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than this constant conflict, struggle, race, can obtain the prize. All else is trifling, folly, madness; it requires the whole man, the whole heart; all your exertions, all your efforts, all your prayers. And not for a day, or year, but for life, for your whole life, without cessation, without intermission. Be thou faithful unto death, or you forfeit every claim to the crown of life. "But thanks be to God who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ." " Our fidelity unto death, though it must and will require our every effort, labour, and prayer, is not the fruit of any, or of all these exertions, but is the pledged and purchased gift of our Redeemer, His own promise, His own work, His own victory. "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."

n 1 Corinthians xv. 57 o 1 Corinthians xv. 58.

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CHURCH OF PERGAMOS.

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LECTURE IV.

REVELATION ii. 17.

TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH WILL I GIVE TO EAT OF THE HIDDEN MANNA, AND WILL GIVE HIM A WHITE STONE, AND IN THE STONE A NEW NAME WRITTEN, WHICH NO MAN KNOWETH, SAVING HE THAT RECEIVETH IT.

In the last discourse we contemplated the Church of Christ during one of the most interesting periods that it has ever known, viz. during those peculiarly trying centuries when its members were poor in this world's advantages, but rich unto God; "I know thy poverty, but thou art rich ;a when they were called to endure the ten

a Revelation ii. 9.

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