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470 TEE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES later years sent to the churches. The inipression that he received when in vision was ever with him, enabling him to give a correct representation of Christian character. By word of mouth and by letter he bore a message that ever since has brought help and strength to the church of God. To believers to-day this message speaks plainly of the dangers that will threaten the church, and the false doctrines that they will have to meet. The apostle's desire for those to whom he addressed his letters of counsel and admonition, was that they should ^'be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine;" but that they should all come into "the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." He entreated those who were followers of Jesus in heathen communities not to walk ''as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God . . . because of the blindness of their heart," but "circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time."^ He encouraged the believers to look forward to the time when Christ, who "loved the church, and gave Himself for it," would "present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or . any such thing ' ' — a church ' ' holy and without blemish. " * These messages, written with a power not of man but of God, contain lessons which should be studied by all, and which may with profit be often repeated. ^ Epli. 4 : 14, 13, 17, 18 ; 5 : 15, 16. * Eph. o : 25, 27.