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dom was to be established. The great ancient civilizations
and empires of the Assyro-Chaldeans, of the Medo-Persians,
of the Greeks and of the Romans, had to appear and flourish,
to persecute and oppress the people of God, and to perpe-
trate all the evil and wickedness that the Devil could devise.
All the glory of these great powers consisted in their wor-
shipping the Devil; and it was this "glory" that the "Prince
of the Darkness" promised to grant to Jesus Christ from the
top of a high mountain if he were only to follow him and
worship him.
2. CHRIST AND HIS DISCIPLES PREACHED THE KINGDOM OF GOD
They were, it is true, the harbingers of the Kingdom of
God upon earth. The soul and the kernel of the Gospel of
Jesus is contained in that famous clause in his prayer: "Thy
Kingdom come." For twenty centuries the Christians of all
denominations and shades of belief have been praying and
and empires of the Assyro-Chaldeans, of the Medo-Persians,
of the Greeks and of the Romans, had to appear and flourish,
to persecute and oppress the people of God, and to perpe-
trate all the evil and wickedness that the Devil could devise.
All the glory of these great powers consisted in their wor-
shipping the Devil; and it was this "glory" that the "Prince
of the Darkness" promised to grant to Jesus Christ from the
top of a high mountain if he were only to follow him and
worship him.
2. CHRIST AND HIS DISCIPLES PREACHED THE KINGDOM OF GOD
They were, it is true, the harbingers of the Kingdom of
God upon earth. The soul and the kernel of the Gospel of
Jesus is contained in that famous clause in his prayer: "Thy
Kingdom come." For twenty centuries the Christians of all
denominations and shades of belief have been praying and