be turned, from your iniquity.

If I might venture to alter the position of words in my text, I would
lay them, so modified, on the hearts of all my friends whom my words
may reach now, and say, 'Unto you--_unto thee_, God, having raised up
His Son Jesus, sent Him to bless you, _first_ in turning away every
one of you from his iniquities.'



THE FIRST BLAST OF TEMPEST

'And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain
of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, 2. Being
grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus
the resurrection from the dead. 3. And they laid hands on them,
and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now even-tide.
4. Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the
number of the men was about five thousand. 5. And it came to pass
on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes, 6. And
Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and
as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered
together at Jerusalem. 7. And when they had set them in the
midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done
this? 8. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them,
Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9. If we this day
be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what
means he is made whole; 10. Be it known unto you all, and to all
the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even