This time the applause broke out all over the crowded church. When it ceased, Ralph standing straight as a larch, and looking up at the soldier, gave a military salute, as he said: "Thank you, brave soldier." Coming back to his audience, he went on, as if there had been no interruption: "I, too, like the gentleman who addressed us just now, have read the whole of the Bible through, and the New Testament _twice_, and I can find no _definite_ provision or Revelation for those who are left behind--that is as to the _how_, I mean, of salvation. Yet that there are to be many saved during the next seven years, is evident, since there is to be a great multitude come out of _The Great Tribulation_, and thousands of these will be martyrs for God, refusing to wear the Mark of the Beast. "In one of the pamphlets I have been studying on 'The second coming of the Lord,' I have found this statement, that Christ, during His ministry, preached the Gospel _of the Kingdom_, which is explained as referring to the fact that, as a Jew, as the Messiah, He came to His own people the Jews, the chosen _earthly_ people of God, and that if they would have accepted Him as their Messiah, His Kingdom--with Himself reigning as King--might have been set up there and then. But they rejected Him, yes, even when Peter, at Pentecost, after the Ascension of Christ, made the final offer in those wonderful words of his. "As a nation, they rejected Him, rejected their Lord and King, and henceforth, until He should come again. (He came last week, as we know, now that it is too late for us to share in the glory of that coming.) Until that coming, as I said, the Gospel to be preached was to be the 'Gospel of the Grace of God,' and not the 'Gospel of the Kingdom.' 'The Gospel of the Grace of God,' included all peoples, Gentile as well as Jew, while 'the Gospel of the Kingdom,' in its first preaching, was especially a message to the Jew. "Now, friends, since there appears to be no _special_ Revelation left as to how men and women are to be saved, I have been forced to the conclusion that we must go back to the Old Testament word: 'Seek ye the Lord'--'Call upon the Name of the Lord'--'Trust ye in the Lord'--'Come now and let us reason, saith the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.' 'The Lord is nigh unto them who are of broken heart, and _saveth_ such as be of a _Contrite_ spirit.'