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Rh sending them away healed and whole, for time and for eternity. There is another point in which we may see the fitness of the Gospel for all men. I have been showing, objectively, how the Gospel is adapted to us; (b) but now I wish to point out its fitness, in that God has made us in such a way, that we are fitted to it. And this is seen in the fact that wherever the Gospel is proclaimed as the healing agency for sinners, and the terms are announced by which its saving power may be obtained, all men can understand and appropriate it. If the Gospel demanded money as its terms, if it demanded learning, if it demanded power, if it demanded wisdom, if it demanded skill, few of the wretched sons of men could secure its blessings and its gifts. They could not meet its terms, they could not come up to the demand, they could not answer the requirements. As a consequence, the Gospel would not be fitted for all men, nor be adapted to the whole race. But see how, in its terms and requirements, the Gospel proves its universal fitness. The grand terms of the Gospel are repentance and faith. And never have there lived a people on earth, however lowly and debased, who have not had regret; none who have not exercised, in some way, the quality of faith. All men have been sorry about something in their lives, and so when they are convinced of the error of sin against God, they can be sorry for sin. All men have believed in something around them, and therefore when Jesus is pointed out to them, they can believe in the "Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world."