OUR MODEL. 481 kingdom of God. They did not super- sede the necessity at another time, of his continuing to preach among them, for the space of two years the two great doc- trines of his mission, 64 Repentance to- wards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ." Nor did they prevent his thinking it his bounden duty to send to the Ephesians his exquisite epistle, for the furtherance of their faith in the Gos- pel. Here we behold the union of the Bible and the missionary -of the Gospel sent and the Gospel preached. " Many," says the sagacious Bishop Butler, " think there is but one evil, and that evil is superstition ;" and we know that the epithets ofSuperstitious and en- thusiastic have been unsparingly lavished on the most sober and well-digested plans for the dispersion of the Scriptures abroad. We know that some trifling errors, errors inseparable from all_ great undertakings, every petty indiscretion, the inevitable consequence of employing a number of inferior agents, have been
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