Seeing that this subject with its many and wondrous outworkings constitute the theme

of these portions of Scripture, is it any marvel that some, having seen these things, at

least in part, feel more and more the burden of making known, by pen and by voice, the

claim which, under God, the apostle Paul has upon the ears and the hearts of those who

by nature are Gentiles? Is there not, consciously or unconsciously, on the part of many

preachers, who otherwise, praise God, still hold fast to the inspired Word, is there not an

unexplainable silence, a reticence, with regard to the distinctive message of the apostle to

the Gentiles? How many a sermon is preached from a text in Matthew, or the Psalms, or

Isaiah, and how vain it seems to hope for one even from Romans, to say nothing of

The day is far spent, the signs of the times indicate to the believer of prophecy that

soon the Lord will take up the case and cause of His rejected and downtrodden Israel. If

this be so, the opportunities of witnessing to the peculiar grace of God under the terms of

the mystery are fast running out. Oh may we, who consider these things, buy up the

opportunity, redeem the time, set forth the wondrous message of all spiritual blessings in

the superheavenlies, revealed in the gospel as the peculiar blessings of this dispensation

of the grace of God TO YOU GENTILES.