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Christians put themselves about for a well-dressed and rich man, and show him extraordinary politeness, but a poor man in his dusty smock is left unnoticed. We shall afterwards deal with the causes of this worldly spirit. Here we must rather emphasise that the universalism of God's saving intention was always vividly maintained in the general intercession (1 Tim. Ii. 1-4, Ign. Eph. X. 1) ; and the immediate result of this was the universal missionary obligation of the Church. Again, there was t...he duty of confession. For how can adherents be won to a cause by any one who is not himself absolutely devoted to it ? So far as this is concerned, things seem to be better than in the period immediately after Paul. There is not '292 CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE HEATHEN so much coin})laint about apostasy and forsaking of the assenibhes. Hut appearances are deceptive. The vigour with which the necessity of fearless confession is emphasised (2 Tim. I. 8, ii. 3) is to be expkined not only by the opposition to a gnosticism which .
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