That is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the good news about the Saviour.

We have besides, in what is generally classed as a manuscript, a reasonable although disputed evidence of an elementary stage of printing; I mean the Codex Argenteus (or Silver Book) of Upsala, which contains a portion of the gospels in Mesogothic, supposed to be of the fourth or fifth century, the work of Ulfilas.

The evangelist is a man of intellect and prayer, who can preach the gospel to a scientific age, and to a thinking coteriea coterie of college men and mechanics, of society women and servant-girls, of poets and of mine-diggers, of convicts and of reformers.

Here then we should have a West Indian master reversing all the laws and rules of civilized nations, and turning upside down all the morality of the Gospel by the novel practice of punishing men for their virtues.

He moved restlessly from place to place, learning and discussing, drawing men towards him by the magnetism of a noble personality, and preaching his new gospel with perilous audacity.

The Gospel for this day describes them to us; and we may look on that description as complete, for He who gives it is none other than our Lord Himself.

In 1660 a printer with press and types was sent from England by the corporation for propagating the gospel among the Indians of New England in the Indian language.

The Saints Tombe-Stone: or the Remains of the Blessed: A plain Narrative of some remarkable passages, in the Holy Life, & Happy Death, of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw, wife of Mr. John Shaw Preacher of the Gospel at Kingston on Hull collected by her dearest friends especially for her sorrowful Husband and six Daughters consolation and invitation.

They are our spiritual ancestors, for they spread the Gospel into all lands; and they spread it, remember always, not only by preaching what they knew, but by being what they were.

I want it on fire always, not for self-delight, but to spread the Gospel from pole to pole."

Suppose, however, the truth of the Irenæan tradition;that the Creed of Cerinthus was what Irenæus states it to have been; and that John, at the instance of the Asiatic Bishops, wrote his Gospel as an antidote to the Cerinthian heresy;does there not thence arise, in his utter silence, an almost overwhelming argument against the Apostolicity of the 'Christopædia', both that prefixed to Luke, and that concorporated with Matthew? Ib.

"Being convinced that to be filled with the Holy Ghost was a better qualification for the ministry of the Gospel than any classical learning (although that too be useful in its place), after speaking awhile in the schoolroom, he used frequently to say, 'As many of you as are athirst for this fulness of the Spirit, follow me into my room.'

Laurentius, the successor of Augustine, found the Christian worship wholly abandoned, and was prepared to return to France, in order to escape the mortification of preaching the gospel without fruit to the infidels.

THE GOOD SHEPHERD.The sheep's complete dependence upon the shepherd for protection from its numerous enemies is frequently referred to in the Bible; thus the Psalmist likens himself to a lost sheep, and prays the Almighty to seek his servant; and our Saviour, when despatching his twelve chosen disciples to preach the Gospel amongst their unbelieving brethren, compares them to lambs going amongst wolves.

p. 99), that he had not the canonical Gospel before him; rather it removes the suspicion that he might have confused the text of Marcion's Gospel with the canonical.

In 1837, John and Martha Yeardley were occupied with making circuits in the service of the gospel through several counties of England.

The teaching of the Gospel on this point is most significant.

Somewhat emboldened by this, I said, "The duty and office of our religion is to preach the gospel unto all.

FULLER, ANDREW, an eminent Baptist minister, born in Cambridgeshire, was settled at Kettering, and a zealous controversialist in defence of the gospel against hyper-Calvinism on the one hand and Socinianism on the other, but he is chiefly distinguished in connection with the foundation of the Baptist Missionary Society, to which he for most part devoted the energies of his life (1754-1815).

Her thoughts recurred to Egypt and her former pleasant sojourn there; accordingly she selected Cairo as her residence, purposing in her heart to make an attempt to bring the Gospel within reach of the Moslem women and girls.

Even in respect of their first institution of assemblies for the preaching of the Gospel outside the walls of churches or any stated places of worship, Susanna Wesley may be discovered to have led the way.

Riccius, Acosta, Loyola, Xaverius's life, &c. Jasper Belga, a Jesuit, cured a mad woman by hanging St. John's gospel about her neck, and many such.

[Illustration: Fig. 408.Costume of a Scholar of the Carlovingian Period (St. Matthew writing his Gospel under the Inspiration of Christ).From a Miniature in a Manuscript of the Ninth Century, in the Burgundian Library, Brussels (drawn by Count H. de Vielcastel).]