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Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

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THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.169work <strong>of</strong> such a Body as He created. He Himselfspoke as God in human flesh, uttering, that is,creative words, which gathered up in a sentencea germ <strong>of</strong> truth capable <strong>of</strong> a long series <strong>of</strong> applications,and requiring them in order to be understood.And the aptitude to make these applications,so that the truth proclaimed by Him andcommitted to His Apostles should penetrate throughand leaven the whole human society, He gave toHis mystical Body. Let us take an instance <strong>of</strong>this. <strong>The</strong> Pharisees approached Him one day toentangle Him by their words, and proposed toHim a dilemma from which they thought that Hecould not escape save by ruining His influencewith one great party, or by encountering thedanger <strong>of</strong> being charged with seditious teachingby another. <strong>The</strong>y put to Him the question whetherit was lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not.Whereupon He asked them to show Him the tri-bute-money, and pointing to the image <strong>of</strong> theemperor upon it, uttered those famous words," Eender therefore to Caesar the things which areCaesar's, and to God the things which are God's."]STow these words were laid up in th 7<strong>of</strong> His Church, and by them she has hadtermine the relation between thspiritual powers in the society created by Himwho spake them. Here is a vast developmentfrom a small seed: but it is a seed cast by theworld's Creator and the Body's Head. And His

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