And  who  are  the  Gentile  elements  of  civilization
upon  which  the  reception  of  the  Law  will  rest  to-
day? The  word  and  its  Logos  declare  these  to  be
the  uncentered,  the  unmeasured,  uncounted,  un-
churched, free  elements  among  men  outside  the
centers  of  civilization.  ("The  court  of  the  Gen-
tiles measure  it  not.")  These  are  not  defined
till  they  define  the  one  body  of  Law.  There  is  a
larger  definition  in  the  word  belonging  to


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the  universal  law  and  its  duality.  For-  this
place  and  this  relation  here  the  Gentile  must  be
defined  as  the  independent,  unattached


ready  at  all  times  to  march,  to  change  his.  point——.
of  view,  ever  ready  to  receive  the  truth,  —  no  party,
no  church,  no  creed,  —  the  unmeasured,  the  first  to
see  the  Law,  which  must  come  first  to  its  own,  and
be  rejected.  The  Gentile  is  the  element,  and  the
man  and  the  nation,  which  is  free  from  the  mag-
netic circle  which  binds.
The  coming  of  ,  the  Law  is  as  a  thief  in  the
night;  its  presence  is  unknown,  its  disguise  is  sure,.  *•*
The  coming  is  first  to  self  -centered  sects  and  par-
ties; it  is  written  by  nature  that  these  shall  reject
the  Law.  This  rejection  we  see  today  among  all
elements  centered  in  the  self,  —  see  it  _  in  jail
churches,  in  all  governments.  While  these  reject
the  infant  birth,  they  will,  led  by  the  Gentile,  rec-
ognize the  advent  of  Law  as  the  man-child  of  Rev-
elation.
