensation of the of owr courage to realize that this work of God is going on and that in His will is our peace, to turn away front the confused policies, the trivial personalities, the decaying institutions, the anarchic movements of our time, and lift our eyes and faith to this vision of a divine purpose, which, being as it is in Christ, signifies a programme for humanity. "This is the mystery of God's will,- the establishment of a new order where everything will be centred in Christ.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.