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faith, in your hearts, being rooted and founded in love, in order

that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints

…”. These wonderful verses run on to glory to God in the

assembly. How glorious is the head-stone! Let us make sure,

beloved brethren, that we have in view the whole thing, the

vastness, the universality; of what the assembly is, the glory of

it. Let it not be broken in our view. Let us think of the assembly

in a universal aspect, think of what it is for Christ, what it is for

God, a habitation of God in the Spirit. “He shall bring forth the

head-stone with shoutings—Grace, grace unto it!” How

wonderful to be in this finishing time of grace, beloved

brethren, making much of Christ, and of the assembly. May we

be alert and energetic in helping it forward, for His name’s

sake.

Address at Newport

8 October 1988