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A QUIET HOUR ADDRESS
By REV. A. B. WINCHESTER of Toronto
I
FEEL that we are on the eve of a very great and unprecedented
movement. I feel that God is preparing a people to do something in-
conceivably great, and I believe that if we are to have the great joy
and exalted privilege of being coworkers with God in this mighty
movement, there are some things necessary first. I do not know that
there is anything so important as just to get a little of the Word be-
fore us. Turn with me to the first chapter of the Epistle to the Colos-
sians. I am going to read from Conybeare’s translation, which I think
is a very good one; but you will be able to compare it, those of you
who have the Revised, or the Swedish, or the Authorized, or any
other version. We will just read a part of this first chapter. "Paul,
an apostle." A sent one. Our Lord Jesus is the great Apostle, the
sent One whom we are to consider. "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ
by the will of God." Underscore in your mind that word "will." "And
Timotheus the brother." Not "our brother," but "the brother." There
is something very sweet about that article, but I have not time to stop
on that. "Timotheus the brother." "To the holy and faithful breth-
ren." Who are the holy, and who are the faithful? I saw the other
day a great section of a paper devoted to the will of a man who had
died and left a very large amount. Of course, all he had he had to
leave. Probably he would not have left it if he could have helped it.
However, there was a long list of beneficiaries. Did I spend much
time looking down over that list? No. Why? Because I was not
interested, except to feel sorry that the man had died not knowing the
Lord Jesus. But I was interested, because I was not one of those ad-
dressed, so I put it aside. Now in every single instance where we
come to look at something earnestly, we want to know if it is for us.
If I ask you, all of you. Who are "holy and faithful brethren" (and
that, of course, includes sisters), all of you who deem you are "holy
and faithful," to please manifest by standing, I wonder how many
would stand. And yet every Christian without exception, without any
reference to his state at all, every Christian is included in that. Why?
There is none holy. I do not believe there is one holy in the sense
of complete eradication of sin, not one; but every one in Christ, en-
sphered in Him, is holy with His holiness. So, "To the holy and
faithful brethren in Christ who are at Colossse."
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