The deaf have been called to preach...
"The Lord Jesus Christ was here long enough to remove all doubt as to His personal identity, yet He withdrew Himself immediately. He had secured for His personality an unquestioned place in human history. Nothing more was to be gained by His visible continuance on earth; His bodily mission had been wholly fulfilled, and therefore He vanished out of the sight of men. But what of the future of His work? Then, according to Christian teaching, was to come manifestation without visibility; instead of bodily presence, there was to be a new experience of life, spirituality, insight, sensibility, and sympathy almost infallible in holy instinct. In one word, the Holy Man was to be followed by the Holy Ghost. As the disciples were to be sent abroad into all coasts, to be scattered all over the earth to preach the gospel, and not to stay together still, in one place, Christ's corporeal presence would have stood them in small stead. He could have been resident but in one place, to have comforted some one of them… The Spirit, that was to succeed, was much more fit for men dispersed. He could be, and was, present with them all, and with every one by himself, as filling the compass of the whole world." Andrews
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