quote from memory the references to the super-HEAVENLY inheritance laid up for these truly `meek' of Ephesians

4:2. The half-hearted obedience to the kind of walk inculcated by the Sermon on the Mount, is no substitute for that

`walk' which is `worthy of', or in correspondence with, the high calling of God as revealed in the epistle to the

Ephesians (Eph. 4:1-16). These blessings of grace and glory beyond our dreams, are ours through the precious

blood of Christ. The walk and the blessings of the Sermon on the Mount were spoken of, and to, those who had no

knowledge or faith in that Sacrifice of love. However, to go further would necessitate an exposition of the four

Prison Epistles, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and 2 Timothy, together with that of the Acts of the Apostles,

and the dominant place of Israel up to the end of the Acts, and a true assessment of the place intended by Pentecost.

As all these subjects have been given an exposition, and the volumes are still available and indicated in our list of

publications, we bring this brief attempt to draw attention to the essential differences that exist between the

`crumbs', with which so many seem content, and the supernal glories that are held out in this day of grace to all who

will but put out the hand of faith, that they may be `filled with all the fulness of God' (Eph. 3:19). We have tried to

draw attention to what the Scriptures actually teach and say. We have called this study:

`An appeal and a challenge'.

We seek not yours, but you. We cannot but be sad to sit in the company of evident godly Christians, who are so

taken up with the earthly ministry of Christ, where nothing but `crumbs' that fall from Israel's table can be theirs,

while blessings that never were on Israel's table, and never could be called crumbs, are either unknown, neglected or

muddled with the earthly ministry of Christ, and who have apparently never read the apostle's own testimony:

`Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet

now we know HIM SO no more. Wherefore if any man is in Christ, HE IS a new creature (creation): the old things

are passed away; behold, they are become new' (2 Cor. 5:16,17 Revised Version).

These `old things' go together with Christ `after the flesh'.

To the members of the One Body and partakers in the high calling of the present dispensation of the Mystery

revealed, consequent upon Israel's blindness, comes the exhortation of the apostle:

`If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Set your affection (mind) on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead (died), and your life is hid

with Christ in God. When Christ, Who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory'

(Col. 3:1-4).

A greater than Joshua calls to us all:

`Choose you this day' (Josh. 24:15).

Which shall it be? `Crumbs' that fall from Israel's table or `the unsearchable riches of Christ' which Paul, as the

`prisoner of Jesus Christ' was commissioned to preach `unto the Gentiles'? (Eph. 3:1-9).

We trust we shall not be considered unscriptural if we have caught something of the earnestness of this apostle

whose ambition was:

`To make all men see what is the fellowship (dispensation R.V.) of the mystery, which from the beginning of the

world hath been hid in God' (Eph. 3:9).