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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 5, 1885

The Old Gospel.

Everything which is best in the world is old. Sunshine is as old as the earth itself. The air is old, pouring its refreshing currents into our lungs and renewing our lives to-day as in all time past. The great arch of the heavens is old; it has not been taken down and built up again on modern brickwork since the creation. The doctrines of the gospel are old but full of motion—full of energy, as the river is full of movements—full of life-giving power, as the sunlight or the vital air. They are the doctrines out of which the missionary work sprang. They are the doctrines of Paul, that first great missionary. He had strong convictions. He did not doubt. He knew in whom he believed, and was persuaded that He was able to keep him and to save the world. And who is the successor of Paul? He who holds the same faith with him, and teaches it with the same earnest fidelity.—Sel.