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dispensation. How this is to be we know not ; but 

 Christ teaches us in His parable of the Pounds, that 

 faithful service in the present life shall be rewarded 

 with opportunities of greater service hereafter ; T and 

 no service can be higher than that of helping to save 

 the lost. To those who call it heresy confidently to 

 cherish these hopes, we, who believe in the ultimate 

 universal victory of good, may reply in the words of 

 Saint Paul : " After the way which they call heresy, 

 so serve we the God of our (spiritual) fathers, believ 

 ing all things which are according to the law, and 

 which are written in the prophets ; having hope 

 towards God, which these also themselves look for, 

 that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both 

 of the just and unjust." 2 For, believing that the 

 sinner shall be saved through the condemnation of 

 his sin, we look with hope for the resurrection of 

 the unjust as well as of the just. 



We shall now make a closer examination of the 

 teaching of Holy Scripture on this subject. The 

 prophecies of the Old Testament are full of promises 

 of the ultimate restoration of Israel after all his sins ; 

 and they predict that the blessing of the last days shall 

 not be poured forth on Israel alone, but on all nations, 

 even those which have wandered the farthest from 

 God. 



One of the most remarkable of these is contained 



in the 16th chapter of Ezekiel. The entire chapter 



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 1 Luke xix. 12 et &Z& 2 Acts xxiv. 14, 15. 



