The Great Commission Author:John Harris Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GEEAT COMMISSION. PART I. THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE VIEWED IN ITS RELATION TO THE WORD OF GOD. CHAPTER I. THE SCRIPTURE THEORY OF CHRISTIAN INSTR... more »UMENTAL- IT FOR THE EVANGELIZATION OF THE WORLD STATED AND EXPLAINED. I. Mutual dependence and influence is the law of the universe. Look in whatever direction and examine whatever object we may, we find nothing insulated and alone. From the globe we inhabit, and which is one of a visible community of worlds, up to the great sidereal system, the whole of which is apparently moving together through space, and down to the minutest atom that floats in the air, all are bound together, and constantly acting on each other, by definite and universal laws. The body of the reader and the book which he is reading are held, by gravitation, in union with the remotest parts of the created system; while the material influences constantly transmitted from the most distant regions of space place them in physical contact with the universe. In this literal dependence of every part of the material economy on every other part, we behold an image of the reciprocal action and mutual relation of all animated being. Here, each is connected with all — and the whole to God. Here, in the absence of sin, we behold the sublime spectacle of the infinitely blessed God surrounded by distinct orders of sentient, happy beings; so various as to reach from the archangel down to the insect, yet so closely related, as parts of a mighty whole, that no single member can be detached and made independent of the rest; while the well-being of each is an ingredient in the happiness of the whole; and all, according to their respective natures, ascribe glory to Him, their centre and their source, by whom they are alike pervaded, and in whom they are all one. T...« less