III. But, following the guidance of the text, we are led to a third reason why we should not be ashamed of the Gospel, namely, _the magnificence of its terms_. “It is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.” It is in human nature to admire anything that is grand and glorious. The heavens, the sea, the mountains, command our admiration by the beauty of their appearance, and the vastness of their scale. But in the whole range of the works of God, there is nothing to be compared in grandeur with the Gospel of Christ. It is the most perfect display of the most perfect and holy of His attributes. If it be inquired which is the greatest of all His holy attributes, it will not be found to be His omnipotence or His omniscience, but that in which all the rest are summed up by the inspired Word, when it says, “God is love.” And if, again, it be inquired how this crowning attribute has been most abundantly exhibited, we shall not find our answer either in creation or in providence, but in “the height and depth and length and breadth of the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.” “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” Now this love is displayed in the Gospel, according to the language of the text, both in the extent of the offer, and the freedom of its terms. In the _extent of its offer_; for there is no limitation of any kind whatever, but the door is thrown open to every one that believeth, to whatever nation it may be his portion to belong. It is “the power of God unto salvation, to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” There is none excluded, nor any who possesses a peculiar interest in the promise. It is, indeed, preached first to the Jew; but he has no exclusive interest in its blessing, for the Greek, or Gentile, is accepted on the same terms, and made partaker of the same inestimable gifts. It is well, therefore, that we should strive to stir up each other’s hearts in the work of missions, both to the Jews and to the heathens; to the colonists in distant lands, and to the great masses of our uninstructed countrymen at home. The Gospel is the same power to all classes and in all lands. The Jew may long strive to work out a salvation for himself, and rest content in his own most sinful righteousness; but let the grace of God touch his heart, and he will find the Gospel to be the power of God unto his salvation, while he kneels, in faith and deep humiliation, before the throne of his crucified and risen Lord. The manufacturer may be for a time lost in the midst of the dense population with which he is surrounded, having his mind soured by the preachers of sedition, and his heart estranged from God through the deadly teaching of the Chartist and the Socialist; but let the earnest pastor convey to him in his own home, or preach to him in the church, the