gathered there “from every nation under heaven,” they would not have understood a single syllable. The law—the ten words—the record of man’s duty to God and to his neighbor was sedulously wrapped up in one tongue. But when “the wonderful works of God” were to be published—when the blessed story of love was to be told out—when the heart of God towards poor guilty sinners was to be revealed, was one language enough? No! “Every nation under heaven” must hear, and hear, too, in their own mother tongue.
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