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THROUGH HIS BLOOD

In 1927, in West Africa, a blood specimen was taken from a native man named Asibi, who was sick with yellow fever. A vaccine was made from the original strain of virus obtained from this man. In fact, all the vaccine manufactured since 1927 by the Rockefeller Foundation and health agencies derives from the original strain of virus obtained from this one man.

Carried down to the present day from one laboratory to another, through repeated cultures and by enormous multiplication, it has offered immunity to yellow fever to millions of people in many countries. Through the creative imagination of science, the blood of this one man in West Africa has been made available to serve the whole human race.

In another, more important way, the blood of another Man has been made to serve the human race. Quote: Ephesians chapter 1 verse 7. "IN CHRIST WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD..."

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