The universal extension of the Redeemer's kingdom, is taught by all the imagery under which it is represented in the Old Testament and the New. It is compared to a little leaven, which leaveneth the whole lump; to a grain of mustard seed, which, although the least of all seeds, becometh a tree, so that the fowls of the air lodge in the branches thereof; to a stone cut out of the mountain without hands, which shall fill the whole earth, and stand forever. All this variety of emblem expresses the same elevating truth; it instructs us that the Gospel shall yet be propagated through the whole earth; that its sound shall spread to the south, and to the west, and to the north, and to the east, until all the nations have seen its glory, and felt its regenerating and healing influence.

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