Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

132 THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.collect and draw into itself out of all nations andranks of men those who should form the Church,that is, the Kingdom and Temple, and House, andBody, and Family of Christ. In it was to workand from it to go forth henceforward to all timethe virtue of Him who had assumed our flesh, nottransiently, but for ever; in the Head and theBody, through the life of His Spirit, Christ shouldfceach and bear for ever that witness to the truthof which He spoke in the hall of Pilate, and concerningwhich He said that "this gospel of thekingdom should be proclaimed through the wholeworld, for a witness to all nations, and then thatthe end should come."13 To the continuance, theindissolubility, the purity of this power He hasedged His word in such a way that they whodeny it must in doing so deny Him. He haseven made the unity of this Body the specialmark to men of the truth of His mission, beseechingHis Father in that last prayer, " Neitherpray I for these alone, but for those also whothrough their word shall believe in Me, that theyall may be one, as Thou, Father, art in Me, and Iin Thee, that they also may be one in Us, that theworld may believe that Thou hast sent Me."There are three analogies14 which illustrate this13 Matt. xxiv. 14.14 See Mokler, Die Einlieit i)i der Kirche, p. 176. " Der Korper dessnschen 1st eine Offenbarung des Geistes, der in ihm sein Dasein be-kundet, und sich entwickelt. Der Staat ist eine nothwendige Erscheinung,eine Bildung und Gestaltung des von Gott gegebenen KOI