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So I am speaking thus to young brothers and sisters that you are to be on the lookout for voids created, because there is always a danger in a void. Hence, if a brother or sister dies, if the Lord is pleased to take a brother or sister, we are told something about one baptised for the dead. It is an expression that we have to understand, which would mean that if a brother or a sister dies there may be a void, as I said. There may be a loss sustained in the service. And so each of us is to be on the alert to come forward and do what can be done, so that there may be no weakness caused by the departure of a brother or a sister. A departure, of course, is not their own doing—departing to be with Christ. The Lord takes us one after another and how interesting all that is. One generation passes away, the Lord taking them, and another coming. Presently they will be taken and another one coming; but then the voids come in in those cases. One is taken out of Plainfield, one is taken out of Philadelphia, and one is taken out of Baltimore. There are voids created in the present generation, I may say, and we have to rush, as it were. Nature would do so in our bodies to meet a crisis and so it is that in the body of Christ there is, as it were, what would rush to meet the need. It is a question of life. That is, the void is to be filled out by what is living, because it is a question of the body of Christ and that requires what is living.

J. Taylor (Vol. 58, p.383)

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