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CORINTH 249 long been groping in the darkness of heathenism, could but see the light stjeaming from Calvary's cross, they would be drawn to the Eedeemer. ^'I, if I be lifted up," the Saviour had declared, ''will draw all men unto Me. " * The gospel workers in Corinth realized the terrible dangers threatening the souls of those for whom •they were laboring; and it was with a sense of the responsibility resting on them that they presented the truth as it is in Jesus. Clear, plain, and decided was their message — a savor of life unto life, or of death unto death. And not only in their words, but in the daily life, was the gospel revealed. Angels co-operated with them, and the grace and power of God was shown in the conversion of many. ''Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized." The hatred with which the Jews had always regarded the apostles was now intensified. The conversion and baptism of Crispus had the effect of exasperating instead of convincing these stubborn opposers. They could not bring arguments to disprove Paul's preaching; and for lack of such evidence, they resorted to deception and malignant attack. They blasphemed the gospel and the name of Jesus. In their blind anger, no words were too bitter, no device too low, for them to use. They could not deny that Christ had worked miracles; but they declared that He had performed them through the power of Satan; and they boldly affirmed that the wonderful works wrought by Paul were accomplished through the same agency. * John 12 : 32.