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If you are not located in the United -States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are located -before using this ebook. - - - -Title: His Glorious Appearing - -Author: James Springer White - -Release Date: June 15, 2017 [Ebook #54914] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO 8859-1 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HIS GLORIOUS APPEARING*** - - - - - - His Glorious Appearing - - An Exposition of Matthew Twenty-Four - - By - - James Springer White - - Revised and Illustrated - - "What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the - world?"--DISCIPLES. - - "When ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the - doors."--JESUS. - - Eleventh Edition. - - Review and Herald Publishing Co. - - Battle Creek, Mich. - - 1895 - - - - - -CONTENTS - - -Introductory. -Christ's Prophecy. - Persecution And False Prophets. - Iniquity Abounds. - The End. -When Shall These Things Be? -What Shall Be The Sign Of Thy Coming? - Shortened For The Elect's Sake. - Lo, Here, And Lo, There. - The Signs Of Christ's Coming. - "And The Stars Shall Fall." - "The Powers Of Heaven Shall Be Shaken." - "Sign Of The Son Of Man." - Parable Of The Fig-Tree. - "The Day And Hour." - Noah's Time And Ours. - Peace And Safety. - The Final Separation. - Those Who Watch Will Know The Time. - The Faithful And Wise Servant. - The Evil Servant. -Conclusion. -Choice Religious Books. - - - - - - - [Book Cover] - - - - - - [Illustration] - - The Light of the World - - - - - -INTRODUCTORY. - - -"Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his -servants the prophets." Amos 3:7. - -No truth of inspiration can be more clearly demonstrated than that God -reveals his designs to his prophets, that men and nations may be prepared -for their accomplishment. Before visiting with judgments, God has -uniformly sent forth warnings sufficient to enable the believing to escape -his wrath, and to condemn those who have not heeded the warning. This was -the case before the flood. The wickedness of the world had become very -great. Every imagination of the thoughts of the hearts of men was only -evil. It would seem that they had forfeited all claims for consideration. -Violence and corruption filled the earth, and the only way to eradicate -evil was to destroy it with its workers. But before doing so, the world -must be warned of the impending doom; and there was found one man who -would engage in the work. Noah had faith in God, and preached for one -hundred and twenty years the message of warning and salvation. His work -also testified with his words. - - - "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, - moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by - the which he condemned the world." Heb. 11:7. - - -At a later period, when the nations had again become sunken in idolatry -and crime, and the destruction of wicked Sodom and Gomorrah was -determined, the Lord said,-- - - - "Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; seeing that - Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the - nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?" Gen. 18:17, 18. - - -And due notice was given to righteous Lot, who, with his daughters, was -preserved; and none, even in that guilty city, perished without due -warning. Lot evidently warned the people; and in thus communing with them, -was "vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked." 2 Peter 2:7, 8. -His righteous life had been a rebuke to them; and we have every reason to -believe that the holy example of Abraham in his worship of the true God -was known to them. He had at one time been their saviour, and rescued -their captives and spoil from the victorious enemy who was carrying them -away. But when Lot warned his friends of the approaching doom, "he seemed -as one that mocked." Gen. 19:14. They, like the antediluvians, persisted -in sin, and drank of the wrath of God. - -At a subsequent time the sins of Nineveh rose to heaven, and Jonah was -sent to bear to that proud capital the startling message, "Yet forty days -and Nineveh shall be destroyed." The consciences of those sinners told -them the message was true; and from the least of them to the greatest they -humbled themselves, and the overhanging judgment was averted. - -Before Christ commenced his earthly mission, John the Baptist was sent as -the voice of one crying in the wilderness, "Prepare ye the way of the -Lord." By this means the expectation of the people was raised, and -doubtless many were through it led to accept of salvation, while the -generation at large was condemned for rejecting the light. - -Our Saviour in his time saw the destruction of Jerusalem just in the -future of that generation, and faithfully warned the people, foretelling -signs by which it might be known when the desolation thereof was nigh. -Luke 21:21. Such is the testimony of inspiration respecting the dealings -of God with his people in past ages. - -All who accept the Bible as the inspired word of God acknowledge that he -has been very faithful in warning people in past ages of impending -judgments and other events which affected their eternal welfare. Such -having been the divine plan in relation to past events, we would certainly -be justified in anticipating such warnings of Christ's second coming as -would comport with the importance of the event. But when we come to regard -the future, and especially our own immediate future, the incredulity of -very many is at once aroused. - -But what are the facts in the case? Can anything be learned from the Bible -relative to the time of the second advent? This is a grave inquiry; and, -from the very nature of the subject, is worthy of close investigation, and -a candid answer. It is a matter of painful regret that many, under the -influence of popular prejudice, have decided that the period of the second -advent is a secret, hidden with the Lord. While these can scarcely be -reached with this subject, as long as they remain under the influence of -those who denounce all investigation of it as prying into the secrets of -the Almighty, there is still, we believe, a larger class who wait for -evidence before deciding. - - [Illustration] - - Christ Weeping Over Jerusalem - - -We accept the Bible as a revelation from heaven. What God has revealed in -that book, let no man call a mystery, or a secret of the Almighty. "The -secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are -revealed belong unto us and to our children forever." Deut. 29:29. If the -sacred Scriptures, in a most clear and harmonious manner, point out the -signs of the approach of that great event, and if there is evidence that -"it is near, even at the doors," the subject at once assumes great -importance. - -When the disciples inquired, "What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of -the end of the world?" Jesus did not reprove them for inquiring into this -matter, nor tell them that it was purposely hidden from all men; but he -answered their question in the most definite manner. - -The simple fact that the Lord mentions signs of his second advent, is the -best proof possible that his people were not to remain ignorant of the -relative nearness of the event. Add to this his injunctions to -watchfulness, and the blessings which he pronounces upon those who are -awake and watching at his coming, and it becomes a certainty that he would -not leave his people ignorant of the proximity of that event. Paul also -says that "unto _them that look for him_ shall he appear the second time -without sin unto salvation." Heb. 9:28. And that a crown of righteousness -will be given "unto all them also that love his appearing." 2 Tim. 4:8. - -With these assurances we may look for plain and emphatic tokens of the -Saviour's second coming. - - - - - -CHRIST'S PROPHECY. - - - [Illustration] - - Jesus on the Mount of Olives - - -Probably no other chapter of the Bible speaks more fully, and more -definitely, upon the subject of the second advent, than Matthew 24, in -Christ's own words. We invite the attention of the candid reader to a -brief explanation of the entire chapter. - - - VERSE 1: "And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple; and - his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the - temple." - - -Jesus had been addressing the multitude, in the presence of his disciples. -He had reproved the scribes and the Pharisees for their sins, and had -declared, in the previous chapter, the doom of the Jews, their city, and -their temple. The disciples supposed that the temple would stand forever, -and they called the attention of Christ to its magnificence and strength, -and to the great stones that entered into the structure. On this point the -historian of those times, Josephus, says: "Now the temple was built of -stones that were white and strong, and each of their lengths was twenty- -five cubits, their height was eight, and their breadth about -twelve."--_"__Antiquities,__"__ book xv, chap. xi._ If we compute a cubit -at twenty inches, we shall be able to gain some idea of the size and -"manner" of these stones. - - - VERSE 2: "And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? - Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon - another, that shall not be thrown down." - - VERSE 3: "And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples - came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things - be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of - the world?" - - -This statement from the Master could not but deeply interest the -disciples. And it matters not whether they supposed that the destruction -of the temple, the coming of Christ, and the end of the age, would all -occur at the same time, or at different periods, since Christ, in his -answer in this chapter, has distinctly spoken of each separately, and has -given each its place in the prophetic history of events. If it were their -impression that the overthrow of the temple and the end of the world would -occur at the same time, it by no means proves that this would be the case. -As the Scriptures show, up to the time of the out-pouring of the Holy -Spirit on the day of Pentecost, their ideas upon many points were crude -and inaccurate. Take as proof of this the parable which the Lord spake -when he was going into Jerusalem. Luke 19. They thought that the kingdom -of God should immediately appear. To correct this impression, the parable -of the nobleman was spoken. If they understood the parable at the time -when it was spoken, it did not fully eradicate the impression from their -minds, as is proved by what they did when they entered Jerusalem. We -cannot believe that they would have hailed him as the Son of David, and -rejoiced before him as a King in his triumph, if they had realized that he -was going into the city to be condemned and crucified as a malefactor. -Palm branches and shouts of triumph did not attend the steps of the lowly -and the condemned. - -John admits for himself and Peter, after they had seen the empty -sepulcher, that "they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from -the dead." John 20:9. - -Again, after his resurrection, Jesus reproved two of his disciples, who, -though they had trusted that he would redeem Israel, were then sad and -disheartened. They did not then understand that Christ ought "to have -suffered these things, and to enter into his glory." The suffering part -was still a mystery to them. And some of the apostles were so slow to -realize that which he had spoken to them, that they could hardly be -persuaded that he was indeed risen from the dead. And after he had been -with them full forty days, speaking to them of the things pertaining to -the kingdom, they did not yet understand "the times and the seasons," and -therefore asked him, "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the -kingdom to Israel?" - -However the matter may have been entertained in the minds of the -disciples, it is evident that their query consisted of two distinct -questions in the mind of the Saviour. These questions relate, first, to -the destruction of Jerusalem; and, second, to Christ's second coming at -the end of the world or age. They were distinctly answered by our Lord; -not, however, before the promiscuous multitude; but on the occasion of a -private interview with his disciples. Christ here speaks to his disciples; -hence his words in this prophetic discourse are addressed especially to -the church. - - - VERSES 4, 5: "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed - that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I - am Christ, and shall deceive many." - - -Jesus knew the hearts of men, and that many impostors would arise, and -deceive multitudes. He here warns his disciples, and guards them against -the deceptions of corrupt and ambitious men. Such was the general -expectation of the appearance of the Messiah among the Jews, that many -would set up the claim that they were the Christ, to carry out selfish -purposes, or to gain notoriety, and the credulous people would be easily -led into the deception, and then be destroyed for sedition. We are -informed that in the days succeeding those of Christ, impostors arose in -great numbers. Josephus tells us of an Egyptian false prophet who led -30,000 men into the desert to show them signs, and then brought them to -Jerusalem as if to attack the city. He caused great pillage and -destruction in Judea, but in the time of battle, ran away, leaving his -followers to the exasperated Romans.--_"__Wars of the Jews,__"__ book ii, -chap. xiii._ - - [Illustration] - - Ancient Jerusalem - - -In the former part of the second century Cazibee set himself at the head -of the Jewish nation and proclaimed himself their long-expected Messiah. -To facilitate the success of his bold enterprise he changed his name to -that of Barchocheba, alluding to the Star foretold by Balaam. Adrian -raised an army, and sent it against him. He retired into a town called -Bither, where he was besieged. Barchocheba was killed in the siege, the -city was taken, and a dreadful havoc succeeded. The Jews themselves allow -that, during this short war against the Romans in defense of this false -Messiah, they lost five or six hundred thousand souls.--_Buck's -Dictionary._ - -Dr. A. Clarke says, on the authority of Josephus, that "a few years -afterward, under the reign of Nero, while Felix was procurator of Judea, -impostors of this stamp were so frequent that some were taken and killed -almost every day." And at intervals since then the Jews who are all the -time expecting the appearance of the Messiah have been repeatedly the -victims of cruel deception. - - - VERSE 6: "And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that - ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but - the end is not yet." - - -It is proper that we should consider what is meant by the term "the end," -used in this verse; in verse 14, "then shall the end come;" and in verse -3, "the sign of thy coming, and the end of the world." In the first place, -it may be unhesitatingly claimed that the term does not refer to the end -of the Jewish dispensation, which terminated at the crucifixion, nor to -the destruction of Jerusalem, which occurred about forty years later. -Because, first, Jesus treated the question concerning the destruction of -the temple and that referring to his coming and the end of the world as -relating to two distinct events, widely separated in time. Second, the -signs which were to be premonitory of the end did not transpire before the -destruction of the temple. Third, the second coming of Christ, the close -of probation, the judgment, the resurrection, and the end of sin, death, -and mortality, are frequently and prominently associated together in the -Bible as constituting the most important epoch in human history. To limit -this thrilling discourse to the local and long past destruction of -Jerusalem would be to rob it of its force and grandeur. Not only would the -twenty-fourth of Matthew which we are now studying be stultified, but very -much of the life and power of the Scriptures would be sacrificed by such a -course. - -As to the meaning of the phrase, "the end of the world," it may -consistently be translated "the end of the age," and in the margin of the -Revised Bible it is rendered "the consummation of the age." For an -inspired definition of the term, let the reader turn to Matt. 13:38-40 and -its context, where the same words are used and repeated in the original:-- - - - "The tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that - sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and - the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered - and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. - The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather - out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them that do - iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall - be weeping and gnashing of teeth." - - -From Rev. 14:14-16 we learn that the harvest of the earth and the second -coming of Christ are identical. So that by no possible means could it be -established that the "end of the world" means the destruction of -Jerusalem. Further evidence is found in Matt. 28:20 where the same -expression, both in the original and in the translation, is used: "Lo I am -with you alway, even unto the end of the world." But no one would have the -audacity to claim that this promise expired in A. D. 70, as it must have -done if those questions of the disciples and the subsequent discourse of -Christ related only to the impending doom of the temple and city. - - - VERSES 7, 8: "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom - against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and - earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of - sorrows." - - -Wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes have occurred all along since -these words were spoken. Therefore, these, as they have ever existed, -cannot be regarded as the especial signs of the end. It may be claimed, -however, with a good degree of consistency, that the Scriptures teach that -these calamities would abound in the last days to such an extent as to -constitute a sign of the approaching Judgment. We wish to keep the -important fact distinctly before the mind, that the sacred Scriptures do -teach when men may not, and when they may, look for the second appearing -of Christ. - -The sacred writers have so uniformly associated such judgments as war, -famine, pestilence, and earthquake, with the last Judgment, that the -disciples would be in danger of concluding that the end would immediately -follow the first appearance of these calamities; hence the caution given: -"These things must come to pass, but the end is not yet." Here the -disciples were clearly taught that they should not expect the end in their -day. This fact is worthy of the candid attention of those who object to -the proclamation of the second advent of Christ in the form of an especial -message. These sometimes assert that it was right for the disciples to -look for Christ in their day, and that it has been scriptural and right -for all Christians to look for the second appearing of Christ in their -time, from the days of the chosen twelve to the present time. And they -decide that no more can be learned and believed upon this subject in our -time than by the Christians of past generations, and that the public mind -should not now be moved upon this great question, any more than in all -past time since the first advent of Christ. - -We have seen that this position is incorrect so far as the early disciples -were concerned. They are directed to the distant future as the time when -their Lord should come. They are assured that they need not be troubled at -hearing of wars and rumors of wars; "for all these things must come to -pass, but the end is not yet." Our Lord then guides the minds of his -disciples, as we shall see in the examination of this chapter, down over -the time of the great apostasy, and the long period of the rule of papal -Rome, before mentioning a sign of his second advent. He does not intimate -that his people during these long periods may expect the end. No, not -once. But when he comes to a later time, the Lord names signs in the sun, -in the moon, and in the stars, and adds: "When ye shall see all these -things, know that it is near, even at the doors." - -Mark this: Our Lord does not mention wars, famines, pestilences, and -earthquakes as signs of his second advent; but rather as events of common -occurrence all the way through the Christian age, which must exist before -the end. And history attests the fact that these calamities have covered -at least seventeen centuries. The following is from a work of Noah -Webster, LL. D., published in 1799:-- - - - "By famine and sword, 580,000 Jews were destroyed between A. D. 96 - and A. D. 180. - - "In Antioch, from A. D. 96 to A. D. 180, earthquakes destroyed 13 - cities and over 100,000 lives. - - "In Rome, A. D. 169, pestilence destroyed 10,000 daily. - - "In Rome, A. D. 187, pestilence appeared and continued three - years. - - "In London, A. D. 310, by famine, 40,000 died. - - "In A. D. 446, September 17, an earthquake shook down the walls of - Constantinople, and 57 towers fell. - - "In Rome, A. D. 539, in one district 50,000 died. - - "In Antioch, A. D. 588, an earthquake killed 60,000. - - "In A. D. 542, the plague killed 10,000 in one day in Turkey. - - "In A. D. 679, a severe famine in England, three years. - - "In A. D. 717, in Constantinople, 300,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1005, earthquakes three months, followed by pestilence, - by which it is said one third of the human race died. - - "In A. D. 1077, in Constantinople, so many died by plague and - famine the living could not bury them. - - "In A. D. 1124, in Italy, there was such famine that the dead lay - in the streets not buried; and in England one third of the people - died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1294, in England thousands died of famine. - - "In A. D. 1346, in London, 50,000 died of plague and famine, and - were buried in one grave-yard; in Norwich, 50,000; in Venice, - 100,000; in Florence, 100,000; in Eastern nations, 20,000,000. It - was called the black death. - - "In A. D. 1352, in China, 900,000 died of famine. - - "In A. D. 1427 in Dantzic, 80,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1570, in Moscow, 200,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1572, in Lyons, 50,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1625, in London, 35,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1656, in Naples, 300,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1665, in London, 68,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1755, an earthquake destroyed the city of Lisbon, - killing 50,000. In Mitylene, and the Archipelago, it shook down - 2000 houses. It shook all the Spanish coast. The plague followed, - which destroyed 150,000 persons in Constantinople." - - -Doubtless the figures in the above list should in some instances be -corrected to correspond with facts. But, taken as a whole, they do not -nearly represent the ravages of death in their enormity. For instance, the -Encyclopedia Britannica states that Hecker estimates the celebrated "black -death" of the fourteenth century in the different epidemics, to have swept -away one fourth of the inhabitants of Europe, or 25,000,000 people! - - - - -Persecution And False Prophets. - - - [Illustration] - - Martyrdom of Huss - - - VERSES 9, 10: "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and - shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's - sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one - another, and shall hate one another." - - -Here is a brief description of the afflictions and martyrdom of the church -of Christ. Thousands of the faithful followers of Jesus were most cruelly -put to death by pagan Rome; yet the prophecy doubtless applies more -particularly to the long period of papal persecutions, in which not less -than fifty millions of Christians were put to death in the most cruel -manner that wicked men and demons could devise. In these verses we are -brought down over the long period of the martyrdom of the church of Jesus -Christ, to near the present generation. These verses being parallel with -verses 21 and 22, this subject will be noticed again. - - - VERSE 11: "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive - many." - - -A true prophet is one who speaks for God. The spirit of prophecy is the -testimony of Jesus. Rev. 19:10. It is Jesus Christ speaking through human -lips or pen to his people. _Pseudo_, or false prophets, speak through the -agency of wicked spirits and the power of Satan. Their work is to deceive. -And while this is true of those who are under the direct inspiration of -superior beings, good or evil, it is true in a more restricted sense that -consecrated teachers of divine truth may be regarded as God's prophets; -and teachers of error may properly be called false prophets. True and -false prophets may be known. - - [Illustration] - - The Crucifixion - - -The prophets of God are teachers of purity, reprovers of sin, and faithful -in warning the people of coming dangers. The duties of those whom God -calls to speak in his great name are clearly expressed by the sacred -writers. We here quote from three of them:-- - - - ISA. 58:1: "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a - trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of - Jacob their sins." - - JOEL 2:1: "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my - holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for - the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand." - - 2 TIM. 4:1, 2: "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord - Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his - appearing and his kingdom; preach the word; be instant in season, - out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and - doctrine." - - -False prophets do not reprove the people for their sins, and do not warn -them of coming danger; but they proclaim peace to the sinner. Their -teachings lead from God and his word, and are such as please the -unconverted mind. The inspired writers have also spoken definitely of the -testimony and work of false prophets. We here give several for example:-- - - - EZE. 13:9, 10: "And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see - vanity, and that divine lies. They shall not be in the assembly of - my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the - house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; - and ye shall know that I am the Lord God. Because, even because - they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no - peace; and one built up a wall, and lo, others daubed it with - untempered mortar." - - JER. 6:13, 14: "For from the least of them even unto the greatest - of them, every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet - even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. They have healed - also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, - Peace, peace, when there is no peace." - - JER. 14:13, 14: "Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, the prophets - say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have - famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. Then the - Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I sent - them not, neither spake unto them." - - -After stating the duty of the faithful servant of God to preach the word, -to reprove, to rebuke, and exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine, -the apostle says:-- - - - "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; - but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, - having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the - truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Tim. 4:3, 4. - - -That time has now fully come. The people choose pleasing fables, which do -not disturb them in their sins, rather than the reproving, searching -declarations of the word of God. They love to be deceived by the teachings -of false prophets, and "say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, -Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy -deceits." Isa. 30:10. - - - "Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord. Shall not my - soul be avenged on such a nation as this? A wonderful and horrible - thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and - the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have - it so; and what will ye do in the end thereof?" Jer. 5:29-31. - - -The ears of the people are filled with the pleasing fables of the world's -conversion, a good time coming, and that we are just entering the golden -age. The threatenings of God's word on the proud, the haughty, the vain, -the rich, the sinners in Zion, and those out of Zion, are kept back by the -false teachers of these times. Many of them even dare to teach that the -moral code of the ten commandments is abrogated. And as the result of such -a course, and of such teaching, we see in the professed church of Jesus -Christ, that - - - - -Iniquity Abounds. - - - VERSE 12: "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many - shall wax cold." - - -It is evident that both the abounding of iniquity and the waxing cold of -the love of many, are fulfilled in the professed church of Jesus Christ. -Men must first experience the love of God and of heavenly things before -that love can grow cold. Hence, common, unconverted sinners are not here -referred to as apostatizing. And, again, the prevalence of iniquity in the -unconverted world alone, would stimulate the church to greater diligence, -and more godliness, instead of being a cause of apostasy. Hence, the -iniquity here mentioned is in the very heart of the professed church, -diffusing its chilling influence through the whole body. As the result, -the love of many has grown cold. With this, agree the words of the -apostle:-- - - - "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. - For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, - proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, - without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, - incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, - heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; - having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from - such turn away." 2 Tim. 3:1-5. - - -Here is a catalogue of eighteen sins, all resting upon those having a form -of godliness. These are not infidels and common worldly sinners, for they -have not a form of godliness; but they are men and women professing to be -followers of Jesus Christ. And although they make a profession of piety as -high as heaven, these very sins lie at their doors. And by reason of their -example, and their chilling influence, many are led from the humble path -to heaven, and their love waxes cold. - - [Illustration] - - The Ascension - - - - -The End. - - - VERSE 13: "But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall - be saved." - - -As before noted, the word _end_, whenever used in this chapter, refers to -the end of the age, and to nothing else. It is the end associated in the -New Testament with the second appearing of Jesus Christ. If it be urged -that the word "end" has reference to the close of mortal life, then we -reply that the disciples did not ask their Lord (see verse 3) when they -should die; but "what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of -the world?" Neither does the Lord speak of death, when he says (see verse -6), "But the end is not yet." And it would be strange indeed to suppose -that the word "end" (verse 14) meant death. If any think such a position -admissible, let them read it into the text, as follows: And this gospel of -the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all -nations, and then shall death come. Absurdity! - - - VERSE 14: "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached In all - the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end - come." - - -This is the first sign of the end given by our Lord in answer to the -question, "What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the -world?" - -But it is robbed of its distinct power by that interpretation, sometimes -given, by which it is assumed that all men will receive the gospel and be -converted, and that then instead of the end, there will ensue a thousand -years in which all shall know the Lord. After this long period of peace -and safety, the end will come. How much is assumed on this text will -appear when we consider that the text does not say that every individual -will even hear this gospel of the kingdom. It does not state that any one -will be converted and made holy by it. And we find it far from intimating -that the world will be converted and remain so one thousand years. We have -no reason to conclude that greater measure of success is implied in this -text than that which has always attended the preaching of the gospel. -While a few have believed and received it, the great mass of men have -passed it by unheedingly. The text simply states: First, "And this gospel -of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world;" second, "For a witness -unto all nations;" third, "And _then_ [not one thousand years later, but -THEN] shall the end come." - -But to what does the term "gospel of the kingdom" refer? The query -sometimes rises as to whether the gospel in the common acceptation of the -word, or a gospel peculiarly related to the second coming of Christ is -here meant. No such distinction is to be drawn. There neither is, has -been, nor will be more than one gospel. "But though we, or an angel from -heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached -unto you, let him be accursed." Gal. 1:8. - -The gospel, then, in this instance, is the same as Paul preached, which -was the "power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth." But in -Rev. 14:6 and 7 we read:-- - - - "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the - everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, - and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying - with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour - of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven, and - earth, and the sea, and the fountain of waters." - - -The gospel is here called the "everlasting gospel," and must necessarily -be referred to the gospel of Christ. In connection with the preaching of -that gospel, was the proclamation that the judgment hour had come. Not -that this message was appended to the gospel, but the angel who had the -everlasting gospel to preach said, "Fear God ... for the hour of his -judgment is come." - -The gospel of Jesus Christ embraces all truth relating to salvation. The -warnings, counsel, invitations, promises, precepts, prophecies, or -whatever the Lord would have the people hear,--the gospel embraces them -all. In the days of Noah, the gospel included repentance, faith, -obedience, with the promises of grace and mercy; it also included the -warning of the impending judgment. And the only way to escape that -judgment was through the gospel. So here in Revelation we have the gospel -with all it implies, including the message of Christ's second coming and -kingdom and the judgment. Closely associated with this message are two -others as given in Rev. 14:8-12. The first is merged into these. Then -immediately following their proclamation we have the following scene:-- - - - "And I looked and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat - like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and - in his hand a sharp sickle.... And he that sat on the cloud thrust - in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped." Rev. - 14:14-16. - - -In Rev. 14:6-16, then, we learn what is the meaning of the term "gospel of -the kingdom." It is _the_ gospel, and it embraces the admonitions and -instructions relative to the second coming of Christ. And now that we have -reached that time, the complete gospel embraces the good news of the -coming kingdom with appropriate warnings and teachings. Our Saviour says -it "shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations." -The Revelator says the message is to be preached "to every nation, -kindred, tongue, and people." When this shall be done, the end will come. - -The world-wide proclamation of the soon coming of Christ was inaugurated -about 1832. Since that time, the work of extending its warning voice has -gone on. A most remarkable feature of this movement is the fact that in -different countries individuals were moved upon, almost simultaneously, to -study the prophecies and proclaim the nearness of the end, although they -knew nothing of what was being done by others. In the United States and -Canada, in Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and in Asia, a profound -interest in this subject was created, and people were led to expect the -early appearance of Jesus. Since that time clearer light has appeared in -connection with the other messages of Revelation 14, and still the work is -onward. Wherever the light of the Bible has penetrated, the good news of -the coming Saviour is now going. Not only so, but messengers bearing this -gracious warning are rapidly finding their way into the dark portions of -the earth. Evidence of its extent and progress might be expressed in facts -and figures, but the rapid development of the work would soon leave these -in the rear. Let it suffice to say that at present the everlasting gospel -is being preached and published in all the leading languages and countries -of the world. The work has encircled the globe. It is rapidly reaching -every nation. We now wait for the approaching end; for when the purpose of -God in the proclamation of the coming reign of Christ shall be fully -accomplished, then the end will come. - -Thus far in this discourse Jesus has passed over the entire Christian -dispensation. Beginning with a warning against the deceptions that were to -succeed his own times, he next describes wars and disasters, persecutions, -apostasy, the perils of the last days, and closes with a distinct sign of -the end. - - - - - -WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE? - - - VERSES 15-20: "When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination of - desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy - place (whoso readeth, let him understand); then let them which be - in Judea flee into the mountains; let him which is on the housetop - not come down to take anything out of his house; neither let him - which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe - unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those - days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither - on the Sabbath day." - - -Our Lord having in verses 5-14, passed over the important events in the -Christian age down to the end, goes back and introduces in verse 15 the -destruction of Jerusalem, in answer to the inquiry, "When shall these -things be?" Luke's version of this language is, "When ye shall see -Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof -is nigh." Luke 21:20. By this we know that the term "abomination of -desolation" refers to the Roman army. This desolating power is spoken of -by Daniel as follows:-- - - - "And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the - city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, - and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.... And for - the over-spreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even - until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon - the desolate." Margin, "desolator." Dan. 9:26, 27. - - - [Illustration] - - Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus - - -Here is a clear prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman -armies. Our Lord referred to the book of Daniel, and taught his disciples -to read and understand it; and when they should see take place what was -there predicted, they must make their escape. - -It would seem to be impracticable to flee from a city after it was -encompassed with armies; but our Saviour did not speak at random. Josephus -tells us that Cestius, the Roman general who first led the attack upon -Jerusalem, became dismayed at the apparent forces and strength of the -city, and after having surrounded the city raised the siege. The historian -says: "He retired from the city, without any reason in the -world."--_"__Wars,__"__ book ii, chap. xix._ And in the first words of the -succeeding chapter he further states: "After this calamity had befallen -Cestius, many of the most eminent Jews swam away from the city, as from a -ship when it was going to sink." - -Dr. A. Clarke, commenting on verse 16, says:-- - - - "This counsel was remembered and wisely followed by the Christians - afterwards. Eusebius and Epiphanius say, that at this juncture, - after Cestius Gallus had raised the siege, all who believed in - Christ left Jerusalem and fled to Pella, and other places beyond - Jordan." - - -The flight of the Christians of Judea to the mountains would be attended -with difficulties. And their subsequent condition would be that of -hardship and suffering. The Lord knew this, and gave them the instructions -and warnings necessary. The statement of verse 19 was given to save them -from the sorrows of unnecessary woe. That was a time of trouble. - -Jesus recognizes the existence of the Sabbath, in verse 20, as late as the -destruction of Jerusalem, as verily as he does the seasons of the year. -_The Sabbath_, is the uniform term of both Testaments to designate the -very day on which Jehovah rested after the creation, the day upon which he -put his blessing, and which he set apart for man. Not only in this -instance does our Saviour show his regard for the sacred day of rest, but -in his life he kept it (see Luke 4:16); in his teaching he upheld it, and -taught its true character (Matt. 12:12); and when he lay in the tomb, the -devout women reverently rested "according to the commandment." He himself -is Lord of the Sabbath, and he declares that it was made for man. Mark -2:27, 28. Jesus does not speak of the Sabbath as being only a seventh part -of time, or one day in seven, and no day in particular. The Sabbath is the -term used, referring to the last day of the first week of time, and to the -last day of each subsequent week. - -It is thus that Jesus answered the question, "When shall these things be?" -He now proceeds to answer the second great question. - - - - - -WHAT SHALL BE THE SIGN OF THY COMING? - - - VERSE 21: "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not - since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall - be." - - -It is not surprising, perhaps, that upon a casual reading some should -conclude that this verse had its fulfillment at the siege of Jerusalem by -Titus. It was a time of great suffering, and the verse follows so closely -those which relate to the destruction of the city, that this explanation -suggests itself readily enough. But for good reasons we cannot accept that -application of this verse. Jesus is giving a continuous prophecy. The -narrative proceeds from verse to verse along the line of the entire -dispensation. - -The "great tribulation" mentioned in verse 21 is that of the church of -Christ, and not the tribulation of the Jews at the destruction of -Jerusalem. We offer the following reasons for so deciding:-- - -1. It is a fact that the tribulation of the Christian church, especially -under the reign of the papacy, was greater than God's people had suffered -before "since the beginning of the world." The tribulation of the -Christian church has been greater than it will ever be again. True, a time -of trouble "such as never was," spoken of in Dan. 12:1, is coming _upon -the wicked_; but we find in the same verse this blessed promise, "And at -that time thy people shall be delivered." The tribulation of the Jews at -the destruction of Jerusalem was not greater than the world will ever -witness. The vials of Jehovah's unmingled wrath are yet to be poured out, -not upon the people of one nation only, but upon the guilty people of all -nations. - - - "The slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the - earth even unto the other end of the earth; they shall not be - lamented, neither gathered, nor buried." Jer. 25:33. - - -2. If the tribulation be applied to the Jews, or to any other class of -unbelieving men, it cannot be harmonized with Dan. 12:1, which speaks of -the time of trouble such as never was, when Michael shall stand up. -Certainly there cannot be two times of trouble at different periods, -greater than ever was or ever would be. Therefore the "tribulation" spoken -of in Matt. 24:21, 29, applies not to the Jews, but to the church of -Christ, extending through the 1260 years of papal persecution; and the -"trouble" mentioned in Dan. 12:1, to the unbelieving world, to be -experienced by them in the future. - - [Illustration] - - St. Bartholomew Massacre. - - -3. The period of tribulation was shortened for the elect's sake. This -cannot refer to the Jews, for their house had been pronounced desolate. -They were left of God in their hardness of heart and blindness of mind. -Says Paul, "Lo, we turn to the Gentiles." The elect were the followers of -our Lord Jesus Christ. And where were they when tribulation was upon the -Jews?--They had fled to the mountains. It is absurd, then, to say that the -days of tribulation of the Jews in the city of Jerusalem, were shortened -for the sake of the elect, who had fled from the place of tribulation. -Moreover the tribulation that came upon Jerusalem was not restrained or -modified, but continued until the city was destroyed and its people were -given to the sword and to captivity. - -4. The connection between verses 20 and 21 shows that the tribulation was -to commence with those Christians who were to flee out of the city. "But -pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath-day; -for then shall be great tribulation." Our Lord here speaks of the -tribulation which his people would suffer from the time of their flight -onward. We follow them in their flight to the mountains, and then pass -along down through the noted persecutions of the church of God under pagan -Rome, and we see, indeed, _tribulation_. And when we come to the period of -papal persecutions, we see them suffering the most cruel tortures, and -dying the most dreadful deaths that wicked men and demons could inflict. -This last period is especially noted in prophecy. - -The prophet Daniel saw the papacy, its blasphemy, its ignorance, its work -of death on the saints, and its duration as a persecuting power, under the -symbol of the little horn. - - [Illustration] - - Taking the Pope Prisoner. 1798. - - - "And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall - wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times - and laws; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and - times and the dividing of time." Dan. 7:25. - - -It is generally admitted that "a time and times and the dividing of time" -is 1260 years. The proof of it may readily be seen by comparing Rev. -12:14, 6; 13:5, with the scripture just quoted. In these passages we learn -that "time, times, and the dividing of time" is equivalent to a thousand -two hundred and threescore days, which equals three and one half Biblical -years, or "forty and two months." Applying the scriptural rule of -interpretation, a day for a year (Eze. 4:6), we have 1260 years. - -This period is to cover the supremacy of the papacy. The beginning of it -will be the point of the establishment of the power of the papacy. This -was the year 538 A. D. Justinian, emperor of Rome, with his capital at -Constantinople, espoused the cause of the bishop of Rome; and in 533 A. D. -issued a decree which constituted that prelate head of all the churches. -But the Arian Ostrogoths had possession of Rome, and it was not until they -had been rooted up that the city was accessible to the bishop. This was -accomplished in 538, by Belisarius, Justinian's celebrated general. For a -concise and clear account of this occurrence we refer the reader to the -"Two Republics," by A. T. Jones, pp. 551-553. - -Commencing the 1260 years A. D. 538, they reach to A. D. 1798, when -Berthier, a French general, took possession of Rome. The pope was made a -prisoner and carried with violence away from his palace and out of Italy. -The papacy was stripped of its civil power. Here ended the days of -tribulation spoken of by our Lord, which were-- - - - - -Shortened For The Elect's Sake. - - - VERSE 22: "And except those days should be shortened, there should - no flesh be saved; but for the elect's sake those days shall be - shortened." - - -The papacy was clothed with civil power to punish heretics, which it held -for 1260 years; and had not the period of tribulation of the elect in the -providence of God been shortened, the martyrdom of the church would have -continued to 1798, in which event, no flesh of the elect would have been -saved. But the Reformation under Martin Luther, and those associated with -this great reformer, modified this tribulation, and continued to restrain -the rage and power of the papacy until the suppression of the Jesuits in -1773, since which time, there has been no general persecution waged -against the church. Thus we are brought in this prophetic discourse of our -Lord, down into the eighteenth century, very near the present time. We -would naturally expect, then, that the instructions and warnings which -follow would be applicable to this generation. - - - - -Lo, Here, And Lo, There. - - - VERSES 23-27: "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is - Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false - christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and - wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive - the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they - shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: - behold: he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the - lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west; - so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." - - -In these verses the great theme of Christ's second coming is again vividly -brought forth. Satan is ever on the alert to contravene by some device or -art, the work of God. His most successful plan is to deceive. By this -means he gains ready access to all such as desire to evade the force of -truth. And having deceived an individual, he not only prevents his -salvation, but gains to himself an adherent if not an active agent. So, as -the time for the second advent draws near, the enemy becomes particularly -active, knowing that he hath but a short time. In the words last quoted -our Lord seeks to prepare the minds of his people for the deceptions that -are to be practiced upon those who live near the time of his second -coming. There will be those who will cry, "Lo, here; or Lo, there," some -will even claim to be Christ. They will purport to represent the truth in -regard to Christ's coming in various plausible or fanatical ways. Others, -in order to reach other minds, will present theories of human device -accounting for the advent of Christ in various so-called rational schemes. -Many sincere people will be led to expect the conversion of the world -through a millennium of peace. Others will be persuaded that the coming of -Christ means death. And even false prophets, showing great signs and -wonders, will appear. All these form an atmosphere of deception, the -miasma of which will stupefy, if it were possible, the elect of God. - -In this fearful work will be engaged the notorious deceiver, the trained -agents of Satan, the worldly philosopher, worldly preachers, popular -ministers, critics of the Bible, and many whose eyes do not discern the -signs of the times. The Mormons call the people to the desert; -Spiritualism invites us to the secret chamber, where Satanic signs and -wonders are wrought to captivate the mind and divert it from the truth. Of -these "false prophets" Paul speaks in 1 Tim. 4:1:-- - - - "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some - shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and - doctrines of devils." - - -In another scripture the apostle places the coming of Christ in connection -with-- - - - "The working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, - and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that - perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they - might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong - delusions, that they should believe a lie." 2 Thess. 2:9-11. - - -These are some of the deceptions of which Christ is speaking in the text. -It is undoubtedly the work of modern Spiritualism. This work, in its -present form, originated in the year 1848, and constitutes and is to -constitute one of the most prominent signs of the end. - -Let no one be deceived by any means. For these are but subterfuges. They -are not the coming of Christ. He has said, "I will come again, and receive -you unto myself." John 14:3. - -The angels said at his ascension,-- - - - "_This same Jesus_, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall - _so come in like manner_ as ye have seen him go into heaven." Acts - 1:11. - - -Paul tells us,-- - - - "The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the - voice of the archangel and with the trump of God." 1 Thess. 4:16. - - -And here our Saviour says:-- - - - "As the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth, unto the - west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." - - -He will come literally, personally, the same Jesus who was here upon the -earth. Not in lowly form as an offering for sin, to be set at naught, -abused, and crucified, but in "all his glory" attended with "all the holy -angels." Matt. 25:31. We shall know when he comes for "every eye shall see -him." Rev. 1:7. - -None of these evasions of the truth will ever be able to counterfeit the -real event. The Roman army did not come to Jerusalem in this way. Death -does not come in this way. The deceptive wonders of Spiritualism cannot -imitate the glory of Christ's second coming. He will come in power and -great glory (verse 30); he will come in the glory of his Father (chapter -16:27); and in the glory of the holy angels (Luke 9:26); all the holy -angels shall come with him. Matt. 25:31. His coming will be as glorious -and resplendent as the lightning. When Jesus revealed himself to Saul of -Tarsus, there was a light above the brightness of the sun (Acts 26:13); of -the angel who appeared at the tomb after the resurrection of Jesus it is -said, "His countenance was like lightning" (Matt. 28:3); and Ezekiel says -of the messengers of the Most High, they "ran and returned as the -appearance of a flash of lightning." Eze. 1:14. - -When Jesus comes in the glory of his Father, with so glorious a train -attendant, his coming will indeed be as the lightning coming out of the -east and shining to the west, and no one will have any more occasion or -opportunity to say to his fellow, "See here," than one would have to call -another to behold a gleam of lightning flashing through the heavens. The -vivid lightning flashing out of the distant east, and shining even to the -west, lights up the whole heavens. What, then, when the Lord comes in -flaming glory, and all the holy angels with him? The presence of only one -holy angel at the sepulcher where Christ lay dead, caused the Roman guard -to shake, and become as dead men. The light and glory of one angel -completely overpowered those strong sentinels. The Son of man is coming in -his own kingly glory, and in the glory of his Father, attended by all the -holy angels. Then the whole heavens will blaze with glory, and the whole -earth will tremble before him. - - - - -The Signs Of Christ's Coming. - - - VERSES 29-31: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days - shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, - and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the - heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son - of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth - mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of - heaven, with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels - with a great sound of a trumpet; and they shall gather together - his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the - other." - - -We have before seen that our Lord speaks in this chapter of the long -period of tribulation that was to come upon his followers, and we have -also seen how those days of tribulation were shortened for the elect's -sake. Christ says that the sun should be darkened immediately after the -tribulation of those days. Mark in his gospel, gives it as follows:-- - - - "In those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, - and the moon shall not give her light." Mark 13:24. - - -This makes the time in which the sun was to be darkened more distinct and -definite. The days of tribulation were the 1260 years of papal supremacy, -beginning in 538 A. D. and ending with the capture of Rome and the pope by -the French in 1798. But we have already seen that the "tribulation" or -persecution of those days was "shortened" for the elect's sake. That is, -the active persecution of the church by papal power ceased in 1773. Then, -according to Mark's statement, the sun should be darkened between that -date and 1798. It was fulfilled. May 19, 1780, has passed into history as -"the dark day." - -This is a fact of so general knowledge that we need not consume space in -elucidating it. A few references to undoubted authorities will suffice. - -Noah Webster's dictionary, in the edition for 1869, under the head of -Explanatory and Pronouncing Vocabulary of Noted Names, says:-- - - - "_The dark day_, May 19, 1780--so called on account of a remarkable - darkness on that day extending over all New England. In some - places, persons could not see to read common print in the open air - for several hours together. Birds sang their evening songs, - disappeared, and became silent; fowls went to roost; cattle sought - the barn-yard; and candles were lighted in the houses. The - obscuration began about ten o'clock in the morning, and continued - till the middle of the next night, but with differences of degree - and duration in different places. For several days previous, the - wind had been variable, but chiefly from the south-west and the - north-east. The true cause of this remarkable phenomenon is not - known." - - -From another good authority we quote:-- - - - "A solemn gloom of unusual darkness before ten o'clock,--a still - darker cloud rolling under the sable curtain from the north and - west before eleven o'clock,--excluded the light so that none could - see to read or write in the House, even at either window, or - distinguish persons at a small distance, or perceive any - distinction of dress in the circle of attendants; wherefore, at - eleven o'clock adjourned the House till two in the - afternoon."--_Journal of the Connecticut House of Representatives, - Friday, May 19, 1780._ - - -Herschel, the great astronomer, says:-- - - - "The dark day in Northern America was one of those wonderful - phenomena of nature which will always be read with interest, but - which philosophy is at a loss to explain." - - -A contemporary paper contained the following:-- - - - "During the whole time a sickly, melancholy gloom overcast the - face of nature. Nor was the darkness of the night less uncommon - and terrifying than that of the day, for notwithstanding there was - almost a full moon, no object was discernible but by the help of - some artificial light, which seen from the neighboring houses and - other places at a distance appeared through a kind of Egyptian - darkness which seemed almost impervious to its rays. This unusual - phenomenon excited the fears and apprehensions of many - people."--_Mass. Spy, Correspondence, 1780._ - - -From another good authority we take the following:-- - - - "Almost, if not altogether alone as the most mysterious and as yet - unexplained phenomenon of its kind in nature's diversified range - of events during the last century, stands the dark day of May 19, - 1780, a most unaccountable darkening of the whole visible heavens - and atmosphere in New England, which brought intense alarm and - distress to multitudes of minds, as well as dismay to the brute - creation, the fowls fleeing, bewildered, to their roosts, and the - birds to their nests, and the cattle returning to their stalls. - Indeed thousands of the good people of that day became fully - convinced that the end of all things terrestrial had come; many - gave up, for the time, their secular pursuits, and betook - themselves to religious devotions."--"_Our First Century._" - - -An extract from a sermon preached at that time will be of interest:-- - - - "But especially I mention that _wonderful darkness_ on the 19th of - May inst. [1780]. Then, as in our text, the sun was darkened; such - a darkness as probably was never known before since the - crucifixion of our Lord. People left their work in the house and - in the field. Travelers stopped; schools broke up at eleven - o'clock; people lighted candles at noonday; and the fire shone as - at night. Some people, I have been told, were in dismay, and - thought whether the day of Judgment was not drawing on. A great - part of the following night also was singularly dark. The _moon, - though in the full, gave no light_, as in our text."--_From a - manuscript sermon by Rev. Elam Potter, delivered May 28, 1780._ - - -By the remarkable obscuration of the moon on the following night, the next -sign, "And the moon shall not give her light," was fulfilled. Concerning -this it is only necessary to insert a few words:-- - - - "The night succeeding that day (May 19, 1780) was of such pitchy - darkness that, in some instances, horses could not be compelled to - leave the stable when wanted for service. About midnight, the - clouds were dispersed, and the moon and stars appeared with - unimpaired brilliancy."--"_Stone's History of Beverly._" - - -Mr. Tenny, of Exeter, N. H., quoted by Mr. Gage, to the Historical -Society, speaking of the dark day and dark night of May 19, 1780, says:-- - - - "The darkness of the following evening was probably as gross as - has ever been observed since the Almighty first gave birth to - light. I could not help conceiving at the time, that if every - luminous body in the universe had been shrouded in impenetrable - darkness, or struck out of existence, the darkness could not have - been more complete. A sheet of white paper held within a few - inches of the eye was equally invisible with the blackest velvet." - - -Concerning a similar phenomenon in the Old World a reliable work says:-- - - - "Three years later, and Europe with its teeming millions went - under as mysterious a cloud, which, though not so dense, yet - continued longer and awoke a wonder and fear that was widely felt. - A haze, for which no known cause was then assigned (though in - subsequent years it has been supposed by some to have been - volcanic dust), spread through the entire breadth of the - atmosphere over all the continent far into Asia. It appeared in - Denmark, May 29, reached France, June 14; Italy, June 16; Norway, - June 22; Austria and Switzerland, June 23; Sweden, June 24; and - Russia, June 25. By the close of the month it had overspread like - a pall all Syria, and on July 18, had penetrated the heart of Asia - to the Altai Mountains. The obscurity prevailed a greater portion - of the summer, imparting to the sun an unnatural color of a dull, - rusty red, and causing both the days and nights to wear a weird - and gloomy aspect. The atmosphere was highly electric, and nature - was greatly convulsed. - - "Dr. N. Webster in his valuable 'History of Pestilences,' vol. ii. - p. 274, testifies to the general fear. As it was in America on the - occurrence of the 'dark day,' so the churches in Europe were - crowded with alarmed multitudes supplicating mercy of Heaven. - Professor Lalande, the astronomer of France, attempted to quiet - the popular fear by ascribing the darkened heavens to exhalations - arising out of the earth; but both Webster and Humboldt (Cosmos - IV., p. 75) rejected this solution of the mysterious obscurity. - Protestant England shared in the alarm it occasioned; and the poet - Cowper sang that all the elements 'preached the general doom.' It - was to this unaccountable obscuration of light that he refers in - his 'Task:'-- - - " 'Nature seems with dim and sickly eye - To wait the close of all.' " - - --"_Great Consummation._" - - - - -"And The Stars Shall Fall." - - -How this sign can be fulfilled is a query with some people, who, perhaps -captiously, remark that it would be impossible, since the earth itself is -but a small body compared with many of the vast worlds of space. But all -such queries are out of date now since the sign itself has already been -witnessed. On the night of November 13, 1833, the grandest display of -celestial fireworks ever beheld took place. From works of accepted -authority we take the following descriptions of this remarkable event:-- - - - "But the most sublime phenomenon of shooting stars, of which the - world has furnished any record, was witnessed throughout the - United States on the morning of the 13th of November, 1833. The - entire extent of this astonishing exhibition has not been - precisely ascertained; but it covered no inconsiderable portion of - the earth's surface.... The first appearance was that of fireworks - of the most imposing grandeur, covering the entire vault of heaven - with myriads of fire-balls, resembling sky-rockets. Their - coruscations were bright, gleaming, and incessant, and they fell - thick as the flakes in the early snows of December. To the - splendors of this celestial exhibition the most brilliant sky- - rockets and fire-works of art bear less relation than the - twinkling of the most tiny star to the broad glare of the sun. The - whole heavens seemed in motion, and suggested to some the awful - grandeur of the image employed in the Apocalypse, upon the opening - of the sixth seal, when 'the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, - even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken - of a mighty wind.' "--_Burritt's __"__Geography of the - Heavens,__"__ p. 163, ed. 1854._ - - - [Illustration] - - The Falling Stars. - - -A celebrated astronomer and meteorologist, says:-- - - - "Those who were so fortunate as to witness the exhibition of - shooting stars on the morning of Nov. 13, 1833, probably saw the - greatest display of celestial fire-works that has ever been since - the creation of the world, or at least within the annals covered - by the pages of history. - - "In nearly all places the meteors began to attract notice by their - unusual frequency as early as eleven o'clock, and increased in - numbers and splendor until about four o'clock, from which time - they gradually declined, but were visible until lost in the light - of day. The meteors did not fly at random over all parts of the - sky, but appeared to emanate from a point in the constellation - Leo, near a star called Gamma Leonis, in the bend of the - Sickle.... - - "The extent of the shower of 1833 was such as to cover no - inconsiderable part of the earth's surface, from the middle of the - Atlantic on the east to the Pacific on the west; and from the - northern coast of South America to undefined regions among the - British possessions on the north, the exhibition was visible, and - everywhere presented nearly the same appearance. This is no longer - to be regarded as a terrestrial but a celestial phenomenon, and - shooting stars are now to be no more viewed as casual productions - of the upper regions of the atmosphere, but as _visitants from - other worlds_, or from the planetary voids."--_Prof. Olmstead, of - Yale College._ - - "No philosopher or scholar has told or recorded an event, I - suppose, like that of yesterday morning. A prophet 1800 years ago - foretold it exactly, if we will be at the trouble of understanding - stars falling to mean falling stars; or '_hoi asteres tou ouranou - epesan eis teen geen_,' in the only sense in which it is possible - to be literally true."--_Henry Dana Ward, in Journal of Commerce, - Nov. 14, 1833._ - - -Not only here in Matthew 24 is attention directed to these signs as -premonitory of the coming of Christ. The Lord through the prophet Joel -says:-- - - - "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, - before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come." - - -Under the sixth seal, as given in Rev. 6:12-17, we have the following -language:-- - - - "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there - was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of - hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell - unto the earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when - she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a - scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island - were moved out of their places." - - -That the fourth and fifth seals apply to the papal persecution there can -be no reasonable doubt. If so, then the great earthquake with which the -sixth seal opens would be that of Lisbon, in 1755, which agitated the -greater part of the earth and destroyed many thousands of lives, 60,000 in -Lisbon alone. - -The darkening of the sun and moon follows in 1780, and the falling of the -stars in 1833. Consequently the next event which we are to expect under -this seal is the departing of the heavens as a scroll. This being future, -we may say that we are living between the thirteenth and fourteenth verses -of Revelation 6. - -In the gospel as written by Luke, however, we have at this point some -additional specifications given, which are of such interest at the present -juncture. And they rightfully belong to this exposition, since both -Matthew and Luke are giving versions of the same discourse. The passage -from Luke to which reference is made is the following:-- - - - "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the - stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; - the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, - and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: - for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." Luke 21:25-27. - - - [Illustration] - - Modern Cyclone. - - -The signs in the sun, moon, and stars are here spoken of less specifically -than by Matthew, while other features of the times, which Matthew does not -notice, are introduced between those signs and the shaking of the powers -of heaven. These are of peculiar interest to us because we are living in -the very days when the things that Luke speaks of are coming to pass. The -signs here predicted consist of violent commotions upon earth which cause -anxiety, perplexity, and distress among nations and in the hearts of men. -We may refer the expression, "the sea and the waves roaring," to unusual -disturbances of the natural elements, and we have the most abundant -evidences of its fulfillment in the storms and convulsions of nature that -are occurring by sea and land, filling the heart with dread at the sight -of every dark cloud that arises. The tidal waves and volcanic upheavals at -sea have, in the last two or three decades, been marked with extraordinary -violence. On land, cyclones and earthquakes have carried on a fearful work -of destruction. Many instances might be cited to substantiate this -statement, but the events are too familiar to require it. Hardly a week -passes but some great calamity of this kind is recorded. - -But the expression referred to is probably susceptible of another -application in which it will be found to be as forcible and pertinent to -the present state of affairs as in the one just noticed. This would be to -give the term "sea and waves" its symbolic meaning. The prophet of old -said: "And behold the four winds of heaven strove upon the great sea." -Dan. 7:2. We are told that the sea represents "peoples, and multitudes, -and nations, and tongues." Rev. 17:15. Taking the words in this sense, the -meaning and fulfillment are still as apparent as before; and the -expression joins its force to that of the remainder of the passage--"upon -the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves -roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those -things which are coming on the earth." In this sense the expression in -question would indicate commotion and violent disturbance in the social -and political world. In this meaning all will at once see the vivid force -of the text as applied to our times. - - [Illustration] - - Assassination of Carnot. - - -The times we live in are anomalous to any that have ever preceded us. For -some years there have been universal and active preparations for war, and -almost universal peace. To secure the greatest efficiency of armed forces -for defensive and offensive purposes, has been the prime consideration of -government, especially so, as far as the Old World nations are concerned. -Europe echoes to the tread of vast hosts of war while the nations are -driven to their wits' end to provide for their support. It is well known -that these costly preparations are not for show; and the hearts of men -quail in view of the culmination which, though delayed, must soon be -reached. - -But while the temple of Janus is closed as far as international strife is -concerned, and angel hands are holding the winds of war (see Rev. 7:1-3), -internal strife and dissension are rending the vitals of the great nations -of earth. Within the confines of its own border, each of these nations is -cherishing elements of the deadliest nature. Trouble is brewing that has -for the people far more terror than foreign complications. For some time -the ominous mutterings of an oncoming storm have been heard in every land, -and it requires no remarkable acumen to discern the rapid approach of the -crisis. - -The apostle James strikes directly at the matter in a prophetic glance and -exhortation in the following language:-- - - - "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that - shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments - are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of - them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as - it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. - Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, - which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them - which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of - Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; - ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have - condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you." James - 5:1-6. - - -The apostle locates the circumstances he here refers to in the last days. -He denounces the rich men who have heaped together treasures, the rust and -canker of which will be a witness against them. They live in pleasure and -wantonness while the cries of those whose wages they have kept back enter -into the ears of the Lord of Hosts. - -There is a universal cry of hard times in all the world. It is hard to -obtain money; and yet, there never was so much money as at present. But it -is being collected--gathered in heaps--by the powerful few, while the -limited means of the masses are dwindling lower and lower. The poorer -classes witness the absorption of wealth by the money-kings, with feelings -that are being aroused to the point of desperation by the sense of their -inability to secure what seems to them a more equitable distribution of -the things of this world. The laborers cry, and God hears their cry. - -That these things are taking place to-day as the most prominent feature of -our social life no one will for a moment deny. Such colossal fortunes the -world has heretofore at most but dreamed of. There are men living to-day -who have risen in wealth from obscure stations to become lords of untold -millions. Their wealth passes the bounds of just computation, for it -includes the power of oppression by which it may be indefinitely -increased. The lavish expenditure of these means for selfish pleasure -often amounts to wantonness. - -Well then, what is to be done? It is a difficult and delicate matter to -frame and secure legislation by which this or any other class of men shall -be deprived of the management of their own business as long as that -business is legitimate and is legitimately conducted. Shall anarchy and -violence be resorted to? Shall the laborer seize the torch and the weapons -of death? Shall the country be devastated by strikes, strife, and civil -war? Shall our communities be rent with murder, arson, treason, and -intense personal hatred and enmity? No one possessing the natural -instincts of humanity could contemplate such a condition of affairs except -with horror. There are ghouls of society who gloat in blood; but such are -not true citizens, they are not neighbors, they certainly are not -Christians. - -But what shall we do as citizens, neighbors, and Christians? This is a -question of great importance just now. Inspiration long ago foresaw our -situation. The pitying Saviour long since anticipated the sufferings that -are to come upon this generation; and having, through his servant, -outlined the present condition of affairs so closely, he certainly would -not leave his followers uninformed as to the course he would have them -pursue. We have to read only two verses farther in James's letter to find -the counsel we need. - - - "_Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord._ - Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the - earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early - and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; _for - the coming of the Lord draweth nigh_." James 5:7, 8. - - - [Illustration] - - Chicago Riot. - - -Oppression and revolt, combination and intrigue, strife and bloodshed, -never will cease until the supreme selfishness, which in the absence of -divine grace controls all men, gives place to true philanthropy, and a -brotherhood that is not outlined by class or sectional interests. This -happy time is coming. When Jesus comes, he will take to himself his power -and reign in righteousness. Then will the hills be brought low, the -valleys exalted, the crooked be made straight, and the rough places -smooth. - -Those who are weary of strife, those who through misfortune or oppression -have been made to feel their need of relief will find rest to their souls -in looking for the coming of the Lord. It is vain to match evil with evil -or to try to cure wrong with wrong. The gospel of Christ is the only -remedy for these ills. And all that we can really do to counteract the -annoyances of this life must be done through the gospel of peace. In this -time of perplexity, distress, and fear, let every Christian hold up -Christ. Let his patient suffering be exemplified in whatever circumstances -may come. Just a little beyond, there is relief. - -Strikes, boycotts, lock-outs, trusts, unions, or any other human device or -demonstration only augments the trouble, as the experience of the past few -years shows. For there never was so much of these things as now, and never -was capital so insecure, business so uncertain, and labor in such distress -as at present. The employment of arbitrary force provokes greater efforts -on the opposite side, and thus the breach is widened and the strife -becomes more bitter. We do not argue the merits or demerits of the case. -That there is deep wrong involved, the fruits plainly show. It is our task -only to point out the one remedy available alike to either and all. That -remedy is the gospel of Christ, which is soon to close in a glorious -triumph for those who have patiently and faithfully wrought his will. - - - - -"The Powers Of Heaven Shall Be Shaken." - - -We do not apprehend that this circumstance will occur as a sign of -Christ's coming, but rather that it will constitute one of the events of -his coming, the same as the features mentioned in the next verse. An -evident distinction may be drawn between the _signs_ of the advent and the -circumstances of it. With the falling of the stars, the former cease; and -with the next event the latter commence. This event, the shaking of the -powers of heaven, we must regard as being future. It holds the same place -in the events of this chapter, that the departing of the heavens as a -scroll does in the events of the sixth seal of Revelation 6. Both follow -the falling stars. The Scriptures plainly teach that, prior to the -resurrection of the just by the voice of the Son of God, the voice of God -the Father will shake the heavens and the earth, when will be fulfilled -the shaking of the powers of the heaven. This is not the voice of the Son -of God as he descends to raise the dead. It comes from the throne of God -in the temple of heaven. - - - "The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from - Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but the Lord - will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children - of Israel." Joel 3:16. - - "Therefore will I shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove - out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the - day of his fierce anger." Isa. 13:13. - - -Paul quotes from the words of the Lord by Haggai and comments as follows:-- - - - "Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And - this word, yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things - that are shaken." Heb. 12:26, 27. - - - - -"Sign Of The Son Of Man." - - -Neither is this one of the signs showing that the coming of the Son of man -is near, but "the sign of the Son of man in heaven." It is that which -indicates his position. When Christ ascended from the mount of Olivet, "a -cloud received him" from the sight of his disciples. They still gazed at -the cloud as it rolled upward, bearing the Saviour toward the Father's -throne but they could not see his person. When he comes "in like manner" -as he was taken up to heaven, the cloud will appear, small in the -distance, but as it draws near, it will signify to those who are looking -for his return, that he is there, and soon his presence will fill the -earth with matchless glory. In Rev. 14:14, the holy seer records his view -of the coming Saviour in the following words: "And I looked, and behold a -white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man." - -This is not a mass of vapor but a cloud of resplendent glory. He comes -"with power and great glory." He will "come in the glory of his Father" -(Matt. 16:27); in his own glory, "and all the holy angels with him." Matt. -25:31. The glory of the Father, of the Son, and of all the holy -angels--this glory will comprise the cloud which attends him on the way. Of -its intensity we can form no just conception. In the presence of one angel -the Roman guard "did quake and became as dead men." There are ten thousand -times ten thousand and thousands of thousands of them in this throng. -Above the brightness of their glory is that of the Father and the Son. - -At first the cloud is only perceptible, but as it approaches, it attracts -attention, and at length every eye is fastened intently upon the wonderful -spectacle. The trumpet resounds, the voice of the Archangel awakens the -dead, and they come forth to share in the glorious revelation of their -Redeemer. All nature is convulsed with her coming dissolution. Each moment -the glory draws nearer, and soon the wicked can no longer endure the -sight. - - - "And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall - see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and - great glory." Verse 30. - - -Again attention is directed to the parallel language of Rev. 6:15-47:-- - - - "And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, - and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bond man, - and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of - the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, - and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and - from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of his wrath is - come; and who shall be able to stand?" - - -The prophet Isaiah describes the same thrilling event from the other -standpoint--that of the waiting people of God:-- - - - "He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe - away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall - he take away from off all the earth; for the Lord hath spoken it. - And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have - waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have - waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." - Isa. 25:8, 9. - - -The apostle Paul gives a vivid description of the event with its attendant -circumstances as follows:-- - - - "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning - them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which - have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, - even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. - For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which - are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent - them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from - heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the - trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we - which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them - in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever - be with the Lord." 1 Thess. 4:13-17. - - -The once slighted, insulted, and crucified Saviour, now King of kings and -Lord of lords, is coming near the earth! His glory blazes everywhere! The -saints hope and rejoice with trembling. But what an hour for the wicked! -The tribes of the earth mourn. Amid the ruins of shivered creation they -hold one general prayer-meeting. Kings and great men, rich men, chief -captains and mighty men, free and bond, all, yes, all unite in the general -wail. As the Son of man in the glory of his Father, attended by all the -holy angels, draws still nearer, consternation fills every breast. They -hide in dens and in the rocks of the mountains. Their only hope is to be -concealed from the glory of that scene. They know it is too late to pray -for mercy, that probation for the human family has ended forever. - -But rocks cannot shelter them from the burning glory manifested by the -King of kings, attended by the whole heavenly host. When "the Son of man -shall come in the glory of the Father," "and all the holy angels with -him," no sinner can endure the scene and live. The exceeding brightness of -that vast multitude of angels, brighter than a thousand suns at noonday, -will pierce the sinner's lowest hiding place, and will "make even a speedy -riddance of all them that dwell in the land." Zeph. 1:18. The Son of man -will be seen "coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." -But before his coming a great work will be done for his people. Should he -suddenly burst upon them now, they could not endure "the power and great -glory" of the scene. This subject is well illustrated by the following -words of the prophet:-- - - - "Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord; his going - forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the - rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." Hosea 6:3. - - -The morning is a beautiful figure of the opening glory of the day of God. -The day-star first appears, then the dawn of day. And as the light of day -increases, the eyes are enabled to endure it, and view the sun shining in -his strength. But should the light of the sun burst upon the world -suddenly at midnight, no human eye could endure it. - -So will the people of God be prepared to meet their coming King. They must -first break away from the love and cares of this world, and consecrate all -to the Lord. Then will they, in due time, share the outpouring of the Holy -Spirit "as the rain, as the latter and former rain upon the earth." The -day-star will arise in their hearts. 2 Peter 1:19. Those who have taken -heed to the sure word of prophecy through the dark, watching night, then -raise their heads in triumph. They are filled with faith and with the Holy -Spirit. Glory is poured upon them till they can gaze on Christ and angels. -The trumpet sounds. The angels are dispatched to the graves of the -righteous. The voice of the Son of God awakes the sleeping saints of all -ages. They come forth in immortal perfection and, as they leave the earth, -the living saints are changed. The "elect from one end of heaven to the -other," each with an angel bright and strong to lead the way, are caught -up to meet the Lord, who waits in mid-heaven to receive the purchase of -his blood. As language would fail to describe what follows, we leave the -reader to contemplate it, praying that we may be prepared to participate -in the meeting scene. - - - - -Parable Of The Fig-Tree. - - - VERSES 32, 33: "Now learn a parable of the fig-tree; when his - branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer - is nigh. So likewise ye when ye shall see all these things, know - that it ['he,' R. V.] is near, even at the doors." - - -This parable is probably the most forcible figure that could be used with -which to illustrate this subject. When the trees of the field begin to put -forth their leaves, and the tender grass springs up, and the ground is -being covered with its green velvet carpet, we know that summer is nigh. -It is a certainty with us that summer is coming when we see these signs in -nature. We know that summer is nigh "_So, likewise_," or, with the same -certainty, we may _know_ that Christ's coming is near when the signs in -the sun, moon, and stars are fulfilled. How near?--Even at the doors. How -near may that be? - - - VERSE 34: "Verily I say unto you. This generation shall not pass, - till all these things be fulfilled." - - -It is sometimes claimed that the generation spoken of was the one then -living. If so, it could have been to no greater extent than referring to -the answer of the question relating to the destruction of Jerusalem. But -it would be wholly illogical to limit the application of the statement to -that generation or to place its principal significance there. "All these -things" must include the signs and circumstances of which Christ has been -speaking. In the preceding verses he gives the parable of the fig-tree, -and addresses those who are to be living at that time directly. "So -likewise _ye_, when _ye_ shall see all these things, _know_ that it is -near." And then, "_This_ generation shall not pass." What generation? -Evidently the one which he was addressing, and which saw "these things -come to pass." Not only does such an interpretation do no violence to the -Saviour's meaning, but it is obviously the only one that can be reasonably -entertained in regard to it. - -Paul speaks in the first person of those who will be living when Jesus -comes, for he says, "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, -in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump." 1 Cor. 15:51, -52. Or, "Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together -with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air." 1 Thess. 4:17. The -things here mentioned by the apostle did not take place in his day. They -have not yet taken place. Notwithstanding, he speaks of them as though -they would take place in his day, and as if he were to have a part in -them. - -The proclamation of the coming and kingdom of Christ is given to the last -generation. God sent Noah to preach to the last generation before the -flood, not to any preceding one. The very generation which was destroyed -by the waters of the flood saw Noah build the ark, and heard his warning -voice. So God has raised up men to give the solemn warning to the world at -the right time to give force to the warning. And the very generation of -men that live after the three great signs are fulfilled, and who hear and -reject the warning message of Heaven, will drink the cup of the unmingled -wrath of God. And those of this very generation who receive the message, -suffer disappointments, and endure the trials of the waiting position, -will witness the coming of Christ, and exclaim, "Lo, this is our God; we -have _waited_ for him, and he will save us." Isa. 25:9. - -With what emphasis our Lord gave utterance to this sentiment! It is a -rebuke upon our unbelief. As we read it, God help us to believe it: -"Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these -things be fulfilled." And as though this were not enough to lead us to -unwavering faith, he adds these forcible words: "Heaven and earth shall -pass away but my words shall not pass away." - -The word and promises of men may fail; but Christ has given assurance that -his word, and his word in reference to this solemn truth, will stand -though heaven and earth fail. - - - - -"The Day And Hour." - - - VERSES 36, 37: "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not - the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe - were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." - - -This has become a very familiar passage of scripture because of the -frequent use that is made of it to prove that nothing can be known of the -proximity of the second coming of Christ. But if we pause a moment and lay -beside this verse those we have just studied, we shall be able to discover -the exact truth at once. "When ye shall see these things, know that it is -near even at the doors;" and, "This generation shall not pass, till all -these things be fulfilled;" "But of that day and hour knoweth no man." The -line of knowledge, then, lies between the former expressions and the -latter--between "even at the doors" and the definite day and hour. The -former we may know, and every Christian is commanded to know. The latter -no man knoweth. One may consistently say that he knows an event is near, -and yet say that he does not know the hour nor the day when it will take -place. That this is the scriptural teaching upon this point may be readily -proved by a reference to 1 Thess. 5:1-4:-- - - - "But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that - I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of - the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall - say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, - as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But - ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake - you as a thief." - - -An evident distinction is here drawn between two classes. Upon one class -the day of the Lord will come as a thief. Those of the other are not in -darkness that that day should come as a thief upon them. The children of -God are children of light. Their heavenly Father knows the end from the -beginning, and he has promised to reveal his secret to his people through -his servants the prophets. Amos 3:7. - -The apostle Peter also bears testimony to the same truth. - - - "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well - that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, - until the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts." 2 Peter - 1:19. - - -The dark place here spoken of is the future. The past is lighted up by -history, the present is brought to our knowledge by press and telegraph; -but the future no human art or wisdom can penetrate. Prophecy throws its -gleam into those dark regions, yet unexplored, and marks out the path of -human history centuries and ages before it has echoed to the footsteps of -mankind. When at last we pass along the pathway, we may, if we will, -recognize the waymarks set up here and there, every one of which is a -monument to the wisdom and knowledge of God, and the faithfulness of his -word. Those who have no eyes to discern these things, no ears to hear, nor -hearts to understand their significance, will pass on, and the final event -will come upon them unawares. Not so with those who take heed to the -things God has spoken. - -We would not detract an iota from the force of the verse under -consideration. It means all it says. No man knows the definite time of -Christ's coming. The day and hour, and even the year of the second advent -are purposely hidden. Some of the prophetic periods reach to the time of -the end, while others extend still farther down, very near to the end -itself; yet none of them reach to the coming of the Son of man. The -prophecies clearly point to the period of the second advent, but do not -give the definite time of that event. - -But with this passage before us we may claim that it would be transcending -its meaning to claim upon its authority that nothing should or could be -known of the approach of Christ's coming. More than that, it is not -inconsistent with the text nor improbable that prior to that event the -Lord will in his own way reveal that which has hitherto been withheld. -Those who claim that the text proves that nothing may be known of the -period of the second advent, make it prove too much for their own -unbelief. As recorded by Mark, the declaration reads: "But of that day and -that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in Heaven, neither -the Son, but the Father." If the text proves that men will know nothing of -the period of the second advent, it also proves that angels will know -nothing of it, and also that the Son will know nothing of it, till the -event takes place! This position proves too much, therefore proves nothing -to the point. Christ will know of the period of his second advent to this -world. The holy angels who wait around the throne of heaven to receive -messages relative to the part they act in the salvation of men, will know -of the time of this closing event of salvation. And so will the waiting, -watching people of God understand. An old English version of the passage -reads, "But that day and hour no man maketh known, neither the angels -which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." This is the correct -reading, according to several of the ablest critics of the age. The word -_know_ is used in the same sense here that it is by Paul in 1 Cor. 2:2: -"For I determined not to know [make known] anything among you, save Jesus -Christ and him crucified." Men will not make known the day and hour, -angels will not make it known, neither will the Son; but the Father will -make it known. Says Campbell:-- - - - "Macknight argues that the term _known_ is here used as a - causative, in the Hebrew sense of the conjugation _hiphil_, that - is, _to make known_.... His [Christ's] answer is just equivalent - to saying, The Father will make it known when it pleases him; but - he has not authorized man, angel, or the Son to make it known. - Just in this sense, Paul uses the term _know_, 1 Cor. 2:2: 'I came - to you _making known_ the testimony of God; for I determined to - _make known_ nothing among you but a crucified Christ.' " - - -Albert Barnes, in his "Notes on the Gospels," says:-- - - - "Others have said that the verb rendered _knoweth_ means sometimes - to _make_ known, or to reveal, and that the passage means, 'that - day and hour none maketh known, neither the angels, nor the Son, - but the Father.' It is true the word has sometimes that meaning, - as 1 Cor. 2:2." - - -When the patriarch's work of warning and building was finished, God said -to him, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." "For yet seven days -and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights." -So when the waiting, watching, weeping, toiling time shall be finished, -and the saints shall all be sealed, and shut in with God, then, we -conclude, will the voice of the Father from heaven make known the definite -time. See Rev. 16:17; Joel 3:16; Jer. 25:30. - -The present is emphatically the waiting, watching time. It is the especial -period of the patience of the saints. The Lord appeals to us thus:-- - - - "Watch ye, therefore; for ye know not when the Master of the house - cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the - morning; lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say - unto you I say unto all, Watch." Mark 13:35-37. - - -One of the fatal consequences of not watching is distinctly stated in Rev. -3:3:-- - - - "If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a - thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee." - - -In consequence of not watching, the people will remain in ignorance of the -approach of that hour. And the unavoidable inference is that by watching -they will be aware of and prepared for its coming. In answer to the -agonizing prayer of the Son of God, "Father, glorify thy name," there came -a voice from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify -it again." The disciples understood these words from heaven, while the -people that stood by said it thundered. John 12:27-29. So will the waiting -disciples of Christ understand the voice of God when he shall speak from -on high. But the unbelieving world will not understand it. In comparing -Noah's days and ours, the Lord continues:-- - - - - -Noah's Time And Ours. - - - VERSES 38, 39: "For as in the days that were before the flood, - they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, - until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until - the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming - of the Son of man be." - - -A picture of the present condition of the mass of mankind is here drawn. -The people of the last generation will be like those before the flood, -while the ark was preparing. While Noah preached, and warned them of the -coming flood, they mocked. He built the ark; and they scoffed and jeered. -He was a preacher of righteousness. His works were calculated to give edge -to, and send home to the heart, what he preached. Every righteous sermon, -and every blow struck in building the ark, condemned a careless, scoffing -world. As the time drew nearer, the people grew more careless, more -hardened, more bold and impudent, and their condemnation surer. Noah and -his family stood alone. And could one family know more than all the world? -The ark was a matter of ridicule, and Noah was regarded as a willful -bigot. - -But the Lord calls Noah into the ark. And by the hand of Providence the -beasts are led into the ark; and the Lord shuts Noah in. This is regarded -at first by the scoffing multitude as something wonderful; but it is soon -explained away by the wiser ones, so as to calm their fears, and they -breathe easier. - -The day of expectation finally arrives. The sun rises as usual, and the -heavens are clear. "Now where is old Noah's flood?" is heard from a -thousand impious lips. The farmer is caring for his herds and lands, and -the mechanic is pursuing his work of building. On this very day, some are -being joined in marriage. With many it is a day of unusual feasting and -sports. And while all are looking to long years of future prosperity and -happiness, suddenly the heavens gather blackness. Fear fills every heart. -The windows of heaven open, and the rain descends in torrents. "The -fountains of the great deep are broken up," and here and there come -gushing up rivers of water. The valleys are fast filling up, and thousands -are swept away in death. Awful death! made still more horrible by being in -consequence of slighted mercy! But where is Noah? Ah! safe in the ark, -borne upon the billows. Safe from the flood, for God "shut him in." - -By some people, the evidences of the soon coming of Christ are considered -insufficient to base faith upon. But the testimony and acts of one man in -the case of Noah, condemned the people destroyed by the flood. The -evidences then were sufficient, otherwise the world would not have been -condemned. But a hundred times more convincing evidences come pouring in -upon us that the day of the Lord is near, and hasteth greatly. We follow -down the several prophetic chains of Daniel and of the Revelation, and we -find ourselves in every instance standing just before the day of wrath. We -see the signs spoken of by prophets, by Christ, and by the apostles, -fulfilling or fulfilled. And at the right time, and in the right manner, -to fulfill certain prophecies, a solemn message arises in different parts -of the world: "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy -mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the -Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand." Joel 2:1. Wherever we look, we see -prophecy fulfilling. While the knowledge of God and the spirit of holiness -are departing, spiritual wickedness, like a flood, covers the land. - -But these evidences are considered insufficient to rest faith upon. Well, -what kind of evidence would the unbelieving have? "When the signs of the -end," says the skeptic, "are fulfilled, they will be so plain that no one -can doubt." But if the signs are of such a nature, and are fulfilled in -such a manner, as to compel all to believe in the coming of Christ, how -can it be as it was in the days of Noah? Men were not then compelled to -believe. But eight believing souls were saved, while all the world besides -sank in their unbelief beneath the waters of the flood. God has never -revealed his truth to man in a manner to compel him to believe. Those who -have wished to doubt his word, have found a wide field in which to doubt, -and a broad road to perdition; while those who have wished to believe, -have ever found an everlasting rock upon which to rest their faith. - -Just before the end, the world will be hardened in sin, and indifferent to -the claims of God. Men will be careless in regard to the warnings of -danger, and blinded by cares, pleasures, and riches. An unbelieving -generation will be eating, drinking, marrying, building, planting, and -sowing. It is right to eat and drink to sustain nature, but the sin is in -excess and gluttony. The marriage covenant is holy, but God's glory is -seldom thought of. Building, planting, and sowing, necessary for -convenient shelter, food, and clothing, are right; but the world has gone -wholly after these things, so that men have no time nor disposition to -think of God, heaven, Christ's coming, and the Judgment. This world is -their god, and all their energies of body and mind are made to serve it. -And the evil day is put far away. - -The faithful watchman who sounds the alarm as he sees destruction coming, -is held up before the people from the pulpits of our land, and by the -religious press, as a fanatic, a teacher of dangerous heresies; while in -contrast is set forth a long period of peace and prosperity to the church. -So the churches are quieted to sleep. The scoffer continues to scoff, and -the mocker mocks on. But that day is coming. Thus saith the prophet of -God:-- - - - "Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a - destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all hands be faint, - and every man's heart shall melt. And they shall be afraid; pangs - and sorrows shall take hold of them.... Behold, the day of the - Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the - land desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of - it." Isa. 13:6-9. - - - [Illustration] - - The Day of Wrath. - - -Most dreadful day! and is it near?--Yes; it hasteth! It hasteth greatly! -What a description given by the prophet! Read it; and as you read, try to -realize how dreadful will be that day:-- - - - "The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth - greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man - shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of - trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of - darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day - of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against - the high towers. And I will bring distress upon men, that they - shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the - Lord; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh - as the dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to - deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land - shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he shall make - even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land." Zeph. - 1:14-18. - - - - -Peace And Safety. - - -The attitude of the religious world toward this most important subject is -worthy of more than passing notice both because of its effect upon the -cause of truth and also because it of itself is a sign of the times. While -it is true that many individuals in the different Christian denominations -recognize with more or less distinctness the fact that we are living in -the last days, with many of these it does not become a practical truth. -Outside of these there are many who ridicule the idea as preposterous and -outlandish; and in opposition to the message that Christ is soon coming, -raise the cry of, "Peace, peace, when there is no peace." Such teaching is -alluded to by the prophet in Eze. 13:10, 11. - -The groundwork of the peace and safety cry is the doctrine of the temporal -millennium. This teaches that the world is now entering, or about to enter -upon a period of universal peace and good will, that the moral tone of the -world is improving, men and nations are learning righteousness; and the -gospel of Christ is about to become the controlling principle in public -and private life. And, further, this happy state will continue for one -thousand years, which period of time the word millennium literally -signifies. At the end of that time, perhaps, the Lord will come. However, -if this doctrine be true, it will make but little difference to this -generation or to the one living at the close of the period whether he does -or not. The verses we have just considered which liken the last days to -those of Noah wholly disprove this position. In addition to what Matthew -states, Luke gives a still more forcible version of our Saviour's words:-- - - - "And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days - of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, - they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into - the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also - as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they - bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day - that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from - heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day - when the Son of man is revealed." Luke 17:26-30. - - -Paul writes in his epistles to Timothy as follows:-- - - - "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some - shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and - doctrines of devils." 1 Tim. 4:1. - - "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. - For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, - proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, - without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, - incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, - heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; - having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from - such turn away." 2 Tim. 3:1-5. - - "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, - and being deceived." Verse 13. - - -In very many scriptures it is plainly declared that when Christ comes, he -comes not only to reward and save his people but also to punish his -enemies. Looking upon the last days he exclaims, "Nevertheless when the -Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8. The idea -of a thousand years of peace and righteousness before Christ comes might -be dismissed as utterly out of the question. But space will be given to -one or two passages supposed to teach it, which will represent the whole -class. The first and chief is found in Isa. 2:2-4:-- - - - "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of - the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, - and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow - unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go - up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; - and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: - for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord - from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall - rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into - ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not - lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any - more." - - -Almost the same language is used in Micah 4:1-3. It is enough to call -attention to the authorship of the propositions contained in the text. -They come from the people. "Many people shall go and say, Come ye," etc. -Inspiration asserts that in the last days the mountain or power of the -Lord's house or church shall be established in the tops of the mountains, -or civil power. Undoubtedly it will. Everything is tending to the union of -Church and State and the professed church of Christ is riding on a high -tide to civil power in all lands. But farewell to godliness and spiritual -power. When this is accomplished, in a general chorus all will proclaim -the dawning millennium. - -How the Lord regards the people who are saying these things is shown in -the succeeding verses:-- - - - "Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, - because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers - like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children - of strangers. Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither - is there any end of their treasures; their land also is full of - horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: their land - also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, - that which their own fingers have made." Isa. 2:6-8. - - -Now let us see what God says on the same point and concerning the same -time:-- - - - "Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; prepare war, wake up the - mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: - beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into - spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and - come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: - thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. Let the - heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for - there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in - the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the - press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. - Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of - the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon - shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The - Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from - Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord - will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children - of Israel." Joel 3:9-16. - - -Mark, this is not what the people say, but what the Lord says of the very -same time when the people are preaching a good time coming. - -Another verse referred to, and representing quite a numerous class of -similar ones, is found in Num. 14:21. - - - "But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the - glory of the Lord." - - -There is no occasion to modify or limit the meaning of those words; for -their utmost significance will be realized. But when?--When sin and the -curse are wiped away. After the purifying fires of the day of the Lord -have burned up the last work and relic of rebellion, and the earth made -new in Edenic glory comes again from the hand of its Maker, as beautiful, -yea, more beautiful, if possible, than at first. It would not be within -the limits of this pamphlet to follow out this subject, but the reader is -referred to the following scriptures: Isa. 65:17-22; 2 Peter 3:13; -Revelation 21 and 22, and to published works. - -In that state this and all kindred scriptures will meet a fulfillment that -is ample and complete. But for such a condition of things this side of the -coming of Christ neither the Bible nor the trend of events give any -promise whatever. - -Judging of the probability of the conversion of the world from the facts, -it would seem to be far from striking. The following table gives a -comparatively accurate showing of the present religious status of the -world:-- - -Jews and Parsees 15,470,000 -Greek Catholics 84,136,000 -Protestants 114,815,500 -Brahminical Hindoos 120,000,000 -Mohammedans 122,400,000 -Roman Catholics 255,000,000 -Pagans 227,000,000 -Buddhists 482,000,000 -Unclassified 51,050,000 - -Concerning the very small proportion of this number classed in the list of -Christians, Bishop Foster has very aptly said:-- - - - "There are some who too fondly anticipate a millennium. There is a - lack of information on the progress of Christianity. The facts are - misstated daily in pulpits all over the country. Ministers - hesitate to present the worst side for fear of causing - discouragement, and they create hopes that are never realized. We - are not at the dawn of a millennium. Compared with the work to be - done, the past is nothing. Our children's children for ten - generations to come must labor harder than we are doing, to - accomplish the conversion of the world. The world's population is - 1,500,000,000. Of these, Christians number less than a third; and - half of that third belongs to the Roman Catholic Church. The - Protestants number 114,000,000. They are divided into 500 sects. - And this number of their strength includes, also, all the thieves, - ex-convicts, the debased, besotted, and the speckled and streaked - in Christendom."--_Northwestern Christian Advocate of Dec. 2, - 1885._ - - -Farther on in the same article the Bishop said:-- - - - "Before us we have the great problem--the 1,100,000,000 of pagans - to convert to Christianity. That is the solid rock that looms up - in our path. Look at it; see what work has been done in 1800 - years, and how much is yet to be accomplished. In India, after - more than a hundred years of mission work, we have 600,000 native - converts and 2,000,000 Christians among 260,000,000 heathen. Can - we remove that solid boulder that is as old as the hills?... Our - Methodist Church we think the most divine and ineffable. We boast - that we are going to conquer the world, and come from our palaces - and princely farms to subscribe fifty cents a head for the - undertaking! It is a burning disgrace that excites pity and - disgust." - - -And as to the prospects for universal peace, the following recent -statement of the armament of Europe does not indicate that the nations are -really contemplating such a happy consummation:-- - -Russia: 1,519,810 men, 181,000 horses, 2,084 cannon -Germany: 835,000 men, 96,000 horses, 2,022 cannon -Austria: 856,980 men, 58,125 horses, 1,600 cannon -England: 478,800 men -France: 1,850,000 men - -The remaining states of Europe make up with the above a total of about -6,000,000 men. - - - - -The Final Separation. - - - VERSES 40, 41: "Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be - taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the - mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left." - - -This language shows the final separation between the righteous and the -wicked. There is no elaborate explanation as to how the circumstances will -meet their fulfillment, but that is not the essential force of the text. -The line will in some cases be drawn between those who are intimately -related. Some members of the same family will be taken away by the -judgments of God, while others will be left to receive their coming Lord. - - - - -Those Who Watch Will Know The Time. - - - VERSES 42-44: "Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your - Lord doth come. But know this, that if the good man of the house - had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have - watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. - Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not - the Son of man cometh." - - -The injunction to watchfulness is repeatedly given by our Saviour in -connection with his teaching in reference to his second advent. These -injunctions must apply especially to those who live in proximity to that -event. This fact is convincing evidence that the Lord is not displeased -with those who anticipate his coming, and study the word in reference to -it. No one watches for that which he does not expect, and indifference or -aversion toward the coming of Christ is sure evidence of coldness toward -Christ himself. If we love Jesus, we shall love his appearing and if we -love his appearing, we shall be eagerly watching and waiting for it. But -if we knew the hour when he would come, we should not watch for his -coming, nor could we with eagerness expect his coming if we had no -knowledge of its approach. The course of time has been measured off in -definite periods down to the beginning of the present generation. The time -from the end of the prophetic periods to the coming of Christ is -emphatically the waiting, watching time. Those who watch, as our Lord -commands, will eventually know the time. No man will make it known, for it -is not revealed to man in the Scriptures. Angels will not make it known, -though they may minister to, and communicate with, the children of men. -Neither will the Son. But the Father will make it known when he speaks -again from heaven. - -It is undoubtedly true that the unscriptural and irrational course pursued -by many so-called Adventists in repeatedly setting a time of their own for -the Lord to come has had the effect to disgust many with the whole matter. -This is the enemy's work. He will seek thus to obscure each truth by -bringing it into the shadow of reproach. But it is unwise to be thus -misled. Probably there is no prophecy that better describes the present -state of unbelief in the world in regard to the second advent, caused -partly by fanatical time-movements, than the following:-- - - - "Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of - Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? - Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God: I will make this - proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in - Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of - every vision. For there shall be no more any vain vision nor - flattering divination within the house of Israel. For I am the - Lord: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to - pass; it shall be no more prolonged, for in your days, O - rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith - the Lord God." Eze. 12:22-25. - - -The burden of this prophecy is time; therefore the word here mentioned -that the Lord will speak, will be the time. Rev. 3:3, is also to the -point:-- - - - "Remember, therefore, how thou hast received and heard, and hold - fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come - on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come - upon thee." - - -Those who do not watch, will not know the hour. Those who watch will know -the hour. - -The present watching, waiting position requires much faith and patience. -Says Paul:-- - - - "Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which hath great - recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye - have done the will of God [in proclaiming the coming of Christ], - ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that - shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live - by faith; but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure - in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but - of them that believe to the saving of the soul." Heb. 10:35-39. - - -Says James: "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. -Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and -hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be -ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord draweth -nigh." James 5:7, 8. - -Jesus says: "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will -keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world -to try them that dwell upon the earth." Rev. 3:10. - -The present position and present duty of God's people are defined in Rev. -14:12: "Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the -commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." - - - - -The Faithful And Wise Servant. - - - VERSES 45-47: "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his - lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due - season? Blessed is that servant whom his lord when he cometh shall - find so doing. Verily I say unto you, that he shall make him ruler - over all his goods." - - -In this figure, Christ is represented as the Lord of the household of -faith (see Mark 13:35; Heb. 3:6), leaving his house, and committing the -work of caring for his church to his servants. A blessing is promised -those servants who are found faithfully discharging this duty when their -Lord comes. They are to feed the flock of God, over whom the Holy Ghost -hath made them overseers. Acts 20:28. They must preach the word. 2 Tim. -4:2. They should watch for souls as they that must give account. Heb. -13:17. They will not only give meat to the household, but they will give -it in due season. They will preach the _present_ truth. - -And meat in due season when Christ's coming draws near, will be the gospel -of the kingdom. Verse 14. It will embrace warnings, instructions, and -encouragements pertaining to a message that is designed and adapted to -prepare the world for so solemn an event. Suppose, for a moment, that when -Noah had received his message of the coming flood to give to the world, he -had reasoned with worldly wisdom that as such a thing never had occurred, -and from all appearances seemed very unlikely to occur, and hence to -preach it would subject him to reproach, it would be better to avoid any -particular allusion to such an unwelcome subject. His preaching seemed to -excite only ridicule. He could retain his own private convictions and -preach the ordinary principles of righteousness, saying, "Do not so, my -brethren." And if the people were only prepared for the flood, that would -be all that would be necessary. Of such a course we can say two things. He -would thus have proved very unfaithful to his trust, and the blood of his -fellow-men would have been upon him; and he would have done just as -thousands are doing now. He certainly would not have represented the -faithful and wise servant. So it is now. A solemn responsibility is placed -upon the watchmen:-- - - - "Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto - them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the - land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: - if when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the - trumpet, and warn the people; then whosoever heareth the sound of - the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take - him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound - of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. - But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the - watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the - people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from - among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I - require at the watchman's hand. So thou, O son of man, I have set - thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt - hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me." Eze. 33:2-7. - - -When Jesus comes, the faithful servants will be found proclaiming his -coming and teaching the necessary preparation. The Saviour speaks of such -as "faithful and wise." - -1. He is faithful. As a faithful watchman, he will give timely warning -when he sees the sword coming. His work just before the end, is seen in -the following scriptures:-- - - - "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy - mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day - of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand." Joel 2:1. - - "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show - my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins." - Isa. 58:1. - - "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, - who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his - kingdom, Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; - reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and doctrine. For - the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but - after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, - having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the - truth, and shall be turned into fables. But watch thou in all - things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make - full proof of thy ministry." 2. Tim. 4:1-5. - - -2. He is wise. "He that winneth souls is wise." He must be wise. He will -hold forth the truth in its harmony and beauty, and thus expose error and -win men to the truth. When it becomes his duty to "reprove and rebuke," it -will be at a proper time and place, and then with all "long-suffering and -doctrine." He will study to show himself "approved unto God, a workman -that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 -Tim. 2:15. - - - - -The Evil Servant. - - - VERSES 48-51: "But and if that evil servant shall say in his - heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his - fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; the lord - of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, - and in an hour that he is not aware of; and shall cut him asunder, - and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be - weeping and gnashing of teeth." - - -What the evil servant says and does, shows most clearly the position and -work of the faithful and wise servant. The evil servant says, "My lord -delayeth his coming," because the faithful servant is proclaiming the -coming of his lord. The evil servant smites the faithful servant, because -he teaches the soon coming of his Lord. The faithful servant, true to his -commission to preach the "gospel of the kingdom" to a fallen church and a -scoffing world, toils on, and for this the evil servant smites him. Not -with the fist, perhaps, but with the tongue of obloquy and reproach. That -there should be professed servants of Christ engaged in smiting those who -are faithfully warning the world, need not cause surprise in view of the -past, but must cause sorrow in the heart of every lover of truth. The -wicked servant says in heart, and some are saying with their lips, The -Lord is not coming. The world is now just starting out upon its career of -knowledge and enjoyment. Where is the promise or indication of his coming? -Some say, He may come to-night, he may not come in a million years, thus -neutralizing the truth. Such men will be found criticising and discounting -the Scriptures and subjecting them to the tests of human philosophy and -science. The only safety for the people is to look beyond such watchmen. -Let them take the Bible for themselves, and there discerning the truth, -embrace it, and live according to it. - - - - - -CONCLUSION. - - -The impression prevails to some extent that he who teaches that Christ is -soon coming is acting the _rle_ of an alarmist. If so, we have seen that -the great Teacher has placed himself at the head of the class. No one has -spoken more positively upon this point than he has done. He said, "In my -Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told -you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for -you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, -there ye may be also." John 14:2, 3. There is nothing ambiguous about that -language. A child can understand it. It means that Jesus will come again. -In the remarkable chapter we have here reviewed, the Saviour takes up the -subject specifically, and not only affirms the fact of his coming, but -foretells in explicit language the events which he would have us recognize -as signs of the near approach of his coming and the end of the world. - -But the message of Christ's second coming is not sensational in its -essential character. It is a solemn, practical truth. It is full of -warning and admonition to sinners and worldly professors, and full of -comfort to the faithful followers of Christ. It is spoken of in the -Scriptures as a fact, established upon the word which never fails. When -speaking of his second advent, the Saviour said, "Heaven and earth shall -pass away, but my word shall not pass away." Matt. 24:35. To disbelieve in -his coming would be to doubt one of the two great features of the gospel -plan. What the harvest is to seed-time, Christ's second advent will be to -his first. To doubt that he ever came to earth would be to subvert the -gospel. To disbelieve his second coming would nullify in the mind his -first coming, and rob the sacrifice of its glorious reward. - -The apostle Paul speaks of the second advent as "that blessed hope." Titus -2:13. Jesus says: "And when these things [the signs of his coming] begin -to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption -draweth nigh." The prophet Isaiah anticipates the feelings of God's people -who will witness the event, and expresses them in the following manner: -"And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for -him, and he will save us: This is the Lord; we have waited for him, we -will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." Isa. 25:9. - -At his coming, the dead in Christ will be raised to everlasting life. The -righteous living will be changed to immortality. The hand of our Saviour -will wipe away all tears; "there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, -nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things -are passed away." - -Why should we not rejoice in such a prospect? Who would not welcome such a -friend? Who would not rejoice in the prospect of such a consummation? - -But it is true that the grand event will not be attended with joy alone. -There will be dismay and anguish. For while one prophet records the -exclamations of joyful anticipation, another has foreseen and recorded the -cry of despair. "And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the -rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, -and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the -mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us -from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the -Lamb: for the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to -stand?" Rev. 6:15-17. A vast number will thus lament. All who cannot join -the shout of welcome will unite in the wail of despair. There will be but -two classes in that day. And to one of those classes each one living will -belong. To which shall I belong? Solemn question. To which party will you -belong, reader? No one can _wait_ for Christ who is not prepared for his -coming. Only the precious blood of Jesus that cleanses from sin can -prepare us to receive him and fit us to dwell in his presence. Have you an -interest in his forgiving love? 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margin-bottom: 1.2em"> + <span style="font-size: 120%" + >An Exposition of Matthew Twenty-Four</span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em"> + By + </p> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="margin-bottom: 1.44em; text-align: center" + > + <span style="font-size: 144%">James Springer White</span> + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center"> + Revised and Illustrated + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center"> + <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: center" + >“What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the + world?”</span + >—<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center" + ><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Disciples</span></span + >. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: center" + >“When ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even + at the doors.”</span + >—<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center" + ><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Jesus</span></span + >. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center"> + Eleventh Edition. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center"> + Review and Herald Publishing Co. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em"> + Battle Creek, Mich. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em"> + 1895 + </p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-top: 5em; margin-bottom: 5em"> + <h1 + class="tei tei-head" + style="text-align: left; margin-top: 3.46em; margin-bottom: 3.46em" + > + <span style="font-size: 173%">Contents</span> + </h1> + <ul class="tei tei-index tei-index-toc"> + <li><a href="#toc1">Introductory.</a></li> + <li><a href="#toc3">Christ's Prophecy.</a></li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc5">Persecution And False Prophets.</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc7">Iniquity Abounds.</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc9">The End.</a></li> + <li><a href="#toc11">When Shall These Things Be?</a></li> + <li><a href="#toc13">What Shall Be The Sign Of Thy Coming?</a></li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc15">Shortened For The Elect's Sake.</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc17">Lo, Here, And Lo, There.</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc19">The Signs Of Christ's Coming.</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc21">“And The Stars Shall Fall.”</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc23">“The Powers Of Heaven Shall Be Shaken.”</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc25">“Sign Of The Son Of Man.”</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc27">Parable Of The Fig-Tree.</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc29">“The Day And Hour.”</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc31">Noah's Time And Ours.</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc33">Peace And Safety.</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc35">The Final Separation.</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc37">Those Who Watch Will Know The Time.</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc39">The Faithful And Wise Servant.</a> + </li> + <li style="margin-left: 2em"> + <a href="#toc41">The Evil Servant.</a> + </li> + <li><a href="#toc43">Conclusion.</a></li> + <li><a href="#toc45">Choice Religious Books.</a></li> + </ul> + </div> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-body" style="margin-top: 6em; margin-bottom: 6em"> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5em; margin-top: 5em"> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 60%; text-align: center"> + <a href="images/cover.jpg" + ><img alt="Book Cover" src="images/cover.jpg" + /></a> + </div> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page002">[pg 002]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg002"></a> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-top: 5em; margin-bottom: 5em"> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 50%; text-align: center"> + <a href="images/frontis.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/frontis.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center; margin-top: 1em" + > + The Light of the World + </div> + </div> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page005">[pg 005]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg005"></a> + <hr class="page" /> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5em; margin-top: 5em"> + <a id="toc1"></a> <a id="pdf2"></a> + <h1 + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-top: 3.46em; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em" + > + <span style="font-size: 173%">Introductory.</span> + </h1> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret + unto his servants the prophets.”</span + > + Amos 3:7. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + No truth of inspiration can be more clearly demonstrated than that + God reveals his designs to his prophets, that men and nations may be + prepared for their accomplishment. Before visiting with judgments, + God has uniformly sent forth warnings sufficient to enable the + believing to escape his wrath, and to condemn those who have not + heeded the warning. This was the case before the flood. The + wickedness of the world had become very great. Every imagination of + the thoughts of the hearts of men was only evil. It would seem that + they had forfeited all claims for consideration. Violence and + corruption filled the earth, and the only way to eradicate evil was + to destroy it with its workers. But before doing so, the world must + be warned of the impending doom; and there was found one man who + would engage in the work. Noah had faith in God, and preached for + one hundred and twenty years the message of + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page006">[pg 006]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg006"></a> warning and salvation. + His work also testified with his words. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, + moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; + by the which he condemned the world.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Heb. 11:7.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + At a later period, when the nations had again become sunken in + idolatry and crime, and the destruction of wicked Sodom and Gomorrah + was determined, the Lord said,— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; seeing that + Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all + the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Gen. 18:17, 18.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + And due notice was given to righteous Lot, who, with his daughters, + was preserved; and none, even in that guilty city, perished without + due warning. Lot evidently warned the people; and in thus communing + with them, was + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked.”</span + > + 2 Peter 2:7, 8. His righteous life had been a rebuke to them; and we + have every reason to believe that the holy example of Abraham in his + worship of the true God was known to them. He had at one time been + their saviour, and rescued their captives and spoil from the + victorious enemy who was carrying them away. But when Lot warned his + friends of the approaching doom, + <span class="tei tei-q">“he seemed as one that mocked.”</span> Gen. + 19:14. They, like the antediluvians, persisted in sin, and drank of + the wrath of God. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + At a subsequent time the sins of Nineveh rose to heaven, and Jonah + was sent to bear to that proud capital the startling message, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be destroyed.”</span + > + The consciences of those sinners told them the message was true; and + from the least of them to the greatest they humbled themselves, and + the overhanging judgment was averted. + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page007">[pg 007]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg007"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Before Christ commenced his earthly mission, John the Baptist was + sent as the voice of one crying in the wilderness, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Prepare ye the way of the Lord.”</span> By + this means the expectation of the people was raised, and doubtless + many were through it led to accept of salvation, while the + generation at large was condemned for rejecting the light. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Our Saviour in his time saw the destruction of Jerusalem just in the + future of that generation, and faithfully warned the people, + foretelling signs by which it might be known when the desolation + thereof was nigh. Luke 21:21. Such is the testimony of inspiration + respecting the dealings of God with his people in past ages. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + All who accept the Bible as the inspired word of God acknowledge + that he has been very faithful in warning people in past ages of + impending judgments and other events which affected their eternal + welfare. Such having been the divine plan in relation to past + events, we would certainly be justified in anticipating such + warnings of Christ's second coming as would comport with the + importance of the event. But when we come to regard the future, and + especially our own immediate future, the incredulity of very many is + at once aroused. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + But what are the facts in the case? Can anything be learned from the + Bible relative to the time of the second advent? This is a grave + inquiry; and, from the very nature of the subject, is worthy of + close investigation, and a candid answer. It is a matter of painful + regret that many, under the influence of popular prejudice, have + decided that the period of the second advent is a secret, hidden + with the Lord. While these can scarcely be reached with this + subject, as long as they remain under the influence of those who + denounce all investigation of it as prying into the + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page009">[pg 009]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg009"></a> secrets of the Almighty, + there is still, we believe, a larger class who wait for evidence + before deciding. + </p> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> + <a href="images/i_008.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_008.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-top: 1em; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em" + > + Christ Weeping Over Jerusalem + </div> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + We accept the Bible as a revelation from heaven. What God has + revealed in that book, let no man call a mystery, or a secret of the + Almighty. + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things + which are revealed belong unto us and to our children + forever.”</span + > + Deut. 29:29. If the sacred Scriptures, in a most clear and + harmonious manner, point out the signs of the approach of that great + event, and if there is evidence that + <span class="tei tei-q">“it is near, even at the doors,”</span> the + subject at once assumes great importance. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + When the disciples inquired, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the + world?”</span + > + Jesus did not reprove them for inquiring into this matter, nor tell + them that it was purposely hidden from all men; but he answered + their question in the most definite manner. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The simple fact that the Lord mentions signs of his second advent, + is the best proof possible that his people were not to remain + ignorant of the relative nearness of the event. Add to this his + injunctions to watchfulness, and the blessings which he pronounces + upon those who are awake and watching at his coming, and it becomes + a certainty that he would not leave his people ignorant of the + proximity of that event. Paul also says that + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“unto + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic" + >them that look for him</span + ></em + > + shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”</span + > + Heb. 9:28. And that a crown of righteousness will be given + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“unto all them also that love his appearing.”</span + > + 2 Tim. 4:8. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + With these assurances we may look for plain and emphatic tokens of + the Saviour's second coming. + </p> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page011">[pg 011]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg011"></a> + <hr class="page" /> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-top: 5em; margin-bottom: 5em"> + <a id="toc3"></a> <a id="pdf4"></a> + <h1 + class="tei tei-head" + style="text-align: left; margin-top: 3.46em; margin-bottom: 3.46em" + > + <span style="font-size: 173%">Christ's Prophecy.</span> + </h1> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> + <a href="images/i_010.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_010.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-top: 1em; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em" + > + Jesus on the Mount of Olives + </div> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Probably no other chapter of the Bible speaks more fully, and more + definitely, upon the subject of the second advent, than Matthew 24, + in Christ's own words. We invite the attention of the candid reader + to a brief explanation of the entire chapter. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> + Verse 1</span + ></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple; and his + disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the + temple.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Jesus had been addressing the multitude, in the presence of his + disciples. He had reproved the scribes and the Pharisees for their + sins, and had declared, in the previous chapter, the doom of the + Jews, their city, and their temple. The disciples supposed that the + temple would stand forever, and they called the attention of Christ + to its magnificence and strength, and to the great stones that + entered into the structure. On this point the historian of those + times, Josephus, says: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Now the temple was built of stones that were white and strong, + and each of their lengths was twenty-five cubits, their height was + eight, and their breadth about twelve.”</span + >—<span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-style: italic">“</span + ><span style="font-style: italic">Antiquities,</span + ><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-style: italic">book xv, chap. xi.</span></span + > + If we compute a cubit at twenty inches, we shall be able to gain + some idea of the size and <span class="tei tei-q">“manner”</span> of + these stones. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> + Verse 2</span + ></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? Verily + I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon + another, that shall not be thrown down.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verse 3</span + ></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came + unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things + be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end + of the world?</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + This statement from the Master could not but deeply interest the + disciples. And it matters not whether they supposed that the + destruction of the temple, the coming of + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page012">[pg 012]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg012"></a> Christ, and the end of + the age, would all occur at the same time, or at different periods, + since Christ, in his answer in this chapter, has distinctly spoken + of each separately, and has given each its place in the prophetic + history of events. If it were their impression that the overthrow of + the temple and the end of the world would occur at the same time, it + by no means proves that this would be the case. As the Scriptures + show, up to the time of the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit on the + day of Pentecost, their ideas upon many points were crude and + inaccurate. Take as proof of this the parable which the Lord spake + when he was going into Jerusalem. Luke 19. They thought that the + kingdom of God should immediately appear. To correct this + impression, the parable of the nobleman was spoken. If they + understood the parable at the time when it was spoken, it did not + fully eradicate the impression from their minds, as is proved by + what they did when they entered Jerusalem. We cannot believe that + they would have hailed him as the Son of David, and rejoiced before + him as a King in his triumph, if they had realized that he was going + into the city to be condemned and crucified as a malefactor. Palm + branches and shouts of triumph did not attend the steps of the lowly + and the condemned. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + John admits for himself and Peter, after they had seen the empty + sepulcher, that + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the + dead.”</span + > + John 20:9. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Again, after his resurrection, Jesus reproved two of his disciples, + who, though they had trusted that he would redeem Israel, were then + sad and disheartened. They did not then understand that Christ ought + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“to have suffered these things, and to enter into his + glory.”</span + > + The suffering part was still a mystery to them. And some of the + apostles were so slow to realize that which he had spoken to them, + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page013">[pg 013]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg013"></a> that they could hardly be + persuaded that he was indeed risen from the dead. And after he had + been with them full forty days, speaking to them of the things + pertaining to the kingdom, they did not yet understand + <span class="tei tei-q">“the times and the seasons,”</span> and + therefore asked him, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to + Israel?”</span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + However the matter may have been entertained in the minds of the + disciples, it is evident that their query consisted of two distinct + questions in the mind of the Saviour. These questions relate, first, + to the destruction of Jerusalem; and, second, to Christ's second + coming at the end of the world or age. They were distinctly answered + by our Lord; not, however, before the promiscuous multitude; but on + the occasion of a private interview with his disciples. Christ here + speaks to his disciples; hence his words in this prophetic discourse + are addressed especially to the church. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> + Verses 4, 5</span + ></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man + deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am + Christ, and shall deceive many.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Jesus knew the hearts of men, and that many impostors would arise, + and deceive multitudes. He here warns his disciples, and guards them + against the deceptions of corrupt and ambitious men. Such was the + general expectation of the appearance of the Messiah among the Jews, + that many would set up the claim that they were the Christ, to carry + out selfish purposes, or to gain notoriety, and the credulous people + would be easily led into the deception, and then be destroyed for + sedition. We are informed that in the days succeeding those of + Christ, impostors arose in great numbers. Josephus tells us of an + Egyptian false prophet who led 30,000 men into the desert to show + them <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page015">[pg 015]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg015"></a> signs, and then brought + them to Jerusalem as if to attack the city. He caused great pillage + and destruction in Judea, but in the time of battle, ran away, + leaving his followers to the exasperated Romans.—<span + class="tei tei-hi" + ><span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-style: italic">“</span + ><span style="font-style: italic">Wars of the Jews,</span + ><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span + ><span style="font-style: italic" + >book ii, chap. xiii.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> + <a href="images/i_014.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_014.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em" + > + Ancient Jerusalem + </div> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + In the former part of the second century Cazibee set himself at the + head of the Jewish nation and proclaimed himself their long-expected + Messiah. To facilitate the success of his bold enterprise he changed + his name to that of Barchocheba, alluding to the Star foretold by + Balaam. Adrian raised an army, and sent it against him. He retired + into a town called Bither, where he was besieged. Barchocheba was + killed in the siege, the city was taken, and a dreadful havoc + succeeded. The Jews themselves allow that, during this short war + against the Romans in defense of this false Messiah, they lost five + or six hundred thousand souls.—<span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-style: italic">Buck's Dictionary.</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Dr. A. Clarke says, on the authority of Josephus, that + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“a few years afterward, under the reign of Nero, while Felix was + procurator of Judea, impostors of this stamp were so frequent that + some were taken and killed almost every day.”</span + > + And at intervals since then the Jews who are all the time expecting + the appearance of the Messiah have been repeatedly the victims of + cruel deception. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> + Verse 6</span + ></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that ye be + not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the + end is not yet.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + It is proper that we should consider what is meant by the term + <span class="tei tei-q">“the end,”</span> used in this verse; in + verse 14, + <span class="tei tei-q">“then shall the end come;”</span> and in + verse 3, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“the sign of thy coming, and the end of the world.”</span + > + In the first place, it may be unhesitatingly claimed that the term + does not refer to the end of the Jewish dispensation, which + terminated at <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page016">[pg 016]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg016"></a> the crucifixion, nor to + the destruction of Jerusalem, which occurred about forty years + later. Because, first, Jesus treated the question concerning the + destruction of the temple and that referring to his coming and the + end of the world as relating to two distinct events, widely + separated in time. Second, the signs which were to be premonitory of + the end did not transpire before the destruction of the temple. + Third, the second coming of Christ, the close of probation, the + judgment, the resurrection, and the end of sin, death, and + mortality, are frequently and prominently associated together in the + Bible as constituting the most important epoch in human history. To + limit this thrilling discourse to the local and long past + destruction of Jerusalem would be to rob it of its force and + grandeur. Not only would the twenty-fourth of Matthew which we are + now studying be stultified, but very much of the life and power of + the Scriptures would be sacrificed by such a course. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + As to the meaning of the phrase, + <span class="tei tei-q">“the end of the world,”</span> it may + consistently be translated + <span class="tei tei-q">“the end of the age,”</span> and in the + margin of the Revised Bible it is rendered + <span class="tei tei-q">“the consummation of the age.”</span> For an + inspired definition of the term, let the reader turn to Matt. + 13:38-40 and its context, where the same words are used and repeated + in the original:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >The tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that + sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; + and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are + gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of + this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and + they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, + and them that do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace + of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + From Rev. 14:14-16 we learn that the harvest of the earth and the + second coming of Christ are identical. + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page017">[pg 017]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg017"></a> So that by no possible + means could it be established that the + <span class="tei tei-q">“end of the world”</span> means the + destruction of Jerusalem. Further evidence is found in Matt. 28:20 + where the same expression, both in the original and in the + translation, is used: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Lo I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”</span + > + But no one would have the audacity to claim that this promise + expired in + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span + > + 70, as it must have done if those questions of the disciples and the + subsequent discourse of Christ related only to the impending doom of + the temple and city. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> + Verses</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">7, 8:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against + kingdom; and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and + earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of + sorrows.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes have occurred all along + since these words were spoken. Therefore, these, as they have ever + existed, cannot be regarded as the especial signs of the end. It may + be claimed, however, with a good degree of consistency, that the + Scriptures teach that these calamities would abound in the last days + to such an extent as to constitute a sign of the approaching + Judgment. We wish to keep the important fact distinctly before the + mind, that the sacred Scriptures do teach when men may not, and when + they may, look for the second appearing of Christ. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The sacred writers have so uniformly associated such judgments as + war, famine, pestilence, and earthquake, with the last Judgment, + that the disciples would be in danger of concluding that the end + would immediately follow the first appearance of these calamities; + hence the caution given: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“These things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.”</span + > + Here the disciples were clearly taught that they should not expect + the end in their day. This fact is worthy of the + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page018">[pg 018]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg018"></a> candid attention of those + who object to the proclamation of the second advent of Christ in the + form of an especial message. These sometimes assert that it was + right for the disciples to look for Christ in their day, and that it + has been scriptural and right for all Christians to look for the + second appearing of Christ in their time, from the days of the + chosen twelve to the present time. And they decide that no more can + be learned and believed upon this subject in our time than by the + Christians of past generations, and that the public mind should not + now be moved upon this great question, any more than in all past + time since the first advent of Christ. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + We have seen that this position is incorrect so far as the early + disciples were concerned. They are directed to the distant future as + the time when their Lord should come. They are assured that they + need not be troubled at hearing of wars and rumors of wars; + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not + yet.”</span + > + Our Lord then guides the minds of his disciples, as we shall see in + the examination of this chapter, down over the time of the great + apostasy, and the long period of the rule of papal Rome, before + mentioning a sign of his second advent. He does not intimate that + his people during these long periods may expect the end. No, not + once. But when he comes to a later time, the Lord names signs in the + sun, in the moon, and in the stars, and adds: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“When ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even + at the doors.”</span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Mark this: Our Lord does not mention wars, famines, pestilences, and + earthquakes as signs of his second advent; but rather as events of + common occurrence all the way through the Christian age, which must + exist before the end. And history attests the fact that these + calamities have <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page019">[pg 019]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg019"></a> covered at least + seventeen centuries. The following is from a work of Noah Webster, + LL. D., published in 1799:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >By famine and sword, 580,000 Jews were destroyed + between</span + > + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">96 and</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi"> + <span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">180.</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In Antioch, from</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">96 to</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >180, earthquakes destroyed 13 cities and over 100,000 + lives.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In Rome,</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >169, pestilence destroyed 10,000 daily.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In Rome,</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >187, pestilence appeared and continued three years.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In London,</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >310, by famine, 40,000 died.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >446, September 17, an earthquake shook down the walls of + Constantinople, and 57 towers fell.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In Rome,</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >539, in one district 50,000 died.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In Antioch,</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >588, an earthquake killed 60,000.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >542, the plague killed 10,000 in one day in Turkey.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >679, a severe famine in England, three years.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >717, in Constantinople, 300,000 died of plague.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >1005, earthquakes three months, followed by pestilence, by + which it is said one third of the human race died.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >1077, in Constantinople, so many died by plague and famine + the living could not bury them.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >1124, in Italy, there was such famine that the dead lay in + the streets not buried; and in England one third of the people + died of plague.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >1294, in England thousands died of famine.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >1346, in London, 50,000 died of plague and famine, and were + buried in one grave-yard; in Norwich, 50,000; in Venice, + 100,000; in Florence, 100,000; in Eastern nations, 20,000,000. + It was called the black death.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >1352, in China, 900,000 died of famine.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >1427 in Dantzic, 80,000 died of plague.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >1570, in Moscow, 200,000 died of plague.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >1572, in Lyons, 50,000 died of plague.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >1625, in London, 35,000 died of plague.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >1656, in Naples, 300,000 died of plague.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >1665, in London, 68,000 died of plague.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">In</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >a. d.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >1755, an earthquake destroyed the city of Lisbon, killing + 50,000. In Mitylene, and the Archipelago, it shook down 2000 + houses. It shook all the Spanish coast. The plague followed, + which destroyed 150,000 persons in Constantinople.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page021">[pg 021]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg021"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Doubtless the figures in the above list should in some instances be + corrected to correspond with facts. But, taken as a whole, they do + not nearly represent the ravages of death in their enormity. For + instance, the Encyclopedia Britannica states that Hecker estimates + the celebrated <span class="tei tei-q">“black death”</span> of the + fourteenth century in the different epidemics, to have swept away + one fourth of the inhabitants of Europe, or 25,000,000 people! + </p> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-top: 4em; margin-bottom: 4em"> + <a id="toc5"></a> <a id="pdf6"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + margin-top: 2.88em; + " + > + <span style="font-size: 144%" + >Persecution And False Prophets.</span + > + </h2> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 60%; text-align: center"> + <a href="images/i_020.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_020.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em" + > + Martyrdom of Huss + </div> + </div> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verses</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">9, 10:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q"> + <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall + kill you; and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's + sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one + another, and shall hate one another.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Here is a brief description of the afflictions and martyrdom of + the church of Christ. Thousands of the faithful followers of Jesus + were most cruelly put to death by pagan Rome; yet the prophecy + doubtless applies more particularly to the long period of papal + persecutions, in which not less than fifty millions of Christians + were put to death in the most cruel manner that wicked men and + demons could devise. In these verses we are brought down over the + long period of the martyrdom of the church of Jesus Christ, to + near the present generation. These verses being parallel with + verses 21 and 22, this subject will be noticed again. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verse</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">11:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive + many.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + A true prophet is one who speaks for God. The spirit of prophecy + is the testimony of Jesus. Rev. 19:10. It is Jesus Christ speaking + through human lips or pen to his people. + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-style: italic">Pseudo</span></span + >, or false prophets, speak through the agency of wicked spirits + and the power of Satan. Their work is to deceive. And while this + is true of those who are under + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page023">[pg 023]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg023"></a> the direct inspiration + of superior beings, good or evil, it is true in a more restricted + sense that consecrated teachers of divine truth may be regarded as + God's prophets; and teachers of error may properly be called false + prophets. True and false prophets may be known. + </p> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 60%; text-align: center"> + <a href="images/i_022.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_022.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: center" + > + The Crucifixion + </div> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The prophets of God are teachers of purity, reprovers of sin, and + faithful in warning the people of coming dangers. The duties of + those whom God calls to speak in his great name are clearly + expressed by the sacred writers. We here quote from three of + them:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Isa.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">58:1:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q"> + <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and + show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob + their sins.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Joel</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">2:1:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy + mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for + the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >2 Tim.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">4:1, 2:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus + Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his + appearing and his kingdom; preach the word; be instant in + season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all + long-suffering and doctrine.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + False prophets do not reprove the people for their sins, and do + not warn them of coming danger; but they proclaim peace to the + sinner. Their teachings lead from God and his word, and are such + as please the unconverted mind. The inspired writers have also + spoken definitely of the testimony and work of false prophets. We + here give several for example:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Eze.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">13:9, 10:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, + and that divine lies. They shall not be in the assembly of + my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of + the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land + of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord God. + Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, + Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and + lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page024">[pg 024]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg024"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Jer.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">6:13, 14:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them, + every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet + even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. They have + healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, + saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Jer.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">14:13, 14:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, the prophets say unto + them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have + famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. + Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my + name. I sent them not, neither spake unto them.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + After stating the duty of the faithful servant of God to preach + the word, to reprove, to rebuke, and exhort with all + long-suffering and doctrine, the apostle says:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >For the time will come when they will not endure sound + doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to + themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall + turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned + unto fables.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">2 Tim. 4:3, 4.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + That time has now fully come. The people choose pleasing fables, + which do not disturb them in their sins, rather than the + reproving, searching declarations of the word of God. They love to + be deceived by the teachings of false prophets, and + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not + unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy + deceits.”</span + > + Isa. 30:10. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord. Shall + not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? A wonderful + and horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets + prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; + and my people love to have it so; and what will ye do in the + end thereof?</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Jer. 5:29-31.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The ears of the people are filled with the pleasing fables of the + world's conversion, a good time coming, and that we are just + entering the golden age. The threatenings of God's word on the + proud, the haughty, the vain, the rich, the sinners in Zion, and + those out of Zion, are kept back by + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page025">[pg 025]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg025"></a> the false teachers of + these times. Many of them even dare to teach that the moral code + of the ten commandments is abrogated. And as the result of such a + course, and of such teaching, we see in the professed church of + Jesus Christ, that + </p> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-top: 4em; margin-bottom: 4em"> + <a id="toc7"></a> <a id="pdf8"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + margin-top: 2.88em; + " + > + <span style="font-size: 144%">Iniquity Abounds.</span> + </h2> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verse</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">12:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall + wax cold.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + It is evident that both the abounding of iniquity and the waxing + cold of the love of many, are fulfilled in the professed church of + Jesus Christ. Men must first experience the love of God and of + heavenly things before that love can grow cold. Hence, common, + unconverted sinners are not here referred to as apostatizing. And, + again, the prevalence of iniquity in the unconverted world alone, + would stimulate the church to greater diligence, and more + godliness, instead of being a cause of apostasy. Hence, the + iniquity here mentioned is in the very heart of the professed + church, diffusing its chilling influence through the whole body. + As the result, the love of many has grown cold. With this, agree + the words of the apostle:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall + come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, + boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, + unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, + truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, + despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, + high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; + having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; + from such turn away.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">2 Tim. 3:1-5.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Here is a catalogue of eighteen sins, all resting upon those + having a form of godliness. These are not infidels and common + worldly sinners, for they have not a form of godliness; but they + are men and women professing to be + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page027">[pg 027]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg027"></a> followers of Jesus + Christ. And although they make a profession of piety as high as + heaven, these very sins lie at their doors. And by reason of their + example, and their chilling influence, many are led from the + humble path to heaven, and their love waxes cold. + </p> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 60%; text-align: center"> + <a href="images/i_026.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_026.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center; margin-top: 1em" + > + The Ascension + </div> + </div> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4em; margin-top: 4em"> + <a id="toc9"></a> <a id="pdf10"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + text-align: left; + margin-top: 2.88em; + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + " + > + <span style="font-size: 144%">The End.</span> + </h2> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verse</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">13:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be + saved.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + As before noted, the word + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">end</span></em + >, whenever used in this chapter, refers to the end of the age, + and to nothing else. It is the end associated in the New Testament + with the second appearing of Jesus Christ. If it be urged that the + word <span class="tei tei-q">“end”</span> has reference to the + close of mortal life, then we reply that the disciples did not ask + their Lord (see verse 3) when they should die; but + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the + world?”</span + > + Neither does the Lord speak of death, when he says (see verse 6), + <span class="tei tei-q">“But the end is not yet.”</span> And it + would be strange indeed to suppose that the word + <span class="tei tei-q">“end”</span> (verse 14) meant death. If + any think such a position admissible, let them read it into the + text, as follows: And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached + in all the world, for a witness unto all nations, and then shall + death come. Absurdity! + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verse</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">14:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached In all the + world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end + come.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + This is the first sign of the end given by our Lord in answer to + the question, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the + world?”</span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + But it is robbed of its distinct power by that interpretation, + sometimes given, by which it is assumed that all men will receive + the gospel and be converted, and that then + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page028">[pg 028]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg028"></a> instead of the end, + there will ensue a thousand years in which all shall know the + Lord. After this long period of peace and safety, the end will + come. How much is assumed on this text will appear when we + consider that the text does not say that every individual will + even hear this gospel of the kingdom. It does not state that any + one will be converted and made holy by it. And we find it far from + intimating that the world will be converted and remain so one + thousand years. We have no reason to conclude that greater measure + of success is implied in this text than that which has always + attended the preaching of the gospel. While a few have believed + and received it, the great mass of men have passed it by + unheedingly. The text simply states: First, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the + world;”</span + > + second, + <span class="tei tei-q">“For a witness unto all nations;”</span> + third, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“And + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">then</span></em + > + [not one thousand years later, but + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-variant: small-caps">then</span></span + >] shall the end come.”</span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + But to what does the term + <span class="tei tei-q">“gospel of the kingdom”</span> refer? The + query sometimes rises as to whether the gospel in the common + acceptation of the word, or a gospel peculiarly related to the + second coming of Christ is here meant. No such distinction is to + be drawn. There neither is, has been, nor will be more than one + gospel. + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other + gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let + him be accursed.”</span + > + Gal. 1:8. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The gospel, then, in this instance, is the same as Paul preached, + which was the + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“power of God unto salvation to every one that + believeth.”</span + > + But in Rev. 14:6 and 7 we read:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having + the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the + earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and + people, saying with a loud</span + > + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page029">[pg 029]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg029"></a + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his + judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven, and + earth, and the sea, and the fountain of waters.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The gospel is here called the + <span class="tei tei-q">“everlasting gospel,”</span> and must + necessarily be referred to the gospel of Christ. In connection + with the preaching of that gospel, was the proclamation that the + judgment hour had come. Not that this message was appended to the + gospel, but the angel who had the everlasting gospel to preach + said, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Fear God ... for the hour of his judgment is come.”</span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The gospel of Jesus Christ embraces all truth relating to + salvation. The warnings, counsel, invitations, promises, precepts, + prophecies, or whatever the Lord would have the people hear,—the + gospel embraces them all. In the days of Noah, the gospel included + repentance, faith, obedience, with the promises of grace and + mercy; it also included the warning of the impending judgment. And + the only way to escape that judgment was through the gospel. So + here in Revelation we have the gospel with all it implies, + including the message of Christ's second coming and kingdom and + the judgment. Closely associated with this message are two others + as given in Rev. 14:8-12. The first is merged into these. Then + immediately following their proclamation we have the following + scene:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And I looked and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud + one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a + golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.... And he that + sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the + earth was reaped.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Rev. 14:14-16.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + In Rev. 14:6-16, then, we learn what is the meaning of the term + <span class="tei tei-q">“gospel of the kingdom.”</span> It is + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">the</span></em + > + gospel, and it embraces the admonitions and instructions relative + to the second coming of Christ. And now that we have reached that + time, the complete gospel embraces the good + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page030">[pg 030]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg030"></a> news of the coming + kingdom with appropriate warnings and teachings. Our Saviour says + it + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all + nations.”</span + > + The Revelator says the message is to be preached + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.”</span + > + When this shall be done, the end will come. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The world-wide proclamation of the soon coming of Christ was + inaugurated about 1832. Since that time, the work of extending its + warning voice has gone on. A most remarkable feature of this + movement is the fact that in different countries individuals were + moved upon, almost simultaneously, to study the prophecies and + proclaim the nearness of the end, although they knew nothing of + what was being done by others. In the United States and Canada, in + Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and in Asia, a profound + interest in this subject was created, and people were led to + expect the early appearance of Jesus. Since that time clearer + light has appeared in connection with the other messages of + Revelation 14, and still the work is onward. Wherever the light of + the Bible has penetrated, the good news of the coming Saviour is + now going. Not only so, but messengers bearing this gracious + warning are rapidly finding their way into the dark portions of + the earth. Evidence of its extent and progress might be expressed + in facts and figures, but the rapid development of the work would + soon leave these in the rear. Let it suffice to say that at + present the everlasting gospel is being preached and published in + all the leading languages and countries of the world. The work has + encircled the globe. It is rapidly reaching every nation. We now + wait for the approaching end; for when the purpose of God in the + proclamation of the coming reign of Christ shall be fully + accomplished, then the end will come. + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page031">[pg 031]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg031"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Thus far in this discourse Jesus has passed over the entire + Christian dispensation. Beginning with a warning against the + deceptions that were to succeed his own times, he next describes + wars and disasters, persecutions, apostasy, the perils of the last + days, and closes with a distinct sign of the end. + </p> + </div> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-top: 5em; margin-bottom: 5em"> + <a id="toc11"></a> <a id="pdf12"></a> + <h1 + class="tei tei-head" + style="text-align: left; margin-top: 3.46em; margin-bottom: 3.46em" + > + <span style="font-size: 173%">When Shall These Things Be?</span> + </h1> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> + Verses</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">15-20:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, + spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place + (whoso readeth, let him understand); then let them which be in + Judea flee into the mountains; let him which is on the + housetop not come down to take anything out of his house; + neither let him which is in the field return back to take his + clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them + that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be + not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Our Lord having in verses 5-14, passed over the important events in + the Christian age down to the end, goes back and introduces in verse + 15 the destruction of Jerusalem, in answer to the inquiry, + <span class="tei tei-q">“When shall these things be?”</span> Luke's + version of this language is, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“When ye shall see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know + that the desolation thereof is nigh.”</span + > + Luke 21:20. By this we know that the term + <span class="tei tei-q">“abomination of desolation”</span> refers to + the Roman army. This desolating power is spoken of by Daniel as + follows:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy + the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with + a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are + determined.... And for the over-spreading of abominations he + shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that + determined shall be poured upon the desolate.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">Margin,</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">desolator.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Dan. 9:26, 27.</span> + </p> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page032">[pg 032]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg032"></a> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> + <a href="images/i_032.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_032.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em" + > + Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus + </div> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page033">[pg 033]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg033"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Here is a clear prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem by the + Roman armies. Our Lord referred to the book of Daniel, and taught + his disciples to read and understand it; and when they should see + take place what was there predicted, they must make their escape. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + It would seem to be impracticable to flee from a city after it was + encompassed with armies; but our Saviour did not speak at random. + Josephus tells us that Cestius, the Roman general who first led the + attack upon Jerusalem, became dismayed at the apparent forces and + strength of the city, and after having surrounded the city raised + the siege. The historian says: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“He retired from the city, without any reason in the + world.”</span + >—<span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-style: italic">“</span + ><span style="font-style: italic">Wars,</span + ><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-style: italic">book ii, chap. xix.</span></span + > + And in the first words of the succeeding chapter he further states: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“After this calamity had befallen Cestius, many of the most + eminent Jews swam away from the city, as from a ship when it was + going to sink.”</span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Dr. A. Clarke, commenting on verse 16, says:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >This counsel was remembered and wisely followed by the + Christians afterwards. Eusebius and Epiphanius say, that at + this juncture, after Cestius Gallus had raised the siege, all + who believed in Christ left Jerusalem and fled to Pella, and + other places beyond Jordan.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The flight of the Christians of Judea to the mountains would be + attended with difficulties. And their subsequent condition would be + that of hardship and suffering. The Lord knew this, and gave them + the instructions and warnings necessary. The statement of verse 19 + was given to save them from the sorrows of unnecessary woe. That was + a time of trouble. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Jesus recognizes the existence of the Sabbath, in verse 20, as late + as the destruction of Jerusalem, as verily as he does the seasons of + the year. + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-style: italic">The Sabbath</span></span + >, is the uniform + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page034">[pg 034]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg034"></a> term of both Testaments + to designate the very day on which Jehovah rested after the + creation, the day upon which he put his blessing, and which he set + apart for man. Not only in this instance does our Saviour show his + regard for the sacred day of rest, but in his life he kept it (see + Luke 4:16); in his teaching he upheld it, and taught its true + character (Matt. 12:12); and when he lay in the tomb, the devout + women reverently rested + <span class="tei tei-q">“according to the commandment.”</span> He + himself is Lord of the Sabbath, and he declares that it was made for + man. Mark 2:27, 28. Jesus does not speak of the Sabbath as being + only a seventh part of time, or one day in seven, and no day in + particular. The Sabbath is the term used, referring to the last day + of the first week of time, and to the last day of each subsequent + week. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + It is thus that Jesus answered the question, + <span class="tei tei-q">“When shall these things be?”</span> He now + proceeds to answer the second great question. + </p> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-top: 5em; margin-bottom: 5em"> + <a id="toc13"></a> <a id="pdf14"></a> + <h1 + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: left; margin-top: 3.46em" + > + <span style="font-size: 173%" + >What Shall Be The Sign Of Thy Coming?</span + > + </h1> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> + Verse</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">21:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since + the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall + be.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + It is not surprising, perhaps, that upon a casual reading some + should conclude that this verse had its fulfillment at the siege of + Jerusalem by Titus. It was a time of great suffering, and the verse + follows so closely those which relate to the destruction of the + city, that this explanation suggests itself readily enough. But for + good reasons we cannot accept that application of this verse. Jesus + is giving a <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page035">[pg 035]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg035"></a> continuous prophecy. The + narrative proceeds from verse to verse along the line of the entire + dispensation. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The <span class="tei tei-q">“great tribulation”</span> mentioned in + verse 21 is that of the church of Christ, and not the tribulation of + the Jews at the destruction of Jerusalem. We offer the following + reasons for so deciding:— + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + 1. It is a fact that the tribulation of the Christian church, + especially under the reign of the papacy, was greater than God's + people had suffered before + <span class="tei tei-q">“since the beginning of the world.”</span> + The tribulation of the Christian church has been greater than it + will ever be again. True, a time of trouble + <span class="tei tei-q">“such as never was,”</span> spoken of in + Dan. 12:1, is coming + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">upon the wicked</span></em + >; but we find in the same verse this blessed promise, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“And at that time thy people shall be delivered.”</span + > + The tribulation of the Jews at the destruction of Jerusalem was not + greater than the world will ever witness. The vials of Jehovah's + unmingled wrath are yet to be poured out, not upon the people of one + nation only, but upon the guilty people of all nations. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >The slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of + the earth even unto the other end of the earth; they shall not + be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Jer. 25:33.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + 2. If the tribulation be applied to the Jews, or to any other class + of unbelieving men, it cannot be harmonized with Dan. 12:1, which + speaks of the time of trouble such as never was, when Michael shall + stand up. Certainly there cannot be two times of trouble at + different periods, greater than ever was or ever would be. Therefore + the <span class="tei tei-q">“tribulation”</span> spoken of in Matt. + 24:21, 29, applies not to the Jews, but to the church of Christ, + extending through the 1260 years of papal persecution; and the + <span class="tei tei-q">“trouble”</span> mentioned in Dan. 12:1, to + the unbelieving world, to be experienced by them in the future. + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page036">[pg 036]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg036"></a> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 60%; text-align: center"> + <a href="images/i_036.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_036.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center; margin-top: 1em" + > + St. Bartholomew Massacre. + </div> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page037">[pg 037]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg037"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + 3. The period of tribulation was shortened for the elect's sake. + This cannot refer to the Jews, for their house had been pronounced + desolate. They were left of God in their hardness of heart and + blindness of mind. Says Paul, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Lo, we turn to the Gentiles.”</span> The + elect were the followers of our Lord Jesus Christ. And where were + they when tribulation was upon the Jews?—They had fled to the + mountains. It is absurd, then, to say that the days of tribulation + of the Jews in the city of Jerusalem, were shortened for the sake of + the elect, who had fled from the place of tribulation. Moreover the + tribulation that came upon Jerusalem was not restrained or modified, + but continued until the city was destroyed and its people were given + to the sword and to captivity. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + 4. The connection between verses 20 and 21 shows that the + tribulation was to commence with those Christians who were to flee + out of the city. + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on + the Sabbath-day; for then shall be great tribulation.”</span + > + Our Lord here speaks of the tribulation which his people would + suffer from the time of their flight onward. We follow them in their + flight to the mountains, and then pass along down through the noted + persecutions of the church of God under pagan Rome, and we see, + indeed, + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">tribulation</span></em + >. And when we come to the period of papal persecutions, we see them + suffering the most cruel tortures, and dying the most dreadful + deaths that wicked men and demons could inflict. This last period is + especially noted in prophecy. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The prophet Daniel saw the papacy, its blasphemy, its ignorance, its + work of death on the saints, and its duration as a persecuting + power, under the symbol of the little horn. + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page038">[pg 038]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg038"></a> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> + <a href="images/i_038.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_038.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center; margin-top: 1em" + > + Taking the Pope Prisoner. 1798. + </div> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page039">[pg 039]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg039"></a> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and + shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to + change times and laws; and they shall be given into his hand + until a time and times and the dividing of time.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Dan. 7:25.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + It is generally admitted that + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“a time and times and the dividing of time”</span + > + is 1260 years. The proof of it may readily be seen by comparing Rev. + 12:14, 6; 13:5, with the scripture just quoted. In these passages we + learn that + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“time, times, and the dividing of time”</span + > + is equivalent to a thousand two hundred and threescore days, which + equals three and one half Biblical years, or + <span class="tei tei-q">“forty and two months.”</span> Applying the + scriptural rule of interpretation, a day for a year (Eze. 4:6), we + have 1260 years. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + This period is to cover the supremacy of the papacy. The beginning + of it will be the point of the establishment of the power of the + papacy. This was the year 538 + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span + > + Justinian, emperor of Rome, with his capital at Constantinople, + espoused the cause of the bishop of Rome; and in 533 + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span + > + issued a decree which constituted that prelate head of all the + churches. But the Arian Ostrogoths had possession of Rome, and it + was not until they had been rooted up that the city was accessible + to the bishop. This was accomplished in 538, by Belisarius, + Justinian's celebrated general. For a concise and clear account of + this occurrence we refer the reader to the + <span class="tei tei-q">“Two Republics,”</span> by A. T. Jones, pp. + 551-553. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Commencing the 1260 years + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span + > + 538, they reach to + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span + > + 1798, when Berthier, a French general, took possession of Rome. The + pope was made a prisoner and carried with violence away from his + palace and out of Italy. The papacy was stripped of its civil power. + Here ended the days of tribulation spoken of by our Lord, which + were— + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page040">[pg 040]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg040"></a> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4em; margin-top: 4em"> + <a id="toc15"></a> <a id="pdf16"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + margin-top: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + " + > + <span style="font-size: 144%" + >Shortened For The Elect's Sake.</span + > + </h2> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verse</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">22:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And except those days should be shortened, there should no + flesh be saved; but for the elect's sake those days shall be + shortened.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The papacy was clothed with civil power to punish heretics, which + it held for 1260 years; and had not the period of tribulation of + the elect in the providence of God been shortened, the martyrdom + of the church would have continued to 1798, in which event, no + flesh of the elect would have been saved. But the Reformation + under Martin Luther, and those associated with this great + reformer, modified this tribulation, and continued to restrain the + rage and power of the papacy until the suppression of the Jesuits + in 1773, since which time, there has been no general persecution + waged against the church. Thus we are brought in this prophetic + discourse of our Lord, down into the eighteenth century, very near + the present time. We would naturally expect, then, that the + instructions and warnings which follow would be applicable to this + generation. + </p> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4em; margin-top: 4em"> + <a id="toc17"></a> <a id="pdf18"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + margin-top: 2.88em; + " + > + <span style="font-size: 144%">Lo, Here, And Lo, There.</span> + </h2> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verses</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">23-27:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q"> + <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or + there; believe it not. For there shall arise false christs, + and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; + insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the + very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if + they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not + forth: behold: he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. + For as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even + unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man + be.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + In these verses the great theme of Christ's second coming is again + vividly brought forth. Satan is ever on the alert to contravene by + some device or art, the work of God. His most successful plan is + to deceive. By this means he gains ready access to all such as + desire to evade the force of + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page041">[pg 041]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg041"></a> truth. And having + deceived an individual, he not only prevents his salvation, but + gains to himself an adherent if not an active agent. So, as the + time for the second advent draws near, the enemy becomes + particularly active, knowing that he hath but a short time. In the + words last quoted our Lord seeks to prepare the minds of his + people for the deceptions that are to be practiced upon those who + live near the time of his second coming. There will be those who + will cry, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Lo, here; or Lo, there,”</span> some will + even claim to be Christ. They will purport to represent the truth + in regard to Christ's coming in various plausible or fanatical + ways. Others, in order to reach other minds, will present theories + of human device accounting for the advent of Christ in various + so-called rational schemes. Many sincere people will be led to + expect the conversion of the world through a millennium of peace. + Others will be persuaded that the coming of Christ means death. + And even false prophets, showing great signs and wonders, will + appear. All these form an atmosphere of deception, the miasma of + which will stupefy, if it were possible, the elect of God. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + In this fearful work will be engaged the notorious deceiver, the + trained agents of Satan, the worldly philosopher, worldly + preachers, popular ministers, critics of the Bible, and many whose + eyes do not discern the signs of the times. The Mormons call the + people to the desert; Spiritualism invites us to the secret + chamber, where Satanic signs and wonders are wrought to captivate + the mind and divert it from the truth. Of these + <span class="tei tei-q">“false prophets”</span> Paul speaks in 1 + Tim. 4:1:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times + some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing + spirits and doctrines of devils.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page042">[pg 042]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg042"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + In another scripture the apostle places the coming of Christ in + connection with— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >The working of Satan with all power and signs and lying + wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in + them that perish; because they received not the love of the + truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God + shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe a + lie.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">2 Thess. 2:9-11.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + These are some of the deceptions of which Christ is speaking in + the text. It is undoubtedly the work of modern Spiritualism. This + work, in its present form, originated in the year 1848, and + constitutes and is to constitute one of the most prominent signs + of the end. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Let no one be deceived by any means. For these are but + subterfuges. They are not the coming of Christ. He has said, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“I will come again, and receive you unto myself.”</span + > + John 14:3. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The angels said at his ascension,— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >This same Jesus</span + ></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall</span + > + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >so come in like manner</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >as ye have seen him go into heaven.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Acts 1:11.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em">Paul tells us,—</p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, + with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of + God.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">1 Thess. 4:16.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + And here our Saviour says:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >As the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth, unto + the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man + be.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + He will come literally, personally, the same Jesus who was here + upon the earth. Not in lowly form as an offering for sin, to be + set at naught, abused, and crucified, but in + <span class="tei tei-q">“all his glory”</span> attended with + <span class="tei tei-q">“all the holy angels.”</span> Matt. 25:31. + We shall know when he comes for + <span class="tei tei-q">“every eye shall see him.”</span> Rev. + 1:7. + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page043">[pg 043]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg043"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + None of these evasions of the truth will ever be able to + counterfeit the real event. The Roman army did not come to + Jerusalem in this way. Death does not come in this way. The + deceptive wonders of Spiritualism cannot imitate the glory of + Christ's second coming. He will come in power and great glory + (verse 30); he will come in the glory of his Father (chapter + 16:27); and in the glory of the holy angels (Luke 9:26); all the + holy angels shall come with him. Matt. 25:31. His coming will be + as glorious and resplendent as the lightning. When Jesus revealed + himself to Saul of Tarsus, there was a light above the brightness + of the sun (Acts 26:13); of the angel who appeared at the tomb + after the resurrection of Jesus it is said, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“His countenance was like lightning”</span + > + (Matt. 28:3); and Ezekiel says of the messengers of the Most High, + they + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of + lightning.”</span + > + Eze. 1:14. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + When Jesus comes in the glory of his Father, with so glorious a + train attendant, his coming will indeed be as the lightning coming + out of the east and shining to the west, and no one will have any + more occasion or opportunity to say to his fellow, + <span class="tei tei-q">“See here,”</span> than one would have to + call another to behold a gleam of lightning flashing through the + heavens. The vivid lightning flashing out of the distant east, and + shining even to the west, lights up the whole heavens. What, then, + when the Lord comes in flaming glory, and all the holy angels with + him? The presence of only one holy angel at the sepulcher where + Christ lay dead, caused the Roman guard to shake, and become as + dead men. The light and glory of one angel completely overpowered + those strong sentinels. The Son of man is coming in his own kingly + glory, and in the glory of his Father, attended by all the holy + angels. Then the + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page044">[pg 044]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg044"></a> whole heavens will + blaze with glory, and the whole earth will tremble before him. + </p> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-top: 4em; margin-bottom: 4em"> + <a id="toc19"></a> <a id="pdf20"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + margin-top: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + " + > + <span style="font-size: 144%">The Signs Of Christ's Coming.</span> + </h2> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verses</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">29-31:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q"> + <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the + sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and + the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the + heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of + the Son of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of + the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in + the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he + shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet; and + they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, + from one end of heaven to the other.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + We have before seen that our Lord speaks in this chapter of the + long period of tribulation that was to come upon his followers, + and we have also seen how those days of tribulation were shortened + for the elect's sake. Christ says that the sun should be darkened + immediately after the tribulation of those days. Mark in his + gospel, gives it as follows:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >In those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be + darkened, and the moon shall not give her light.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Mark 13:24.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + This makes the time in which the sun was to be darkened more + distinct and definite. The days of tribulation were the 1260 years + of papal supremacy, beginning in 538 + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span + > + and ending with the capture of Rome and the pope by the French in + 1798. But we have already seen that the + <span class="tei tei-q">“tribulation”</span> or persecution of + those days was <span class="tei tei-q">“shortened”</span> for the + elect's sake. That is, the active persecution of the church by + papal power ceased in 1773. Then, according to Mark's statement, + the sun should be darkened between that date and 1798. It was + fulfilled. May 19, 1780, has passed into history as + <span class="tei tei-q">“the dark day.”</span> + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page045">[pg 045]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg045"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + This is a fact of so general knowledge that we need not consume + space in elucidating it. A few references to undoubted authorities + will suffice. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Noah Webster's dictionary, in the edition for 1869, under the head + of Explanatory and Pronouncing Vocabulary of Noted Names, says:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >The dark day</span + ></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >, May 19, 1780—so called on account of a remarkable + darkness on that day extending over all New England. In some + places, persons could not see to read common print in the + open air for several hours together. Birds sang their + evening songs, disappeared, and became silent; fowls went to + roost; cattle sought the barn-yard; and candles were lighted + in the houses. The obscuration began about ten o'clock in + the morning, and continued till the middle of the next + night, but with differences of degree and duration in + different places. For several days previous, the wind had + been variable, but chiefly from the south-west and the + north-east. The true cause of this remarkable phenomenon is + not known.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + From another good authority we quote:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >A solemn gloom of unusual darkness before ten o'clock,—a + still darker cloud rolling under the sable curtain from the + north and west before eleven o'clock,—excluded the light so + that none could see to read or write in the House, even at + either window, or distinguish persons at a small distance, + or perceive any distinction of dress in the circle of + attendants; wherefore, at eleven o'clock adjourned the House + till two in the afternoon.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span + ><span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >Journal of the Connecticut House of Representatives, + Friday, May 19, 1780.</span + ></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Herschel, the great astronomer, says:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >The dark day in Northern America was one of those wonderful + phenomena of nature which will always be read with interest, + but which philosophy is at a loss to explain.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + A contemporary paper contained the following:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >During the whole time a sickly, melancholy gloom overcast + the face of nature. Nor was the darkness of the night less + uncommon and terrifying than that of the day, for + notwithstanding there was almost a</span + > + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page047">[pg 047]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg047"></a + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >full moon, no object was discernible but by the help of + some artificial light, which seen from the neighboring + houses and other places at a distance appeared through a + kind of Egyptian darkness which seemed almost impervious to + its rays. This unusual phenomenon excited the fears and + apprehensions of many people.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span + ><span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >Mass. Spy, Correspondence, 1780.</span + ></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + From another good authority we take the following:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Almost, if not altogether alone as the most mysterious and + as yet unexplained phenomenon of its kind in nature's + diversified range of events during the last century, stands + the dark day of May 19, 1780, a most unaccountable darkening + of the whole visible heavens and atmosphere in New England, + which brought intense alarm and distress to multitudes of + minds, as well as dismay to the brute creation, the fowls + fleeing, bewildered, to their roosts, and the birds to their + nests, and the cattle returning to their stalls. Indeed + thousands of the good people of that day became fully + convinced that the end of all things terrestrial had come; + many gave up, for the time, their secular pursuits, and + betook themselves to religious devotions.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span + ><span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >Our First Century.</span + ></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + An extract from a sermon preached at that time will be of + interest:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >But especially I mention that</span + > + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >wonderful darkness</span + ></em + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >on the 19th of May inst. [1780]. Then, as in our text, the + sun was darkened; such a darkness as probably was never + known before since the crucifixion of our Lord. People left + their work in the house and in the field. Travelers stopped; + schools broke up at eleven o'clock; people lighted candles + at noonday; and the fire shone as at night. Some people, I + have been told, were in dismay, and thought whether the day + of Judgment was not drawing on. A great part of the + following night also was singularly dark. The</span + > + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >moon, though in the full, gave no light</span + ></em + ><span style="font-size: 90%">, as in our text.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span + ><span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >From a manuscript sermon by Rev. Elam Potter, delivered May + 28, 1780.</span + ></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + By the remarkable obscuration of the moon on the following night, + the next sign, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“And the moon shall not give her light,”</span + > + was fulfilled. Concerning this it is only necessary to insert a + few words:— + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page048">[pg 048]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg048"></a> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >The night succeeding that day (May 19, 1780) was of such + pitchy darkness that, in some instances, horses could not be + compelled to leave the stable when wanted for service. About + midnight, the clouds were dispersed, and the moon and stars + appeared with unimpaired brilliancy.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span + ><span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >Stone's History of Beverly.</span + ></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Mr. Tenny, of Exeter, N. H., quoted by Mr. Gage, to the Historical + Society, speaking of the dark day and dark night of May 19, 1780, + says:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >The darkness of the following evening was probably as gross + as has ever been observed since the Almighty first gave + birth to light. I could not help conceiving at the time, + that if every luminous body in the universe had been + shrouded in impenetrable darkness, or struck out of + existence, the darkness could not have been more complete. A + sheet of white paper held within a few inches of the eye was + equally invisible with the blackest velvet.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Concerning a similar phenomenon in the Old World a reliable work + says:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Three years later, and Europe with its teeming millions + went under as mysterious a cloud, which, though not so + dense, yet continued longer and awoke a wonder and fear that + was widely felt. A haze, for which no known cause was then + assigned (though in subsequent years it has been supposed by + some to have been volcanic dust), spread through the entire + breadth of the atmosphere over all the continent far into + Asia. It appeared in Denmark, May 29, reached France, June + 14; Italy, June 16; Norway, June 22; Austria and + Switzerland, June 23; Sweden, June 24; and Russia, June 25. + By the close of the month it had overspread like a pall all + Syria, and on July 18, had penetrated the heart of Asia to + the Altai Mountains. The obscurity prevailed a greater + portion of the summer, imparting to the sun an unnatural + color of a dull, rusty red, and causing both the days and + nights to wear a weird and gloomy aspect. The atmosphere was + highly electric, and nature was greatly convulsed.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Dr. N. Webster in his valuable</span + > + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">‘</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">History of Pestilences,</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">’</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >vol. ii. p. 274, testifies to the general fear. As it was + in America on the occurrence of the</span + > + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">‘</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">dark day,</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">’</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >so the churches in Europe were crowded with alarmed + multitudes supplicating mercy of Heaven. Professor + Lalande,</span + > + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page049">[pg 049]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg049"></a + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >the astronomer of France, attempted to quiet the popular + fear by ascribing the darkened heavens to exhalations + arising out of the earth; but both Webster and Humboldt + (Cosmos IV., p. 75) rejected this solution of the mysterious + obscurity. Protestant England shared in the alarm it + occasioned; and the poet Cowper sang that all the + elements</span + > + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">‘</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >preached the general doom.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">’</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >It was to this unaccountable obscuration of light that he + refers in his</span + > + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">‘</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">Task:</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">’</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span></span + > + </p> + <div + class="tei tei-lg" + style="margin-top: 0.9em; margin-bottom: 0.9em" + > + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“ </span + ><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">‘</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Nature seems with dim and sickly eye</span + ></span + ></span + > + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left" + ><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left" + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >To wait the close of all.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">’</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%"> ”</span></span + > + </div> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-ab" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span + ><span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >Great Consummation.</span + ></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + ></span + > + </div> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4em; margin-top: 4em"> + <a id="toc21"></a> <a id="pdf22"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-top: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + " + > + <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left" + ><span style="font-size: 144%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 144%">And The Stars Shall Fall.</span + ><span style="font-size: 144%">”</span></span + > + </h2> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + How this sign can be fulfilled is a query with some people, who, + perhaps captiously, remark that it would be impossible, since the + earth itself is but a small body compared with many of the vast + worlds of space. But all such queries are out of date now since + the sign itself has already been witnessed. On the night of + November 13, 1833, the grandest display of celestial fireworks + ever beheld took place. From works of accepted authority we take + the following descriptions of this remarkable event:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >But the most sublime phenomenon of shooting stars, of which + the world has furnished any record, was witnessed throughout + the United States on the morning of the 13th of November, + 1833. The entire extent of this astonishing exhibition has + not been precisely ascertained; but it covered no + inconsiderable portion of the earth's surface.... The first + appearance was that of fireworks of the most imposing + grandeur, covering the entire vault of heaven with myriads + of fire-balls, resembling sky-rockets. Their coruscations + were bright, gleaming, and incessant, and they fell thick as + the flakes in the early snows of December. To the splendors + of this celestial exhibition the most brilliant sky-rockets + and fire-works of art bear less relation than the twinkling + of the most tiny star to the broad glare of the sun. The + whole heavens seemed in motion, and suggested to some the + awful grandeur of the image employed in the Apocalypse, upon + the opening of the sixth seal, when</span + > + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">‘</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even</span + > + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page051">[pg 051]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg051"></a + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is + shaken of a mighty wind.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">’</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%"> ”</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span + ><span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >Burritt's</span + > + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >Geography of the Heavens,</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >”</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >p. 163, ed. 1854.</span + ></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> + <a href="images/i_050.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_050.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: center" + > + The Falling Stars. + </div> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + A celebrated astronomer and meteorologist, says:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Those who were so fortunate as to witness the exhibition of + shooting stars on the morning of Nov. 13, 1833, probably saw + the greatest display of celestial fire-works that has ever + been since the creation of the world, or at least within the + annals covered by the pages of history.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >In nearly all places the meteors began to attract notice by + their unusual frequency as early as eleven o'clock, and + increased in numbers and splendor until about four o'clock, + from which time they gradually declined, but were visible + until lost in the light of day. The meteors did not fly at + random over all parts of the sky, but appeared to emanate + from a point in the constellation Leo, near a star called + Gamma Leonis, in the bend of the Sickle....</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >The extent of the shower of 1833 was such as to cover no + inconsiderable part of the earth's surface, from the middle + of the Atlantic on the east to the Pacific on the west; and + from the northern coast of South America to undefined + regions among the British possessions on the north, the + exhibition was visible, and everywhere presented nearly the + same appearance. This is no longer to be regarded as a + terrestrial but a celestial phenomenon, and shooting stars + are now to be no more viewed as casual productions of the + upper regions of the atmosphere, but as</span + > + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >visitants from other worlds</span + ></em + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >, or from the planetary voids.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span + ><span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >Prof. Olmstead, of Yale College.</span + ></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >No philosopher or scholar has told or recorded an event, I + suppose, like that of yesterday morning. A prophet 1800 + years ago foretold it exactly, if we will be at the trouble + of understanding stars falling to mean falling stars; + or</span + > + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">‘</span + ><span class="tei tei-foreign" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >hoi asteres tou ouranou epesan eis teen geen</span + ></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">,</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">’</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >in the only sense in which it is possible to be literally + true.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span + ><span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >Henry Dana Ward, in Journal of Commerce, Nov. 14, + 1833.</span + ></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Not only here in Matthew 24 is attention directed to these signs + as premonitory of the coming of Christ. The Lord through the + prophet Joel says:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into + blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord + come.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page053">[pg 053]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg053"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Under the sixth seal, as given in Rev. 6:12-17, we have the + following language:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, + there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as + sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the + stars of heaven fell unto the earth even as a fig tree + casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty + wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled + together; and every mountain and island were moved out of + their places.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + That the fourth and fifth seals apply to the papal persecution + there can be no reasonable doubt. If so, then the great earthquake + with which the sixth seal opens would be that of Lisbon, in 1755, + which agitated the greater part of the earth and destroyed many + thousands of lives, 60,000 in Lisbon alone. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The darkening of the sun and moon follows in 1780, and the falling + of the stars in 1833. Consequently the next event which we are to + expect under this seal is the departing of the heavens as a + scroll. This being future, we may say that we are living between + the thirteenth and fourteenth verses of Revelation 6. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + In the gospel as written by Luke, however, we have at this point + some additional specifications given, which are of such interest + at the present juncture. And they rightfully belong to this + exposition, since both Matthew and Luke are giving versions of the + same discourse. The passage from Luke to which reference is made + is the following:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and + in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with + perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts + failing them for fear, and for looking after those things + which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven + shall be shaken.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Luke 21:25-27.</span> + </p> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page054">[pg 054]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg054"></a> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> + <a href="images/i_054.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_054.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em" + > + Modern Cyclone. + </div> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page055">[pg 055]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg055"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The signs in the sun, moon, and stars are here spoken of less + specifically than by Matthew, while other features of the times, + which Matthew does not notice, are introduced between those signs + and the shaking of the powers of heaven. These are of peculiar + interest to us because we are living in the very days when the + things that Luke speaks of are coming to pass. The signs here + predicted consist of violent commotions upon earth which cause + anxiety, perplexity, and distress among nations and in the hearts + of men. We may refer the expression, + <span class="tei tei-q">“the sea and the waves roaring,”</span> to + unusual disturbances of the natural elements, and we have the most + abundant evidences of its fulfillment in the storms and + convulsions of nature that are occurring by sea and land, filling + the heart with dread at the sight of every dark cloud that arises. + The tidal waves and volcanic upheavals at sea have, in the last + two or three decades, been marked with extraordinary violence. On + land, cyclones and earthquakes have carried on a fearful work of + destruction. Many instances might be cited to substantiate this + statement, but the events are too familiar to require it. Hardly a + week passes but some great calamity of this kind is recorded. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + But the expression referred to is probably susceptible of another + application in which it will be found to be as forcible and + pertinent to the present state of affairs as in the one just + noticed. This would be to give the term + <span class="tei tei-q">“sea and waves”</span> its symbolic + meaning. The prophet of old said: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“And behold the four winds of heaven strove upon the great + sea.”</span + > + Dan. 7:2. We are told that the sea represents + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”</span + > + Rev. 17:15. Taking the words in this sense, the meaning and + fulfillment are still as apparent as before; and the expression + joins its force to that of the remainder of the passage—<span + class="tei tei-q" + >“upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page057">[pg 057]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg057"></a> the sea and the waves + roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking + after those things which are coming on the earth.”</span + > + In this sense the expression in question would indicate commotion + and violent disturbance in the social and political world. In this + meaning all will at once see the vivid force of the text as + applied to our times. + </p> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center; width: 80%"> + <a href="images/i_056.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_056.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-top: 1em; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em" + > + Assassination of Carnot. + </div> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The times we live in are anomalous to any that have ever preceded + us. For some years there have been universal and active + preparations for war, and almost universal peace. To secure the + greatest efficiency of armed forces for defensive and offensive + purposes, has been the prime consideration of government, + especially so, as far as the Old World nations are concerned. + Europe echoes to the tread of vast hosts of war while the nations + are driven to their wits' end to provide for their support. It is + well known that these costly preparations are not for show; and + the hearts of men quail in view of the culmination which, though + delayed, must soon be reached. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + But while the temple of Janus is closed as far as international + strife is concerned, and angel hands are holding the winds of war + (see Rev. 7:1-3), internal strife and dissension are rending the + vitals of the great nations of earth. Within the confines of its + own border, each of these nations is cherishing elements of the + deadliest nature. Trouble is brewing that has for the people far + more terror than foreign complications. For some time the ominous + mutterings of an oncoming storm have been heard in every land, and + it requires no remarkable acumen to discern the rapid approach of + the crisis. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The apostle James strikes directly at the matter in a prophetic + glance and exhortation in the following language:— + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page058">[pg 058]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg058"></a> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries + that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and + your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is + cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against + you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have + heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire + of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is + of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them + which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of + Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been + wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of + slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he + doth not resist you.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">James 5:1-6.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The apostle locates the circumstances he here refers to in the + last days. He denounces the rich men who have heaped together + treasures, the rust and canker of which will be a witness against + them. They live in pleasure and wantonness while the cries of + those whose wages they have kept back enter into the ears of the + Lord of Hosts. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + There is a universal cry of hard times in all the world. It is + hard to obtain money; and yet, there never was so much money as at + present. But it is being collected—gathered in heaps—by the + powerful few, while the limited means of the masses are dwindling + lower and lower. The poorer classes witness the absorption of + wealth by the money-kings, with feelings that are being aroused to + the point of desperation by the sense of their inability to secure + what seems to them a more equitable distribution of the things of + this world. The laborers cry, and God hears their cry. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + That these things are taking place to-day as the most prominent + feature of our social life no one will for a moment deny. Such + colossal fortunes the world has heretofore at most but dreamed of. + There are men living to-day who have risen in wealth from obscure + stations to become lords + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page059">[pg 059]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg059"></a> of untold millions. + Their wealth passes the bounds of just computation, for it + includes the power of oppression by which it may be indefinitely + increased. The lavish expenditure of these means for selfish + pleasure often amounts to wantonness. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Well then, what is to be done? It is a difficult and delicate + matter to frame and secure legislation by which this or any other + class of men shall be deprived of the management of their own + business as long as that business is legitimate and is + legitimately conducted. Shall anarchy and violence be resorted to? + Shall the laborer seize the torch and the weapons of death? Shall + the country be devastated by strikes, strife, and civil war? Shall + our communities be rent with murder, arson, treason, and intense + personal hatred and enmity? No one possessing the natural + instincts of humanity could contemplate such a condition of + affairs except with horror. There are ghouls of society who gloat + in blood; but such are not true citizens, they are not neighbors, + they certainly are not Christians. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + But what shall we do as citizens, neighbors, and Christians? This + is a question of great importance just now. Inspiration long ago + foresaw our situation. The pitying Saviour long since anticipated + the sufferings that are to come upon this generation; and having, + through his servant, outlined the present condition of affairs so + closely, he certainly would not leave his followers uninformed as + to the course he would have them pursue. We have to read only two + verses farther in James's letter to find the counsel we need. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the + Lord.</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of + the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive + the early and latter rain. Be ye</span + > + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page061">[pg 061]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg061"></a + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >also patient; stablish your hearts;</span + > + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh</span + ></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">James 5:7, 8.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center; width: 80%"> + <a href="images/i_060.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_060.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: center" + > + Chicago Riot. + </div> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Oppression and revolt, combination and intrigue, strife and + bloodshed, never will cease until the supreme selfishness, which + in the absence of divine grace controls all men, gives place to + true philanthropy, and a brotherhood that is not outlined by class + or sectional interests. This happy time is coming. When Jesus + comes, he will take to himself his power and reign in + righteousness. Then will the hills be brought low, the valleys + exalted, the crooked be made straight, and the rough places + smooth. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Those who are weary of strife, those who through misfortune or + oppression have been made to feel their need of relief will find + rest to their souls in looking for the coming of the Lord. It is + vain to match evil with evil or to try to cure wrong with wrong. + The gospel of Christ is the only remedy for these ills. And all + that we can really do to counteract the annoyances of this life + must be done through the gospel of peace. In this time of + perplexity, distress, and fear, let every Christian hold up + Christ. Let his patient suffering be exemplified in whatever + circumstances may come. Just a little beyond, there is relief. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Strikes, boycotts, lock-outs, trusts, unions, or any other human + device or demonstration only augments the trouble, as the + experience of the past few years shows. For there never was so + much of these things as now, and never was capital so insecure, + business so uncertain, and labor in such distress as at present. + The employment of arbitrary force provokes greater efforts on the + opposite side, and thus the breach is widened and the strife + becomes more bitter. We do not argue the merits or demerits of the + case. That there is deep wrong involved, the fruits plainly show. + It is our task only to point out the one remedy available alike to + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page062">[pg 062]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg062"></a> either and all. That + remedy is the gospel of Christ, which is soon to close in a + glorious triumph for those who have patiently and faithfully + wrought his will. + </p> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4em; margin-top: 4em"> + <a id="toc23"></a> <a id="pdf24"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + margin-top: 2.88em; + " + > + <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left" + ><span style="font-size: 144%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 144%" + >The Powers Of Heaven Shall Be Shaken.</span + ><span style="font-size: 144%">”</span></span + > + </h2> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + We do not apprehend that this circumstance will occur as a sign of + Christ's coming, but rather that it will constitute one of the + events of his coming, the same as the features mentioned in the + next verse. An evident distinction may be drawn between the + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">signs</span></em + > + of the advent and the circumstances of it. With the falling of the + stars, the former cease; and with the next event the latter + commence. This event, the shaking of the powers of heaven, we must + regard as being future. It holds the same place in the events of + this chapter, that the departing of the heavens as a scroll does + in the events of the sixth seal of Revelation 6. Both follow the + falling stars. The Scriptures plainly teach that, prior to the + resurrection of the just by the voice of the Son of God, the voice + of God the Father will shake the heavens and the earth, when will + be fulfilled the shaking of the powers of the heaven. This is not + the voice of the Son of God as he descends to raise the dead. It + comes from the throne of God in the temple of heaven. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice + from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake; + but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the + strength of the children of Israel.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Joel 3:16.</span> + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Therefore will I shake the heavens, and the earth shall + remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, + and in the day of his fierce anger.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Isa. 13:13.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Paul quotes from the words of the Lord by Haggai and comments as + follows:— + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page063">[pg 063]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg063"></a> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. + And this word, yet once more, signifieth the removing of + those things that are shaken.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Heb. 12:26, 27.</span> + </p> + </div> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-top: 4em; margin-bottom: 4em"> + <a id="toc25"></a> <a id="pdf26"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + text-align: left; + margin-top: 2.88em; + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + " + > + <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left" + ><span style="font-size: 144%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 144%">Sign Of The Son Of Man.</span + ><span style="font-size: 144%">”</span></span + > + </h2> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Neither is this one of the signs showing that the coming of the + Son of man is near, but + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“the sign of the Son of man in heaven.”</span + > + It is that which indicates his position. When Christ ascended from + the mount of Olivet, + <span class="tei tei-q">“a cloud received him”</span> from the + sight of his disciples. They still gazed at the cloud as it rolled + upward, bearing the Saviour toward the Father's throne but they + could not see his person. When he comes + <span class="tei tei-q">“in like manner”</span> as he was taken up + to heaven, the cloud will appear, small in the distance, but as it + draws near, it will signify to those who are looking for his + return, that he is there, and soon his presence will fill the + earth with matchless glory. In Rev. 14:14, the holy seer records + his view of the coming Saviour in the following words: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one + sat like unto the Son of man.”</span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + This is not a mass of vapor but a cloud of resplendent glory. He + comes + <span class="tei tei-q">“with power and great glory.”</span> He + will + <span class="tei tei-q">“come in the glory of his Father”</span> + (Matt. 16:27); in his own glory, + <span class="tei tei-q">“and all the holy angels with him.”</span> + Matt. 25:31. The glory of the Father, of the Son, and of all the + holy angels—this glory will comprise the cloud which attends him + on the way. Of its intensity we can form no just conception. In + the presence of one angel the Roman guard + <span class="tei tei-q">“did quake and became as dead men.”</span> + There are ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of + thousands of them in this throng. Above the brightness of their + glory is that of the Father and the Son. + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page064">[pg 064]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg064"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + At first the cloud is only perceptible, but as it approaches, it + attracts attention, and at length every eye is fastened intently + upon the wonderful spectacle. The trumpet resounds, the voice of + the Archangel awakens the dead, and they come forth to share in + the glorious revelation of their Redeemer. All nature is convulsed + with her coming dissolution. Each moment the glory draws nearer, + and soon the wicked can no longer endure the sight. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they + shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with + power and great glory.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Verse 30.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Again attention is directed to the parallel language of Rev. + 6:15-47:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich + men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every + bond man, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and + in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and + rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that + sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. For + the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to + stand?</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The prophet Isaiah describes the same thrilling event from the + other standpoint—that of the waiting people of God:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will + wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his + people shall he take away from off all the earth; for the + Lord hath spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, + this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save + us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be + glad and rejoice in his salvation.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Isa. 25:8, 9.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The apostle Paul gives a vivid description of the event with its + attendant circumstances as follows:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, + concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even + as others which have</span + > + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page065">[pg 065]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg065"></a + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, + even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with + him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that + we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord + shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord + himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the + voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the + dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and + remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, + to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with + the Lord.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">1 Thess. 4:13-17.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The once slighted, insulted, and crucified Saviour, now King of + kings and Lord of lords, is coming near the earth! His glory + blazes everywhere! The saints hope and rejoice with trembling. But + what an hour for the wicked! The tribes of the earth mourn. Amid + the ruins of shivered creation they hold one general + prayer-meeting. Kings and great men, rich men, chief captains and + mighty men, free and bond, all, yes, all unite in the general + wail. As the Son of man in the glory of his Father, attended by + all the holy angels, draws still nearer, consternation fills every + breast. They hide in dens and in the rocks of the mountains. Their + only hope is to be concealed from the glory of that scene. They + know it is too late to pray for mercy, that probation for the + human family has ended forever. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + But rocks cannot shelter them from the burning glory manifested by + the King of kings, attended by the whole heavenly host. When + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“the Son of man shall come in the glory of the Father,”</span + > + <span class="tei tei-q">“and all the holy angels with him,”</span> + no sinner can endure the scene and live. The exceeding brightness + of that vast multitude of angels, brighter than a thousand suns at + noonday, will pierce the sinner's lowest hiding place, and will + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the + land.”</span + > + Zeph. 1:18. The Son + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page066">[pg 066]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg066"></a> of man will be seen + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great + glory.”</span + > + But before his coming a great work will be done for his people. + Should he suddenly burst upon them now, they could not endure + <span class="tei tei-q">“the power and great glory”</span> of the + scene. This subject is well illustrated by the following words of + the prophet:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord; his + going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come + unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the + earth.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Hosea 6:3.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The morning is a beautiful figure of the opening glory of the day + of God. The day-star first appears, then the dawn of day. And as + the light of day increases, the eyes are enabled to endure it, and + view the sun shining in his strength. But should the light of the + sun burst upon the world suddenly at midnight, no human eye could + endure it. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + So will the people of God be prepared to meet their coming King. + They must first break away from the love and cares of this world, + and consecrate all to the Lord. Then will they, in due time, share + the outpouring of the Holy Spirit + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“as the rain, as the latter and former rain upon the + earth.”</span + > + The day-star will arise in their hearts. 2 Peter 1:19. Those who + have taken heed to the sure word of prophecy through the dark, + watching night, then raise their heads in triumph. They are filled + with faith and with the Holy Spirit. Glory is poured upon them + till they can gaze on Christ and angels. The trumpet sounds. The + angels are dispatched to the graves of the righteous. The voice of + the Son of God awakes the sleeping saints of all ages. They come + forth in immortal perfection and, as they leave the earth, the + living saints are changed. The + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“elect from one end of heaven to the other,”</span + > + each with an angel bright and strong to lead the way, are caught + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page067">[pg 067]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg067"></a> up to meet the Lord, + who waits in mid-heaven to receive the purchase of his blood. As + language would fail to describe what follows, we leave the reader + to contemplate it, praying that we may be prepared to participate + in the meeting scene. + </p> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-top: 4em; margin-bottom: 4em"> + <a id="toc27"></a> <a id="pdf28"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + margin-top: 2.88em; + " + > + <span style="font-size: 144%">Parable Of The Fig-Tree.</span> + </h2> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verses</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">32, 33:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Now learn a parable of the fig-tree; when his branch is yet + tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is + nigh. So likewise ye when ye shall see all these things, + know that it [</span + ><span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">‘</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">he,</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">’</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >R. V.] is near, even at the doors.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + This parable is probably the most forcible figure that could be + used with which to illustrate this subject. When the trees of the + field begin to put forth their leaves, and the tender grass + springs up, and the ground is being covered with its green velvet + carpet, we know that summer is nigh. It is a certainty with us + that summer is coming when we see these signs in nature. We know + that summer is nigh + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“<em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">So, likewise</span></em + >,”</span + > + or, with the same certainty, we may + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">know</span></em + > + that Christ's coming is near when the signs in the sun, moon, and + stars are fulfilled. How near?—Even at the doors. How near may + that be? + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verse</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">34:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Verily I say unto you. This generation shall not pass, till + all these things be fulfilled.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + It is sometimes claimed that the generation spoken of was the one + then living. If so, it could have been to no greater extent than + referring to the answer of the question relating to the + destruction of Jerusalem. But it would be wholly illogical to + limit the application of the statement to that generation or to + place its principal significance there. + <span class="tei tei-q">“All these things”</span> must include the + signs and circumstances of which Christ has been speaking. In the + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page068">[pg 068]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg068"></a> + preceding verses he gives the parable of the fig-tree, and + addresses those who are to be living at that time directly. + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“So likewise + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">ye</span></em + >, when + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">ye</span></em + > + shall see all these things, + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">know</span></em + > + that it is near.”</span + > + And then, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“<em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">This</span></em + > + generation shall not pass.”</span + > + What generation? Evidently the one which he was addressing, and + which saw + <span class="tei tei-q">“these things come to pass.”</span> Not + only does such an interpretation do no violence to the Saviour's + meaning, but it is obviously the only one that can be reasonably + entertained in regard to it. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Paul speaks in the first person of those who will be living when + Jesus comes, for he says, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a + moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.”</span + > + 1 Cor. 15:51, 52. Or, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together + with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.”</span + > + 1 Thess. 4:17. The things here mentioned by the apostle did not + take place in his day. They have not yet taken place. + Notwithstanding, he speaks of them as though they would take place + in his day, and as if he were to have a part in them. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The proclamation of the coming and kingdom of Christ is given to + the last generation. God sent Noah to preach to the last + generation before the flood, not to any preceding one. The very + generation which was destroyed by the waters of the flood saw Noah + build the ark, and heard his warning voice. So God has raised up + men to give the solemn warning to the world at the right time to + give force to the warning. And the very generation of men that + live after the three great signs are fulfilled, and who hear and + reject the warning message of Heaven, will drink the cup of the + unmingled wrath of God. And those of this very generation who + receive the message, suffer disappointments, and endure the trials + of the waiting position, will witness + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page069">[pg 069]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg069"></a> the coming of Christ, + and exclaim, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Lo, this is our God; we have + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">waited</span></em + > + for him, and he will save us.”</span + > + Isa. 25:9. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + With what emphasis our Lord gave utterance to this sentiment! It + is a rebuke upon our unbelief. As we read it, God help us to + believe it: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till + all these things be fulfilled.”</span + > + And as though this were not enough to lead us to unwavering faith, + he adds these forcible words: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass + away.”</span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The word and promises of men may fail; but Christ has given + assurance that his word, and his word in reference to this solemn + truth, will stand though heaven and earth fail. + </p> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-top: 4em; margin-bottom: 4em"> + <a id="toc29"></a> <a id="pdf30"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + margin-top: 2.88em; + " + > + <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left" + ><span style="font-size: 144%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 144%">The Day And Hour.</span + ><span style="font-size: 144%">”</span></span + > + </h2> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verses</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">36, 37:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels + of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe were, + so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + This has become a very familiar passage of scripture because of + the frequent use that is made of it to prove that nothing can be + known of the proximity of the second coming of Christ. But if we + pause a moment and lay beside this verse those we have just + studied, we shall be able to discover the exact truth at once. + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“When ye shall see these things, know that it is near even at + the doors;”</span + > + and, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“This generation shall not pass, till all these things be + fulfilled;”</span + > + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“But of that day and hour knoweth no man.”</span + > + The line of knowledge, then, lies between the former expressions + and the latter—between + <span class="tei tei-q">“even at the doors”</span> and the + definite day and hour. The former we may know, and every Christian + is commanded to know. The latter no man knoweth. One may + consistently say that he knows an event is + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page071">[pg 071]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg071"></a> near, and yet say that + he does not know the hour nor the day when it will take place. + That this is the scriptural teaching upon this point may be + readily proved by a reference to 1 Thess. 5:1-4:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need + that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that + the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For + when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden + destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with + child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not + in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a + thief.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + An evident distinction is here drawn between two classes. Upon one + class the day of the Lord will come as a thief. Those of the other + are not in darkness that that day should come as a thief upon + them. The children of God are children of light. Their heavenly + Father knows the end from the beginning, and he has promised to + reveal his secret to his people through his servants the prophets. + Amos 3:7. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The apostle Peter also bears testimony to the same truth. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do + well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a + dark place, until the day dawn and the day-star arise in + your hearts.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">2 Peter 1:19.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The dark place here spoken of is the future. The past is lighted + up by history, the present is brought to our knowledge by press + and telegraph; but the future no human art or wisdom can + penetrate. Prophecy throws its gleam into those dark regions, yet + unexplored, and marks out the path of human history centuries and + ages before it has echoed to the footsteps of mankind. When at + last we pass along the pathway, we may, if we will, recognize the + waymarks set up here and there, every one of which + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page072">[pg 072]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg072"></a> is a monument to the + wisdom and knowledge of God, and the faithfulness of his word. + Those who have no eyes to discern these things, no ears to hear, + nor hearts to understand their significance, will pass on, and the + final event will come upon them unawares. Not so with those who + take heed to the things God has spoken. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + We would not detract an iota from the force of the verse under + consideration. It means all it says. No man knows the definite + time of Christ's coming. The day and hour, and even the year of + the second advent are purposely hidden. Some of the prophetic + periods reach to the time of the end, while others extend still + farther down, very near to the end itself; yet none of them reach + to the coming of the Son of man. The prophecies clearly point to + the period of the second advent, but do not give the definite time + of that event. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + But with this passage before us we may claim that it would be + transcending its meaning to claim upon its authority that nothing + should or could be known of the approach of Christ's coming. More + than that, it is not inconsistent with the text nor improbable + that prior to that event the Lord will in his own way reveal that + which has hitherto been withheld. Those who claim that the text + proves that nothing may be known of the period of the second + advent, make it prove too much for their own unbelief. As recorded + by Mark, the declaration reads: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the + angels which are in Heaven, neither the Son, but the + Father.”</span + > + If the text proves that men will know nothing of the period of the + second advent, it also proves that angels will know nothing of it, + and also that the Son will know nothing of it, till the event + takes place! This position proves too much, therefore proves + nothing to the point. + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page073">[pg 073]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg073"></a> Christ will know of the + period of his second advent to this world. The holy angels who + wait around the throne of heaven to receive messages relative to + the part they act in the salvation of men, will know of the time + of this closing event of salvation. And so will the waiting, + watching people of God understand. An old English version of the + passage reads, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“But that day and hour no man maketh known, neither the angels + which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.”</span + > + This is the correct reading, according to several of the ablest + critics of the age. The word + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">know</span></em + > + is used in the same sense here that it is by Paul in 1 Cor. 2:2: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“For I determined not to know [make known] anything among you, + save Jesus Christ and him crucified.”</span + > + Men will not make known the day and hour, angels will not make it + known, neither will the Son; but the Father will make it known. + Says Campbell:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Macknight argues that the term</span + > + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >known</span + ></em + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >is here used as a causative, in the Hebrew sense of the + conjugation</span + > + <span class="tei tei-foreign" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >hiphil</span + ></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">, that is,</span> + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >to make known</span + ></em + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >.... His [Christ's] answer is just equivalent to saying, + The Father will make it known when it pleases him; but he + has not authorized man, angel, or the Son to make it known. + Just in this sense, Paul uses the term</span + > + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >know</span + ></em + ><span style="font-size: 90%">, 1 Cor. 2:2:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">‘</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">I came to you</span> + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >making known</span + ></em + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >the testimony of God; for I determined to</span + > + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >make known</span + ></em + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >nothing among you but a crucified Christ.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">’</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%"> ”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Albert Barnes, in his + <span class="tei tei-q">“Notes on the Gospels,”</span> says:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Others have said that the verb rendered</span + > + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >knoweth</span + ></em + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">means sometimes to</span> + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >make</span + ></em + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >known, or to reveal, and that the passage means,</span + > + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">‘</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >that day and hour none maketh known, neither the angels, + nor the Son, but the Father.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">’</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%" + >It is true the word has sometimes that meaning, as 1 Cor. + 2:2.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + When the patriarch's work of warning and building was finished, + God said to him, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Come thou and all thy house into the ark.”</span + > + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“For yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth + forty days and forty nights.”</span + > + So when <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page074">[pg 074]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg074"></a> the waiting, watching, + weeping, toiling time shall be finished, and the saints shall all + be sealed, and shut in with God, then, we conclude, will the voice + of the Father from heaven make known the definite time. See Rev. + 16:17; Joel 3:16; Jer. 25:30. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The present is emphatically the waiting, watching time. It is the + especial period of the patience of the saints. The Lord appeals to + us thus:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Watch ye, therefore; for ye know not when the Master of the + house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the + cockcrowing, or in the morning; lest coming suddenly he find + you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, + Watch.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Mark 13:35-37.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + One of the fatal consequences of not watching is distinctly stated + in Rev. 3:3:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a + thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon + thee.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + In consequence of not watching, the people will remain in + ignorance of the approach of that hour. And the unavoidable + inference is that by watching they will be aware of and prepared + for its coming. In answer to the agonizing prayer of the Son of + God, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Father, glorify thy name,”</span> there + came a voice from heaven, saying, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”</span + > + The disciples understood these words from heaven, while the people + that stood by said it thundered. John 12:27-29. So will the + waiting disciples of Christ understand the voice of God when he + shall speak from on high. But the unbelieving world will not + understand it. In comparing Noah's days and ours, the Lord + continues:— + </p> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4em; margin-top: 4em"> + <a id="toc31"></a> <a id="pdf32"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + margin-top: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + " + > + <span style="font-size: 144%">Noah's Time And Ours.</span> + </h2> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verses</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">38, 39:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >For as in the days that were before the flood, they were + eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, + until</span + > + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page075">[pg 075]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg075"></a + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until + the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the + coming of the Son of man be.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + A picture of the present condition of the mass of mankind is here + drawn. The people of the last generation will be like those before + the flood, while the ark was preparing. While Noah preached, and + warned them of the coming flood, they mocked. He built the ark; + and they scoffed and jeered. He was a preacher of righteousness. + His works were calculated to give edge to, and send home to the + heart, what he preached. Every righteous sermon, and every blow + struck in building the ark, condemned a careless, scoffing world. + As the time drew nearer, the people grew more careless, more + hardened, more bold and impudent, and their condemnation surer. + Noah and his family stood alone. And could one family know more + than all the world? The ark was a matter of ridicule, and Noah was + regarded as a willful bigot. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + But the Lord calls Noah into the ark. And by the hand of + Providence the beasts are led into the ark; and the Lord shuts + Noah in. This is regarded at first by the scoffing multitude as + something wonderful; but it is soon explained away by the wiser + ones, so as to calm their fears, and they breathe easier. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The day of expectation finally arrives. The sun rises as usual, + and the heavens are clear. + <span class="tei tei-q">“Now where is old Noah's flood?”</span> is + heard from a thousand impious lips. The farmer is caring for his + herds and lands, and the mechanic is pursuing his work of + building. On this very day, some are being joined in marriage. + With many it is a day of unusual feasting and sports. And while + all are looking to long years of future prosperity and happiness, + suddenly the heavens gather blackness. Fear fills every heart. The + windows <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page076">[pg 076]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg076"></a> of heaven open, and the + rain descends in torrents. + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“The fountains of the great deep are broken up,”</span + > + and here and there come gushing up rivers of water. The valleys + are fast filling up, and thousands are swept away in death. Awful + death! made still more horrible by being in consequence of + slighted mercy! But where is Noah? Ah! safe in the ark, borne upon + the billows. Safe from the flood, for God + <span class="tei tei-q">“shut him in.”</span> + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + By some people, the evidences of the soon coming of Christ are + considered insufficient to base faith upon. But the testimony and + acts of one man in the case of Noah, condemned the people + destroyed by the flood. The evidences then were sufficient, + otherwise the world would not have been condemned. But a hundred + times more convincing evidences come pouring in upon us that the + day of the Lord is near, and hasteth greatly. We follow down the + several prophetic chains of Daniel and of the Revelation, and we + find ourselves in every instance standing just before the day of + wrath. We see the signs spoken of by prophets, by Christ, and by + the apostles, fulfilling or fulfilled. And at the right time, and + in the right manner, to fulfill certain prophecies, a solemn + message arises in different parts of the world: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy + mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the + day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand.”</span + > + Joel 2:1. Wherever we look, we see prophecy fulfilling. While the + knowledge of God and the spirit of holiness are departing, + spiritual wickedness, like a flood, covers the land. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + But these evidences are considered insufficient to rest faith + upon. Well, what kind of evidence would the unbelieving have? + <span class="tei tei-q">“When the signs of the end,”</span> says + the skeptic, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“are fulfilled, they will be so plain that no one + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page077">[pg 077]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg077"></a> can doubt.”</span + > + But if the signs are of such a nature, and are fulfilled in such a + manner, as to compel all to believe in the coming of Christ, how + can it be as it was in the days of Noah? Men were not then + compelled to believe. But eight believing souls were saved, while + all the world besides sank in their unbelief beneath the waters of + the flood. God has never revealed his truth to man in a manner to + compel him to believe. Those who have wished to doubt his word, + have found a wide field in which to doubt, and a broad road to + perdition; while those who have wished to believe, have ever found + an everlasting rock upon which to rest their faith. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Just before the end, the world will be hardened in sin, and + indifferent to the claims of God. Men will be careless in regard + to the warnings of danger, and blinded by cares, pleasures, and + riches. An unbelieving generation will be eating, drinking, + marrying, building, planting, and sowing. It is right to eat and + drink to sustain nature, but the sin is in excess and gluttony. + The marriage covenant is holy, but God's glory is seldom thought + of. Building, planting, and sowing, necessary for convenient + shelter, food, and clothing, are right; but the world has gone + wholly after these things, so that men have no time nor + disposition to think of God, heaven, Christ's coming, and the + Judgment. This world is their god, and all their energies of body + and mind are made to serve it. And the evil day is put far away. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The faithful watchman who sounds the alarm as he sees destruction + coming, is held up before the people from the pulpits of our land, + and by the religious press, as a fanatic, a teacher of dangerous + heresies; while in contrast is set forth a long period of peace + and prosperity to the church. So the churches are quieted to + sleep. The scoffer + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page079">[pg 079]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg079"></a> continues to scoff, and + the mocker mocks on. But that day is coming. Thus saith the + prophet of God:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come + as a destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all + hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt. And they + shall be afraid; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of + them.... Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with + wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and he + shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Isa. 13:6-9.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p + class="tei tei-p" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center" + ></p> + <div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center; width: 80%"> + <a href="images/i_078.png" + ><img alt="Illustration" src="images/i_078.png" + /></a> + <div + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: center" + > + The Day of Wrath. + </div> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Most dreadful day! and is it near?—Yes; it hasteth! It hasteth + greatly! What a description given by the prophet! Read it; and as + you read, try to realize how dreadful will be that day:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth + greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty + man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a + day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and + desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of + clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm + against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. And + I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like + blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord; and + their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as + the dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able + to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath; but the + whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; + for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that + dwell in the land.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Zeph. 1:14-18.</span> + </p> + </div> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4em; margin-top: 4em"> + <a id="toc33"></a> <a id="pdf34"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + margin-top: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + " + > + <span style="font-size: 144%">Peace And Safety.</span> + </h2> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The attitude of the religious world toward this most important + subject is worthy of more than passing notice both because of its + effect upon the cause of truth and also because it of itself is a + sign of the times. While it is true that many individuals in the + different Christian denominations recognize with more or less + distinctness the fact that we are living in the last days, with + many of these <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page080">[pg 080]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg080"></a> it does not become a + practical truth. Outside of these there are many who ridicule the + idea as preposterous and outlandish; and in opposition to the + message that Christ is soon coming, raise the cry of, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Peace, peace, when there is no peace.”</span + > + Such teaching is alluded to by the prophet in Eze. 13:10, 11. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The groundwork of the peace and safety cry is the doctrine of the + temporal millennium. This teaches that the world is now entering, + or about to enter upon a period of universal peace and good will, + that the moral tone of the world is improving, men and nations are + learning righteousness; and the gospel of Christ is about to + become the controlling principle in public and private life. And, + further, this happy state will continue for one thousand years, + which period of time the word millennium literally signifies. At + the end of that time, perhaps, the Lord will come. However, if + this doctrine be true, it will make but little difference to this + generation or to the one living at the close of the period whether + he does or not. The verses we have just considered which liken the + last days to those of Noah wholly disprove this position. In + addition to what Matthew states, Luke gives a still more forcible + version of our Saviour's words:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in + the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they + married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day + that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and + destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of + Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they + planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of + Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and + destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when + the Son of man is revealed.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">Luke 17:26-30.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Paul writes in his epistles to Timothy as follows:— + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page081">[pg 081]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg081"></a> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times + some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing + spirits, and doctrines of devils.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">1 Tim. 4:1.</span> + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall + come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, + boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, + unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, + trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, + despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, + highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; + having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: + from such turn away.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">2 Tim. 3:1-5.</span> + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, + deceiving, and being deceived.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Verse 13.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + In very many scriptures it is plainly declared that when Christ + comes, he comes not only to reward and save his people but also to + punish his enemies. Looking upon the last days he exclaims, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith + on the earth?”</span + > + Luke 18:8. The idea of a thousand years of peace and righteousness + before Christ comes might be dismissed as utterly out of the + question. But space will be given to one or two passages supposed + to teach it, which will represent the whole class. The first and + chief is found in Isa. 2:2-4:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the + mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top + of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and + all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and + say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, + to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of + his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion + shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from + Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall + rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into + ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation + shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they + learn war any more.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Almost the same language is used in Micah 4:1-3. It is enough to + call attention to the authorship of the + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page082">[pg 082]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg082"></a> + propositions contained in the text. They come from the people. + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Many people shall go and say, Come ye,”</span + > + etc. Inspiration asserts that in the last days the mountain or + power of the Lord's house or church shall be established in the + tops of the mountains, or civil power. Undoubtedly it will. + Everything is tending to the union of Church and State and the + professed church of Christ is riding on a high tide to civil power + in all lands. But farewell to godliness and spiritual power. When + this is accomplished, in a general chorus all will proclaim the + dawning millennium. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + How the Lord regards the people who are saying these things is + shown in the succeeding verses:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, + because they be replenished from the east, and are + soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves + in the children of strangers. Their land also is full of + silver and gold, neither is there any end of their + treasures; their land also is full of horses, neither is + there any end of their chariots: their land also is full of + idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which + their own fingers have made.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">Isa. 2:6-8.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Now let us see what God says on the same point and concerning the + same time:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; prepare war, wake up + the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them + come up: beat your ploughshares into swords, and your + pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. + Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather + yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty + ones to come down, O Lord. Let the heathen be wakened, and + come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit + to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, + for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press + is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. + Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the + day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun + and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall + withdraw</span + > + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page083">[pg 083]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg083"></a + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >their shining. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and + utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the + earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his + people, and the strength of the children of Israel.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Joel 3:9-16.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Mark, this is not what the people say, but what the Lord says of + the very same time when the people are preaching a good time + coming. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Another verse referred to, and representing quite a numerous class + of similar ones, is found in Num. 14:21. + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with + the glory of the Lord.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + There is no occasion to modify or limit the meaning of those + words; for their utmost significance will be realized. But + when?—When sin and the curse are wiped away. After the purifying + fires of the day of the Lord have burned up the last work and + relic of rebellion, and the earth made new in Edenic glory comes + again from the hand of its Maker, as beautiful, yea, more + beautiful, if possible, than at first. It would not be within the + limits of this pamphlet to follow out this subject, but the reader + is referred to the following scriptures: Isa. 65:17-22; 2 Peter + 3:13; Revelation 21 and 22, and to published works. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + In that state this and all kindred scriptures will meet a + fulfillment that is ample and complete. But for such a condition + of things this side of the coming of Christ neither the Bible nor + the trend of events give any promise whatever. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Judging of the probability of the conversion of the world from the + facts, it would seem to be far from striking. The following table + gives a comparatively accurate showing of the present religious + status of the world:— + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page085">[pg 085]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg085"></a> + <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Jews and Parsees 15,470,000 + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Greek Catholics 84,136,000 + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Protestants 114,815,500 + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Brahminical Hindoos 120,000,000 + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Mohammedans 122,400,000 + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Roman Catholics 255,000,000 + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Pagans 227,000,000 + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Buddhists 482,000,000 + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Unclassified 51,050,000 + </div> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Concerning the very small proportion of this number classed in the + list of Christians, Bishop Foster has very aptly said:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >There are some who too fondly anticipate a millennium. + There is a lack of information on the progress of + Christianity. The facts are misstated daily in pulpits all + over the country. Ministers hesitate to present the worst + side for fear of causing discouragement, and they create + hopes that are never realized. We are not at the dawn of a + millennium. Compared with the work to be done, the past is + nothing. Our children's children for ten generations to come + must labor harder than we are doing, to accomplish the + conversion of the world. The world's population is + 1,500,000,000. Of these, Christians number less than a + third; and half of that third belongs to the Roman Catholic + Church. The Protestants number 114,000,000. They are divided + into 500 sects. And this number of their strength includes, + also, all the thieves, ex-convicts, the debased, besotted, + and the speckled and streaked in Christendom.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span + ><span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic" + >Northwestern Christian Advocate of Dec. 2, 1885.</span + ></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Farther on in the same article the Bishop said:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Before us we have the great problem—the 1,100,000,000 of + pagans to convert to Christianity. That is the solid rock + that looms up in our path. Look at it; see what work has + been done in 1800 years, and how much is yet to be + accomplished. In India, after more than a hundred years of + mission work, we have 600,000 native converts and 2,000,000 + Christians among 260,000,000 heathen. Can we remove that + solid boulder that is as old as the hills?... Our Methodist + Church we think the most divine and ineffable. We boast that + we are going to conquer</span + > + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page086">[pg 086]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg086"></a + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >the world, and come from our palaces and princely farms to + subscribe fifty cents a head for the undertaking! It is a + burning disgrace that excites pity and disgust.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + And as to the prospects for universal peace, the following recent + statement of the armament of Europe does not indicate that the + nations are really contemplating such a happy consummation:— + </p> + <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Russia: 1,519,810 men, 181,000 horses, 2,084 cannon + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Germany: 835,000 men, 96,000 horses, 2,022 cannon + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Austria: 856,980 men, 58,125 horses, 1,600 cannon + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + England: 478,800 men + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + France: 1,850,000 men + </div> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The remaining states of Europe make up with the above a total of + about 6,000,000 men. + </p> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4em; margin-top: 4em"> + <a id="toc35"></a> <a id="pdf36"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + margin-top: 2.88em; + " + > + <span style="font-size: 144%">The Final Separation.</span> + </h2> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verses</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">40, 41:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and + the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the + one shall be taken, and the other left.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + This language shows the final separation between the righteous and + the wicked. There is no elaborate explanation as to how the + circumstances will meet their fulfillment, but that is not the + essential force of the text. The line will in some cases be drawn + between those who are intimately related. Some members of the same + family will be taken away by the judgments of God, while others + will be left to receive their coming Lord. + </p> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-top: 4em; margin-bottom: 4em"> + <a id="toc37"></a> <a id="pdf38"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + margin-top: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + " + > + <span style="font-size: 144%" + >Those Who Watch Will Know The Time.</span + > + </h2> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verses</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">42-44:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q"> + <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth + come. But know this, that if the good man of the</span + > + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page087">[pg 087]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg087"></a + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >house had known in what watch the thief would come, he + would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to + be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an + hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The injunction to watchfulness is repeatedly given by our Saviour + in connection with his teaching in reference to his second advent. + These injunctions must apply especially to those who live in + proximity to that event. This fact is convincing evidence that the + Lord is not displeased with those who anticipate his coming, and + study the word in reference to it. No one watches for that which + he does not expect, and indifference or aversion toward the coming + of Christ is sure evidence of coldness toward Christ himself. If + we love Jesus, we shall love his appearing and if we love his + appearing, we shall be eagerly watching and waiting for it. But if + we knew the hour when he would come, we should not watch for his + coming, nor could we with eagerness expect his coming if we had no + knowledge of its approach. The course of time has been measured + off in definite periods down to the beginning of the present + generation. The time from the end of the prophetic periods to the + coming of Christ is emphatically the waiting, watching time. Those + who watch, as our Lord commands, will eventually know the time. No + man will make it known, for it is not revealed to man in the + Scriptures. Angels will not make it known, though they may + minister to, and communicate with, the children of men. Neither + will the Son. But the Father will make it known when he speaks + again from heaven. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + It is undoubtedly true that the unscriptural and irrational course + pursued by many so-called Adventists in repeatedly setting a time + of their own for the Lord to come has had the effect to disgust + many with the whole + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page088">[pg 088]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg088"></a> matter. This is the + enemy's work. He will seek thus to obscure each truth by bringing + it into the shadow of reproach. But it is unwise to be thus + misled. Probably there is no prophecy that better describes the + present state of unbelief in the world in regard to the second + advent, caused partly by fanatical time-movements, than the + following:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land + of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision + faileth? Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God: I + will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use + it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are + at hand, and the effect of every vision. For there shall be + no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the + house of Israel. For I am the Lord: I will speak, and the + word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no + more prolonged, for in your days, O rebellious house, will I + say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord God.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Eze. 12:22-25.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The burden of this prophecy is time; therefore the word here + mentioned that the Lord will speak, will be the time. Rev. 3:3, is + also to the point:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Remember, therefore, how thou hast received and heard, and + hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I + will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what + hour I will come upon thee.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Those who do not watch, will not know the hour. Those who watch + will know the hour. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The present watching, waiting position requires much faith and + patience. Says Paul:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which hath great + recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, + after ye have done the will of God [in proclaiming the + coming of Christ], ye might receive the promise. For yet a + little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not + tarry. Now the just shall live by faith;</span + > + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page089"> [pg 089]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg089"></a + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in + him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition, + but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Heb. 10:35-39.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Says James: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. + Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the + earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early + and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for + the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”</span + > + James 5:7, 8. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Jesus says: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will + keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all + the world to try them that dwell upon the earth.”</span + > + Rev. 3:10. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The present position and present duty of God's people are defined + in Rev. 14:12: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep + the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”</span + > + </p> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4em; margin-top: 4em"> + <a id="toc39"></a> <a id="pdf40"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + text-align: left; + margin-top: 2.88em; + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + " + > + <span style="font-size: 144%" + >The Faithful And Wise Servant.</span + > + </h2> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verses</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">45-47:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q"> + <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath + made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due + season? Blessed is that servant whom his lord when he cometh + shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, that he shall + make him ruler over all his goods.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + In this figure, Christ is represented as the Lord of the household + of faith (see Mark 13:35; Heb. 3:6), leaving his house, and + committing the work of caring for his church to his servants. A + blessing is promised those servants who are found faithfully + discharging this duty when their Lord comes. They are to feed the + flock of God, over whom the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers. + Acts 20:28. They must preach the word. 2 Tim. 4:2. They should + watch for souls as they that must give account. + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page090">[pg 090]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg090"></a> Heb. 13:17. They will + not only give meat to the household, but they will give it in due + season. They will preach the + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">present</span></em + > + truth. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + And meat in due season when Christ's coming draws near, will be + the gospel of the kingdom. Verse 14. It will embrace warnings, + instructions, and encouragements pertaining to a message that is + designed and adapted to prepare the world for so solemn an event. + Suppose, for a moment, that when Noah had received his message of + the coming flood to give to the world, he had reasoned with + worldly wisdom that as such a thing never had occurred, and from + all appearances seemed very unlikely to occur, and hence to preach + it would subject him to reproach, it would be better to avoid any + particular allusion to such an unwelcome subject. His preaching + seemed to excite only ridicule. He could retain his own private + convictions and preach the ordinary principles of righteousness, + saying, + <span class="tei tei-q">“Do not so, my brethren.”</span> And if + the people were only prepared for the flood, that would be all + that would be necessary. Of such a course we can say two things. + He would thus have proved very unfaithful to his trust, and the + blood of his fellow-men would have been upon him; and he would + have done just as thousands are doing now. He certainly would not + have represented the faithful and wise servant. So it is now. A + solemn responsibility is placed upon the watchmen:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say + unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people + of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for + their watchman: if when he seeth the sword come upon the + land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; then + whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not + warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood + shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the + trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. + But</span + > + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page091">[pg 091]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg091"></a + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the + watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and + the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any + person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; + but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. So + thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the + house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my + mouth, and warn them from me.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Eze. 33:2-7.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + When Jesus comes, the faithful servants will be found proclaiming + his coming and teaching the necessary preparation. The Saviour + speaks of such as + <span class="tei tei-q">“faithful and wise.”</span> + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + 1. He is faithful. As a faithful watchman, he will give timely + warning when he sees the sword coming. His work just before the + end, is seen in the following scriptures:— + </p> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy + mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for + the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">Joel 2:1.</span> + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and + show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob + their sins.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">Isa. 58:1.</span> + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-q" + ><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus + Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his + appearing and his kingdom, Preach the word; be instant in + season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all + long-suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when + they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own + lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching + ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, + and shall be turned into fables. But watch thou in all + things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, + make full proof of thy ministry.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">2. Tim. 4:1-5.</span> + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + 2. He is wise. + <span class="tei tei-q">“He that winneth souls is wise.”</span> He + must be wise. He will hold forth the truth in its harmony and + beauty, and thus expose error and win men to the truth. When it + becomes his duty to + <span class="tei tei-q">“reprove and rebuke,”</span> it will be at + a proper time and place, and then with all + <span class="tei tei-q">“long-suffering and doctrine.”</span> He + will study to <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page092">[pg 092]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg092"></a> show himself + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, + rightly dividing the word of truth.”</span + > + 2 Tim. 2:15. + </p> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-top: 4em; margin-bottom: 4em"> + <a id="toc41"></a> <a id="pdf42"></a> + <h2 + class="tei tei-head" + style=" + margin-bottom: 2.88em; + margin-top: 2.88em; + text-align: left; + " + > + <span style="font-size: 144%">The Evil Servant.</span> + </h2> + <div + class="block tei tei-quote" + style=" + margin-top: 1.8em; + margin-left: 3.6em; + margin-bottom: 1.8em; + margin-right: 3.6em; + " + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.9em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps" + >Verses</span + ></span + > + <span style="font-size: 90%">48-51:</span> + <span class="tei tei-q"> + <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%" + >But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My + lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his + fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; the + lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not + for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of; and shall + cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the + hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of + teeth.</span + ><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + What the evil servant says and does, shows most clearly the + position and work of the faithful and wise servant. The evil + servant says, + <span class="tei tei-q">“My lord delayeth his coming,”</span> + because the faithful servant is proclaiming the coming of his + lord. The evil servant smites the faithful servant, because he + teaches the soon coming of his Lord. The faithful servant, true to + his commission to preach the + <span class="tei tei-q">“gospel of the kingdom”</span> + to a fallen church and a scoffing world, toils on, and for this + the evil servant smites him. Not with the fist, perhaps, but with + the tongue of obloquy and reproach. That there should be professed + servants of Christ engaged in smiting those who are faithfully + warning the world, need not cause surprise in view of the past, + but must cause sorrow in the heart of every lover of truth. The + wicked servant says in heart, and some are saying with their lips, + The Lord is not coming. The world is now just starting out upon + its career of knowledge and enjoyment. Where is the promise or + indication of his coming? Some say, He may come to-night, he may + not come in a million years, thus neutralizing the truth. Such men + will be found criticising and discounting the Scriptures and + subjecting them to the tests of human philosophy and science. The + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page093">[pg 093]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg093"></a> only safety for the + people is to look beyond such watchmen. Let them take the Bible + for themselves, and there discerning the truth, embrace it, and + live according to it. + </p> + </div> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5em; margin-top: 5em"> + <a id="toc43"></a> <a id="pdf44"></a> + <h1 + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em; text-align: left" + > + <span style="font-size: 173%">Conclusion.</span> + </h1> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The impression prevails to some extent that he who teaches that + Christ is soon coming is acting the + <span class="tei tei-foreign" + ><span style="font-style: italic">rôle</span></span + > + of an alarmist. If so, we have seen that the great Teacher has + placed himself at the head of the class. No one has spoken more + positively upon this point than he has done. He said, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I + would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go + and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you + unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”</span + > + John 14:2, 3. There is nothing ambiguous about that language. A + child can understand it. It means that Jesus will come again. In the + remarkable chapter we have here reviewed, the Saviour takes up the + subject specifically, and not only affirms the fact of his coming, + but foretells in explicit language the events which he would have us + recognize as signs of the near approach of his coming and the end of + the world. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + But the message of Christ's second coming is not sensational in its + essential character. It is a solemn, practical truth. It is full of + warning and admonition to sinners and worldly professors, and full + of comfort to the faithful followers of Christ. It is spoken of in + the Scriptures as a fact, established upon the word which never + fails. When speaking + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page095">[pg 095]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg095"></a> of his second advent, the + Saviour said, + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass + away.”</span + > + Matt. 24:35. To disbelieve in his coming would be to doubt one of + the two great features of the gospel plan. What the harvest is to + seed-time, Christ's second advent will be to his first. To doubt + that he ever came to earth would be to subvert the gospel. To + disbelieve his second coming would nullify in the mind his first + coming, and rob the sacrifice of its glorious reward. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + The apostle Paul speaks of the second advent as + <span class="tei tei-q">“that blessed hope.”</span> Titus 2:13. + Jesus says: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“And when these things [the signs of his coming] begin to come to + pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption + draweth nigh.”</span + > + The prophet Isaiah anticipates the feelings of God's people who will + witness the event, and expresses them in the following manner: + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have + waited for him, and he will save us: This is the Lord; we have + waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his + salvation.”</span + > + Isa. 25:9. + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + At his coming, the dead in Christ will be raised to everlasting + life. The righteous living will be changed to immortality. The hand + of our Saviour will wipe away all tears; + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, + neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are + passed away.”</span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Why should we not rejoice in such a prospect? Who would not welcome + such a friend? Who would not rejoice in the prospect of such a + consummation? + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + But it is true that the grand event will not be attended with joy + alone. There will be dismay and anguish. For while one prophet + records the exclamations of joyful anticipation, another has + foreseen and recorded the cry of despair. + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page096">[pg 096]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg096"></a> + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, + and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and + every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the + mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and + hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from + the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of his wrath is come; and + who shall be able to stand?”</span + > + Rev. 6:15-17. A vast number will thus lament. All who cannot join + the shout of welcome will unite in the wail of despair. There will + be but two classes in that day. And to one of those classes each one + living will belong. To which shall I belong? Solemn question. To + which party will you belong, reader? No one can + <em class="tei tei-emph" + ><span style="font-style: italic">wait</span></em + > + for Christ who is not prepared for his coming. Only the precious + blood of Jesus that cleanses from sin can prepare us to receive him + and fit us to dwell in his presence. Have you an interest in his + forgiving love? Is your peace made with God? If so, his coming will + have no terror to you, for he comes to save his waiting people. + </p> + </div> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page097">[pg 097]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg097"></a> + <hr class="page" /> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5em; margin-top: 5em"> + <a id="toc45"></a> <a id="pdf46"></a> + <h1 + class="tei tei-head" + style="margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: left; margin-top: 3.46em" + > + <span style="font-size: 173%">Choice Religious Books.</span> + </h1> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + Any publication in the following list will be sent post-paid to any + address in the United States and Canada. 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A thorough + canvass of the great question of a future existence, and the nature + of man in the present life. Every text in the Bible which has any + bearing upon these points, is taken up and carefully explained, thus + giving the most comprehensive view of the subject that has yet been + presented. The work contains 444 pages. In cloth covers + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">$1.00</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.</span></span + >—The most complete and comprehensive work on the subject of + Christian Education that has ever been published. Starting from the + period of infancy, it points out the most successful way of + preparing the mind of the child for the work of succeeding years. + The importance of proceeding upon Christian principles in the work + of education, the nature and kind of studies which are best for + children, and the moulding influences of home and associates, are + dwelt upon in the most practical and explicit way. Many of the + problems that perplex parents are cleared up in this book, and every + one who has to deal with children should procure and study it. + </p> + <span class="tei tei-ab" + >256 pages nicely bound in cloth + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">50 cts.</span></span + ></span + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">STEPS TO CHRIST.</span></span + >—This little work by Mrs. E. G. White presents in a simple and + attractive manner the steps by which the sinner may be made complete + in Christ. While the book is an excellent guide for inquirers and + young converts, it also contains a wealth of counsel and + encouragement for those who are laboring with the difficulties that + beset a growing experience. 157 pages. In neat cloth binding + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">75. cts.</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">HELPS TO BIBLE STUDY.</span></span + >—A series of Bible readings, simple and easy, designed as an aid to + the personal study of the Scriptures, and adapted to the use of + individuals or families; also a valuable assistant to Bible workers. + The book contains about forty readings, prepared by practical Bible + workers and teachers, and covering the most important subjects that + pertain to the spiritual welfare of mankind at the present time. 125 + pages. + </p> + <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + In cloth binding + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">50 cts.</span></span + > + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + In paper covers + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">25 cts.</span></span + > + </div> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">GOSPEL WORKERS</span></span + > + is a very interesting volume of 480 pages. It outlines the + qualifications that should be possessed by ministers and all others + who would win souls to Christ. It should be in the hands of all + Christian workers. This book can be read and studied by all classes + with edification and profit. + </p> + <span class="tei tei-ab" + >In plain substantial binding + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">$1.00</span></span + ></span + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700" + >MINISTRATION OF ANGELS</span + ></span + >, and the Origin, History, and Destiny of Satan. A work of great + interest upon a subject seldom written upon, yet of great importance + to the Christian. Bound in paper covers + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">20 cts.</span></span + > + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page099">[pg 099]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg099"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">FACTS FOR THE TIMES.</span></span + >—Containing historical extracts, candid admissions from authors, + ancient and modern, on the live questions of the present hour, + political and religious. A book for these times. Revised to 1893. A + compilation of facts that are astounding, by students of Biblical + and historical research. 340 pages. In fine cloth covers + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">75 cts.</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700" + >THE SAINTS' INHERITANCE.</span + ></span + >—The reader will here find a very interesting pamphlet of 82 pages + showing that the future kingdom of Christ, with the family of the + redeemed, will be in this earth, renewed, restored, and regenerated, + according to numerous scriptures in the Old and New Testaments. + </p> + <span class="tei tei-ab" + >In paper covers + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">10 cts.</span></span + ></span + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700" + >THE GOSPEL IN CREATION.</span + ></span + >—A nicely illustrated work setting forth clearly and simply the + relation between God's work in creation and redemption. The signs of + power and greatness that mark the handiwork of God in the visible + universe are shown to be but indications of the unfailing strength + with which he works in the lives of those who submit to his will. + The confirmation of the truths of the gospel drawn from the study of + the creation will make this book a valuable one to all who are + watching with interest the attacks that are now made on the + authority of the Bible. + </p> + <span class="tei tei-ab" + >In cloth covers + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">50 cts.</span></span + ></span + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">SACRED CHRONOLOGY.</span></span + >—A new and revised edition of a little work published by the late + Sylvester Bliss about forty years ago, giving the chronology from + creation to the death of the apostle John. Also + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“The Peopling of the Earth; or, Historical Notes on the Tenth + Chapter of Genesis.”</span + > + By A. T. Jones. A valuable reference book. 298 pp. Cloth covers + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">$1.00</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700" + >LIFE OF CHRIST AND HIS APOSTLES.</span + ></span + >—A series of eight pamphlets, under the general title of + <span class="tei tei-q">“Redemption,”</span> portraying the first + advent of Christ, his temptation, his miracles, his teachings, his + sufferings, and his resurrection, and the teachings and labors of + Peter and Paul. Here are 788 pages of most excellent reading. + </p> + <span class="tei tei-ab" + >In paper covers + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">90 cts.</span></span + ></span + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">SATAN'S FIRST LIE</span></span + >; or Man in Death. A very fascinating poem of 36 pages by a + well-known poet of Michigan. The + <span class="tei tei-q">“Lie”</span> referred to is the one + mentioned in the third chapter of Genesis; and though, as the + Scriptures tell, the devil is a liar and the father of it, none of + his lies have wrought such disastrous consequences to the race as + the one here pointed out. The reader will hardly fail of being alike + interested in both the poetry and theology of this unique poem. In + paper covers + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">15 cts.</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700" + >THE CHRISTIAN'S SECRET OF A HAPPY LIFE.</span + ></span + >—By Hannah Whitall Smith. + <span class="tei tei-q" + >“To commend this work would seem almost superfluous; and yet to + young Christians who may not know it, we cannot refrain from + saying, Buy this book, and keep it with your Bible for constant + study, until you have thoroughly mastered, in your experience, the + secret of which it tells. It will transform the dark days of your + life, as it has transformed those of thousands before you into + days of heavenly light.”</span + >—<span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-style: italic" + >The Evangelist (N. Y.).</span + ></span + > + </p> + <span class="tei tei-ab" + >In cloth covers + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">75 cts.</span></span + ></span + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700" + >HIS GLORIOUS APPEARING.</span + ></span + >—An exposition of Matthew XXIV. This is a verse-by-verse + explanation of the Redeemer's great prophecy concerning the Gospel + Dispensation and his second appearing in glory. 96 pages, with 20 + full-page illustrations. + </p> + <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em"> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + In paper covers, + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">20 cts.</span></span + > + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Board covers, + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">25 cts.</span></span + > + </div> + <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> + Cloth covers + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">40 cts.</span></span + > + </div> + </div> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700" + >THE CHARIOTS OF FIRE AND IRON</span + ></span + >; or, The Modern Railroad System, treated in the light of sacred + prophecy. A very interesting pamphlet of 168 pages. By D. T. Taylor, + the well-known author. + </p> + <span class="tei tei-ab" + >In paper covers + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">25 cts.</span></span + ></span + > + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700" + >THE REJECTED ORDINANCE.</span + ></span + >—A convincing argument to show that our Saviour's remarkable act of + humility recorded in the thirteenth chapter of John, should be + literally perpetuated among Christians + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">10 cts.</span></span + > + </p> + <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page100">[pg 100]</span + ><a class="tei tei-anchor" id="Pg100"></a> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">SCRIPTURE REFERENCES.</span></span + >—A careful compilation of proof-texts on twenty-five different + subjects of great importance at the present time. + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">4 cts.</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700" + >SPIRITUALISM A SATANIC DELUSION.</span + ></span + >—This is a scathing arraignment of the system of necromancy known + under the name of + <span class="tei tei-q">“Modern Spiritualism.”</span> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">4 cts.</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">IS THE END NEAR?</span></span + >—An 8-page tract of great interest, giving numerous reasons for + believing that the Second Coming of Christ is at hand. + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">1 ct.</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">CAN WE KNOW?</span></span + >—A tract of 8 pages which proves most conclusively that the + numerous predictions concerning the signs of the times and the + second advent may be understood. + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">1 ct.</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">THE TWO LAWS.</span></span + >—A clear and scriptural argument showing the difference between the + Ten Commandments and the ceremonial law or the Hebrews. + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">2 cts.</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700" + >THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST.</span + ></span + >—This tract dwells with great force on the agonies of our Redeemer + in the garden and on the cross, in order to make the salvation of + sinners possible. + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">4 cts.</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">THE SECOND ADVENT</span></span + >, showing the nature of the Second Coming, and reasons for + believing it near. + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">4 cts.</span></span + > + </p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">BIBLE CONVERSION.</span></span + >—A tract of 16 pages which sets forth very clearly what it is to be + born again, and that without a change of heart no one can be saved. + <span class="tei tei-hi" + ><span style="font-weight: 700">2 cts.</span></span + > + </p> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5em; 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If you are - not located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws - of the country where you are located before using this ebook.</p> - </div> - <pre class="pre tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 3.00em; margin-bottom: 3.00em"> -Title: His Glorious Appearing - -Author: James Springer White - -Release Date: June 15, 2017 [Ebook #54914] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HIS GLORIOUS APPEARING*** -</pre> - </div> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"></div> - <hr class="page" /> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.73em; text-align: center"><span style= - "font-size: 173%">His Glorious Appearing</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style= - "font-size: 120%">An Exposition of Matthew Twenty-Four</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">By</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.44em; text-align: center"><span style= - "font-size: 144%">James Springer White</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center">Revised and - Illustrated</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center"><span class="tei tei-q" - style="text-align: center">“What shall be the sign of thy coming, and - of the end of the world?”</span>—<span class="tei tei-hi" style= - "text-align: center"><span style= - "font-variant: small-caps">Disciples</span></span>.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" - style="text-align: center">“When ye shall see all these things, know - that it is near, even at the doors.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-hi" - style="text-align: center"><span style= - "font-variant: small-caps">Jesus</span></span>.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center">Eleventh Edition.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center">Review and Herald - Publishing Co.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Battle Creek, Mich.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">1895</p> - </div> - <hr class="page" /> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em"> - <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= - "text-align: left; margin-top: 3.46em; margin-bottom: 3.46em"> - <span style="font-size: 173%">Contents</span></h1> - - <ul class="tei tei-index tei-index-toc"> - <li><a href="#toc1">Introductory.</a></li> - - <li><a href="#toc3">Christ's Prophecy.</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc5">Persecution And False - Prophets.</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc7">Iniquity - Abounds.</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc9">The End.</a></li> - - <li><a href="#toc11">When Shall These Things Be?</a></li> - - <li><a href="#toc13">What Shall Be The Sign Of Thy Coming?</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc15">Shortened For The - Elect's Sake.</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc17">Lo, Here, And Lo, - There.</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc19">The Signs Of Christ's - Coming.</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc21">“And The Stars Shall - Fall.”</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc23">“The Powers Of Heaven - Shall Be Shaken.”</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc25">“Sign Of The Son Of - Man.”</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc27">Parable Of The - Fig-Tree.</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc29">“The Day And - Hour.”</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc31">Noah's Time And - Ours.</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc33">Peace And - Safety.</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc35">The Final - Separation.</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc37">Those Who Watch Will - Know The Time.</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc39">The Faithful And Wise - Servant.</a></li> - - <li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc41">The Evil - Servant.</a></li> - - <li><a href="#toc43">Conclusion.</a></li> - - <li><a href="#toc45">Choice Religious Books.</a></li> - </ul> - </div> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-body" style= - "margin-top: 6.00em; margin-bottom: 6.00em"> - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 60%; text-align: center"> - <a href="images/cover.jpg"><img src="images/cover.jpg" alt= - "Book Cover" /></a> - </div> - </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page002">[pg 002]</span><a name= - "Pg002" id="Pg002" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 50%; text-align: center"> - <a href="images/frontis.png"><img src="images/frontis.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center; margin-top: 1.00em"> - The Light of the World - </div> - </div> - </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page005">[pg 005]</span><a name= - "Pg005" id="Pg005" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - <hr class="page" /> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> - <a name="toc1" id="toc1"></a> <a name="pdf2" id="pdf2"></a> - - <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-top: 3.46em; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em"> - <span style="font-size: 173%">Introductory.</span></h1> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-q">“Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth - his secret unto his servants the prophets.”</span> Amos 3:7.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No truth of - inspiration can be more clearly demonstrated than that God reveals - his designs to his prophets, that men and nations may be prepared for - their accomplishment. Before visiting with judgments, God has - uniformly sent forth warnings sufficient to enable the believing to - escape his wrath, and to condemn those who have not heeded the - warning. This was the case before the flood. The wickedness of the - world had become very great. Every imagination of the thoughts of the - hearts of men was only evil. It would seem that they had forfeited - all claims for consideration. Violence and corruption filled the - earth, and the only way to eradicate evil was to destroy it with its - workers. But before doing so, the world must be warned of the - impending doom; and there was found one man who would engage in the - work. Noah had faith in God, and preached for one hundred and twenty - years the message of <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page006">[pg - 006]</span><a name="Pg006" id="Pg006" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - warning and salvation. His work also testified with his words.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not - seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his - house; by the which he condemned the world.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">Heb. - 11:7.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At a later period, - when the nations had again become sunken in idolatry and crime, and - the destruction of wicked Sodom and Gomorrah was determined, the Lord - said,—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; - seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, - and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in - him?</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">Gen. 18:17, 18.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And due notice was - given to righteous Lot, who, with his daughters, was preserved; and - none, even in that guilty city, perished without due warning. Lot - evidently warned the people; and in thus communing with them, was - <span class="tei tei-q">“vexed with the filthy conversation of the - wicked.”</span> 2 Peter 2:7, 8. His righteous life had been a rebuke - to them; and we have every reason to believe that the holy example of - Abraham in his worship of the true God was known to them. He had at - one time been their saviour, and rescued their captives and spoil - from the victorious enemy who was carrying them away. But when Lot - warned his friends of the approaching doom, <span class= - "tei tei-q">“he seemed as one that mocked.”</span> Gen. 19:14. They, - like the antediluvians, persisted in sin, and drank of the wrath of - God.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At a subsequent - time the sins of Nineveh rose to heaven, and Jonah was sent to bear - to that proud capital the startling message, <span class= - "tei tei-q">“Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be destroyed.”</span> - The consciences of those sinners told them the message was true; and - from the least of them to the greatest they humbled themselves, and - the overhanging judgment was averted.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id= - "page007">[pg 007]</span><a name="Pg007" id="Pg007" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Before Christ - commenced his earthly mission, John the Baptist was sent as the voice - of one crying in the wilderness, <span class="tei tei-q">“Prepare ye - the way of the Lord.”</span> By this means the expectation of the - people was raised, and doubtless many were through it led to accept - of salvation, while the generation at large was condemned for - rejecting the light.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Our Saviour in his - time saw the destruction of Jerusalem just in the future of that - generation, and faithfully warned the people, foretelling signs by - which it might be known when the desolation thereof was nigh. Luke - 21:21. Such is the testimony of inspiration respecting the dealings - of God with his people in past ages.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">All who accept the - Bible as the inspired word of God acknowledge that he has been very - faithful in warning people in past ages of impending judgments and - other events which affected their eternal welfare. Such having been - the divine plan in relation to past events, we would certainly be - justified in anticipating such warnings of Christ's second coming as - would comport with the importance of the event. But when we come to - regard the future, and especially our own immediate future, the - incredulity of very many is at once aroused.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But what are the - facts in the case? Can anything be learned from the Bible relative to - the time of the second advent? This is a grave inquiry; and, from the - very nature of the subject, is worthy of close investigation, and a - candid answer. It is a matter of painful regret that many, under the - influence of popular prejudice, have decided that the period of the - second advent is a secret, hidden with the Lord. While these can - scarcely be reached with this subject, as long as they remain under - the influence of those who denounce all investigation of it as prying - into the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page009">[pg - 009]</span><a name="Pg009" id="Pg009" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - secrets of the Almighty, there is still, we believe, a larger class - who wait for evidence before deciding.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> - <a href="images/i_008.png"><img src="images/i_008.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-top: 1.00em; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> - Christ Weeping Over Jerusalem - </div> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We accept the - Bible as a revelation from heaven. What God has revealed in that - book, let no man call a mystery, or a secret of the Almighty. - <span class="tei tei-q">“The secret things belong unto the Lord our - God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our - children forever.”</span> Deut. 29:29. If the sacred Scriptures, in a - most clear and harmonious manner, point out the signs of the approach - of that great event, and if there is evidence that <span class= - "tei tei-q">“it is near, even at the doors,”</span> the subject at - once assumes great importance.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When the disciples - inquired, <span class="tei tei-q">“What shall be the sign of thy - coming, and of the end of the world?”</span> Jesus did not reprove - them for inquiring into this matter, nor tell them that it was - purposely hidden from all men; but he answered their question in the - most definite manner.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The simple fact - that the Lord mentions signs of his second advent, is the best proof - possible that his people were not to remain ignorant of the relative - nearness of the event. Add to this his injunctions to watchfulness, - and the blessings which he pronounces upon those who are awake and - watching at his coming, and it becomes a certainty that he would not - leave his people ignorant of the proximity of that event. Paul also - says that <span class="tei tei-q">“unto <em class= - "tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">them that look for - him</span></em> shall he appear the second time without sin unto - salvation.”</span> Heb. 9:28. And that a crown of righteousness will - be given <span class="tei tei-q">“unto all them also that love his - appearing.”</span> 2 Tim. 4:8.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With these - assurances we may look for plain and emphatic tokens of the Saviour's - second coming.</p> - </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page011">[pg 011]</span><a name= - "Pg011" id="Pg011" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - <hr class="page" /> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em"> - <a name="toc3" id="toc3"></a> <a name="pdf4" id="pdf4"></a> - - <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= - "text-align: left; margin-top: 3.46em; margin-bottom: 3.46em"> - <span style="font-size: 173%">Christ's Prophecy.</span></h1> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> - <a href="images/i_010.png"><img src="images/i_010.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-top: 1.00em; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> - Jesus on the Mount of Olives - </div> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Probably no other - chapter of the Bible speaks more fully, and more definitely, upon the - subject of the second advent, than Matthew 24, in Christ's own words. - We invite the attention of the candid reader to a brief explanation - of the entire chapter.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> - Verse 1</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">:</span> - <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">And Jesus - went out, and departed from the temple; and his disciples came to - him for to show him the buildings of the temple.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jesus had been - addressing the multitude, in the presence of his disciples. He had - reproved the scribes and the Pharisees for their sins, and had - declared, in the previous chapter, the doom of the Jews, their city, - and their temple. The disciples supposed that the temple would stand - forever, and they called the attention of Christ to its magnificence - and strength, and to the great stones that entered into the - structure. On this point the historian of those times, Josephus, - says: <span class="tei tei-q">“Now the temple was built of stones - that were white and strong, and each of their lengths was twenty-five - cubits, their height was eight, and their breadth about - twelve.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style= - "font-style: italic">Antiquities,</span><span style= - "font-style: italic">”</span></span> <span style= - "font-style: italic">book xv, chap. xi.</span></span> If we compute a - cubit at twenty inches, we shall be able to gain some idea of the - size and <span class="tei tei-q">“manner”</span> of these stones.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> - Verse 2</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">:</span> - <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">And Jesus - said unto them, See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, - There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not - be thrown down.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verse - 3</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the - disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall - these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of - the end of the world?</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This statement - from the Master could not but deeply interest the disciples. And it - matters not whether they supposed that the destruction of the temple, - the coming of <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page012">[pg - 012]</span><a name="Pg012" id="Pg012" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - Christ, and the end of the age, would all occur at the same time, or - at different periods, since Christ, in his answer in this chapter, - has distinctly spoken of each separately, and has given each its - place in the prophetic history of events. If it were their impression - that the overthrow of the temple and the end of the world would occur - at the same time, it by no means proves that this would be the case. - As the Scriptures show, up to the time of the out-pouring of the Holy - Spirit on the day of Pentecost, their ideas upon many points were - crude and inaccurate. Take as proof of this the parable which the - Lord spake when he was going into Jerusalem. Luke 19. They thought - that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. To correct this - impression, the parable of the nobleman was spoken. If they - understood the parable at the time when it was spoken, it did not - fully eradicate the impression from their minds, as is proved by what - they did when they entered Jerusalem. We cannot believe that they - would have hailed him as the Son of David, and rejoiced before him as - a King in his triumph, if they had realized that he was going into - the city to be condemned and crucified as a malefactor. Palm branches - and shouts of triumph did not attend the steps of the lowly and the - condemned.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">John admits for - himself and Peter, after they had seen the empty sepulcher, that - <span class="tei tei-q">“they knew not the scripture, that he must - rise again from the dead.”</span> John 20:9.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Again, after his - resurrection, Jesus reproved two of his disciples, who, though they - had trusted that he would redeem Israel, were then sad and - disheartened. They did not then understand that Christ ought - <span class="tei tei-q">“to have suffered these things, and to enter - into his glory.”</span> The suffering part was still a mystery to - them. And some of the apostles were so slow to realize that which he - had spoken to them, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page013">[pg - 013]</span><a name="Pg013" id="Pg013" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - that they could hardly be persuaded that he was indeed risen from the - dead. And after he had been with them full forty days, speaking to - them of the things pertaining to the kingdom, they did not yet - understand <span class="tei tei-q">“the times and the - seasons,”</span> and therefore asked him, <span class= - "tei tei-q">“Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom - to Israel?”</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">However the matter - may have been entertained in the minds of the disciples, it is - evident that their query consisted of two distinct questions in the - mind of the Saviour. These questions relate, first, to the - destruction of Jerusalem; and, second, to Christ's second coming at - the end of the world or age. They were distinctly answered by our - Lord; not, however, before the promiscuous multitude; but on the - occasion of a private interview with his disciples. Christ here - speaks to his disciples; hence his words in this prophetic discourse - are addressed especially to the church.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> - Verses 4, 5</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">:</span> - <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">And Jesus - answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For - many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive - many.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jesus knew the - hearts of men, and that many impostors would arise, and deceive - multitudes. He here warns his disciples, and guards them against the - deceptions of corrupt and ambitious men. Such was the general - expectation of the appearance of the Messiah among the Jews, that - many would set up the claim that they were the Christ, to carry out - selfish purposes, or to gain notoriety, and the credulous people - would be easily led into the deception, and then be destroyed for - sedition. We are informed that in the days succeeding those of - Christ, impostors arose in great numbers. Josephus tells us of an - Egyptian false prophet who led 30,000 men into the desert to show - them <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page015">[pg 015]</span><a name= - "Pg015" id="Pg015" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> signs, and then - brought them to Jerusalem as if to attack the city. He caused great - pillage and destruction in Judea, but in the time of battle, ran - away, leaving his followers to the exasperated Romans.—<span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">Wars of - the Jews,</span><span style= - "font-style: italic">”</span></span><span style= - "font-style: italic">book ii, chap. xiii.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> - <a href="images/i_014.png"><img src="images/i_014.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "text-align: center; margin-top: 1.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> - Ancient Jerusalem - </div> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the former part - of the second century Cazibee set himself at the head of the Jewish - nation and proclaimed himself their long-expected Messiah. To - facilitate the success of his bold enterprise he changed his name to - that of Barchocheba, alluding to the Star foretold by Balaam. Adrian - raised an army, and sent it against him. He retired into a town - called Bither, where he was besieged. Barchocheba was killed in the - siege, the city was taken, and a dreadful havoc succeeded. The Jews - themselves allow that, during this short war against the Romans in - defense of this false Messiah, they lost five or six hundred thousand - souls.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-style: italic">Buck's Dictionary.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Dr. A. Clarke - says, on the authority of Josephus, that <span class="tei tei-q">“a - few years afterward, under the reign of Nero, while Felix was - procurator of Judea, impostors of this stamp were so frequent that - some were taken and killed almost every day.”</span> And at intervals - since then the Jews who are all the time expecting the appearance of - the Messiah have been repeatedly the victims of cruel deception.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> - Verse 6</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">:</span> - <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">And ye shall - hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that ye be not troubled: for - all these things must come to pass, but the end is not - yet.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is proper that - we should consider what is meant by the term <span class= - "tei tei-q">“the end,”</span> used in this verse; in verse 14, - <span class="tei tei-q">“then shall the end come;”</span> and in - verse 3, <span class="tei tei-q">“the sign of thy coming, and the end - of the world.”</span> In the first place, it may be unhesitatingly - claimed that the term does not refer to the end of the Jewish - dispensation, which terminated at <span class="tei tei-pb" id= - "page016">[pg 016]</span><a name="Pg016" id="Pg016" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a> the crucifixion, nor to the destruction of - Jerusalem, which occurred about forty years later. Because, first, - Jesus treated the question concerning the destruction of the temple - and that referring to his coming and the end of the world as relating - to two distinct events, widely separated in time. Second, the signs - which were to be premonitory of the end did not transpire before the - destruction of the temple. Third, the second coming of Christ, the - close of probation, the judgment, the resurrection, and the end of - sin, death, and mortality, are frequently and prominently associated - together in the Bible as constituting the most important epoch in - human history. To limit this thrilling discourse to the local and - long past destruction of Jerusalem would be to rob it of its force - and grandeur. Not only would the twenty-fourth of Matthew which we - are now studying be stultified, but very much of the life and power - of the Scriptures would be sacrificed by such a course.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As to the meaning - of the phrase, <span class="tei tei-q">“the end of the world,”</span> - it may consistently be translated <span class="tei tei-q">“the end of - the age,”</span> and in the margin of the Revised Bible it is - rendered <span class="tei tei-q">“the consummation of the - age.”</span> For an inspired definition of the term, let the reader - turn to Matt. 13:38-40 and its context, where the same words are used - and repeated in the original:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">The tares are the children of the wicked one; the - enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the - world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are - gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this - world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall - gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them that do - iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be - weeping and gnashing of teeth.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From Rev. 14:14-16 - we learn that the harvest of the earth and the second coming of - Christ are identical. <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page017">[pg - 017]</span><a name="Pg017" id="Pg017" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> So - that by no possible means could it be established that the - <span class="tei tei-q">“end of the world”</span> means the - destruction of Jerusalem. Further evidence is found in Matt. 28:20 - where the same expression, both in the original and in the - translation, is used: <span class="tei tei-q">“Lo I am with you - alway, even unto the end of the world.”</span> But no one would have - the audacity to claim that this promise expired in <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">a. - d.</span></span> 70, as it must have done if those questions of the - disciples and the subsequent discourse of Christ related only to the - impending doom of the temple and city.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> - Verses</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">7, 8:</span> - <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">For nation - shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there - shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers - places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Wars, famines, - pestilences, and earthquakes have occurred all along since these - words were spoken. Therefore, these, as they have ever existed, - cannot be regarded as the especial signs of the end. It may be - claimed, however, with a good degree of consistency, that the - Scriptures teach that these calamities would abound in the last days - to such an extent as to constitute a sign of the approaching - Judgment. We wish to keep the important fact distinctly before the - mind, that the sacred Scriptures do teach when men may not, and when - they may, look for the second appearing of Christ.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sacred writers - have so uniformly associated such judgments as war, famine, - pestilence, and earthquake, with the last Judgment, that the - disciples would be in danger of concluding that the end would - immediately follow the first appearance of these calamities; hence - the caution given: <span class="tei tei-q">“These things must come to - pass, but the end is not yet.”</span> Here the disciples were clearly - taught that they should not expect the end in their day. This fact is - worthy of the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page018">[pg - 018]</span><a name="Pg018" id="Pg018" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - candid attention of those who object to the proclamation of the - second advent of Christ in the form of an especial message. These - sometimes assert that it was right for the disciples to look for - Christ in their day, and that it has been scriptural and right for - all Christians to look for the second appearing of Christ in their - time, from the days of the chosen twelve to the present time. And - they decide that no more can be learned and believed upon this - subject in our time than by the Christians of past generations, and - that the public mind should not now be moved upon this great - question, any more than in all past time since the first advent of - Christ.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We have seen that - this position is incorrect so far as the early disciples were - concerned. They are directed to the distant future as the time when - their Lord should come. They are assured that they need not be - troubled at hearing of wars and rumors of wars; <span class= - "tei tei-q">“for all these things must come to pass, but the end is - not yet.”</span> Our Lord then guides the minds of his disciples, as - we shall see in the examination of this chapter, down over the time - of the great apostasy, and the long period of the rule of papal Rome, - before mentioning a sign of his second advent. He does not intimate - that his people during these long periods may expect the end. No, not - once. But when he comes to a later time, the Lord names signs in the - sun, in the moon, and in the stars, and adds: <span class= - "tei tei-q">“When ye shall see all these things, know that it is - near, even at the doors.”</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mark this: Our - Lord does not mention wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes as - signs of his second advent; but rather as events of common occurrence - all the way through the Christian age, which must exist before the - end. And history attests the fact that these calamities have - <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page019">[pg 019]</span><a name="Pg019" - id="Pg019" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> covered at least seventeen - centuries. The following is from a work of Noah Webster, LL. D., - published in 1799:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">By famine and sword, 580,000 Jews were destroyed - between</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">96 and</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"> - <span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. - d.</span></span> <span style= - "font-size: 90%">180.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In Antioch, from</span> <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">96 to</span> <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">180, earthquakes destroyed 13 cities - and over 100,000 lives.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In Rome,</span> <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">169, pestilence destroyed 10,000 - daily.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In Rome,</span> <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">187, pestilence appeared and continued - three years.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In London,</span> <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">310, by famine, 40,000 - died.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">446, September 17, an earthquake shook - down the walls of Constantinople, and 57 towers - fell.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In Rome,</span> <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">539, in one district 50,000 - died.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In Antioch,</span> <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">588, an earthquake killed - 60,000.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">542, the plague killed 10,000 in one - day in Turkey.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">679, a severe famine in England, three - years.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">717, in Constantinople, 300,000 died - of plague.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1005, earthquakes three months, - followed by pestilence, by which it is said one third of the human - race died.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1077, in Constantinople, so many died - by plague and famine the living could not bury - them.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1124, in Italy, there was such famine - that the dead lay in the streets not buried; and in England one - third of the people died of plague.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1294, in England thousands died of - famine.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1346, in London, 50,000 died of plague - and famine, and were buried in one grave-yard; in Norwich, 50,000; - in Venice, 100,000; in Florence, 100,000; in Eastern nations, - 20,000,000. It was called the black death.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1352, in China, 900,000 died of - famine.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1427 in Dantzic, 80,000 died of - plague.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1570, in Moscow, 200,000 died of - plague.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1572, in Lyons, 50,000 died of - plague.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1625, in London, 35,000 died of - plague.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1656, in Naples, 300,000 died of - plague.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1665, in London, 68,000 died of - plague.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1755, an earthquake destroyed the city - of Lisbon, killing 50,000. In Mitylene, and the Archipelago, it - shook down 2000 houses. It shook all the Spanish coast. The plague - followed, which destroyed 150,000 persons in - Constantinople.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page021">[pg 021]</span><a name= - "Pg021" id="Pg021" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Doubtless the - figures in the above list should in some instances be corrected to - correspond with facts. But, taken as a whole, they do not nearly - represent the ravages of death in their enormity. For instance, the - Encyclopedia Britannica states that Hecker estimates the celebrated - <span class="tei tei-q">“black death”</span> of the fourteenth - century in the different epidemics, to have swept away one fourth of - the inhabitants of Europe, or 25,000,000 people!</p> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 4.00em; margin-bottom: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc5" id="toc5"></a> <a name="pdf6" id="pdf6"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 2.88em; text-align: left; margin-top: 2.88em"> - <span style="font-size: 144%">Persecution And False - Prophets.</span></h2> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 60%; text-align: center"> - <a href="images/i_020.png"><img src="images/i_020.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "text-align: center; margin-top: 1.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> - Martyrdom of Huss - </div> - </div> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verses</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">9, 10:</span> <span class="tei tei-q"> - <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, - and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all nations for my - name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray - one another, and shall hate one another.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here is a brief - description of the afflictions and martyrdom of the church of - Christ. Thousands of the faithful followers of Jesus were most - cruelly put to death by pagan Rome; yet the prophecy doubtless - applies more particularly to the long period of papal persecutions, - in which not less than fifty millions of Christians were put to - death in the most cruel manner that wicked men and demons could - devise. In these verses we are brought down over the long period of - the martyrdom of the church of Jesus Christ, to near the present - generation. These verses being parallel with verses 21 and 22, this - subject will be noticed again.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verse</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">11:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And many false prophets shall rise, and shall - deceive many.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A true prophet - is one who speaks for God. The spirit of prophecy is the testimony - of Jesus. Rev. 19:10. It is Jesus Christ speaking through human - lips or pen to his people. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-style: italic">Pseudo</span></span>, or false prophets, speak - through the agency of wicked spirits and the power of Satan. Their - work is to deceive. And while this is true of those who are under - <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page023">[pg 023]</span><a name= - "Pg023" id="Pg023" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> the direct - inspiration of superior beings, good or evil, it is true in a more - restricted sense that consecrated teachers of divine truth may be - regarded as God's prophets; and teachers of error may properly be - called false prophets. True and false prophets may be known.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 60%; text-align: center"> - <a href="images/i_022.png"><img src="images/i_022.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em; text-align: center"> - The Crucifixion - </div> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The prophets of - God are teachers of purity, reprovers of sin, and faithful in - warning the people of coming dangers. The duties of those whom God - calls to speak in his great name are clearly expressed by the - sacred writers. We here quote from three of them:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Isa.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">58:1:</span> <span class="tei tei-q"> - <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a - trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of - Jacob their sins.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Joel</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">2:1:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm - in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; - for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at - hand.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">2 Tim.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">4:1, 2:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord - Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his - appearing and his kingdom; preach the word; be instant in season, - out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering - and doctrine.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">False prophets - do not reprove the people for their sins, and do not warn them of - coming danger; but they proclaim peace to the sinner. Their - teachings lead from God and his word, and are such as please the - unconverted mind. The inspired writers have also spoken definitely - of the testimony and work of false prophets. We here give several - for example:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Eze.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">13:9, 10:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see - vanity, and that divine lies. They shall not be in the assembly of - my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the - house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; - and ye shall know that I am the Lord God. Because, even because - they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; - and one built up a wall, and lo, others daubed it with untempered - mortar.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id= - "page024">[pg 024]</span><a name="Pg024" id="Pg024" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Jer.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">6:13, 14:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">For from the least of them even unto the - greatest of them, every one is given to covetousness; and from - the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. They - have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, - saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Jer.</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">14:13, 14:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, the prophets - say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have - famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. Then the - Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I sent - them not, neither spake unto them.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After stating - the duty of the faithful servant of God to preach the word, to - reprove, to rebuke, and exhort with all long-suffering and - doctrine, the apostle says:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">For the time will come when they will not endure - sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to - themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away - their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto - fables.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">2 Tim. 4:3, 4.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That time has - now fully come. The people choose pleasing fables, which do not - disturb them in their sins, rather than the reproving, searching - declarations of the word of God. They love to be deceived by the - teachings of false prophets, and <span class="tei tei-q">“say to - the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right - things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits.”</span> Isa. - 30:10.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Shall I not visit for these things? saith the - Lord. Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? A - wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets - prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my - people love to have it so; and what will ye do in the end - thereof?</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">Jer. 5:29-31.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The ears of the - people are filled with the pleasing fables of the world's - conversion, a good time coming, and that we are just entering the - golden age. The threatenings of God's word on the proud, the - haughty, the vain, the rich, the sinners in Zion, and those out of - Zion, are kept back by <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page025">[pg - 025]</span><a name="Pg025" id="Pg025" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - the false teachers of these times. Many of them even dare to teach - that the moral code of the ten commandments is abrogated. And as - the result of such a course, and of such teaching, we see in the - professed church of Jesus Christ, that</p> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 4.00em; margin-bottom: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc7" id="toc7"></a> <a name="pdf8" id="pdf8"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 2.88em; text-align: left; margin-top: 2.88em"> - <span style="font-size: 144%">Iniquity Abounds.</span></h2> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verse</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">12:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And because iniquity shall abound, the love of - many shall wax cold.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is evident - that both the abounding of iniquity and the waxing cold of the love - of many, are fulfilled in the professed church of Jesus Christ. Men - must first experience the love of God and of heavenly things before - that love can grow cold. Hence, common, unconverted sinners are not - here referred to as apostatizing. And, again, the prevalence of - iniquity in the unconverted world alone, would stimulate the church - to greater diligence, and more godliness, instead of being a cause - of apostasy. Hence, the iniquity here mentioned is in the very - heart of the professed church, diffusing its chilling influence - through the whole body. As the result, the love of many has grown - cold. With this, agree the words of the apostle:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">This know also, that in the last days perilous - times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, - covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, - unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, - false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are - good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than - lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power - thereof; from such turn away.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">2 - Tim. 3:1-5.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here is a - catalogue of eighteen sins, all resting upon those having a form of - godliness. These are not infidels and common worldly sinners, for - they have not a form of godliness; but they are men and women - professing to be <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page027">[pg - 027]</span><a name="Pg027" id="Pg027" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - followers of Jesus Christ. And although they make a profession of - piety as high as heaven, these very sins lie at their doors. And by - reason of their example, and their chilling influence, many are led - from the humble path to heaven, and their love waxes cold.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 60%; text-align: center"> - <a href="images/i_026.png"><img src="images/i_026.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center; margin-top: 1.00em"> - The Ascension - </div> - </div> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc9" id="toc9"></a> <a name="pdf10" id="pdf10"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "text-align: left; margin-top: 2.88em; margin-bottom: 2.88em"> - <span style="font-size: 144%">The End.</span></h2> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verse</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">13:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">But he that shall endure unto the end, the same - shall be saved.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As before noted, - the word <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-style: italic">end</span></em>, whenever used in this - chapter, refers to the end of the age, and to nothing else. It is - the end associated in the New Testament with the second appearing - of Jesus Christ. If it be urged that the word <span class= - "tei tei-q">“end”</span> has reference to the close of mortal life, - then we reply that the disciples did not ask their Lord (see verse - 3) when they should die; but <span class="tei tei-q">“what shall be - the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”</span> - Neither does the Lord speak of death, when he says (see verse 6), - <span class="tei tei-q">“But the end is not yet.”</span> And it - would be strange indeed to suppose that the word <span class= - "tei tei-q">“end”</span> (verse 14) meant death. If any think such - a position admissible, let them read it into the text, as follows: - And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, - for a witness unto all nations, and then shall death come. - Absurdity!</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verse</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">14:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached - In all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the - end come.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This is the - first sign of the end given by our Lord in answer to the question, - <span class="tei tei-q">“What shall be the sign of thy coming, and - of the end of the world?”</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But it is robbed - of its distinct power by that interpretation, sometimes given, by - which it is assumed that all men will receive the gospel and be - converted, and that then <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page028">[pg - 028]</span><a name="Pg028" id="Pg028" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - instead of the end, there will ensue a thousand years in which all - shall know the Lord. After this long period of peace and safety, - the end will come. How much is assumed on this text will appear - when we consider that the text does not say that every individual - will even hear this gospel of the kingdom. It does not state that - any one will be converted and made holy by it. And we find it far - from intimating that the world will be converted and remain so one - thousand years. We have no reason to conclude that greater measure - of success is implied in this text than that which has always - attended the preaching of the gospel. While a few have believed and - received it, the great mass of men have passed it by unheedingly. - The text simply states: First, <span class="tei tei-q">“And this - gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world;”</span> - second, <span class="tei tei-q">“For a witness unto all - nations;”</span> third, <span class="tei tei-q">“And <em class= - "tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">then</span></em> - [not one thousand years later, but <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-variant: small-caps">then</span></span>] shall the end - come.”</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But to what does - the term <span class="tei tei-q">“gospel of the kingdom”</span> - refer? The query sometimes rises as to whether the gospel in the - common acceptation of the word, or a gospel peculiarly related to - the second coming of Christ is here meant. No such distinction is - to be drawn. There neither is, has been, nor will be more than one - gospel. <span class="tei tei-q">“But though we, or an angel from - heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have - preached unto you, let him be accursed.”</span> Gal. 1:8.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The gospel, - then, in this instance, is the same as Paul preached, which was the - <span class="tei tei-q">“power of God unto salvation to every one - that believeth.”</span> But in Rev. 14:6 and 7 we read:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And I saw another angel fly in the midst of - heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that - dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, - and people, saying with a loud</span> <span class="tei tei-pb" - id="page029">[pg 029]</span><a name="Pg029" id="Pg029" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">voice, Fear - God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come; - and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the - fountain of waters.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The gospel is - here called the <span class="tei tei-q">“everlasting - gospel,”</span> and must necessarily be referred to the gospel of - Christ. In connection with the preaching of that gospel, was the - proclamation that the judgment hour had come. Not that this message - was appended to the gospel, but the angel who had the everlasting - gospel to preach said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Fear God ... for - the hour of his judgment is come.”</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The gospel of - Jesus Christ embraces all truth relating to salvation. The - warnings, counsel, invitations, promises, precepts, prophecies, or - whatever the Lord would have the people hear,—the gospel embraces - them all. In the days of Noah, the gospel included repentance, - faith, obedience, with the promises of grace and mercy; it also - included the warning of the impending judgment. And the only way to - escape that judgment was through the gospel. So here in Revelation - we have the gospel with all it implies, including the message of - Christ's second coming and kingdom and the judgment. Closely - associated with this message are two others as given in Rev. - 14:8-12. The first is merged into these. Then immediately following - their proclamation we have the following scene:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And I looked and behold a white cloud, and upon - the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a - golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.... And he that sat on - the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was - reaped.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">Rev. 14:14-16.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In Rev. 14:6-16, - then, we learn what is the meaning of the term <span class= - "tei tei-q">“gospel of the kingdom.”</span> It is <em class= - "tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">the</span></em> - gospel, and it embraces the admonitions and instructions relative - to the second coming of Christ. And now that we have reached that - time, the complete gospel embraces the good <span class= - "tei tei-pb" id="page030">[pg 030]</span><a name="Pg030" id="Pg030" - class="tei tei-anchor"></a> news of the coming kingdom with - appropriate warnings and teachings. Our Saviour says it - <span class="tei tei-q">“shall be preached in all the world for a - witness unto all nations.”</span> The Revelator says the message is - to be preached <span class="tei tei-q">“to every nation, kindred, - tongue, and people.”</span> When this shall be done, the end will - come.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The world-wide - proclamation of the soon coming of Christ was inaugurated about - 1832. Since that time, the work of extending its warning voice has - gone on. A most remarkable feature of this movement is the fact - that in different countries individuals were moved upon, almost - simultaneously, to study the prophecies and proclaim the nearness - of the end, although they knew nothing of what was being done by - others. In the United States and Canada, in Great Britain, Norway, - Sweden, Germany, and in Asia, a profound interest in this subject - was created, and people were led to expect the early appearance of - Jesus. Since that time clearer light has appeared in connection - with the other messages of Revelation 14, and still the work is - onward. Wherever the light of the Bible has penetrated, the good - news of the coming Saviour is now going. Not only so, but - messengers bearing this gracious warning are rapidly finding their - way into the dark portions of the earth. Evidence of its extent and - progress might be expressed in facts and figures, but the rapid - development of the work would soon leave these in the rear. Let it - suffice to say that at present the everlasting gospel is being - preached and published in all the leading languages and countries - of the world. The work has encircled the globe. It is rapidly - reaching every nation. We now wait for the approaching end; for - when the purpose of God in the proclamation of the coming reign of - Christ shall be fully accomplished, then the end will - come.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page031">[pg - 031]</span><a name="Pg031" id="Pg031" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thus far in this - discourse Jesus has passed over the entire Christian dispensation. - Beginning with a warning against the deceptions that were to - succeed his own times, he next describes wars and disasters, - persecutions, apostasy, the perils of the last days, and closes - with a distinct sign of the end.</p> - </div> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em"> - <a name="toc11" id="toc11"></a> <a name="pdf12" id="pdf12"></a> - - <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= - "text-align: left; margin-top: 3.46em; margin-bottom: 3.46em"> - <span style="font-size: 173%">When Shall These Things Be?</span></h1> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> - Verses</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">15-20:</span> - <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">When ye, - therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by - Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him - understand); then let them which be in Judea flee into the - mountains; let him which is on the housetop not come down to take - anything out of his house; neither let him which is in the field - return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with - child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that - your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath - day.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Our Lord having in - verses 5-14, passed over the important events in the Christian age - down to the end, goes back and introduces in verse 15 the destruction - of Jerusalem, in answer to the inquiry, <span class="tei tei-q">“When - shall these things be?”</span> Luke's version of this language is, - <span class="tei tei-q">“When ye shall see Jerusalem encompassed with - armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.”</span> Luke - 21:20. By this we know that the term <span class= - "tei tei-q">“abomination of desolation”</span> refers to the Roman - army. This desolating power is spoken of by Daniel as follows:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And the people of the prince that shall come shall - destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with - a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.... - And for the over-spreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, - even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon - the desolate.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Margin,</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">desolator.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">Dan. - 9:26, 27.</span></p> - </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page032">[pg 032]</span><a name= - "Pg032" id="Pg032" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> - <a href="images/i_032.png"><img src="images/i_032.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "text-align: center; margin-top: 1.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> - Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus - </div> - </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page033">[pg 033]</span><a name= - "Pg033" id="Pg033" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here is a clear - prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman armies. Our - Lord referred to the book of Daniel, and taught his disciples to read - and understand it; and when they should see take place what was there - predicted, they must make their escape.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It would seem to - be impracticable to flee from a city after it was encompassed with - armies; but our Saviour did not speak at random. Josephus tells us - that Cestius, the Roman general who first led the attack upon - Jerusalem, became dismayed at the apparent forces and strength of the - city, and after having surrounded the city raised the siege. The - historian says: <span class="tei tei-q">“He retired from the city, - without any reason in the world.”</span>—<span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-style: italic">“</span><span style= - "font-style: italic">Wars,</span><span style= - "font-style: italic">”</span></span> <span style= - "font-style: italic">book ii, chap. xix.</span></span> And in the - first words of the succeeding chapter he further states: <span class= - "tei tei-q">“After this calamity had befallen Cestius, many of the - most eminent Jews swam away from the city, as from a ship when it was - going to sink.”</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Dr. A. Clarke, - commenting on verse 16, says:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">This counsel was remembered and wisely followed by - the Christians afterwards. Eusebius and Epiphanius say, that at this - juncture, after Cestius Gallus had raised the siege, all who believed - in Christ left Jerusalem and fled to Pella, and other places beyond - Jordan.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The flight of the - Christians of Judea to the mountains would be attended with - difficulties. And their subsequent condition would be that of - hardship and suffering. The Lord knew this, and gave them the - instructions and warnings necessary. The statement of verse 19 was - given to save them from the sorrows of unnecessary woe. That was a - time of trouble.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jesus recognizes - the existence of the Sabbath, in verse 20, as late as the destruction - of Jerusalem, as verily as he does the seasons of the year. - <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The - Sabbath</span></span>, is the uniform <span class="tei tei-pb" id= - "page034">[pg 034]</span><a name="Pg034" id="Pg034" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a> term of both Testaments to designate the very - day on which Jehovah rested after the creation, the day upon which he - put his blessing, and which he set apart for man. Not only in this - instance does our Saviour show his regard for the sacred day of rest, - but in his life he kept it (see Luke 4:16); in his teaching he upheld - it, and taught its true character (Matt. 12:12); and when he lay in - the tomb, the devout women reverently rested <span class= - "tei tei-q">“according to the commandment.”</span> He himself is Lord - of the Sabbath, and he declares that it was made for man. Mark 2:27, - 28. Jesus does not speak of the Sabbath as being only a seventh part - of time, or one day in seven, and no day in particular. The Sabbath - is the term used, referring to the last day of the first week of - time, and to the last day of each subsequent week.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is thus that - Jesus answered the question, <span class="tei tei-q">“When shall - these things be?”</span> He now proceeds to answer the second great - question.</p> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em"> - <a name="toc13" id="toc13"></a> <a name="pdf14" id="pdf14"></a> - - <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: left; margin-top: 3.46em"> - <span style="font-size: 173%">What Shall Be The Sign Of Thy - Coming?</span></h1> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps"> - Verse</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">21:</span> - <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">For then - shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of - the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is not - surprising, perhaps, that upon a casual reading some should conclude - that this verse had its fulfillment at the siege of Jerusalem by - Titus. It was a time of great suffering, and the verse follows so - closely those which relate to the destruction of the city, that this - explanation suggests itself readily enough. But for good reasons we - cannot accept that application of this verse. Jesus is giving a - <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page035">[pg 035]</span><a name="Pg035" - id="Pg035" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> continuous prophecy. The - narrative proceeds from verse to verse along the line of the entire - dispensation.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The <span class= - "tei tei-q">“great tribulation”</span> mentioned in verse 21 is that - of the church of Christ, and not the tribulation of the Jews at the - destruction of Jerusalem. We offer the following reasons for so - deciding:—</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">1. It is a fact - that the tribulation of the Christian church, especially under the - reign of the papacy, was greater than God's people had suffered - before <span class="tei tei-q">“since the beginning of the - world.”</span> The tribulation of the Christian church has been - greater than it will ever be again. True, a time of trouble - <span class="tei tei-q">“such as never was,”</span> spoken of in Dan. - 12:1, is coming <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-style: italic">upon the wicked</span></em>; but we find in the - same verse this blessed promise, <span class="tei tei-q">“And at that - time thy people shall be delivered.”</span> The tribulation of the - Jews at the destruction of Jerusalem was not greater than the world - will ever witness. The vials of Jehovah's unmingled wrath are yet to - be poured out, not upon the people of one nation only, but upon the - guilty people of all nations.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">The slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one - end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; they shall not - be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">Jer. - 25:33.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">2. If the - tribulation be applied to the Jews, or to any other class of - unbelieving men, it cannot be harmonized with Dan. 12:1, which speaks - of the time of trouble such as never was, when Michael shall stand - up. Certainly there cannot be two times of trouble at different - periods, greater than ever was or ever would be. Therefore the - <span class="tei tei-q">“tribulation”</span> spoken of in Matt. - 24:21, 29, applies not to the Jews, but to the church of Christ, - extending through the 1260 years of papal persecution; and the - <span class="tei tei-q">“trouble”</span> mentioned in Dan. 12:1, to - the unbelieving world, to be experienced by them in the - future.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page036">[pg - 036]</span><a name="Pg036" id="Pg036" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 60%; text-align: center"> - <a href="images/i_036.png"><img src="images/i_036.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center; margin-top: 1.00em"> - St. Bartholomew Massacre. - </div> - </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page037">[pg 037]</span><a name= - "Pg037" id="Pg037" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">3. The period of - tribulation was shortened for the elect's sake. This cannot refer to - the Jews, for their house had been pronounced desolate. They were - left of God in their hardness of heart and blindness of mind. Says - Paul, <span class="tei tei-q">“Lo, we turn to the Gentiles.”</span> - The elect were the followers of our Lord Jesus Christ. And where were - they when tribulation was upon the Jews?—They had fled to the - mountains. It is absurd, then, to say that the days of tribulation of - the Jews in the city of Jerusalem, were shortened for the sake of the - elect, who had fled from the place of tribulation. Moreover the - tribulation that came upon Jerusalem was not restrained or modified, - but continued until the city was destroyed and its people were given - to the sword and to captivity.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">4. The connection - between verses 20 and 21 shows that the tribulation was to commence - with those Christians who were to flee out of the city. <span class= - "tei tei-q">“But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, - neither on the Sabbath-day; for then shall be great - tribulation.”</span> Our Lord here speaks of the tribulation which - his people would suffer from the time of their flight onward. We - follow them in their flight to the mountains, and then pass along - down through the noted persecutions of the church of God under pagan - Rome, and we see, indeed, <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-style: italic">tribulation</span></em>. And when we come to the - period of papal persecutions, we see them suffering the most cruel - tortures, and dying the most dreadful deaths that wicked men and - demons could inflict. This last period is especially noted in - prophecy.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The prophet Daniel - saw the papacy, its blasphemy, its ignorance, its work of death on - the saints, and its duration as a persecuting power, under the symbol - of the little horn.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page038">[pg - 038]</span><a name="Pg038" id="Pg038" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> - <a href="images/i_038.png"><img src="images/i_038.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center; margin-top: 1.00em"> - Taking the Pope Prisoner. 1798. - </div> - </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page039">[pg 039]</span><a name= - "Pg039" id="Pg039" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And he shall speak great words against the Most - High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to - change times and laws; and they shall be given into his hand until a - time and times and the dividing of time.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">Dan. - 7:25.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is generally - admitted that <span class="tei tei-q">“a time and times and the - dividing of time”</span> is 1260 years. The proof of it may readily - be seen by comparing Rev. 12:14, 6; 13:5, with the scripture just - quoted. In these passages we learn that <span class= - "tei tei-q">“time, times, and the dividing of time”</span> is - equivalent to a thousand two hundred and threescore days, which - equals three and one half Biblical years, or <span class= - "tei tei-q">“forty and two months.”</span> Applying the scriptural - rule of interpretation, a day for a year (Eze. 4:6), we have 1260 - years.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This period is to - cover the supremacy of the papacy. The beginning of it will be the - point of the establishment of the power of the papacy. This was the - year 538 <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> Justinian, emperor of - Rome, with his capital at Constantinople, espoused the cause of the - bishop of Rome; and in 533 <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> issued a decree which - constituted that prelate head of all the churches. But the Arian - Ostrogoths had possession of Rome, and it was not until they had been - rooted up that the city was accessible to the bishop. This was - accomplished in 538, by Belisarius, Justinian's celebrated general. - For a concise and clear account of this occurrence we refer the - reader to the <span class="tei tei-q">“Two Republics,”</span> by A. - T. Jones, pp. 551-553.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Commencing the - 1260 years <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> 538, they reach to - <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">a. - d.</span></span> 1798, when Berthier, a French general, took - possession of Rome. The pope was made a prisoner and carried with - violence away from his palace and out of Italy. The papacy was - stripped of its civil power. Here ended the days of tribulation - spoken of by our Lord, which were—</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id= - "page040">[pg 040]</span><a name="Pg040" id="Pg040" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc15" id="toc15"></a> <a name="pdf16" id="pdf16"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em; text-align: left"> - <span style="font-size: 144%">Shortened For The Elect's - Sake.</span></h2> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verse</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">22:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And except those days should be shortened, there - should no flesh be saved; but for the elect's sake those days shall - be shortened.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The papacy was - clothed with civil power to punish heretics, which it held for 1260 - years; and had not the period of tribulation of the elect in the - providence of God been shortened, the martyrdom of the church would - have continued to 1798, in which event, no flesh of the elect would - have been saved. But the Reformation under Martin Luther, and those - associated with this great reformer, modified this tribulation, and - continued to restrain the rage and power of the papacy until the - suppression of the Jesuits in 1773, since which time, there has - been no general persecution waged against the church. Thus we are - brought in this prophetic discourse of our Lord, down into the - eighteenth century, very near the present time. We would naturally - expect, then, that the instructions and warnings which follow would - be applicable to this generation.</p> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc17" id="toc17"></a> <a name="pdf18" id="pdf18"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 2.88em; text-align: left; margin-top: 2.88em"> - <span style="font-size: 144%">Lo, Here, And Lo, There.</span></h2> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verses</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">23-27:</span> <span class="tei tei-q"> - <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is - Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false - christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and - wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive - the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they - shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: - behold: he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the - lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west; - so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In these verses - the great theme of Christ's second coming is again vividly brought - forth. Satan is ever on the alert to contravene by some device or - art, the work of God. His most successful plan is to deceive. By - this means he gains ready access to all such as desire to evade the - force of <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page041">[pg - 041]</span><a name="Pg041" id="Pg041" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - truth. And having deceived an individual, he not only prevents his - salvation, but gains to himself an adherent if not an active agent. - So, as the time for the second advent draws near, the enemy becomes - particularly active, knowing that he hath but a short time. In the - words last quoted our Lord seeks to prepare the minds of his people - for the deceptions that are to be practiced upon those who live - near the time of his second coming. There will be those who will - cry, <span class="tei tei-q">“Lo, here; or Lo, there,”</span> some - will even claim to be Christ. They will purport to represent the - truth in regard to Christ's coming in various plausible or - fanatical ways. Others, in order to reach other minds, will present - theories of human device accounting for the advent of Christ in - various so-called rational schemes. Many sincere people will be led - to expect the conversion of the world through a millennium of - peace. Others will be persuaded that the coming of Christ means - death. And even false prophets, showing great signs and wonders, - will appear. All these form an atmosphere of deception, the miasma - of which will stupefy, if it were possible, the elect of God.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In this fearful - work will be engaged the notorious deceiver, the trained agents of - Satan, the worldly philosopher, worldly preachers, popular - ministers, critics of the Bible, and many whose eyes do not discern - the signs of the times. The Mormons call the people to the desert; - Spiritualism invites us to the secret chamber, where Satanic signs - and wonders are wrought to captivate the mind and divert it from - the truth. Of these <span class="tei tei-q">“false prophets”</span> - Paul speaks in 1 Tim. 4:1:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the - latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to - seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page042">[pg 042]</span><a name= - "Pg042" id="Pg042" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In another - scripture the apostle places the coming of Christ in connection - with—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">The working of Satan with all power and signs and - lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in - them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, - that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them - strong delusions, that they should believe a - lie.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">2 Thess. 2:9-11.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">These are some - of the deceptions of which Christ is speaking in the text. It is - undoubtedly the work of modern Spiritualism. This work, in its - present form, originated in the year 1848, and constitutes and is - to constitute one of the most prominent signs of the end.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Let no one be - deceived by any means. For these are but subterfuges. They are not - the coming of Christ. He has said, <span class="tei tei-q">“I will - come again, and receive you unto myself.”</span> John 14:3.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The angels said - at his ascension,—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">This - same Jesus</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, which is - taken up from you into heaven, shall</span> <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">so - come in like manner</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">as - ye have seen him go into heaven.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">Acts - 1:11.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Paul tells - us,—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a - shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of - God.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">1 Thess. 4:16.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And here our - Saviour says:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">As the lightning cometh out of the east, and - shineth, unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man - be.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He will come - literally, personally, the same Jesus who was here upon the earth. - Not in lowly form as an offering for sin, to be set at naught, - abused, and crucified, but in <span class="tei tei-q">“all his - glory”</span> attended with <span class="tei tei-q">“all the holy - angels.”</span> Matt. 25:31. We shall know when he comes for - <span class="tei tei-q">“every eye shall see him.”</span> Rev. - 1:7.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page043">[pg - 043]</span><a name="Pg043" id="Pg043" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">None of these - evasions of the truth will ever be able to counterfeit the real - event. The Roman army did not come to Jerusalem in this way. Death - does not come in this way. The deceptive wonders of Spiritualism - cannot imitate the glory of Christ's second coming. He will come in - power and great glory (verse 30); he will come in the glory of his - Father (chapter 16:27); and in the glory of the holy angels (Luke - 9:26); all the holy angels shall come with him. Matt. 25:31. His - coming will be as glorious and resplendent as the lightning. When - Jesus revealed himself to Saul of Tarsus, there was a light above - the brightness of the sun (Acts 26:13); of the angel who appeared - at the tomb after the resurrection of Jesus it is said, - <span class="tei tei-q">“His countenance was like lightning”</span> - (Matt. 28:3); and Ezekiel says of the messengers of the Most High, - they <span class="tei tei-q">“ran and returned as the appearance of - a flash of lightning.”</span> Eze. 1:14.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When Jesus comes - in the glory of his Father, with so glorious a train attendant, his - coming will indeed be as the lightning coming out of the east and - shining to the west, and no one will have any more occasion or - opportunity to say to his fellow, <span class="tei tei-q">“See - here,”</span> than one would have to call another to behold a gleam - of lightning flashing through the heavens. The vivid lightning - flashing out of the distant east, and shining even to the west, - lights up the whole heavens. What, then, when the Lord comes in - flaming glory, and all the holy angels with him? The presence of - only one holy angel at the sepulcher where Christ lay dead, caused - the Roman guard to shake, and become as dead men. The light and - glory of one angel completely overpowered those strong sentinels. - The Son of man is coming in his own kingly glory, and in the glory - of his Father, attended by all the holy angels. Then the - <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page044">[pg 044]</span><a name= - "Pg044" id="Pg044" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> whole heavens will - blaze with glory, and the whole earth will tremble before him.</p> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 4.00em; margin-bottom: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc19" id="toc19"></a> <a name="pdf20" id="pdf20"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em; text-align: left"> - <span style="font-size: 144%">The Signs Of Christ's - Coming.</span></h2> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verses</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">29-31:</span> <span class="tei tei-q"> - <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Immediately after the tribulation of those days - shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, - and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the - heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the - Son of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth - mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of - heaven, with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels - with a great sound of a trumpet; and they shall gather together - his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the - other.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We have before - seen that our Lord speaks in this chapter of the long period of - tribulation that was to come upon his followers, and we have also - seen how those days of tribulation were shortened for the elect's - sake. Christ says that the sun should be darkened immediately after - the tribulation of those days. Mark in his gospel, gives it as - follows:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In those days, after that tribulation, the sun - shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her - light.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">Mark 13:24.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This makes the - time in which the sun was to be darkened more distinct and - definite. The days of tribulation were the 1260 years of papal - supremacy, beginning in 538 <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-variant: small-caps">a. d.</span></span> and ending with the - capture of Rome and the pope by the French in 1798. But we have - already seen that the <span class="tei tei-q">“tribulation”</span> - or persecution of those days was <span class= - "tei tei-q">“shortened”</span> for the elect's sake. That is, the - active persecution of the church by papal power ceased in 1773. - Then, according to Mark's statement, the sun should be darkened - between that date and 1798. It was fulfilled. May 19, 1780, has - passed into history as <span class="tei tei-q">“the dark - day.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page045">[pg - 045]</span><a name="Pg045" id="Pg045" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This is a fact - of so general knowledge that we need not consume space in - elucidating it. A few references to undoubted authorities will - suffice.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Noah Webster's - dictionary, in the edition for 1869, under the head of Explanatory - and Pronouncing Vocabulary of Noted Names, says:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">The - dark day</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, May 19, - 1780—so called on account of a remarkable darkness on that day - extending over all New England. In some places, persons could not - see to read common print in the open air for several hours - together. Birds sang their evening songs, disappeared, and became - silent; fowls went to roost; cattle sought the barn-yard; and - candles were lighted in the houses. The obscuration began about ten - o'clock in the morning, and continued till the middle of the next - night, but with differences of degree and duration in different - places. For several days previous, the wind had been variable, but - chiefly from the south-west and the north-east. The true cause of - this remarkable phenomenon is not known.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From another - good authority we quote:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">A solemn gloom of unusual darkness before ten - o'clock,—a still darker cloud rolling under the sable curtain from - the north and west before eleven o'clock,—excluded the light so - that none could see to read or write in the House, even at either - window, or distinguish persons at a small distance, or perceive any - distinction of dress in the circle of attendants; wherefore, at - eleven o'clock adjourned the House till two in the - afternoon.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Journal of the Connecticut - House of Representatives, Friday, May 19, 1780.</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Herschel, the - great astronomer, says:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">The dark day in Northern America was one of those - wonderful phenomena of nature which will always be read with - interest, but which philosophy is at a loss to - explain.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A contemporary - paper contained the following:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">During the whole time a sickly, melancholy gloom - overcast the face of nature. Nor was the darkness of the night less - uncommon and terrifying than that of the day, for notwithstanding - there was almost a</span> <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page047">[pg - 047]</span><a name="Pg047" id="Pg047" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">full moon, no - object was discernible but by the help of some artificial light, - which seen from the neighboring houses and other places at a - distance appeared through a kind of Egyptian darkness which seemed - almost impervious to its rays. This unusual phenomenon excited the - fears and apprehensions of many people.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Mass. Spy, Correspondence, - 1780.</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From another - good authority we take the following:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Almost, if not altogether alone as the most - mysterious and as yet unexplained phenomenon of its kind in - nature's diversified range of events during the last century, - stands the dark day of May 19, 1780, a most unaccountable darkening - of the whole visible heavens and atmosphere in New England, which - brought intense alarm and distress to multitudes of minds, as well - as dismay to the brute creation, the fowls fleeing, bewildered, to - their roosts, and the birds to their nests, and the cattle - returning to their stalls. Indeed thousands of the good people of - that day became fully convinced that the end of all things - terrestrial had come; many gave up, for the time, their secular - pursuits, and betook themselves to religious - devotions.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">“</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Our First - Century.</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">An extract from - a sermon preached at that time will be of interest:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">But especially I mention that</span> <em class= - "tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">wonderful darkness</span></em> - <span style="font-size: 90%">on the 19th of May inst. [1780]. Then, - as in our text, the sun was darkened; such a darkness as probably - was never known before since the crucifixion of our Lord. People - left their work in the house and in the field. Travelers stopped; - schools broke up at eleven o'clock; people lighted candles at - noonday; and the fire shone as at night. Some people, I have been - told, were in dismay, and thought whether the day of Judgment was - not drawing on. A great part of the following night also was - singularly dark. The</span> <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">moon, though in the full, gave - no light</span></em><span style="font-size: 90%">, as in our - text.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">From - a manuscript sermon by Rev. Elam Potter, delivered May 28, - 1780.</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By the - remarkable obscuration of the moon on the following night, the next - sign, <span class="tei tei-q">“And the moon shall not give her - light,”</span> was fulfilled. Concerning this it is only necessary - to insert a few words:—</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id= - "page048">[pg 048]</span><a name="Pg048" id="Pg048" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">The night succeeding that day (May 19, 1780) was - of such pitchy darkness that, in some instances, horses could not - be compelled to leave the stable when wanted for service. About - midnight, the clouds were dispersed, and the moon and stars - appeared with unimpaired brilliancy.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">“</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Stone's History of - Beverly.</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mr. Tenny, of - Exeter, N. H., quoted by Mr. Gage, to the Historical Society, - speaking of the dark day and dark night of May 19, 1780, says:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">The darkness of the following evening was probably - as gross as has ever been observed since the Almighty first gave - birth to light. I could not help conceiving at the time, that if - every luminous body in the universe had been shrouded in - impenetrable darkness, or struck out of existence, the darkness - could not have been more complete. A sheet of white paper held - within a few inches of the eye was equally invisible with the - blackest velvet.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Concerning a - similar phenomenon in the Old World a reliable work says:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Three years later, and Europe with its teeming - millions went under as mysterious a cloud, which, though not so - dense, yet continued longer and awoke a wonder and fear that was - widely felt. A haze, for which no known cause was then assigned - (though in subsequent years it has been supposed by some to have - been volcanic dust), spread through the entire breadth of the - atmosphere over all the continent far into Asia. It appeared in - Denmark, May 29, reached France, June 14; Italy, June 16; Norway, - June 22; Austria and Switzerland, June 23; Sweden, June 24; and - Russia, June 25. By the close of the month it had overspread like a - pall all Syria, and on July 18, had penetrated the heart of Asia to - the Altai Mountains. The obscurity prevailed a greater portion of - the summer, imparting to the sun an unnatural color of a dull, - rusty red, and causing both the days and nights to wear a weird and - gloomy aspect. The atmosphere was highly electric, and nature was - greatly convulsed.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Dr. N. Webster in his valuable</span> - <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">‘</span><span style="font-size: 90%">History of - Pestilences,</span><span style="font-size: 90%">’</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">vol. ii. p. 274, testifies to the - general fear. As it was in America on the occurrence of - the</span> <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">‘</span><span style="font-size: 90%">dark - day,</span><span style="font-size: 90%">’</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">so the churches in Europe were - crowded with alarmed multitudes supplicating mercy of Heaven. - Professor Lalande,</span> <span class="tei tei-pb" id= - "page049">[pg 049]</span><a name="Pg049" id="Pg049" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">the astronomer - of France, attempted to quiet the popular fear by ascribing the - darkened heavens to exhalations arising out of the earth; but - both Webster and Humboldt (Cosmos IV., p. 75) rejected this - solution of the mysterious obscurity. Protestant England shared - in the alarm it occasioned; and the poet Cowper sang that all the - elements</span> <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">‘</span><span style="font-size: 90%">preached - the general doom.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">’</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">It - was to this unaccountable obscuration of light that he refers in - his</span> <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">‘</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Task:</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">’</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">—</span></span></p> - - <div class="tei tei-lg" style= - "margin-top: 0.90em; margin-bottom: 0.90em"> - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">“ </span><span class="tei tei-q" style= - "text-align: left"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">‘</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Nature - seems with dim and sickly eye</span></span></span> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span class= - "tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">To wait the close of all.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">’</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%"> ”</span></span> - </div> - </div><span class="tei tei-ab"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">“</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Great - Consummation.</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></span> - </div> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc21" id="toc21"></a> <a name="pdf22" id="pdf22"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-top: 2.88em; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em"> - <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style= - "font-size: 144%">“</span><span style="font-size: 144%">And The - Stars Shall Fall.</span><span style= - "font-size: 144%">”</span></span></h2> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">How this sign - can be fulfilled is a query with some people, who, perhaps - captiously, remark that it would be impossible, since the earth - itself is but a small body compared with many of the vast worlds of - space. But all such queries are out of date now since the sign - itself has already been witnessed. On the night of November 13, - 1833, the grandest display of celestial fireworks ever beheld took - place. From works of accepted authority we take the following - descriptions of this remarkable event:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">But the most sublime phenomenon of shooting stars, - of which the world has furnished any record, was witnessed - throughout the United States on the morning of the 13th of - November, 1833. The entire extent of this astonishing exhibition - has not been precisely ascertained; but it covered no - inconsiderable portion of the earth's surface.... The first - appearance was that of fireworks of the most imposing grandeur, - covering the entire vault of heaven with myriads of fire-balls, - resembling sky-rockets. Their coruscations were bright, gleaming, - and incessant, and they fell thick as the flakes in the early snows - of December. To the splendors of this celestial exhibition the most - brilliant sky-rockets and fire-works of art bear less relation than - the twinkling of the most tiny star to the broad glare of the sun. - The whole heavens seemed in motion, and suggested to some the awful - grandeur of the image employed in the Apocalypse, upon the opening - of the sixth seal, when</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">‘</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, - even</span> <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page051">[pg - 051]</span><a name="Pg051" id="Pg051" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">as a fig-tree - casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty - wind.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">’</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%"> ”</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Burritt's</span> - <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Geography of the - Heavens,</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">”</span></span> <span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">p. 163, ed. - 1854.</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> - <a href="images/i_050.png"><img src="images/i_050.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em; text-align: center"> - The Falling Stars. - </div> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A celebrated - astronomer and meteorologist, says:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Those who were so fortunate as to witness the - exhibition of shooting stars on the morning of Nov. 13, 1833, - probably saw the greatest display of celestial fire-works that has - ever been since the creation of the world, or at least within the - annals covered by the pages of history.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">In nearly all places the meteors began to - attract notice by their unusual frequency as early as eleven - o'clock, and increased in numbers and splendor until about four - o'clock, from which time they gradually declined, but were - visible until lost in the light of day. The meteors did not fly - at random over all parts of the sky, but appeared to emanate from - a point in the constellation Leo, near a star called Gamma - Leonis, in the bend of the Sickle....</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">The extent of the shower of 1833 was such as to - cover no inconsiderable part of the earth's surface, from the - middle of the Atlantic on the east to the Pacific on the west; - and from the northern coast of South America to undefined regions - among the British possessions on the north, the exhibition was - visible, and everywhere presented nearly the same appearance. - This is no longer to be regarded as a terrestrial but a celestial - phenomenon, and shooting stars are now to be no more viewed as - casual productions of the upper regions of the atmosphere, but - as</span> <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">visitants from other - worlds</span></em><span style="font-size: 90%">, or from the - planetary voids.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Prof. Olmstead, of Yale - College.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">No philosopher or scholar has told or recorded - an event, I suppose, like that of yesterday morning. A prophet - 1800 years ago foretold it exactly, if we will be at the trouble - of understanding stars falling to mean falling stars; or</span> - <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">‘</span><span class= - "tei tei-foreign"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">hoi asteres tou ouranou - epesan eis teen geen</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">,</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">’</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">in - the only sense in which it is possible to be literally - true.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Henry Dana Ward, in Journal - of Commerce, Nov. 14, 1833.</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Not only here in - Matthew 24 is attention directed to these signs as premonitory of - the coming of Christ. The Lord through the prophet Joel says:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the - moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord - come.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page053">[pg 053]</span><a name= - "Pg053" id="Pg053" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Under the sixth - seal, as given in Rev. 6:12-17, we have the following - language:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, - and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as - sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of - heaven fell unto the earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely - figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed - as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and - island were moved out of their places.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That the fourth - and fifth seals apply to the papal persecution there can be no - reasonable doubt. If so, then the great earthquake with which the - sixth seal opens would be that of Lisbon, in 1755, which agitated - the greater part of the earth and destroyed many thousands of - lives, 60,000 in Lisbon alone.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The darkening of - the sun and moon follows in 1780, and the falling of the stars in - 1833. Consequently the next event which we are to expect under this - seal is the departing of the heavens as a scroll. This being - future, we may say that we are living between the thirteenth and - fourteenth verses of Revelation 6.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the gospel as - written by Luke, however, we have at this point some additional - specifications given, which are of such interest at the present - juncture. And they rightfully belong to this exposition, since both - Matthew and Luke are giving versions of the same discourse. The - passage from Luke to which reference is made is the following:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the - moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, - with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts - failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are - coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be - shaken.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">Luke 21:25-27.</span></p> - </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page054">[pg 054]</span><a name= - "Pg054" id="Pg054" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 80%; text-align: center"> - <a href="images/i_054.png"><img src="images/i_054.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "text-align: center; margin-top: 1.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> - Modern Cyclone. - </div> - </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page055">[pg 055]</span><a name= - "Pg055" id="Pg055" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The signs in the - sun, moon, and stars are here spoken of less specifically than by - Matthew, while other features of the times, which Matthew does not - notice, are introduced between those signs and the shaking of the - powers of heaven. These are of peculiar interest to us because we - are living in the very days when the things that Luke speaks of are - coming to pass. The signs here predicted consist of violent - commotions upon earth which cause anxiety, perplexity, and distress - among nations and in the hearts of men. We may refer the - expression, <span class="tei tei-q">“the sea and the waves - roaring,”</span> to unusual disturbances of the natural elements, - and we have the most abundant evidences of its fulfillment in the - storms and convulsions of nature that are occurring by sea and - land, filling the heart with dread at the sight of every dark cloud - that arises. The tidal waves and volcanic upheavals at sea have, in - the last two or three decades, been marked with extraordinary - violence. On land, cyclones and earthquakes have carried on a - fearful work of destruction. Many instances might be cited to - substantiate this statement, but the events are too familiar to - require it. Hardly a week passes but some great calamity of this - kind is recorded.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But the - expression referred to is probably susceptible of another - application in which it will be found to be as forcible and - pertinent to the present state of affairs as in the one just - noticed. This would be to give the term <span class= - "tei tei-q">“sea and waves”</span> its symbolic meaning. The - prophet of old said: <span class="tei tei-q">“And behold the four - winds of heaven strove upon the great sea.”</span> Dan. 7:2. We are - told that the sea represents <span class="tei tei-q">“peoples, and - multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”</span> Rev. 17:15. Taking - the words in this sense, the meaning and fulfillment are still as - apparent as before; and the expression joins its force to that of - the remainder of the passage—<span class="tei tei-q">“upon the - earth distress of nations, with perplexity; <span class= - "tei tei-pb" id="page057">[pg 057]</span><a name="Pg057" id="Pg057" - class="tei tei-anchor"></a> the sea and the waves roaring; men's - hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things - which are coming on the earth.”</span> In this sense the expression - in question would indicate commotion and violent disturbance in the - social and political world. In this meaning all will at once see - the vivid force of the text as applied to our times.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center; width: 80%"> - <a href="images/i_056.png"><img src="images/i_056.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-top: 1.00em; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> - Assassination of Carnot. - </div> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The times we - live in are anomalous to any that have ever preceded us. For some - years there have been universal and active preparations for war, - and almost universal peace. To secure the greatest efficiency of - armed forces for defensive and offensive purposes, has been the - prime consideration of government, especially so, as far as the Old - World nations are concerned. Europe echoes to the tread of vast - hosts of war while the nations are driven to their wits' end to - provide for their support. It is well known that these costly - preparations are not for show; and the hearts of men quail in view - of the culmination which, though delayed, must soon be reached.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But while the - temple of Janus is closed as far as international strife is - concerned, and angel hands are holding the winds of war (see Rev. - 7:1-3), internal strife and dissension are rending the vitals of - the great nations of earth. Within the confines of its own border, - each of these nations is cherishing elements of the deadliest - nature. Trouble is brewing that has for the people far more terror - than foreign complications. For some time the ominous mutterings of - an oncoming storm have been heard in every land, and it requires no - remarkable acumen to discern the rapid approach of the crisis.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The apostle - James strikes directly at the matter in a prophetic glance and - exhortation in the following language:—</p><span class="tei tei-pb" - id="page058">[pg 058]</span><a name="Pg058" id="Pg058" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your - miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and - your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and - the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your - flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the - last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down - your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the - cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the - Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been - wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye - have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist - you.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">James 5:1-6.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The apostle - locates the circumstances he here refers to in the last days. He - denounces the rich men who have heaped together treasures, the rust - and canker of which will be a witness against them. They live in - pleasure and wantonness while the cries of those whose wages they - have kept back enter into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There is a - universal cry of hard times in all the world. It is hard to obtain - money; and yet, there never was so much money as at present. But it - is being collected—gathered in heaps—by the powerful few, while the - limited means of the masses are dwindling lower and lower. The - poorer classes witness the absorption of wealth by the money-kings, - with feelings that are being aroused to the point of desperation by - the sense of their inability to secure what seems to them a more - equitable distribution of the things of this world. The laborers - cry, and God hears their cry.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That these - things are taking place to-day as the most prominent feature of our - social life no one will for a moment deny. Such colossal fortunes - the world has heretofore at most but dreamed of. There are men - living to-day who have risen in wealth from obscure stations to - become lords <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page059">[pg - 059]</span><a name="Pg059" id="Pg059" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - of untold millions. Their wealth passes the bounds of just - computation, for it includes the power of oppression by which it - may be indefinitely increased. The lavish expenditure of these - means for selfish pleasure often amounts to wantonness.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Well then, what - is to be done? It is a difficult and delicate matter to frame and - secure legislation by which this or any other class of men shall be - deprived of the management of their own business as long as that - business is legitimate and is legitimately conducted. Shall anarchy - and violence be resorted to? Shall the laborer seize the torch and - the weapons of death? Shall the country be devastated by strikes, - strife, and civil war? Shall our communities be rent with murder, - arson, treason, and intense personal hatred and enmity? No one - possessing the natural instincts of humanity could contemplate such - a condition of affairs except with horror. There are ghouls of - society who gloat in blood; but such are not true citizens, they - are not neighbors, they certainly are not Christians.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But what shall - we do as citizens, neighbors, and Christians? This is a question of - great importance just now. Inspiration long ago foresaw our - situation. The pitying Saviour long since anticipated the - sufferings that are to come upon this generation; and having, - through his servant, outlined the present condition of affairs so - closely, he certainly would not leave his followers uninformed as - to the course he would have them pursue. We have to read only two - verses farther in James's letter to find the counsel we need.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Be - patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the - Lord.</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">Behold, the - husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath - long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. - Be ye</span> <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page061">[pg - 061]</span><a name="Pg061" id="Pg061" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">also patient; - stablish your hearts;</span> <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">for - the coming of the Lord draweth nigh</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style= - "font-size: 90%">James 5:7, 8.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center; width: 80%"> - <a href="images/i_060.png"><img src="images/i_060.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em; text-align: center"> - Chicago Riot. - </div> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Oppression and - revolt, combination and intrigue, strife and bloodshed, never will - cease until the supreme selfishness, which in the absence of divine - grace controls all men, gives place to true philanthropy, and a - brotherhood that is not outlined by class or sectional interests. - This happy time is coming. When Jesus comes, he will take to - himself his power and reign in righteousness. Then will the hills - be brought low, the valleys exalted, the crooked be made straight, - and the rough places smooth.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Those who are - weary of strife, those who through misfortune or oppression have - been made to feel their need of relief will find rest to their - souls in looking for the coming of the Lord. It is vain to match - evil with evil or to try to cure wrong with wrong. The gospel of - Christ is the only remedy for these ills. And all that we can - really do to counteract the annoyances of this life must be done - through the gospel of peace. In this time of perplexity, distress, - and fear, let every Christian hold up Christ. Let his patient - suffering be exemplified in whatever circumstances may come. Just a - little beyond, there is relief.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Strikes, - boycotts, lock-outs, trusts, unions, or any other human device or - demonstration only augments the trouble, as the experience of the - past few years shows. For there never was so much of these things - as now, and never was capital so insecure, business so uncertain, - and labor in such distress as at present. The employment of - arbitrary force provokes greater efforts on the opposite side, and - thus the breach is widened and the strife becomes more bitter. We - do not argue the merits or demerits of the case. That there is deep - wrong involved, the fruits plainly show. It is our task only to - point out the one remedy available alike to <span class= - "tei tei-pb" id="page062">[pg 062]</span><a name="Pg062" id="Pg062" - class="tei tei-anchor"></a> either and all. That remedy is the - gospel of Christ, which is soon to close in a glorious triumph for - those who have patiently and faithfully wrought his will.</p> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc23" id="toc23"></a> <a name="pdf24" id="pdf24"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 2.88em; text-align: left; margin-top: 2.88em"> - <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style= - "font-size: 144%">“</span><span style="font-size: 144%">The Powers - Of Heaven Shall Be Shaken.</span><span style= - "font-size: 144%">”</span></span></h2> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We do not - apprehend that this circumstance will occur as a sign of Christ's - coming, but rather that it will constitute one of the events of his - coming, the same as the features mentioned in the next verse. An - evident distinction may be drawn between the <em class= - "tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">signs</span></em> - of the advent and the circumstances of it. With the falling of the - stars, the former cease; and with the next event the latter - commence. This event, the shaking of the powers of heaven, we must - regard as being future. It holds the same place in the events of - this chapter, that the departing of the heavens as a scroll does in - the events of the sixth seal of Revelation 6. Both follow the - falling stars. The Scriptures plainly teach that, prior to the - resurrection of the just by the voice of the Son of God, the voice - of God the Father will shake the heavens and the earth, when will - be fulfilled the shaking of the powers of the heaven. This is not - the voice of the Son of God as he descends to raise the dead. It - comes from the throne of God in the temple of heaven.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter - his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall - shake; but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the - strength of the children of Israel.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">Joel - 3:16.</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Therefore will I shake the heavens, and the - earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of - hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style= - "font-size: 90%">Isa. 13:13.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Paul quotes from - the words of the Lord by Haggai and comments as - follows:—</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page063">[pg - 063]</span><a name="Pg063" id="Pg063" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also - heaven. And this word, yet once more, signifieth the removing of - those things that are shaken.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">Heb. - 12:26, 27.</span></p> - </div> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 4.00em; margin-bottom: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc25" id="toc25"></a> <a name="pdf26" id="pdf26"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "text-align: left; margin-top: 2.88em; margin-bottom: 2.88em"> - <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style= - "font-size: 144%">“</span><span style="font-size: 144%">Sign Of The - Son Of Man.</span><span style= - "font-size: 144%">”</span></span></h2> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Neither is this - one of the signs showing that the coming of the Son of man is near, - but <span class="tei tei-q">“the sign of the Son of man in - heaven.”</span> It is that which indicates his position. When - Christ ascended from the mount of Olivet, <span class= - "tei tei-q">“a cloud received him”</span> from the sight of his - disciples. They still gazed at the cloud as it rolled upward, - bearing the Saviour toward the Father's throne but they could not - see his person. When he comes <span class="tei tei-q">“in like - manner”</span> as he was taken up to heaven, the cloud will appear, - small in the distance, but as it draws near, it will signify to - those who are looking for his return, that he is there, and soon - his presence will fill the earth with matchless glory. In Rev. - 14:14, the holy seer records his view of the coming Saviour in the - following words: <span class="tei tei-q">“And I looked, and behold - a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of - man.”</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This is not a - mass of vapor but a cloud of resplendent glory. He comes - <span class="tei tei-q">“with power and great glory.”</span> He - will <span class="tei tei-q">“come in the glory of his - Father”</span> (Matt. 16:27); in his own glory, <span class= - "tei tei-q">“and all the holy angels with him.”</span> Matt. 25:31. - The glory of the Father, of the Son, and of all the holy - angels—this glory will comprise the cloud which attends him on the - way. Of its intensity we can form no just conception. In the - presence of one angel the Roman guard <span class="tei tei-q">“did - quake and became as dead men.”</span> There are ten thousand times - ten thousand and thousands of thousands of them in this throng. - Above the brightness of their glory is that of the Father and the - Son.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page064">[pg - 064]</span><a name="Pg064" id="Pg064" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At first the - cloud is only perceptible, but as it approaches, it attracts - attention, and at length every eye is fastened intently upon the - wonderful spectacle. The trumpet resounds, the voice of the - Archangel awakens the dead, and they come forth to share in the - glorious revelation of their Redeemer. All nature is convulsed with - her coming dissolution. Each moment the glory draws nearer, and - soon the wicked can no longer endure the sight.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, - and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven - with power and great glory.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">Verse - 30.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Again attention - is directed to the parallel language of Rev. 6:15-47:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and - the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every - bond man, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the - rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall - on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, - and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of his wrath is - come; and who shall be able to stand?</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The prophet - Isaiah describes the same thrilling event from the other - standpoint—that of the waiting people of God:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord - God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his - people shall he take away from off all the earth; for the Lord hath - spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; - we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we - have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his - salvation.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">Isa. 25:8, 9.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The apostle Paul - gives a vivid description of the event with its attendant - circumstances as follows:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, - concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as - others which have</span> <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page065">[pg - 065]</span><a name="Pg065" id="Pg065" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">no hope. For if - we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which - sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by - the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the - coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the - Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice - of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ - shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be - caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the - air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">1 - Thess. 4:13-17.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The once - slighted, insulted, and crucified Saviour, now King of kings and - Lord of lords, is coming near the earth! His glory blazes - everywhere! The saints hope and rejoice with trembling. But what an - hour for the wicked! The tribes of the earth mourn. Amid the ruins - of shivered creation they hold one general prayer-meeting. Kings - and great men, rich men, chief captains and mighty men, free and - bond, all, yes, all unite in the general wail. As the Son of man in - the glory of his Father, attended by all the holy angels, draws - still nearer, consternation fills every breast. They hide in dens - and in the rocks of the mountains. Their only hope is to be - concealed from the glory of that scene. They know it is too late to - pray for mercy, that probation for the human family has ended - forever.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But rocks cannot - shelter them from the burning glory manifested by the King of - kings, attended by the whole heavenly host. When <span class= - "tei tei-q">“the Son of man shall come in the glory of the - Father,”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“and all the holy angels - with him,”</span> no sinner can endure the scene and live. The - exceeding brightness of that vast multitude of angels, brighter - than a thousand suns at noonday, will pierce the sinner's lowest - hiding place, and will <span class="tei tei-q">“make even a speedy - riddance of all them that dwell in the land.”</span> Zeph. 1:18. - The Son <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page066">[pg - 066]</span><a name="Pg066" id="Pg066" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - of man will be seen <span class="tei tei-q">“coming in the clouds - of heaven with power and great glory.”</span> But before his coming - a great work will be done for his people. Should he suddenly burst - upon them now, they could not endure <span class="tei tei-q">“the - power and great glory”</span> of the scene. This subject is well - illustrated by the following words of the prophet:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the - Lord; his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come - unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the - earth.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">Hosea 6:3.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The morning is a - beautiful figure of the opening glory of the day of God. The - day-star first appears, then the dawn of day. And as the light of - day increases, the eyes are enabled to endure it, and view the sun - shining in his strength. But should the light of the sun burst upon - the world suddenly at midnight, no human eye could endure it.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So will the - people of God be prepared to meet their coming King. They must - first break away from the love and cares of this world, and - consecrate all to the Lord. Then will they, in due time, share the - outpouring of the Holy Spirit <span class="tei tei-q">“as the rain, - as the latter and former rain upon the earth.”</span> The day-star - will arise in their hearts. 2 Peter 1:19. Those who have taken heed - to the sure word of prophecy through the dark, watching night, then - raise their heads in triumph. They are filled with faith and with - the Holy Spirit. Glory is poured upon them till they can gaze on - Christ and angels. The trumpet sounds. The angels are dispatched to - the graves of the righteous. The voice of the Son of God awakes the - sleeping saints of all ages. They come forth in immortal perfection - and, as they leave the earth, the living saints are changed. The - <span class="tei tei-q">“elect from one end of heaven to the - other,”</span> each with an angel bright and strong to lead the - way, are caught <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page067">[pg - 067]</span><a name="Pg067" id="Pg067" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - up to meet the Lord, who waits in mid-heaven to receive the - purchase of his blood. As language would fail to describe what - follows, we leave the reader to contemplate it, praying that we may - be prepared to participate in the meeting scene.</p> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 4.00em; margin-bottom: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc27" id="toc27"></a> <a name="pdf28" id="pdf28"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 2.88em; text-align: left; margin-top: 2.88em"> - <span style="font-size: 144%">Parable Of The Fig-Tree.</span></h2> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verses</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">32, 33:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Now learn a parable of the fig-tree; when his - branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer - is nigh. So likewise ye when ye shall see all these things, know - that it [</span><span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">‘</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">he,</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">’</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">R. - V.] is near, even at the doors.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This parable is - probably the most forcible figure that could be used with which to - illustrate this subject. When the trees of the field begin to put - forth their leaves, and the tender grass springs up, and the ground - is being covered with its green velvet carpet, we know that summer - is nigh. It is a certainty with us that summer is coming when we - see these signs in nature. We know that summer is nigh <span class= - "tei tei-q">“<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-style: italic">So, likewise</span></em>,”</span> or, with the - same certainty, we may <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-style: italic">know</span></em> that Christ's coming is near - when the signs in the sun, moon, and stars are fulfilled. How - near?—Even at the doors. How near may that be?</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verse</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">34:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Verily I say unto you. This generation shall not - pass, till all these things be fulfilled.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is sometimes - claimed that the generation spoken of was the one then living. If - so, it could have been to no greater extent than referring to the - answer of the question relating to the destruction of Jerusalem. - But it would be wholly illogical to limit the application of the - statement to that generation or to place its principal significance - there. <span class="tei tei-q">“All these things”</span> must - include the signs and circumstances of which Christ has been - speaking. In the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page068">[pg - 068]</span><a name="Pg068" id="Pg068" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - preceding verses he gives the parable of the fig-tree, and - addresses those who are to be living at that time directly. - <span class="tei tei-q">“So likewise <em class= - "tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">ye</span></em>, - when <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-style: italic">ye</span></em> shall see all these things, - <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-style: italic">know</span></em> that it is near.”</span> And - then, <span class="tei tei-q">“<em class= - "tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">This</span></em> - generation shall not pass.”</span> What generation? Evidently the - one which he was addressing, and which saw <span class= - "tei tei-q">“these things come to pass.”</span> Not only does such - an interpretation do no violence to the Saviour's meaning, but it - is obviously the only one that can be reasonably entertained in - regard to it.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Paul speaks in - the first person of those who will be living when Jesus comes, for - he says, <span class="tei tei-q">“We shall not all sleep, but we - shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at - the last trump.”</span> 1 Cor. 15:51, 52. Or, <span class= - "tei tei-q">“Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up - together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the - air.”</span> 1 Thess. 4:17. The things here mentioned by the - apostle did not take place in his day. They have not yet taken - place. Notwithstanding, he speaks of them as though they would take - place in his day, and as if he were to have a part in them.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The proclamation - of the coming and kingdom of Christ is given to the last - generation. God sent Noah to preach to the last generation before - the flood, not to any preceding one. The very generation which was - destroyed by the waters of the flood saw Noah build the ark, and - heard his warning voice. So God has raised up men to give the - solemn warning to the world at the right time to give force to the - warning. And the very generation of men that live after the three - great signs are fulfilled, and who hear and reject the warning - message of Heaven, will drink the cup of the unmingled wrath of - God. And those of this very generation who receive the message, - suffer disappointments, and endure the trials of the waiting - position, will witness <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page069">[pg - 069]</span><a name="Pg069" id="Pg069" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - the coming of Christ, and exclaim, <span class="tei tei-q">“Lo, - this is our God; we have <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-style: italic">waited</span></em> for him, and he will save - us.”</span> Isa. 25:9.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With what - emphasis our Lord gave utterance to this sentiment! It is a rebuke - upon our unbelief. As we read it, God help us to believe it: - <span class="tei tei-q">“Verily I say unto you, This generation - shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.”</span> And as - though this were not enough to lead us to unwavering faith, he adds - these forcible words: <span class="tei tei-q">“Heaven and earth - shall pass away but my words shall not pass away.”</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The word and - promises of men may fail; but Christ has given assurance that his - word, and his word in reference to this solemn truth, will stand - though heaven and earth fail.</p> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 4.00em; margin-bottom: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc29" id="toc29"></a> <a name="pdf30" id="pdf30"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 2.88em; text-align: left; margin-top: 2.88em"> - <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style= - "font-size: 144%">“</span><span style="font-size: 144%">The Day And - Hour.</span><span style="font-size: 144%">”</span></span></h2> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verses</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">36, 37:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not - the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe - were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man - be.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This has become - a very familiar passage of scripture because of the frequent use - that is made of it to prove that nothing can be known of the - proximity of the second coming of Christ. But if we pause a moment - and lay beside this verse those we have just studied, we shall be - able to discover the exact truth at once. <span class= - "tei tei-q">“When ye shall see these things, know that it is near - even at the doors;”</span> and, <span class="tei tei-q">“This - generation shall not pass, till all these things be - fulfilled;”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“But of that day and - hour knoweth no man.”</span> The line of knowledge, then, lies - between the former expressions and the latter—between <span class= - "tei tei-q">“even at the doors”</span> and the definite day and - hour. The former we may know, and every Christian is commanded to - know. The latter no man knoweth. One may consistently say that he - knows an event is <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page071">[pg - 071]</span><a name="Pg071" id="Pg071" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - near, and yet say that he does not know the hour nor the day when - it will take place. That this is the scriptural teaching upon this - point may be readily proved by a reference to 1 Thess. 5:1-4:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye - have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly - that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For - when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction - cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they - shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that - day should overtake you as a thief.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">An evident - distinction is here drawn between two classes. Upon one class the - day of the Lord will come as a thief. Those of the other are not in - darkness that that day should come as a thief upon them. The - children of God are children of light. Their heavenly Father knows - the end from the beginning, and he has promised to reveal his - secret to his people through his servants the prophets. Amos - 3:7.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The apostle - Peter also bears testimony to the same truth.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">We have also a more sure word of prophecy; - whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that - shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day-star arise - in your hearts.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">2 Peter 1:19.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The dark place - here spoken of is the future. The past is lighted up by history, - the present is brought to our knowledge by press and telegraph; but - the future no human art or wisdom can penetrate. Prophecy throws - its gleam into those dark regions, yet unexplored, and marks out - the path of human history centuries and ages before it has echoed - to the footsteps of mankind. When at last we pass along the - pathway, we may, if we will, recognize the waymarks set up here and - there, every one of which <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page072">[pg - 072]</span><a name="Pg072" id="Pg072" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - is a monument to the wisdom and knowledge of God, and the - faithfulness of his word. Those who have no eyes to discern these - things, no ears to hear, nor hearts to understand their - significance, will pass on, and the final event will come upon them - unawares. Not so with those who take heed to the things God has - spoken.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We would not - detract an iota from the force of the verse under consideration. It - means all it says. No man knows the definite time of Christ's - coming. The day and hour, and even the year of the second advent - are purposely hidden. Some of the prophetic periods reach to the - time of the end, while others extend still farther down, very near - to the end itself; yet none of them reach to the coming of the Son - of man. The prophecies clearly point to the period of the second - advent, but do not give the definite time of that event.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But with this - passage before us we may claim that it would be transcending its - meaning to claim upon its authority that nothing should or could be - known of the approach of Christ's coming. More than that, it is not - inconsistent with the text nor improbable that prior to that event - the Lord will in his own way reveal that which has hitherto been - withheld. Those who claim that the text proves that nothing may be - known of the period of the second advent, make it prove too much - for their own unbelief. As recorded by Mark, the declaration reads: - <span class="tei tei-q">“But of that day and that hour knoweth no - man, no, not the angels which are in Heaven, neither the Son, but - the Father.”</span> If the text proves that men will know nothing - of the period of the second advent, it also proves that angels will - know nothing of it, and also that the Son will know nothing of it, - till the event takes place! This position proves too much, - therefore proves nothing to the point. <span class="tei tei-pb" id= - "page073">[pg 073]</span><a name="Pg073" id="Pg073" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a> Christ will know of the period of his second - advent to this world. The holy angels who wait around the throne of - heaven to receive messages relative to the part they act in the - salvation of men, will know of the time of this closing event of - salvation. And so will the waiting, watching people of God - understand. An old English version of the passage reads, - <span class="tei tei-q">“But that day and hour no man maketh known, - neither the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the - Father.”</span> This is the correct reading, according to several - of the ablest critics of the age. The word <em class= - "tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">know</span></em> is - used in the same sense here that it is by Paul in 1 Cor. 2:2: - <span class="tei tei-q">“For I determined not to know [make known] - anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.”</span> - Men will not make known the day and hour, angels will not make it - known, neither will the Son; but the Father will make it known. - Says Campbell:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Macknight argues that the term</span> <em class= - "tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">known</span></em> - <span style="font-size: 90%">is here used as a causative, in the - Hebrew sense of the conjugation</span> <span class= - "tei tei-foreign"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">hiphil</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, - that is,</span> <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">to make - known</span></em><span style="font-size: 90%">.... His [Christ's] - answer is just equivalent to saying, The Father will make it - known when it pleases him; but he has not authorized man, angel, - or the Son to make it known. Just in this sense, Paul uses the - term</span> <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">know</span></em><span style= - "font-size: 90%">, 1 Cor. 2:2:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">‘</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">I came to you</span> <em class= - "tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">making known</span></em> - <span style="font-size: 90%">the testimony of God; for I - determined to</span> <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">make known</span></em> - <span style="font-size: 90%">nothing among you but a crucified - Christ.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">’</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%"> ”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Albert Barnes, - in his <span class="tei tei-q">“Notes on the Gospels,”</span> - says:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Others have said that the verb rendered</span> - <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">knoweth</span></em> - <span style="font-size: 90%">means sometimes to</span> <em class= - "tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">make</span></em> - <span style="font-size: 90%">known, or to reveal, and that the - passage means,</span> <span class="tei tei-q"><span style= - "font-size: 90%">‘</span><span style="font-size: 90%">that day - and hour none maketh known, neither the angels, nor the Son, but - the Father.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">’</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">It is true the word has sometimes - that meaning, as 1 Cor. 2:2.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When the - patriarch's work of warning and building was finished, God said to - him, <span class="tei tei-q">“Come thou and all thy house into the - ark.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“For yet seven days and I will - cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty - nights.”</span> So when <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page074">[pg - 074]</span><a name="Pg074" id="Pg074" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - the waiting, watching, weeping, toiling time shall be finished, and - the saints shall all be sealed, and shut in with God, then, we - conclude, will the voice of the Father from heaven make known the - definite time. See Rev. 16:17; Joel 3:16; Jer. 25:30.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The present is - emphatically the waiting, watching time. It is the especial period - of the patience of the saints. The Lord appeals to us thus:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Watch ye, therefore; for ye know not when the - Master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the - cockcrowing, or in the morning; lest coming suddenly he find you - sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, - Watch.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">Mark 13:35-37.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">One of the fatal - consequences of not watching is distinctly stated in Rev. 3:3:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on - thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon - thee.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In consequence - of not watching, the people will remain in ignorance of the - approach of that hour. And the unavoidable inference is that by - watching they will be aware of and prepared for its coming. In - answer to the agonizing prayer of the Son of God, <span class= - "tei tei-q">“Father, glorify thy name,”</span> there came a voice - from heaven, saying, <span class="tei tei-q">“I have both glorified - it, and will glorify it again.”</span> The disciples understood - these words from heaven, while the people that stood by said it - thundered. John 12:27-29. So will the waiting disciples of Christ - understand the voice of God when he shall speak from on high. But - the unbelieving world will not understand it. In comparing Noah's - days and ours, the Lord continues:—</p> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc31" id="toc31"></a> <a name="pdf32" id="pdf32"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em; text-align: left"> - <span style="font-size: 144%">Noah's Time And Ours.</span></h2> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verses</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">38, 39:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">For as in the days that were before the flood, - they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, - until</span> <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page075">[pg - 075]</span><a name="Pg075" id="Pg075" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">the day that Noe - entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took - them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man - be.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A picture of the - present condition of the mass of mankind is here drawn. The people - of the last generation will be like those before the flood, while - the ark was preparing. While Noah preached, and warned them of the - coming flood, they mocked. He built the ark; and they scoffed and - jeered. He was a preacher of righteousness. His works were - calculated to give edge to, and send home to the heart, what he - preached. Every righteous sermon, and every blow struck in building - the ark, condemned a careless, scoffing world. As the time drew - nearer, the people grew more careless, more hardened, more bold and - impudent, and their condemnation surer. Noah and his family stood - alone. And could one family know more than all the world? The ark - was a matter of ridicule, and Noah was regarded as a willful - bigot.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But the Lord - calls Noah into the ark. And by the hand of Providence the beasts - are led into the ark; and the Lord shuts Noah in. This is regarded - at first by the scoffing multitude as something wonderful; but it - is soon explained away by the wiser ones, so as to calm their - fears, and they breathe easier.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The day of - expectation finally arrives. The sun rises as usual, and the - heavens are clear. <span class="tei tei-q">“Now where is old Noah's - flood?”</span> is heard from a thousand impious lips. The farmer is - caring for his herds and lands, and the mechanic is pursuing his - work of building. On this very day, some are being joined in - marriage. With many it is a day of unusual feasting and sports. And - while all are looking to long years of future prosperity and - happiness, suddenly the heavens gather blackness. Fear fills every - heart. The windows <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page076">[pg - 076]</span><a name="Pg076" id="Pg076" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - of heaven open, and the rain descends in torrents. <span class= - "tei tei-q">“The fountains of the great deep are broken up,”</span> - and here and there come gushing up rivers of water. The valleys are - fast filling up, and thousands are swept away in death. Awful - death! made still more horrible by being in consequence of slighted - mercy! But where is Noah? Ah! safe in the ark, borne upon the - billows. Safe from the flood, for God <span class="tei tei-q">“shut - him in.”</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By some people, - the evidences of the soon coming of Christ are considered - insufficient to base faith upon. But the testimony and acts of one - man in the case of Noah, condemned the people destroyed by the - flood. The evidences then were sufficient, otherwise the world - would not have been condemned. But a hundred times more convincing - evidences come pouring in upon us that the day of the Lord is near, - and hasteth greatly. We follow down the several prophetic chains of - Daniel and of the Revelation, and we find ourselves in every - instance standing just before the day of wrath. We see the signs - spoken of by prophets, by Christ, and by the apostles, fulfilling - or fulfilled. And at the right time, and in the right manner, to - fulfill certain prophecies, a solemn message arises in different - parts of the world: <span class="tei tei-q">“Blow ye the trumpet in - Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the - inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord cometh, - for it is nigh at hand.”</span> Joel 2:1. Wherever we look, we see - prophecy fulfilling. While the knowledge of God and the spirit of - holiness are departing, spiritual wickedness, like a flood, covers - the land.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But these - evidences are considered insufficient to rest faith upon. Well, - what kind of evidence would the unbelieving have? <span class= - "tei tei-q">“When the signs of the end,”</span> says the skeptic, - <span class="tei tei-q">“are fulfilled, they will be so plain that - no one <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page077">[pg - 077]</span><a name="Pg077" id="Pg077" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - can doubt.”</span> But if the signs are of such a nature, and are - fulfilled in such a manner, as to compel all to believe in the - coming of Christ, how can it be as it was in the days of Noah? Men - were not then compelled to believe. But eight believing souls were - saved, while all the world besides sank in their unbelief beneath - the waters of the flood. God has never revealed his truth to man in - a manner to compel him to believe. Those who have wished to doubt - his word, have found a wide field in which to doubt, and a broad - road to perdition; while those who have wished to believe, have - ever found an everlasting rock upon which to rest their faith.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Just before the - end, the world will be hardened in sin, and indifferent to the - claims of God. Men will be careless in regard to the warnings of - danger, and blinded by cares, pleasures, and riches. An unbelieving - generation will be eating, drinking, marrying, building, planting, - and sowing. It is right to eat and drink to sustain nature, but the - sin is in excess and gluttony. The marriage covenant is holy, but - God's glory is seldom thought of. Building, planting, and sowing, - necessary for convenient shelter, food, and clothing, are right; - but the world has gone wholly after these things, so that men have - no time nor disposition to think of God, heaven, Christ's coming, - and the Judgment. This world is their god, and all their energies - of body and mind are made to serve it. And the evil day is put far - away.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The faithful - watchman who sounds the alarm as he sees destruction coming, is - held up before the people from the pulpits of our land, and by the - religious press, as a fanatic, a teacher of dangerous heresies; - while in contrast is set forth a long period of peace and - prosperity to the church. So the churches are quieted to sleep. The - scoffer <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page079">[pg - 079]</span><a name="Pg079" id="Pg079" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - continues to scoff, and the mocker mocks on. But that day is - coming. Thus saith the prophet of God:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it - shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all - hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt. And they shall be - afraid; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them.... Behold, the - day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to - lay the land desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out - of it.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">Isa. 13:6-9.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: center"></p> - - <div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center; width: 80%"> - <a href="images/i_078.png"><img src="images/i_078.png" alt= - "Illustration" /></a> - - <div class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em; text-align: center"> - The Day of Wrath. - </div> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Most dreadful - day! and is it near?—Yes; it hasteth! It hasteth greatly! What a - description given by the prophet! Read it; and as you read, try to - realize how dreadful will be that day:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and - hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty - man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of - trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of - darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day - of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the - high towers. And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall - walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord; and - their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the - dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver - them in the day of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land shall be - devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he shall make even a - speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the - land.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">Zeph. 1:14-18.</span></p> - </div> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc33" id="toc33"></a> <a name="pdf34" id="pdf34"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em; text-align: left"> - <span style="font-size: 144%">Peace And Safety.</span></h2> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The attitude of - the religious world toward this most important subject is worthy of - more than passing notice both because of its effect upon the cause - of truth and also because it of itself is a sign of the times. - While it is true that many individuals in the different Christian - denominations recognize with more or less distinctness the fact - that we are living in the last days, with many of these - <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page080">[pg 080]</span><a name= - "Pg080" id="Pg080" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> it does not become a - practical truth. Outside of these there are many who ridicule the - idea as preposterous and outlandish; and in opposition to the - message that Christ is soon coming, raise the cry of, <span class= - "tei tei-q">“Peace, peace, when there is no peace.”</span> Such - teaching is alluded to by the prophet in Eze. 13:10, 11.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The groundwork - of the peace and safety cry is the doctrine of the temporal - millennium. This teaches that the world is now entering, or about - to enter upon a period of universal peace and good will, that the - moral tone of the world is improving, men and nations are learning - righteousness; and the gospel of Christ is about to become the - controlling principle in public and private life. And, further, - this happy state will continue for one thousand years, which period - of time the word millennium literally signifies. At the end of that - time, perhaps, the Lord will come. However, if this doctrine be - true, it will make but little difference to this generation or to - the one living at the close of the period whether he does or not. - The verses we have just considered which liken the last days to - those of Noah wholly disprove this position. In addition to what - Matthew states, Luke gives a still more forcible version of our - Saviour's words:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be - also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they - married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe - entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. - Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they - drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the - same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone - from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the - day when the Son of man is revealed.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">Luke - 17:26-30.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Paul writes in - his epistles to Timothy as follows:—</p><span class="tei tei-pb" - id="page081">[pg 081]</span><a name="Pg081" id="Pg081" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the - latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to - seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">1 - Tim. 4:1.</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">This know also, that in the last days perilous - times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, - covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, - unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, - false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are - good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than - lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power - thereof: from such turn away.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">2 - Tim. 3:1-5.</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and - worse, deceiving, and being deceived.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style= - "font-size: 90%">Verse 13.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In very many - scriptures it is plainly declared that when Christ comes, he comes - not only to reward and save his people but also to punish his - enemies. Looking upon the last days he exclaims, <span class= - "tei tei-q">“Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find - faith on the earth?”</span> Luke 18:8. The idea of a thousand years - of peace and righteousness before Christ comes might be dismissed - as utterly out of the question. But space will be given to one or - two passages supposed to teach it, which will represent the whole - class. The first and chief is found in Isa. 2:2-4:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">And it shall come to pass in the last days, that - the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of - the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all - nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come - ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of - the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will - walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the - word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the - nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their - swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: - nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they - learn war any more.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Almost the same - language is used in Micah 4:1-3. It is enough to call attention to - the authorship of the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page082">[pg - 082]</span><a name="Pg082" id="Pg082" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - propositions contained in the text. They come from the people. - <span class="tei tei-q">“Many people shall go and say, Come - ye,”</span> etc. Inspiration asserts that in the last days the - mountain or power of the Lord's house or church shall be - established in the tops of the mountains, or civil power. - Undoubtedly it will. Everything is tending to the union of Church - and State and the professed church of Christ is riding on a high - tide to civil power in all lands. But farewell to godliness and - spiritual power. When this is accomplished, in a general chorus all - will proclaim the dawning millennium.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">How the Lord - regards the people who are saying these things is shown in the - succeeding verses:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house - of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are - soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the - children of strangers. Their land also is full of silver and gold, - neither is there any end of their treasures; their land also is - full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: their - land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own - hands, that which their own fingers have made.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">Isa. - 2:6-8.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Now let us see - what God says on the same point and concerning the same time:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; prepare war, - wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them - come up: beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruninghooks - into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, - and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round - about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. Let the - heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for - there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in - the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the - press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. - Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of - the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon - shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw</span> - <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page083">[pg 083]</span><a name= - "Pg083" id="Pg083" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style= - "font-size: 90%">their shining. The Lord also shall roar out of - Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the - earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, - and the strength of the children of Israel.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style= - "font-size: 90%">Joel 3:9-16.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mark, this is - not what the people say, but what the Lord says of the very same - time when the people are preaching a good time coming.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another verse - referred to, and representing quite a numerous class of similar - ones, is found in Num. 14:21.</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be - filled with the glory of the Lord.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There is no - occasion to modify or limit the meaning of those words; for their - utmost significance will be realized. But when?—When sin and the - curse are wiped away. After the purifying fires of the day of the - Lord have burned up the last work and relic of rebellion, and the - earth made new in Edenic glory comes again from the hand of its - Maker, as beautiful, yea, more beautiful, if possible, than at - first. It would not be within the limits of this pamphlet to follow - out this subject, but the reader is referred to the following - scriptures: Isa. 65:17-22; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21 and 22, and - to published works.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In that state - this and all kindred scriptures will meet a fulfillment that is - ample and complete. But for such a condition of things this side of - the coming of Christ neither the Bible nor the trend of events give - any promise whatever.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Judging of the - probability of the conversion of the world from the facts, it would - seem to be far from striking. The following table gives a - comparatively accurate showing of the present religious status of - the world:—</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page085">[pg - 085]</span><a name="Pg085" id="Pg085" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <div class="tei tei-lg" style= - "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Jews and Parsees 15,470,000 - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Greek Catholics 84,136,000 - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Protestants 114,815,500 - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Brahminical Hindoos 120,000,000 - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Mohammedans 122,400,000 - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Roman Catholics 255,000,000 - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Pagans 227,000,000 - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Buddhists 482,000,000 - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Unclassified 51,050,000 - </div> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Concerning the - very small proportion of this number classed in the list of - Christians, Bishop Foster has very aptly said:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">There are some who too fondly anticipate a - millennium. There is a lack of information on the progress of - Christianity. The facts are misstated daily in pulpits all over the - country. Ministers hesitate to present the worst side for fear of - causing discouragement, and they create hopes that are never - realized. We are not at the dawn of a millennium. Compared with the - work to be done, the past is nothing. Our children's children for - ten generations to come must labor harder than we are doing, to - accomplish the conversion of the world. The world's population is - 1,500,000,000. Of these, Christians number less than a third; and - half of that third belongs to the Roman Catholic Church. The - Protestants number 114,000,000. They are divided into 500 sects. - And this number of their strength includes, also, all the thieves, - ex-convicts, the debased, besotted, and the speckled and streaked - in Christendom.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">—</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Northwestern Christian - Advocate of Dec. 2, 1885.</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Farther on in - the same article the Bishop said:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Before us we have the great problem—the - 1,100,000,000 of pagans to convert to Christianity. That is the - solid rock that looms up in our path. Look at it; see what work has - been done in 1800 years, and how much is yet to be accomplished. In - India, after more than a hundred years of mission work, we have - 600,000 native converts and 2,000,000 Christians among 260,000,000 - heathen. Can we remove that solid boulder that is as old as the - hills?... Our Methodist Church we think the most divine and - ineffable. We boast that we are going to conquer</span> - <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page086">[pg 086]</span><a name= - "Pg086" id="Pg086" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style= - "font-size: 90%">the world, and come from our palaces and - princely farms to subscribe fifty cents a head for the - undertaking! It is a burning disgrace that excites pity and - disgust.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And as to the - prospects for universal peace, the following recent statement of - the armament of Europe does not indicate that the nations are - really contemplating such a happy consummation:—</p> - - <div class="tei tei-lg" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Russia: 1,519,810 men, 181,000 horses, 2,084 cannon - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Germany: 835,000 men, 96,000 horses, 2,022 cannon - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Austria: 856,980 men, 58,125 horses, 1,600 cannon - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - England: 478,800 men - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - France: 1,850,000 men - </div> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The remaining - states of Europe make up with the above a total of about 6,000,000 - men.</p> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc35" id="toc35"></a> <a name="pdf36" id="pdf36"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 2.88em; text-align: left; margin-top: 2.88em"> - <span style="font-size: 144%">The Final Separation.</span></h2> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verses</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">40, 41:</span> <span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be - taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; - the one shall be taken, and the other left.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This language - shows the final separation between the righteous and the wicked. - There is no elaborate explanation as to how the circumstances will - meet their fulfillment, but that is not the essential force of the - text. The line will in some cases be drawn between those who are - intimately related. Some members of the same family will be taken - away by the judgments of God, while others will be left to receive - their coming Lord.</p> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 4.00em; margin-bottom: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc37" id="toc37"></a> <a name="pdf38" id="pdf38"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em; text-align: left"> - <span style="font-size: 144%">Those Who Watch Will Know The - Time.</span></h2> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verses</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">42-44:</span> <span class="tei tei-q"> - <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your - Lord doth come. But know this, that if the good man of the</span> - <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page087">[pg 087]</span><a name= - "Pg087" id="Pg087" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style= - "font-size: 90%">house had known in what watch the thief would - come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his - house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an - hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The injunction - to watchfulness is repeatedly given by our Saviour in connection - with his teaching in reference to his second advent. These - injunctions must apply especially to those who live in proximity to - that event. This fact is convincing evidence that the Lord is not - displeased with those who anticipate his coming, and study the word - in reference to it. No one watches for that which he does not - expect, and indifference or aversion toward the coming of Christ is - sure evidence of coldness toward Christ himself. If we love Jesus, - we shall love his appearing and if we love his appearing, we shall - be eagerly watching and waiting for it. But if we knew the hour - when he would come, we should not watch for his coming, nor could - we with eagerness expect his coming if we had no knowledge of its - approach. The course of time has been measured off in definite - periods down to the beginning of the present generation. The time - from the end of the prophetic periods to the coming of Christ is - emphatically the waiting, watching time. Those who watch, as our - Lord commands, will eventually know the time. No man will make it - known, for it is not revealed to man in the Scriptures. Angels will - not make it known, though they may minister to, and communicate - with, the children of men. Neither will the Son. But the Father - will make it known when he speaks again from heaven.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is - undoubtedly true that the unscriptural and irrational course - pursued by many so-called Adventists in repeatedly setting a time - of their own for the Lord to come has had the effect to disgust - many with the whole <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page088">[pg - 088]</span><a name="Pg088" id="Pg088" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - matter. This is the enemy's work. He will seek thus to obscure each - truth by bringing it into the shadow of reproach. But it is unwise - to be thus misled. Probably there is no prophecy that better - describes the present state of unbelief in the world in regard to - the second advent, caused partly by fanatical time-movements, than - the following:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in - the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every - vision faileth? Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God: I - will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a - proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the - effect of every vision. For there shall be no more any vain vision - nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. For I am the - Lord: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to - pass; it shall be no more prolonged, for in your days, O rebellious - house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord - God.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">Eze. 12:22-25.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The burden of - this prophecy is time; therefore the word here mentioned that the - Lord will speak, will be the time. Rev. 3:3, is also to the - point:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Remember, therefore, how thou hast received and - heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not - watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what - hour I will come upon thee.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Those who do not - watch, will not know the hour. Those who watch will know the - hour.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The present - watching, waiting position requires much faith and patience. Says - Paul:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which - hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, - that, after ye have done the will of God [in proclaiming the coming - of Christ], ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, - and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just - shall live by faith;</span> <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page089"> - [pg 089]</span><a name="Pg089" id="Pg089" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">but if any man - draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not - of them who draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to - the saving of the soul.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style= - "font-size: 90%">Heb. 10:35-39.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Says James: - <span class="tei tei-q">“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the - coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious - fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive - the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your - hearts; for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”</span> James 5:7, - 8.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jesus says: - <span class="tei tei-q">“Because thou hast kept the word of my - patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which - shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the - earth.”</span> Rev. 3:10.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The present - position and present duty of God's people are defined in Rev. - 14:12: <span class="tei tei-q">“Here is the patience of the saints; - here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of - Jesus.”</span></p> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc39" id="toc39"></a> <a name="pdf40" id="pdf40"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "text-align: left; margin-top: 2.88em; margin-bottom: 2.88em"> - <span style="font-size: 144%">The Faithful And Wise - Servant.</span></h2> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verses</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">45-47:</span> <span class="tei tei-q"> - <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom - his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in - due season? Blessed is that servant whom his lord when he cometh - shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, that he shall make - him ruler over all his goods.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In this figure, - Christ is represented as the Lord of the household of faith (see - Mark 13:35; Heb. 3:6), leaving his house, and committing the work - of caring for his church to his servants. A blessing is promised - those servants who are found faithfully discharging this duty when - their Lord comes. They are to feed the flock of God, over whom the - Holy Ghost hath made them overseers. Acts 20:28. They must preach - the word. 2 Tim. 4:2. They should watch for souls as they that must - give account. <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page090">[pg - 090]</span><a name="Pg090" id="Pg090" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - Heb. 13:17. They will not only give meat to the household, but they - will give it in due season. They will preach the <em class= - "tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">present</span></em> - truth.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And meat in due - season when Christ's coming draws near, will be the gospel of the - kingdom. Verse 14. It will embrace warnings, instructions, and - encouragements pertaining to a message that is designed and adapted - to prepare the world for so solemn an event. Suppose, for a moment, - that when Noah had received his message of the coming flood to give - to the world, he had reasoned with worldly wisdom that as such a - thing never had occurred, and from all appearances seemed very - unlikely to occur, and hence to preach it would subject him to - reproach, it would be better to avoid any particular allusion to - such an unwelcome subject. His preaching seemed to excite only - ridicule. He could retain his own private convictions and preach - the ordinary principles of righteousness, saying, <span class= - "tei tei-q">“Do not so, my brethren.”</span> And if the people were - only prepared for the flood, that would be all that would be - necessary. Of such a course we can say two things. He would thus - have proved very unfaithful to his trust, and the blood of his - fellow-men would have been upon him; and he would have done just as - thousands are doing now. He certainly would not have represented - the faithful and wise servant. So it is now. A solemn - responsibility is placed upon the watchmen:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, - and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the - people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for - their watchman: if when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he - blow the trumpet, and warn the people; then whosoever heareth the - sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, - and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard - the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be - upon him. But</span> <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page091">[pg - 091]</span><a name="Pg091" id="Pg091" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">he that taketh - warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword - come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if - the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken - away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the - watchman's hand. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman - unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my - mouth, and warn them from me.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span> <span style="font-size: 90%">Eze. - 33:2-7.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When Jesus - comes, the faithful servants will be found proclaiming his coming - and teaching the necessary preparation. The Saviour speaks of such - as <span class="tei tei-q">“faithful and wise.”</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">1. He is - faithful. As a faithful watchman, he will give timely warning when - he sees the sword coming. His work just before the end, is seen in - the following scriptures:—</p> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in - my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for - the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at - hand.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">Joel 2:1.</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a - trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of - Jacob their sins.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">Isa. - 58:1.</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord - Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his - appearing and his kingdom, Preach the word; be instant in season, - out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering - and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure - sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to - themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn - away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into fables. - But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of - an evangelist, make full proof of thy - ministry.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">2. Tim. 4:1-5.</span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">2. He is wise. - <span class="tei tei-q">“He that winneth souls is wise.”</span> He - must be wise. He will hold forth the truth in its harmony and - beauty, and thus expose error and win men to the truth. When it - becomes his duty to <span class="tei tei-q">“reprove and - rebuke,”</span> it will be at a proper time and place, and then - with all <span class="tei tei-q">“long-suffering and - doctrine.”</span> He will study to <span class="tei tei-pb" id= - "page092">[pg 092]</span><a name="Pg092" id="Pg092" class= - "tei tei-anchor"></a> show himself <span class= - "tei tei-q">“approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be - ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”</span> 2 Tim. - 2:15.</p> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-top: 4.00em; margin-bottom: 4.00em"> - <a name="toc41" id="toc41"></a> <a name="pdf42" id="pdf42"></a> - - <h2 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em; text-align: left"> - <span style="font-size: 144%">The Evil Servant.</span></h2> - - <div class="block tei tei-quote" style= - "margin-top: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verses</span></span> - <span style="font-size: 90%">48-51:</span> <span class="tei tei-q"> - <span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">But and if that evil servant shall say in his - heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his - fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; the lord - of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, - and in an hour that he is not aware of; and shall cut him - asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there - shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</span><span style= - "font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">What the evil - servant says and does, shows most clearly the position and work of - the faithful and wise servant. The evil servant says, <span class= - "tei tei-q">“My lord delayeth his coming,”</span> because the - faithful servant is proclaiming the coming of his lord. The evil - servant smites the faithful servant, because he teaches the soon - coming of his Lord. The faithful servant, true to his commission to - preach the <span class="tei tei-q">“gospel of the kingdom”</span> - to a fallen church and a scoffing world, toils on, and for this the - evil servant smites him. Not with the fist, perhaps, but with the - tongue of obloquy and reproach. That there should be professed - servants of Christ engaged in smiting those who are faithfully - warning the world, need not cause surprise in view of the past, but - must cause sorrow in the heart of every lover of truth. The wicked - servant says in heart, and some are saying with their lips, The - Lord is not coming. The world is now just starting out upon its - career of knowledge and enjoyment. Where is the promise or - indication of his coming? Some say, He may come to-night, he may - not come in a million years, thus neutralizing the truth. Such men - will be found criticising and discounting the Scriptures and - subjecting them to the tests of human philosophy and science. The - <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page093">[pg 093]</span><a name= - "Pg093" id="Pg093" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> only safety for the - people is to look beyond such watchmen. Let them take the Bible for - themselves, and there discerning the truth, embrace it, and live - according to it.</p> - </div> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> - <a name="toc43" id="toc43"></a> <a name="pdf44" id="pdf44"></a> - - <h1 class="tei tei-head" style= - "margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em; text-align: left"> - <span style="font-size: 173%">Conclusion.</span></h1> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The impression - prevails to some extent that he who teaches that Christ is soon - coming is acting the <span class="tei tei-foreign"><span style= - "font-style: italic">rôle</span></span> of an alarmist. If so, we - have seen that the great Teacher has placed himself at the head of - the class. No one has spoken more positively upon this point than he - has done. He said, <span class="tei tei-q">“In my Father's house are - many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to - prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I - will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there - ye may be also.”</span> John 14:2, 3. There is nothing ambiguous - about that language. A child can understand it. It means that Jesus - will come again. In the remarkable chapter we have here reviewed, the - Saviour takes up the subject specifically, and not only affirms the - fact of his coming, but foretells in explicit language the events - which he would have us recognize as signs of the near approach of his - coming and the end of the world.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But the message of - Christ's second coming is not sensational in its essential character. - It is a solemn, practical truth. It is full of warning and admonition - to sinners and worldly professors, and full of comfort to the - faithful followers of Christ. It is spoken of in the Scriptures as a - fact, established upon the word which never fails. When speaking - <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page095">[pg 095]</span><a name="Pg095" - id="Pg095" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> of his second advent, the - Saviour said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Heaven and earth shall pass - away, but my word shall not pass away.”</span> Matt. 24:35. To - disbelieve in his coming would be to doubt one of the two great - features of the gospel plan. What the harvest is to seed-time, - Christ's second advent will be to his first. To doubt that he ever - came to earth would be to subvert the gospel. To disbelieve his - second coming would nullify in the mind his first coming, and rob the - sacrifice of its glorious reward.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The apostle Paul - speaks of the second advent as <span class="tei tei-q">“that blessed - hope.”</span> Titus 2:13. Jesus says: <span class="tei tei-q">“And - when these things [the signs of his coming] begin to come to pass, - then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth - nigh.”</span> The prophet Isaiah anticipates the feelings of God's - people who will witness the event, and expresses them in the - following manner: <span class="tei tei-q">“And it shall be said in - that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will - save us: This is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad - and rejoice in his salvation.”</span> Isa. 25:9.</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At his coming, the - dead in Christ will be raised to everlasting life. The righteous - living will be changed to immortality. The hand of our Saviour will - wipe away all tears; <span class="tei tei-q">“there shall be no more - death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more - pain; for the former things are passed away.”</span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Why should we not - rejoice in such a prospect? Who would not welcome such a friend? Who - would not rejoice in the prospect of such a consummation?</p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But it is true - that the grand event will not be attended with joy alone. There will - be dismay and anguish. For while one prophet records the exclamations - of joyful anticipation, another has foreseen and recorded the cry of - despair. <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page096">[pg - 096]</span><a name="Pg096" id="Pg096" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - <span class="tei tei-q">“And the kings of the earth, and the great - men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, - and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and - in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, - Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the - throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of his - wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”</span> Rev. 6:15-17. - A vast number will thus lament. All who cannot join the shout of - welcome will unite in the wail of despair. There will be but two - classes in that day. And to one of those classes each one living will - belong. To which shall I belong? Solemn question. To which party will - you belong, reader? No one can <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style= - "font-style: italic">wait</span></em> for Christ who is not prepared - for his coming. Only the precious blood of Jesus that cleanses from - sin can prepare us to receive him and fit us to dwell in his - presence. Have you an interest in his forgiving love? Is your peace - made with God? 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A companion volume to <span class= - "tei tei-q">“Patriarchs and Prophets.”</span> By the same author. - This volume presents the most wonderful and intensely interesting - history that has ever been written of the great conflict between - Christianity and the powers of darkness, as illustrated in the lives - of Christian martyrs and reformers on the one hand, and wicked men - and persecuting powers on the other. Beginning with our Lord's great - prophecy given while viewing Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, this - book outlines the history of the whole dispensation down to the time - when <span class="tei tei-q">“sin and sinners are no more; God's - entire universe is clean: and the great controversy is forever - ended.”</span> This remarkable book contains over 700 pp., and 26 - illustrations. The work is handsomely printed and - bound.</p><span class="tei tei-ab">Bound in five styles, varying in - price from <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-weight: 700">$4.50 to 2.25</span></span></span> <span class= - "tei tei-pb" id="page098">[pg 098]</span><a name="Pg098" id="Pg098" - class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">PATRIARCHS AND - PROPHETS</span></span>; or the Great Conflict between Good and Evil - as illustrated in the Lives of Holy Men of Old. By Mrs. E. G. White, - author of <span class="tei tei-q">“Great Controversy,”</span> - <span class="tei tei-q">“Life of Christ,”</span> and numerous other - works on religious subjects. This book treats upon the themes of - Bible history—themes not in themselves new, but so presented here as - to give them a new significance. Beginning with the rebellion in - heaven, the author shows why sin was permitted, why Satan was not - destroyed, and why man was tested; gives a thrilling description of - man's temptation and fall; and rehearses the plan of redemption - devised for his salvation. This volume traces the great conflict - between good and evil from its inception down through the centuries - to the time of David's death, and shows God's wonderful love for - mankind by his dealings with the <span class="tei tei-q">“holy men of - old.”</span> The book contains over 760 octavo pages. It is printed - from clear, new electrotypes on a fine quality of tinted paper. Its - pages are adorned with more than 50 engravings, over 30 of which are - full-page, and many were designed and engraved especially for this - book by an artist in Paris, France.</p> - - <div class="tei tei-lg" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Furnished in four styles of binding, ranging from <span class= - "tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style= - "font-weight: 700">$4.50 to 2.25</span></span> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - In plain binding, with 13 illustrations <span class="tei tei-hi" - style="text-align: left"><span style= - "font-weight: 700">1.75</span></span> - </div> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">HERE AND - HEREAFTER</span></span>, or Man's Nature and Destiny, The State of - the Dead, the Reward of the Righteous, and the End of the Wicked. By - U. Smith. A thorough canvass of the great question of a future - existence, and the nature of man in the present life. Every text in - the Bible which has any bearing upon these points, is taken up and - carefully explained, thus giving the most comprehensive view of the - subject that has yet been presented. The work contains 444 pages. In - cloth covers <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-weight: 700">$1.00</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">CHRISTIAN - EDUCATION.</span></span>—The most complete and comprehensive work on - the subject of Christian Education that has ever been published. - Starting from the period of infancy, it points out the most - successful way of preparing the mind of the child for the work of - succeeding years. The importance of proceeding upon Christian - principles in the work of education, the nature and kind of studies - which are best for children, and the moulding influences of home and - associates, are dwelt upon in the most practical and explicit way. - Many of the problems that perplex parents are cleared up in this - book, and every one who has to deal with children should procure and - study it.</p><span class="tei tei-ab">256 pages nicely bound in cloth - <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">50 - cts.</span></span></span> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">STEPS TO - CHRIST.</span></span>—This little work by Mrs. E. G. White presents - in a simple and attractive manner the steps by which the sinner may - be made complete in Christ. While the book is an excellent guide for - inquirers and young converts, it also contains a wealth of counsel - and encouragement for those who are laboring with the difficulties - that beset a growing experience. 157 pages. In neat cloth binding - <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">75. - cts.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">HELPS TO BIBLE - STUDY.</span></span>—A series of Bible readings, simple and easy, - designed as an aid to the personal study of the Scriptures, and - adapted to the use of individuals or families; also a valuable - assistant to Bible workers. The book contains about forty readings, - prepared by practical Bible workers and teachers, and covering the - most important subjects that pertain to the spiritual welfare of - mankind at the present time. 125 pages.</p> - - <div class="tei tei-lg" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - In cloth binding <span class="tei tei-hi" style= - "text-align: left"><span style="font-weight: 700">50 - cts.</span></span> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - In paper covers <span class="tei tei-hi" style= - "text-align: left"><span style="font-weight: 700">25 - cts.</span></span> - </div> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">GOSPEL - WORKERS</span></span> is a very interesting volume of 480 pages. It - outlines the qualifications that should be possessed by ministers and - all others who would win souls to Christ. It should be in the hands - of all Christian workers. This book can be read and studied by all - classes with edification and profit.</p><span class="tei tei-ab">In - plain substantial binding <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-weight: 700">$1.00</span></span></span> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">MINISTRATION OF - ANGELS</span></span>, and the Origin, History, and Destiny of Satan. - A work of great interest upon a subject seldom written upon, yet of - great importance to the Christian. Bound in paper covers <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">20 - cts.</span></span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page099">[pg - 099]</span><a name="Pg099" id="Pg099" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">FACTS FOR THE - TIMES.</span></span>—Containing historical extracts, candid - admissions from authors, ancient and modern, on the live questions of - the present hour, political and religious. A book for these times. - Revised to 1893. A compilation of facts that are astounding, by - students of Biblical and historical research. 340 pages. In fine - cloth covers <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-weight: 700">75 cts.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">THE SAINTS' - INHERITANCE.</span></span>—The reader will here find a very - interesting pamphlet of 82 pages showing that the future kingdom of - Christ, with the family of the redeemed, will be in this earth, - renewed, restored, and regenerated, according to numerous scriptures - in the Old and New Testaments.</p><span class="tei tei-ab">In paper - covers <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">10 - cts.</span></span></span> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">THE GOSPEL IN - CREATION.</span></span>—A nicely illustrated work setting forth - clearly and simply the relation between God's work in creation and - redemption. The signs of power and greatness that mark the handiwork - of God in the visible universe are shown to be but indications of the - unfailing strength with which he works in the lives of those who - submit to his will. The confirmation of the truths of the gospel - drawn from the study of the creation will make this book a valuable - one to all who are watching with interest the attacks that are now - made on the authority of the Bible.</p><span class="tei tei-ab">In - cloth covers <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-weight: 700">50 cts.</span></span></span> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">SACRED - CHRONOLOGY.</span></span>—A new and revised edition of a little work - published by the late Sylvester Bliss about forty years ago, giving - the chronology from creation to the death of the apostle John. Also - <span class="tei tei-q">“The Peopling of the Earth; or, Historical - Notes on the Tenth Chapter of Genesis.”</span> By A. T. Jones. A - valuable reference book. 298 pp. Cloth covers <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">$1.00</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">LIFE OF CHRIST AND HIS - APOSTLES.</span></span>—A series of eight pamphlets, under the - general title of <span class="tei tei-q">“Redemption,”</span> - portraying the first advent of Christ, his temptation, his miracles, - his teachings, his sufferings, and his resurrection, and the - teachings and labors of Peter and Paul. Here are 788 pages of most - excellent reading.</p><span class="tei tei-ab">In paper covers - <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">90 - cts.</span></span></span> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">SATAN'S FIRST - LIE</span></span>; or Man in Death. A very fascinating poem of 36 - pages by a well-known poet of Michigan. The <span class= - "tei tei-q">“Lie”</span> referred to is the one mentioned in the - third chapter of Genesis; and though, as the Scriptures tell, the - devil is a liar and the father of it, none of his lies have wrought - such disastrous consequences to the race as the one here pointed out. - The reader will hardly fail of being alike interested in both the - poetry and theology of this unique poem. In paper covers <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">15 cts.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">THE CHRISTIAN'S SECRET OF - A HAPPY LIFE.</span></span>—By Hannah Whitall Smith. <span class= - "tei tei-q">“To commend this work would seem almost superfluous; and - yet to young Christians who may not know it, we cannot refrain from - saying, Buy this book, and keep it with your Bible for constant - study, until you have thoroughly mastered, in your experience, the - secret of which it tells. It will transform the dark days of your - life, as it has transformed those of thousands before you into days - of heavenly light.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-style: italic">The Evangelist (N. - Y.).</span></span></p><span class="tei tei-ab">In cloth covers - <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">75 - cts.</span></span></span> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">HIS GLORIOUS - APPEARING.</span></span>—An exposition of Matthew XXIV. This is a - verse-by-verse explanation of the Redeemer's great prophecy - concerning the Gospel Dispensation and his second appearing in glory. - 96 pages, with 20 full-page illustrations.</p> - - <div class="tei tei-lg" style= - "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - In paper covers, <span class="tei tei-hi" style= - "text-align: left"><span style="font-weight: 700">20 - cts.</span></span> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Board covers, <span class="tei tei-hi" style= - "text-align: left"><span style="font-weight: 700">25 - cts.</span></span> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> - Cloth covers <span class="tei tei-hi" style= - "text-align: left"><span style="font-weight: 700">40 - cts.</span></span> - </div> - </div> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">THE CHARIOTS OF FIRE AND - IRON</span></span>; or, The Modern Railroad System, treated in the - light of sacred prophecy. A very interesting pamphlet of 168 pages. - By D. T. Taylor, the well-known author.</p><span class= - "tei tei-ab">In paper covers <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-weight: 700">25 cts.</span></span></span> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">THE REJECTED - ORDINANCE.</span></span>—A convincing argument to show that our - Saviour's remarkable act of humility recorded in the thirteenth - chapter of John, should be literally perpetuated among Christians - <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">10 - cts.</span></span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page100">[pg - 100]</span><a name="Pg100" id="Pg100" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">SCRIPTURE - REFERENCES.</span></span>—A careful compilation of proof-texts on - twenty-five different subjects of great importance at the present - time. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">4 - cts.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">SPIRITUALISM A SATANIC - DELUSION.</span></span>—This is a scathing arraignment of the system - of necromancy known under the name of <span class="tei tei-q">“Modern - Spiritualism.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-weight: 700">4 cts.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">IS THE END - NEAR?</span></span>—An 8-page tract of great interest, giving - numerous reasons for believing that the Second Coming of Christ is at - hand. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">1 - ct.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">CAN WE - KNOW?</span></span>—A tract of 8 pages which proves most conclusively - that the numerous predictions concerning the signs of the times and - the second advent may be understood. <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">1 ct.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">THE TWO - LAWS.</span></span>—A clear and scriptural argument showing the - difference between the Ten Commandments and the ceremonial law or the - Hebrews. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">2 - cts.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">THE SUFFERINGS OF - CHRIST.</span></span>—This tract dwells with great force on the - agonies of our Redeemer in the garden and on the cross, in order to - make the salvation of sinners possible. <span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">4 cts.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">THE SECOND - ADVENT</span></span>, showing the nature of the Second Coming, and - reasons for believing it near. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-weight: 700">4 cts.</span></span></p> - - <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class= - "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">BIBLE - CONVERSION.</span></span>—A tract of 16 pages which sets forth very - clearly what it is to be born again, and that without a change of - heart no one can be saved. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style= - "font-weight: 700">2 cts.</span></span></p> - </div> - - <div class="tei tei-div" style= - "margin-bottom: 5.00em; 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- <p rend="font-size: xx-large; text-align: center">His Glorious Appearing</p>
- <p rend="font-size: large; text-align: center">An Exposition of Matthew Twenty-Four</p>
- <p rend="text-align: center">By</p>
- <p rend="font-size: x-large; text-align: center">James Springer White</p>
- <p rend="text-align: center">Revised and Illustrated</p>
- <p rend="text-align: center"><q>What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?</q>—<hi rend='smallcaps'>Disciples</hi>.</p>
- <p rend="text-align: center"><q>When ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.</q>—<hi rend='smallcaps'>Jesus</hi>.</p>
- <p rend="text-align: center">Eleventh Edition.</p>
- <p rend="text-align: center">Review and Herald Publishing Co.</p>
- <p rend="text-align: center">Battle Creek, Mich.</p>
- <p rend="text-align: center">1895</p>
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- <div rend="page-break-before: always">
- <head>Contents</head>
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-
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-<div>
- <p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/cover.jpg' rend='width: 60%'>
- <figDesc>Book Cover</figDesc>
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-<div>
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/frontis.png' rend='width: 50%'>
- <head>The Light of the World</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<pb n='005'/><anchor id='Pg005'/>
-
-<div rend='page-break-before: always'>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>Introductory.</head>
-
-<p>
-<q>Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret
-unto his servants the prophets.</q> Amos 3:7.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-No truth of inspiration can be more clearly demonstrated
-than that God reveals his designs to his prophets, that
-men and nations may be prepared for their accomplishment.
-Before visiting with judgments, God has uniformly
-sent forth warnings sufficient to enable the believing to escape
-his wrath, and to condemn those who have not heeded the
-warning. This was the case before the flood. The wickedness
-of the world had become very great. Every imagination
-of the thoughts of the hearts of men was only evil.
-It would seem that they had forfeited all claims for consideration.
-Violence and corruption filled the earth, and
-the only way to eradicate evil was to destroy it with its
-workers. But before doing so, the world must be warned of
-the impending doom; and there was found one man who
-would engage in the work. Noah had faith in God, and
-preached for one hundred and twenty years the message of
-<pb n='006'/><anchor id='Pg006'/>
-warning and salvation. His work also testified with his
-words.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet,
-moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the
-which he condemned the world.</q> Heb. 11:7.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-At a later period, when the nations had again become
-sunken in idolatry and crime, and the destruction of wicked
-Sodom and Gomorrah was determined, the Lord said,—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; seeing that
-Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the
-nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?</q> Gen. 18:17, 18.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-And due notice was given to righteous Lot, who, with
-his daughters, was preserved; and none, even in that guilty
-city, perished without due warning. Lot evidently warned
-the people; and in thus communing with them, was <q>vexed
-with the filthy conversation of the wicked.</q> 2 Peter 2:7,
-8. His righteous life had been a rebuke to them; and
-we have every reason to believe that the holy example of
-Abraham in his worship of the true God was known to
-them. He had at one time been their saviour, and rescued
-their captives and spoil from the victorious enemy who was
-carrying them away. But when Lot warned his friends of
-the approaching doom, <q>he seemed as one that mocked.</q>
-Gen. 19:14. They, like the antediluvians, persisted in sin,
-and drank of the wrath of God.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-At a subsequent time the sins of Nineveh rose to
-heaven, and Jonah was sent to bear to that proud capital the
-startling message, <q>Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be
-destroyed.</q> The consciences of those sinners told them the
-message was true; and from the least of them to the
-greatest they humbled themselves, and the overhanging
-judgment was averted.
-</p>
-
-<pb n='007'/><anchor id='Pg007'/>
-
-<p>
-Before Christ commenced his earthly mission, John the
-Baptist was sent as the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
-<q>Prepare ye the way of the Lord.</q> By this means
-the expectation of the people was raised, and doubtless
-many were through it led to accept of salvation, while
-the generation at large was condemned for rejecting the
-light.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Our Saviour in his time saw the destruction of Jerusalem
-just in the future of that generation, and faithfully warned
-the people, foretelling signs by which it might be known
-when the desolation thereof was nigh. Luke 21:21. Such
-is the testimony of inspiration respecting the dealings of
-God with his people in past ages.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-All who accept the Bible as the inspired word of God
-acknowledge that he has been very faithful in warning
-people in past ages of impending judgments and other events
-which affected their eternal welfare. Such having been
-the divine plan in relation to past events, we would certainly
-be justified in anticipating such warnings of Christ's
-second coming as would comport with the importance of
-the event. But when we come to regard the future, and
-especially our own immediate future, the incredulity of
-very many is at once aroused.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But what are the facts in the case? Can anything be
-learned from the Bible relative to the time of the second
-advent? This is a grave inquiry; and, from the very nature
-of the subject, is worthy of close investigation, and a
-candid answer. It is a matter of painful regret that many,
-under the influence of popular prejudice, have decided that
-the period of the second advent is a secret, hidden with
-the Lord. While these can scarcely be reached with this
-subject, as long as they remain under the influence of those
-who denounce all investigation of it as prying into the
-<pb n='009'/><anchor id='Pg009'/>
-secrets of the Almighty, there is still, we believe, a larger
-class who wait for evidence before deciding.
-</p>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_008.png' rend='width: 80%'>
- <head>Christ Weeping Over Jerusalem</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-We accept the Bible as a revelation from heaven.
-What God has revealed in that book, let no man call a
-mystery, or a secret of the Almighty. <q>The secret things
-belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which
-are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever.</q>
-Deut. 29:29. If the sacred Scriptures, in a most clear
-and harmonious manner, point out the signs of the approach
-of that great event, and if there is evidence that <q>it is near,
-even at the doors,</q> the subject at once assumes great importance.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-When the disciples inquired, <q>What shall be the sign of
-thy coming, and of the end of the world?</q> Jesus did not
-reprove them for inquiring into this matter, nor tell them
-that it was purposely hidden from all men; but he answered
-their question in the most definite manner.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The simple fact that the Lord mentions signs of his
-second advent, is the best proof possible that his people
-were not to remain ignorant of the relative nearness of the
-event. Add to this his injunctions to watchfulness, and the
-blessings which he pronounces upon those who are awake
-and watching at his coming, and it becomes a certainty
-that he would not leave his people ignorant of the proximity
-of that event. Paul also says that <q>unto <emph>them that look for
-him</emph> shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.</q>
-Heb. 9:28. And that a crown of righteousness
-will be given <q>unto all them also that love his appearing.</q>
-2 Tim. 4:8.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-With these assurances we may look for plain and emphatic
-tokens of the Saviour's second coming.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<pb n='011'/><anchor id='Pg011'/>
-
-<div rend='page-break-before: always'>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>Christ's Prophecy.</head>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_010.png' rend='width: 80%'>
- <head>Jesus on the Mount of Olives</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Probably no other chapter of the Bible speaks more
-fully, and more definitely, upon the subject of the second
-advent, than Matthew 24, in Christ's own words. We invite
-the attention of the candid reader to a brief explanation
-of the entire chapter.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verse 1</hi>: <q>And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple; and
-his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Jesus had been addressing the multitude, in the presence
-of his disciples. He had reproved the scribes and the
-Pharisees for their sins, and had declared, in the previous
-chapter, the doom of the Jews, their city, and their temple.
-The disciples supposed that the temple would stand forever,
-and they called the attention of Christ to its magnificence
-and strength, and to the great stones that entered
-into the structure. On this point the historian of those
-times, Josephus, says: <q>Now the temple was built of
-stones that were white and strong, and each of their lengths
-was twenty-five cubits, their height was eight, and their
-breadth about twelve.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Antiquities,</q> book xv, chap. xi.</hi>
-If we compute a cubit at twenty inches, we shall be able to
-gain some idea of the size and <q>manner</q> of these stones.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verse 2</hi>: <q>And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things?
-Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another,
-that shall not be thrown down.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verse 3</hi>: <q>And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples
-came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be?
-and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-This statement from the Master could not but deeply
-interest the disciples. And it matters not whether they
-supposed that the destruction of the temple, the coming of
-<pb n='012'/><anchor id='Pg012'/>
-Christ, and the end of the age, would all occur at the same
-time, or at different periods, since Christ, in his answer in
-this chapter, has distinctly spoken of each separately, and
-has given each its place in the prophetic history of events.
-If it were their impression that the overthrow of the temple
-and the end of the world would occur at the same time, it
-by no means proves that this would be the case. As the
-Scriptures show, up to the time of the out-pouring of the
-Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, their ideas upon many
-points were crude and inaccurate. Take as proof of this the
-parable which the Lord spake when he was going into
-Jerusalem. Luke 19. They thought that the kingdom of
-God should immediately appear. To correct this impression,
-the parable of the nobleman was spoken. If they
-understood the parable at the time when it was spoken, it
-did not fully eradicate the impression from their minds,
-as is proved by what they did when they entered Jerusalem.
-We cannot believe that they would have hailed
-him as the Son of David, and rejoiced before him as a King
-in his triumph, if they had realized that he was going into
-the city to be condemned and crucified as a malefactor.
-Palm branches and shouts of triumph did not attend the
-steps of the lowly and the condemned.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-John admits for himself and Peter, after they had seen
-the empty sepulcher, that <q>they knew not the scripture,
-that he must rise again from the dead.</q> John 20:9.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Again, after his resurrection, Jesus reproved two of his
-disciples, who, though they had trusted that he would redeem
-Israel, were then sad and disheartened. They did
-not then understand that Christ ought <q>to have suffered
-these things, and to enter into his glory.</q> The suffering
-part was still a mystery to them. And some of the apostles
-were so slow to realize that which he had spoken to them,
-<pb n='013'/><anchor id='Pg013'/>
-that they could hardly be persuaded that he was indeed
-risen from the dead. And after he had been with them
-full forty days, speaking to them of the things pertaining
-to the kingdom, they did not yet understand <q>the times
-and the seasons,</q> and therefore asked him, <q>Lord, wilt
-thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-However the matter may have been entertained in the
-minds of the disciples, it is evident that their query consisted
-of two distinct questions in the mind of the Saviour.
-These questions relate, first, to the destruction of Jerusalem;
-and, second, to Christ's second coming at the end of the
-world or age. They were distinctly answered by our
-Lord; not, however, before the promiscuous multitude;
-but on the occasion of a private interview with his disciples.
-Christ here speaks to his disciples; hence his
-words in this prophetic discourse are addressed especially
-to the church.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verses 4, 5</hi>: <q>And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take
-heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying,
-I am Christ, and shall deceive many.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Jesus knew the hearts of men, and that many impostors
-would arise, and deceive multitudes. He here warns his
-disciples, and guards them against the deceptions of corrupt
-and ambitious men. Such was the general expectation
-of the appearance of the Messiah among the Jews, that
-many would set up the claim that they were the Christ, to
-carry out selfish purposes, or to gain notoriety, and the
-credulous people would be easily led into the deception,
-and then be destroyed for sedition. We are informed that
-in the days succeeding those of Christ, impostors arose in
-great numbers. Josephus tells us of an Egyptian false
-prophet who led 30,000 men into the desert to show them
-<pb n='015'/><anchor id='Pg015'/>
-signs, and then brought them to Jerusalem as if to attack
-the city. He caused great pillage and destruction in
-Judea, but in the time of battle, ran away, leaving his followers
-to the exasperated Romans.—<hi rend='italic'><q>Wars of the Jews,</q>
-book ii, chap. xiii.</hi>
-</p>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_014.png' rend='width: 80%'>
- <head>Ancient Jerusalem</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-In the former part of the second century Cazibee set
-himself at the head of the Jewish nation and proclaimed
-himself their long-expected Messiah. To facilitate the
-success of his bold enterprise he changed his name to
-that of Barchocheba, alluding to the Star foretold by
-Balaam. Adrian raised an army, and sent it against him.
-He retired into a town called Bither, where he was besieged.
-Barchocheba was killed in the siege, the city was taken,
-and a dreadful havoc succeeded. The Jews themselves
-allow that, during this short war against the Romans in defense
-of this false Messiah, they lost five or six hundred
-thousand souls.—<hi rend='italic'>Buck's Dictionary.</hi>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Dr. A. Clarke says, on the authority of Josephus, that
-<q>a few years afterward, under the reign of Nero, while
-Felix was procurator of Judea, impostors of this stamp
-were so frequent that some were taken and killed almost
-every day.</q> And at intervals since then the Jews who
-are all the time expecting the appearance of the Messiah
-have been repeatedly the victims of cruel deception.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verse 6</hi>: <q>And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See
-that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the
-end is not yet.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-It is proper that we should consider what is meant by the
-term <q>the end,</q> used in this verse; in verse 14, <q>then
-shall the end come;</q> and in verse 3, <q>the sign of thy
-coming, and the end of the world.</q> In the first place, it
-may be unhesitatingly claimed that the term does not refer
-to the end of the Jewish dispensation, which terminated at
-<pb n='016'/><anchor id='Pg016'/>
-the crucifixion, nor to the destruction of Jerusalem, which
-occurred about forty years later. Because, first, Jesus
-treated the question concerning the destruction of the
-temple and that referring to his coming and the end of the
-world as relating to two distinct events, widely separated in
-time. Second, the signs which were to be premonitory of
-the end did not transpire before the destruction of the temple.
-Third, the second coming of Christ, the close of probation,
-the judgment, the resurrection, and the end of sin,
-death, and mortality, are frequently and prominently associated
-together in the Bible as constituting the most important
-epoch in human history. To limit this thrilling discourse
-to the local and long past destruction of Jerusalem
-would be to rob it of its force and grandeur. Not only
-would the twenty-fourth of Matthew which we are now
-studying be stultified, but very much of the life and power
-of the Scriptures would be sacrificed by such a course.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-As to the meaning of the phrase, <q>the end of the world,</q>
-it may consistently be translated <q>the end of the age,</q> and
-in the margin of the Revised Bible it is rendered <q>the consummation
-of the age.</q> For an inspired definition of the
-term, let the reader turn to Matt. 13:38-40 and its context,
-where the same words are used and repeated in the original:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>The tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that
-sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and
-the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and
-burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of
-man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom
-all things that offend, and them that do iniquity; and shall cast
-them into a furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of
-teeth.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-From Rev. 14:14-16 we learn that the harvest of the
-earth and the second coming of Christ are identical.
-<pb n='017'/><anchor id='Pg017'/>
-So that by no possible means could it be established that
-the <q>end of the world</q> means the destruction of Jerusalem.
-Further evidence is found in Matt. 28:20 where the
-same expression, both in the original and in the translation,
-is used: <q>Lo I am with you alway, even unto the end of
-the world.</q> But no one would have the audacity to claim
-that this promise expired in <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 70, as it must have
-done if those questions of the disciples and the subsequent
-discourse of Christ related only to the impending doom of
-the temple and city.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verses</hi> 7, 8: <q>For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom
-against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and
-earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes have occurred
-all along since these words were spoken. Therefore,
-these, as they have ever existed, cannot be regarded
-as the especial signs of the end. It may be claimed, however,
-with a good degree of consistency, that the Scriptures
-teach that these calamities would abound in the last days to
-such an extent as to constitute a sign of the approaching
-Judgment. We wish to keep the important fact distinctly
-before the mind, that the sacred Scriptures do teach when
-men may not, and when they may, look for the second
-appearing of Christ.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The sacred writers have so uniformly associated such
-judgments as war, famine, pestilence, and earthquake, with
-the last Judgment, that the disciples would be in danger of
-concluding that the end would immediately follow the first
-appearance of these calamities; hence the caution given:
-<q>These things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.</q>
-Here the disciples were clearly taught that they should
-not expect the end in their day. This fact is worthy of the
-<pb n='018'/><anchor id='Pg018'/>
-candid attention of those who object to the proclamation
-of the second advent of Christ in the form of an especial
-message. These sometimes assert that it was right for the
-disciples to look for Christ in their day, and that it has been
-scriptural and right for all Christians to look for the second
-appearing of Christ in their time, from the days of the
-chosen twelve to the present time. And they decide that
-no more can be learned and believed upon this subject in
-our time than by the Christians of past generations, and
-that the public mind should not now be moved upon this
-great question, any more than in all past time since the
-first advent of Christ.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-We have seen that this position is incorrect so far as
-the early disciples were concerned. They are directed to
-the distant future as the time when their Lord should come.
-They are assured that they need not be troubled at hearing
-of wars and rumors of wars; <q>for all these things must
-come to pass, but the end is not yet.</q> Our Lord then
-guides the minds of his disciples, as we shall see in the
-examination of this chapter, down over the time of the great
-apostasy, and the long period of the rule of papal Rome,
-before mentioning a sign of his second advent. He does
-not intimate that his people during these long periods may
-expect the end. No, not once. But when he comes to a
-later time, the Lord names signs in the sun, in the moon,
-and in the stars, and adds: <q>When ye shall see all these
-things, know that it is near, even at the doors.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Mark this: Our Lord does not mention wars, famines,
-pestilences, and earthquakes as signs of his second advent;
-but rather as events of common occurrence all the way
-through the Christian age, which must exist before the
-end. And history attests the fact that these calamities have
-<pb n='019'/><anchor id='Pg019'/>
-covered at least seventeen centuries. The following is from
-a work of Noah Webster, LL. D., published in 1799:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>By famine and sword, 580,000 Jews were destroyed between
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 96 and <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 180.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In Antioch, from <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 96 to <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 180, earthquakes destroyed
-13 cities and over 100,000 lives.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In Rome, <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 169, pestilence destroyed 10,000 daily.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In Rome, <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 187, pestilence appeared and continued three
-years.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In London, <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 310, by famine, 40,000 died.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 446, September 17, an earthquake shook down the walls
-of Constantinople, and 57 towers fell.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In Rome, <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 539, in one district 50,000 died.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In Antioch, <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 588, an earthquake killed 60,000.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 542, the plague killed 10,000 in one day in Turkey.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 679, a severe famine in England, three years.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 717, in Constantinople, 300,000 died of plague.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1005, earthquakes three months, followed by pestilence,
-by which it is said one third of the human race died.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1077, in Constantinople, so many died by plague and
-famine the living could not bury them.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1124, in Italy, there was such famine that the dead lay in
-the streets not buried; and in England one third of the people died of
-plague.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1294, in England thousands died of famine.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1346, in London, 50,000 died of plague and famine, and
-were buried in one grave-yard; in Norwich, 50,000; in Venice, 100,000;
-in Florence, 100,000; in Eastern nations, 20,000,000. It was called
-the black death.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1352, in China, 900,000 died of famine.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1427 in Dantzic, 80,000 died of plague.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1570, in Moscow, 200,000 died of plague.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1572, in Lyons, 50,000 died of plague.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1625, in London, 35,000 died of plague.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1656, in Naples, 300,000 died of plague.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1665, in London, 68,000 died of plague.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q>In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1755, an earthquake destroyed the city of Lisbon, killing
-50,000. In Mitylene, and the Archipelago, it shook down 2000 houses.
-It shook all the Spanish coast. The plague followed, which destroyed
-150,000 persons in Constantinople.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<pb n='021'/><anchor id='Pg021'/>
-
-<p>
-Doubtless the figures in the above list should in some
-instances be corrected to correspond with facts. But, taken
-as a whole, they do not nearly represent the ravages of
-death in their enormity. For instance, the Encyclopedia
-Britannica states that Hecker estimates the celebrated
-<q>black death</q> of the fourteenth century in the different
-epidemics, to have swept away one fourth of the inhabitants
-of Europe, or 25,000,000 people!
-</p>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>Persecution And False Prophets.</head>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_020.png' rend='width: 60%'>
- <head>Martyrdom of Huss</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verses</hi> 9, 10: <q>Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted,
-and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's
-sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another,
-and shall hate one another.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Here is a brief description of the afflictions and martyrdom
-of the church of Christ. Thousands of the faithful
-followers of Jesus were most cruelly put to death by pagan
-Rome; yet the prophecy doubtless applies more particularly
-to the long period of papal persecutions, in which not less
-than fifty millions of Christians were put to death in the
-most cruel manner that wicked men and demons could devise.
-In these verses we are brought down over the long
-period of the martyrdom of the church of Jesus Christ, to
-near the present generation. These verses being parallel
-with verses 21 and 22, this subject will be noticed again.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verse</hi> 11: <q>And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive
-many.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-A true prophet is one who speaks for God. The spirit
-of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. Rev. 19:10. It is
-Jesus Christ speaking through human lips or pen to his people.
-<hi rend='italic'>Pseudo</hi>, or false prophets, speak through the agency
-of wicked spirits and the power of Satan. Their work is
-to deceive. And while this is true of those who are under
-<pb n='023'/><anchor id='Pg023'/>
-the direct inspiration of superior beings, good or evil, it is
-true in a more restricted sense that consecrated teachers of
-divine truth may be regarded as God's prophets; and
-teachers of error may properly be called false prophets.
-True and false prophets may be known.
-</p>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_022.png' rend='width: 60%'>
- <head>The Crucifixion</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The prophets of God are teachers of purity, reprovers
-of sin, and faithful in warning the people of coming dangers.
-The duties of those whom God calls to speak in
-his great name are clearly expressed by the sacred writers.
-We here quote from three of them:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Isa.</hi> 58:1: <q>Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
-and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their
-sins.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Joel</hi> 2:1: <q>Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm
-in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble;
-for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>2 Tim.</hi> 4:1, 2: <q>I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord
-Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing
-and his kingdom; preach the word; be instant in season, out of season;
-reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-False prophets do not reprove the people for their sins,
-and do not warn them of coming danger; but they proclaim
-peace to the sinner. Their teachings lead from God and
-his word, and are such as please the unconverted mind.
-The inspired writers have also spoken definitely of the testimony
-and work of false prophets. We here give several
-for example:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Eze.</hi> 13:9, 10: <q>And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that
-see vanity, and that divine lies. They shall not be in the assembly
-of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house
-of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall
-know that I am the Lord God. Because, even because they have
-seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one
-built up a wall, and lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar.</q>
-</p>
-
-<pb n='024'/><anchor id='Pg024'/>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Jer.</hi> 6:13, 14: <q>For from the least of them even unto the greatest
-of them, every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet
-even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. They have healed
-also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace,
-peace, when there is no peace.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Jer.</hi> 14:13, 14: <q>Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, the prophets
-say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have
-famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. Then the Lord
-said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I sent them
-not, neither spake unto them.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-After stating the duty of the faithful servant of God
-to preach the word, to reprove, to rebuke, and exhort with
-all long-suffering and doctrine, the apostle says:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
-but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having
-itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth,
-and shall be turned unto fables.</q> 2 Tim. 4:3, 4.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-That time has now fully come. The people choose
-pleasing fables, which do not disturb them in their sins,
-rather than the reproving, searching declarations of the
-word of God. They love to be deceived by the teachings
-of false prophets, and <q>say to the seers, See not; and to
-the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto
-us smooth things, prophesy deceits.</q> Isa. 30:10.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord. Shall not my
-soul be avenged on such a nation as this? A wonderful and horrible
-thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the
-priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so; and
-what will ye do in the end thereof?</q> Jer. 5:29-31.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-The ears of the people are filled with the pleasing fables
-of the world's conversion, a good time coming, and that
-we are just entering the golden age. The threatenings of
-God's word on the proud, the haughty, the vain, the rich,
-the sinners in Zion, and those out of Zion, are kept back by
-<pb n='025'/><anchor id='Pg025'/>
-the false teachers of these times. Many of them even dare
-to teach that the moral code of the ten commandments is
-abrogated. And as the result of such a course, and of such
-teaching, we see in the professed church of Jesus Christ,
-that
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>Iniquity Abounds.</head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verse</hi> 12: <q>And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many
-shall wax cold.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-It is evident that both the abounding of iniquity and the
-waxing cold of the love of many, are fulfilled in the professed
-church of Jesus Christ. Men must first experience
-the love of God and of heavenly things before that love
-can grow cold. Hence, common, unconverted sinners are
-not here referred to as apostatizing. And, again, the prevalence
-of iniquity in the unconverted world alone, would
-stimulate the church to greater diligence, and more godliness,
-instead of being a cause of apostasy. Hence, the
-iniquity here mentioned is in the very heart of the professed
-church, diffusing its chilling influence through the whole
-body. As the result, the love of many has grown cold.
-With this, agree the words of the apostle:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
-For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
-blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without
-natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
-despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers
-of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness,
-but denying the power thereof; from such turn away.</q> 2 Tim. 3:1-5.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Here is a catalogue of eighteen sins, all resting upon
-those having a form of godliness. These are not infidels
-and common worldly sinners, for they have not a form of
-godliness; but they are men and women professing to be
-<pb n='027'/><anchor id='Pg027'/>
-followers of Jesus Christ. And although they make a
-profession of piety as high as heaven, these very sins lie at
-their doors. And by reason of their example, and their
-chilling influence, many are led from the humble path to
-heaven, and their love waxes cold.
-</p>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_026.png' rend='width: 60%'>
- <head>The Ascension</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>The End.</head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verse</hi> 13: <q>But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall
-be saved.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-As before noted, the word <emph>end</emph>, whenever used in this
-chapter, refers to the end of the age, and to nothing else.
-It is the end associated in the New Testament with the
-second appearing of Jesus Christ. If it be urged that the
-word <q>end</q> has reference to the close of mortal life, then
-we reply that the disciples did not ask their Lord (see verse
-3) when they should die; but <q>what shall be the sign of
-thy coming, and of the end of the world?</q> Neither does
-the Lord speak of death, when he says (see verse 6), <q>But
-the end is not yet.</q> And it would be strange indeed to
-suppose that the word <q>end</q> (verse 14) meant death. If
-any think such a position admissible, let them read it into
-the text, as follows: And this gospel of the kingdom
-shall be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all
-nations, and then shall death come. Absurdity!
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verse</hi> 14: <q>And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached
-In all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end
-come.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-This is the first sign of the end given by our Lord in
-answer to the question, <q>What shall be the sign of thy
-coming, and of the end of the world?</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But it is robbed of its distinct power by that interpretation,
-sometimes given, by which it is assumed that all men
-will receive the gospel and be converted, and that then
-<pb n='028'/><anchor id='Pg028'/>
-instead of the end, there will ensue a thousand years in
-which all shall know the Lord. After this long period
-of peace and safety, the end will come. How much is
-assumed on this text will appear when we consider that the
-text does not say that every individual will even hear this
-gospel of the kingdom. It does not state that any one
-will be converted and made holy by it. And we find it far
-from intimating that the world will be converted and remain
-so one thousand years. We have no reason to conclude
-that greater measure of success is implied in this text than
-that which has always attended the preaching of the gospel.
-While a few have believed and received it, the great mass
-of men have passed it by unheedingly. The text simply
-states: First, <q>And this gospel of the kingdom shall be
-preached in all the world;</q> second, <q>For a witness unto
-all nations;</q> third, <q>And <emph>then</emph> [not one thousand years
-later, but <hi rend='smallcaps'>then</hi>] shall the end come.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But to what does the term <q>gospel of the kingdom</q>
-refer? The query sometimes rises as to whether the gospel
-in the common acceptation of the word, or a gospel peculiarly
-related to the second coming of Christ is here
-meant. No such distinction is to be drawn. There neither
-is, has been, nor will be more than one gospel. <q>But
-though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other
-gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto
-you, let him be accursed.</q> Gal. 1:8.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The gospel, then, in this instance, is the same as Paul
-preached, which was the <q>power of God unto salvation to
-every one that believeth.</q> But in Rev. 14:6 and 7 we
-read:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the
-everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to
-every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud
-<pb n='029'/><anchor id='Pg029'/>
-voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is
-come; and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and
-the fountain of waters.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-The gospel is here called the <q>everlasting gospel,</q>
-and must necessarily be referred to the gospel of Christ.
-In connection with the preaching of that gospel, was the
-proclamation that the judgment hour had come. Not that
-this message was appended to the gospel, but the angel who
-had the everlasting gospel to preach said, <q>Fear God ...
-for the hour of his judgment is come.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The gospel of Jesus Christ embraces all truth relating
-to salvation. The warnings, counsel, invitations, promises,
-precepts, prophecies, or whatever the Lord would have the
-people hear,—the gospel embraces them all. In the days
-of Noah, the gospel included repentance, faith, obedience,
-with the promises of grace and mercy; it also included the
-warning of the impending judgment. And the only way to
-escape that judgment was through the gospel. So here in
-Revelation we have the gospel with all it implies, including
-the message of Christ's second coming and kingdom and
-the judgment. Closely associated with this message are
-two others as given in Rev. 14:8-12. The first is merged
-into these. Then immediately following their proclamation
-we have the following scene:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>And I looked and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud
-one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown,
-and in his hand a sharp sickle.... And he that sat on the cloud thrust
-in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.</q> Rev. 14:14-16.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-In Rev. 14:6-16, then, we learn what is the meaning
-of the term <q>gospel of the kingdom.</q> It is <emph>the</emph> gospel,
-and it embraces the admonitions and instructions relative
-to the second coming of Christ. And now that we have
-reached that time, the complete gospel embraces the good
-<pb n='030'/><anchor id='Pg030'/>
-news of the coming kingdom with appropriate warnings
-and teachings. Our Saviour says it <q>shall be preached
-in all the world for a witness unto all nations.</q> The Revelator
-says the message is to be preached <q>to every nation,
-kindred, tongue, and people.</q> When this shall be done,
-the end will come.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The world-wide proclamation of the soon coming of
-Christ was inaugurated about 1832. Since that time, the
-work of extending its warning voice has gone on. A most
-remarkable feature of this movement is the fact that in
-different countries individuals were moved upon, almost
-simultaneously, to study the prophecies and proclaim the
-nearness of the end, although they knew nothing of what
-was being done by others. In the United States and Canada,
-in Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and in Asia,
-a profound interest in this subject was created, and people
-were led to expect the early appearance of Jesus. Since
-that time clearer light has appeared in connection with
-the other messages of Revelation 14, and still the work is
-onward. Wherever the light of the Bible has penetrated,
-the good news of the coming Saviour is now going. Not
-only so, but messengers bearing this gracious warning are
-rapidly finding their way into the dark portions of the earth.
-Evidence of its extent and progress might be expressed
-in facts and figures, but the rapid development of the
-work would soon leave these in the rear. Let it suffice to
-say that at present the everlasting gospel is being preached
-and published in all the leading languages and countries of
-the world. The work has encircled the globe. It is rapidly
-reaching every nation. We now wait for the approaching
-end; for when the purpose of God in the proclamation
-of the coming reign of Christ shall be fully accomplished,
-then the end will come.
-</p>
-
-<pb n='031'/><anchor id='Pg031'/>
-
-<p>
-Thus far in this discourse Jesus has passed over the
-entire Christian dispensation. Beginning with a warning
-against the deceptions that were to succeed his own times,
-he next describes wars and disasters, persecutions, apostasy,
-the perils of the last days, and closes with a distinct
-sign of the end.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>When Shall These Things Be?</head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verses</hi> 15-20: <q>When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination of
-desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place
-(whoso readeth, let him understand); then let them which be in Judea
-flee into the mountains; let him which is on the housetop not come
-down to take anything out of his house; neither let him which is in
-the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are
-with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye
-that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Our Lord having in verses 5-14, passed over the important
-events in the Christian age down to the end, goes back and
-introduces in verse 15 the destruction of Jerusalem, in answer
-to the inquiry, <q>When shall these things be?</q> Luke's
-version of this language is, <q>When ye shall see Jerusalem
-encompassed with armies, then know that the desolation
-thereof is nigh.</q> Luke 21:20. By this we know that
-the term <q>abomination of desolation</q> refers to the Roman
-army. This desolating power is spoken of by Daniel as
-follows:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city
-and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto
-the end of the war desolations are determined.... And for the over-spreading
-of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation,
-and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.</q>
-Margin, <q>desolator.</q> Dan. 9:26, 27.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<pb n='032'/><anchor id='Pg032'/>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_032.png' rend='width: 80%'>
- <head>Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-<pb n='033'/><anchor id='Pg033'/>
-
-<p>
-Here is a clear prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem
-by the Roman armies. Our Lord referred to the book
-of Daniel, and taught his disciples to read and understand
-it; and when they should see take place what was there
-predicted, they must make their escape.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-It would seem to be impracticable to flee from a city
-after it was encompassed with armies; but our Saviour did
-not speak at random. Josephus tells us that Cestius, the
-Roman general who first led the attack upon Jerusalem, became
-dismayed at the apparent forces and strength of the
-city, and after having surrounded the city raised the siege.
-The historian says: <q>He retired from the city, without
-any reason in the world.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Wars,</q> book ii, chap. xix.</hi>
-And in the first words of the succeeding chapter he further
-states: <q>After this calamity had befallen Cestius, many of
-the most eminent Jews swam away from the city, as from
-a ship when it was going to sink.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Dr. A. Clarke, commenting on verse 16, says:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>This counsel was remembered and wisely followed by the Christians
-afterwards. Eusebius and Epiphanius say, that at this juncture,
-after Cestius Gallus had raised the siege, all who believed in Christ left
-Jerusalem and fled to Pella, and other places beyond Jordan.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-The flight of the Christians of Judea to the mountains
-would be attended with difficulties. And their subsequent
-condition would be that of hardship and suffering. The
-Lord knew this, and gave them the instructions and warnings
-necessary. The statement of verse 19 was given to save
-them from the sorrows of unnecessary woe. That was a
-time of trouble.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Jesus recognizes the existence of the Sabbath, in verse
-20, as late as the destruction of Jerusalem, as verily as he
-does the seasons of the year. <hi rend='italic'>The Sabbath</hi>, is the uniform
-<pb n='034'/><anchor id='Pg034'/>
-term of both Testaments to designate the very day on which
-Jehovah rested after the creation, the day upon which he
-put his blessing, and which he set apart for man. Not
-only in this instance does our Saviour show his regard for
-the sacred day of rest, but in his life he kept it (see Luke
-4:16); in his teaching he upheld it, and taught its true
-character (Matt. 12:12); and when he lay in the tomb,
-the devout women reverently rested <q>according to the
-commandment.</q> He himself is Lord of the Sabbath, and
-he declares that it was made for man. Mark 2:27, 28.
-Jesus does not speak of the Sabbath as being only a
-seventh part of time, or one day in seven, and no day in
-particular. The Sabbath is the term used, referring to
-the last day of the first week of time, and to the last day of
-each subsequent week.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-It is thus that Jesus answered the question, <q>When shall
-these things be?</q> He now proceeds to answer the second
-great question.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>What Shall Be The Sign Of Thy
-Coming?</head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verse</hi> 21: <q>For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not
-since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-It is not surprising, perhaps, that upon a casual reading
-some should conclude that this verse had its fulfillment
-at the siege of Jerusalem by Titus. It was a time of great
-suffering, and the verse follows so closely those which relate
-to the destruction of the city, that this explanation suggests
-itself readily enough. But for good reasons we cannot
-accept that application of this verse. Jesus is giving a
-<pb n='035'/><anchor id='Pg035'/>
-continuous prophecy. The narrative proceeds from verse
-to verse along the line of the entire dispensation.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The <q>great tribulation</q> mentioned in verse 21 is that
-of the church of Christ, and not the tribulation of the Jews
-at the destruction of Jerusalem. We offer the following
-reasons for so deciding:—
-</p>
-
-<p>
-1. It is a fact that the tribulation of the Christian church,
-especially under the reign of the papacy, was greater than
-God's people had suffered before <q>since the beginning of
-the world.</q> The tribulation of the Christian church has
-been greater than it will ever be again. True, a time of
-trouble <q>such as never was,</q> spoken of in Dan. 12:1, is
-coming <emph>upon the wicked</emph>; but we find in the same verse this
-blessed promise, <q>And at that time thy people shall be
-delivered.</q> The tribulation of the Jews at the destruction
-of Jerusalem was not greater than the world will ever
-witness. The vials of Jehovah's unmingled wrath are yet
-to be poured out, not upon the people of one nation only,
-but upon the guilty people of all nations.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>The slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the
-earth even unto the other end of the earth; they shall not be lamented,
-neither gathered, nor buried.</q> Jer. 25:33.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-2. If the tribulation be applied to the Jews, or to any
-other class of unbelieving men, it cannot be harmonized
-with Dan. 12:1, which speaks of the time of trouble such
-as never was, when Michael shall stand up. Certainly
-there cannot be two times of trouble at different periods,
-greater than ever was or ever would be. Therefore the
-<q>tribulation</q> spoken of in Matt. 24:21, 29, applies not to
-the Jews, but to the church of Christ, extending through
-the 1260 years of papal persecution; and the <q>trouble</q>
-mentioned in Dan. 12:1, to the unbelieving world, to be
-experienced by them in the future.
-</p>
-
-<pb n='036'/><anchor id='Pg036'/>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_036.png' rend='width: 60%'>
- <head>St. Bartholomew Massacre.</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-<pb n='037'/><anchor id='Pg037'/>
-
-<p>
-3. The period of tribulation was shortened for the elect's
-sake. This cannot refer to the Jews, for their house had
-been pronounced desolate. They were left of God in their
-hardness of heart and blindness of mind. Says Paul, <q>Lo,
-we turn to the Gentiles.</q> The elect were the followers of
-our Lord Jesus Christ. And where were they when tribulation
-was upon the Jews?—They had fled to the mountains.
-It is absurd, then, to say that the days of tribulation of
-the Jews in the city of Jerusalem, were shortened for the
-sake of the elect, who had fled from the place of tribulation.
-Moreover the tribulation that came upon Jerusalem was
-not restrained or modified, but continued until the city was
-destroyed and its people were given to the sword and to
-captivity.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-4. The connection between verses 20 and 21 shows that
-the tribulation was to commence with those Christians who
-were to flee out of the city. <q>But pray ye that your flight
-be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath-day; for then
-shall be great tribulation.</q> Our Lord here speaks of the
-tribulation which his people would suffer from the time of
-their flight onward. We follow them in their flight to
-the mountains, and then pass along down through the
-noted persecutions of the church of God under pagan Rome,
-and we see, indeed, <emph>tribulation</emph>. And when we come to
-the period of papal persecutions, we see them suffering the
-most cruel tortures, and dying the most dreadful deaths that
-wicked men and demons could inflict. This last period is
-especially noted in prophecy.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The prophet Daniel saw the papacy, its blasphemy, its
-ignorance, its work of death on the saints, and its duration
-as a persecuting power, under the symbol of the little
-horn.
-</p>
-
-<pb n='038'/><anchor id='Pg038'/>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_038.png' rend='width: 80%'>
- <head>Taking the Pope Prisoner. 1798.</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-<pb n='039'/><anchor id='Pg039'/>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall
-wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and
-laws; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and
-the dividing of time.</q> Dan. 7:25.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-It is generally admitted that <q>a time and times and the
-dividing of time</q> is 1260 years. The proof of it may
-readily be seen by comparing Rev. 12:14, 6; 13:5, with
-the scripture just quoted. In these passages we learn that
-<q>time, times, and the dividing of time</q> is equivalent to a
-thousand two hundred and threescore days, which equals
-three and one half Biblical years, or <q>forty and two
-months.</q> Applying the scriptural rule of interpretation, a
-day for a year (Eze. 4:6), we have 1260 years.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-This period is to cover the supremacy of the papacy.
-The beginning of it will be the point of the establishment
-of the power of the papacy. This was the year 538 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi>
-Justinian, emperor of Rome, with his capital at Constantinople,
-espoused the cause of the bishop of Rome; and in
-533 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> issued a decree which constituted that prelate
-head of all the churches. But the Arian Ostrogoths had
-possession of Rome, and it was not until they had been
-rooted up that the city was accessible to the bishop. This
-was accomplished in 538, by Belisarius, Justinian's celebrated
-general. For a concise and clear account of this
-occurrence we refer the reader to the <q>Two Republics,</q>
-by A. T. Jones, pp. 551-553.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Commencing the 1260 years <hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 538, they reach to
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> 1798, when Berthier, a French general, took possession
-of Rome. The pope was made a prisoner and carried
-with violence away from his palace and out of Italy. The
-papacy was stripped of its civil power. Here ended the
-days of tribulation spoken of by our Lord, which were—
-</p>
-
-<pb n='040'/><anchor id='Pg040'/>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>Shortened For The Elect's Sake.</head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verse</hi> 22: <q>And except those days should be shortened, there
-should no flesh be saved; but for the elect's sake those days shall be
-shortened.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-The papacy was clothed with civil power to punish heretics,
-which it held for 1260 years; and had not the period
-of tribulation of the elect in the providence of God been
-shortened, the martyrdom of the church would have continued
-to 1798, in which event, no flesh of the elect would
-have been saved. But the Reformation under Martin
-Luther, and those associated with this great reformer, modified
-this tribulation, and continued to restrain the rage and
-power of the papacy until the suppression of the Jesuits
-in 1773, since which time, there has been no general persecution
-waged against the church. Thus we are brought in
-this prophetic discourse of our Lord, down into the eighteenth
-century, very near the present time. We would
-naturally expect, then, that the instructions and warnings
-which follow would be applicable to this generation.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>Lo, Here, And Lo, There.</head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verses</hi> 23-27: <q>Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is
-Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false christs, and
-false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that,
-if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have
-told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is
-in the desert; go not forth: behold: he is in the secret chambers;
-believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth
-even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-In these verses the great theme of Christ's second coming
-is again vividly brought forth. Satan is ever on the
-alert to contravene by some device or art, the work of God.
-His most successful plan is to deceive. By this means he
-gains ready access to all such as desire to evade the force of
-<pb n='041'/><anchor id='Pg041'/>
-truth. And having deceived an individual, he not only prevents
-his salvation, but gains to himself an adherent if not
-an active agent. So, as the time for the second advent
-draws near, the enemy becomes particularly active, knowing
-that he hath but a short time. In the words last
-quoted our Lord seeks to prepare the minds of his people
-for the deceptions that are to be practiced upon those
-who live near the time of his second coming. There
-will be those who will cry, <q>Lo, here; or Lo, there,</q> some
-will even claim to be Christ. They will purport to represent
-the truth in regard to Christ's coming in various
-plausible or fanatical ways. Others, in order to reach
-other minds, will present theories of human device accounting
-for the advent of Christ in various so-called rational
-schemes. Many sincere people will be led to expect
-the conversion of the world through a millennium of peace.
-Others will be persuaded that the coming of Christ means
-death. And even false prophets, showing great signs and
-wonders, will appear. All these form an atmosphere of
-deception, the miasma of which will stupefy, if it were
-possible, the elect of God.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-In this fearful work will be engaged the notorious
-deceiver, the trained agents of Satan, the worldly philosopher,
-worldly preachers, popular ministers, critics of
-the Bible, and many whose eyes do not discern the signs
-of the times. The Mormons call the people to the desert;
-Spiritualism invites us to the secret chamber, where Satanic
-signs and wonders are wrought to captivate the mind and
-divert it from the truth. Of these <q>false prophets</q> Paul
-speaks in 1 Tim. 4:1:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some
-shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines
-of devils.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<pb n='042'/><anchor id='Pg042'/>
-
-<p>
-In another scripture the apostle places the coming of
-Christ in connection with—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>The working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
-and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
-perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they
-might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong
-delusions, that they should believe a lie.</q> 2 Thess. 2:9-11.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-These are some of the deceptions of which Christ is
-speaking in the text. It is undoubtedly the work of
-modern Spiritualism. This work, in its present form,
-originated in the year 1848, and constitutes and is to
-constitute one of the most prominent signs of the end.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Let no one be deceived by any means. For these
-are but subterfuges. They are not the coming of Christ.
-He has said, <q>I will come again, and receive you unto
-myself.</q> John 14:3.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The angels said at his ascension,—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q><hi rend='italic'>This same Jesus</hi>, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall
-<hi rend='italic'>so come in like manner</hi> as ye have seen him go into heaven.</q> Acts 1:11.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Paul tells us,—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with
-the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God.</q> 1 Thess.
-4:16.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-And here our Saviour says:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>As the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth, unto the
-west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-He will come literally, personally, the same Jesus
-who was here upon the earth. Not in lowly form as an
-offering for sin, to be set at naught, abused, and crucified,
-but in <q>all his glory</q> attended with <q>all the holy angels.</q>
-Matt. 25:31. We shall know when he comes for <q>every
-eye shall see him.</q> Rev. 1:7.
-</p>
-
-<pb n='043'/><anchor id='Pg043'/>
-
-<p>
-None of these evasions of the truth will ever be able
-to counterfeit the real event. The Roman army did not
-come to Jerusalem in this way. Death does not come in
-this way. The deceptive wonders of Spiritualism cannot
-imitate the glory of Christ's second coming. He will come
-in power and great glory (verse 30); he will come in the
-glory of his Father (chapter 16:27); and in the glory of
-the holy angels (Luke 9:26); all the holy angels shall
-come with him. Matt. 25:31. His coming will be as
-glorious and resplendent as the lightning. When Jesus
-revealed himself to Saul of Tarsus, there was a light above
-the brightness of the sun (Acts 26:13); of the angel who
-appeared at the tomb after the resurrection of Jesus it is
-said, <q>His countenance was like lightning</q> (Matt. 28:3);
-and Ezekiel says of the messengers of the Most High,
-they <q>ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of
-lightning.</q> Eze. 1:14.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-When Jesus comes in the glory of his Father, with
-so glorious a train attendant, his coming will indeed be as
-the lightning coming out of the east and shining to the west,
-and no one will have any more occasion or opportunity to
-say to his fellow, <q>See here,</q> than one would have to call
-another to behold a gleam of lightning flashing through the
-heavens. The vivid lightning flashing out of the distant
-east, and shining even to the west, lights up the whole
-heavens. What, then, when the Lord comes in flaming
-glory, and all the holy angels with him? The presence
-of only one holy angel at the sepulcher where Christ
-lay dead, caused the Roman guard to shake, and become
-as dead men. The light and glory of one angel completely
-overpowered those strong sentinels. The Son of
-man is coming in his own kingly glory, and in the glory of
-his Father, attended by all the holy angels. Then the
-<pb n='044'/><anchor id='Pg044'/>
-whole heavens will blaze with glory, and the whole earth
-will tremble before him.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>The Signs Of Christ's Coming.</head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verses</hi> 29-31: <q>Immediately after the tribulation of those days
-shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and
-the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall
-be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in
-heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall
-see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and
-great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a
-trumpet; and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds,
-from one end of heaven to the other.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-We have before seen that our Lord speaks in this
-chapter of the long period of tribulation that was to come
-upon his followers, and we have also seen how those days
-of tribulation were shortened for the elect's sake. Christ
-says that the sun should be darkened immediately after the
-tribulation of those days. Mark in his gospel, gives it as
-follows:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>In those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened,
-and the moon shall not give her light.</q> Mark 13:24.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-This makes the time in which the sun was to be darkened
-more distinct and definite. The days of tribulation
-were the 1260 years of papal supremacy, beginning in 538
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>a. d.</hi> and ending with the capture of Rome and the pope
-by the French in 1798. But we have already seen that the
-<q>tribulation</q> or persecution of those days was <q>shortened</q>
-for the elect's sake. That is, the active persecution
-of the church by papal power ceased in 1773. Then, according
-to Mark's statement, the sun should be darkened
-between that date and 1798. It was fulfilled. May 19,
-1780, has passed into history as <q>the dark day.</q>
-</p>
-
-<pb n='045'/><anchor id='Pg045'/>
-
-<p>
-This is a fact of so general knowledge that we need not
-consume space in elucidating it. A few references to undoubted
-authorities will suffice.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Noah Webster's dictionary, in the edition for 1869,
-under the head of Explanatory and Pronouncing Vocabulary
-of Noted Names, says:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q><hi rend='italic'>The dark day</hi>, May 19, 1780—so called on account of a remarkable
-darkness on that day extending over all New England. In some places,
-persons could not see to read common print in the open air for several
-hours together. Birds sang their evening songs, disappeared, and
-became silent; fowls went to roost; cattle sought the barn-yard; and
-candles were lighted in the houses. The obscuration began about ten
-o'clock in the morning, and continued till the middle of the next night,
-but with differences of degree and duration in different places. For
-several days previous, the wind had been variable, but chiefly from
-the south-west and the north-east. The true cause of this remarkable
-phenomenon is not known.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-From another good authority we quote:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>A solemn gloom of unusual darkness before ten o'clock,—a still
-darker cloud rolling under the sable curtain from the north and west
-before eleven o'clock,—excluded the light so that none could see to
-read or write in the House, even at either window, or distinguish
-persons at a small distance, or perceive any distinction of dress in
-the circle of attendants; wherefore, at eleven o'clock adjourned the
-House till two in the afternoon.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Journal of the Connecticut House of
-Representatives, Friday, May 19, 1780.</hi>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Herschel, the great astronomer, says:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>The dark day in Northern America was one of those wonderful
-phenomena of nature which will always be read with interest, but
-which philosophy is at a loss to explain.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-A contemporary paper contained the following:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>During the whole time a sickly, melancholy gloom overcast the
-face of nature. Nor was the darkness of the night less uncommon and
-terrifying than that of the day, for notwithstanding there was almost a
-<pb n='047'/><anchor id='Pg047'/>
-full moon, no object was discernible but by the help of some artificial
-light, which seen from the neighboring houses and other places at
-a distance appeared through a kind of Egyptian darkness which seemed
-almost impervious to its rays. This unusual phenomenon excited
-the fears and apprehensions of many people.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Mass. Spy, Correspondence,
-1780.</hi>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-From another good authority we take the following:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Almost, if not altogether alone as the most mysterious and as yet
-unexplained phenomenon of its kind in nature's diversified range of
-events during the last century, stands the dark day of May 19, 1780,
-a most unaccountable darkening of the whole visible heavens and
-atmosphere in New England, which brought intense alarm and distress
-to multitudes of minds, as well as dismay to the brute creation, the
-fowls fleeing, bewildered, to their roosts, and the birds to their nests,
-and the cattle returning to their stalls. Indeed thousands of the good
-people of that day became fully convinced that the end of all things
-terrestrial had come; many gave up, for the time, their secular pursuits,
-and betook themselves to religious devotions.</q>—<q><hi rend='italic'>Our First Century.</hi></q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-An extract from a sermon preached at that time will be
-of interest:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>But especially I mention that <emph>wonderful darkness</emph> on the 19th of
-May inst. [1780]. Then, as in our text, the sun was darkened; such
-a darkness as probably was never known before since the crucifixion
-of our Lord. People left their work in the house and in the field.
-Travelers stopped; schools broke up at eleven o'clock; people lighted
-candles at noonday; and the fire shone as at night. Some people, I
-have been told, were in dismay, and thought whether the day of Judgment
-was not drawing on. A great part of the following night also
-was singularly dark. The <emph>moon, though in the full, gave no light</emph>, as in our
-text.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>From a manuscript sermon by Rev. Elam Potter, delivered May
-28, 1780.</hi>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-By the remarkable obscuration of the moon on the following
-night, the next sign, <q>And the moon shall not give
-her light,</q> was fulfilled. Concerning this it is only necessary
-to insert a few words:—
-</p>
-
-<pb n='048'/><anchor id='Pg048'/>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>The night succeeding that day (May 19, 1780) was of such pitchy
-darkness that, in some instances, horses could not be compelled to
-leave the stable when wanted for service. About midnight, the clouds
-were dispersed, and the moon and stars appeared with unimpaired
-brilliancy.</q>—<q><hi rend='italic'>Stone's History of Beverly.</hi></q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Mr. Tenny, of Exeter, N. H., quoted by Mr. Gage,
-to the Historical Society, speaking of the dark day and
-dark night of May 19, 1780, says:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>The darkness of the following evening was probably as gross
-as has ever been observed since the Almighty first gave birth to light.
-I could not help conceiving at the time, that if every luminous body in
-the universe had been shrouded in impenetrable darkness, or struck
-out of existence, the darkness could not have been more complete.
-A sheet of white paper held within a few inches of the eye was equally
-invisible with the blackest velvet.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Concerning a similar phenomenon in the Old World
-a reliable work says:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>Three years later, and Europe with its teeming millions went
-under as mysterious a cloud, which, though not so dense, yet continued
-longer and awoke a wonder and fear that was widely felt. A haze,
-for which no known cause was then assigned (though in subsequent
-years it has been supposed by some to have been volcanic dust), spread
-through the entire breadth of the atmosphere over all the continent far
-into Asia. It appeared in Denmark, May 29, reached France, June 14;
-Italy, June 16; Norway, June 22; Austria and Switzerland, June 23;
-Sweden, June 24; and Russia, June 25. By the close of the month it
-had overspread like a pall all Syria, and on July 18, had penetrated
-the heart of Asia to the Altai Mountains. The obscurity prevailed a
-greater portion of the summer, imparting to the sun an unnatural
-color of a dull, rusty red, and causing both the days and nights to wear
-a weird and gloomy aspect. The atmosphere was highly electric, and
-nature was greatly convulsed.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>Dr. N. Webster in his valuable <q>History of Pestilences,</q> vol. ii.
-p. 274, testifies to the general fear. As it was in America on the occurrence
-of the <q>dark day,</q> so the churches in Europe were crowded with
-alarmed multitudes supplicating mercy of Heaven. Professor Lalande,
-<pb n='049'/><anchor id='Pg049'/>
-the astronomer of France, attempted to quiet the popular fear by
-ascribing the darkened heavens to exhalations arising out of the earth;
-but both Webster and Humboldt (Cosmos IV., p. 75) rejected this
-solution of the mysterious obscurity. Protestant England shared in
-the alarm it occasioned; and the poet Cowper sang that all the elements
-<q>preached the general doom.</q> It was to this unaccountable
-obscuration of light that he refers in his <q>Task:</q>—</q>
-</p>
-
-<lg>
-<l><q rend='pre'><q rend='pre'>Nature seems with dim and sickly eye</q></q></l>
-<l><q rend='post'><q rend='post'>To wait the close of all.</q></q></l>
-</lg>
-
-<ab>
-—<q><hi rend='italic'>Great Consummation.</hi></q>
-</ab>
-
-</quote>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head><q>And The Stars Shall Fall.</q></head>
-
-<p>
-How this sign can be fulfilled is a query with some
-people, who, perhaps captiously, remark that it would be
-impossible, since the earth itself is but a small body compared
-with many of the vast worlds of space. But all such
-queries are out of date now since the sign itself has already
-been witnessed. On the night of November 13, 1833, the
-grandest display of celestial fireworks ever beheld took
-place. From works of accepted authority we take the following
-descriptions of this remarkable event:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>But the most sublime phenomenon of shooting stars, of which
-the world has furnished any record, was witnessed throughout the
-United States on the morning of the 13th of November, 1833. The
-entire extent of this astonishing exhibition has not been precisely
-ascertained; but it covered no inconsiderable portion of the earth's
-surface.... The first appearance was that of fireworks of the most
-imposing grandeur, covering the entire vault of heaven with myriads of
-fire-balls, resembling sky-rockets. Their coruscations were bright,
-gleaming, and incessant, and they fell thick as the flakes in the early
-snows of December. To the splendors of this celestial exhibition the
-most brilliant sky-rockets and fire-works of art bear less relation than the
-twinkling of the most tiny star to the broad glare of the sun. The
-whole heavens seemed in motion, and suggested to some the awful
-grandeur of the image employed in the Apocalypse, upon the opening
-of the sixth seal, when <q>the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even
-<pb n='051'/><anchor id='Pg051'/>
-as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty
-wind.</q></q>—<hi rend='italic'>Burritt's <q>Geography of the Heavens,</q> p. 163, ed. 1854.</hi>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_050.png' rend='width: 80%'>
- <head>The Falling Stars.</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-A celebrated astronomer and meteorologist, says:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>Those who were so fortunate as to witness the exhibition of shooting
-stars on the morning of Nov. 13, 1833, probably saw the greatest
-display of celestial fire-works that has ever been since the creation of
-the world, or at least within the annals covered by the pages of history.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q rend='pre'>In nearly all places the meteors began to attract notice by their
-unusual frequency as early as eleven o'clock, and increased in numbers
-and splendor until about four o'clock, from which time they gradually
-declined, but were visible until lost in the light of day. The meteors
-did not fly at random over all parts of the sky, but appeared to emanate
-from a point in the constellation Leo, near a star called Gamma Leonis,
-in the bend of the Sickle....</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q>The extent of the shower of 1833 was such as to cover no inconsiderable
-part of the earth's surface, from the middle of the Atlantic
-on the east to the Pacific on the west; and from the northern coast
-of South America to undefined regions among the British possessions
-on the north, the exhibition was visible, and everywhere presented nearly
-the same appearance. This is no longer to be regarded as a terrestrial
-but a celestial phenomenon, and shooting stars are now to be no more
-viewed as casual productions of the upper regions of the atmosphere,
-but as <emph>visitants from other worlds</emph>, or from the planetary voids.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Prof.
-Olmstead, of Yale College.</hi>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q>No philosopher or scholar has told or recorded an event, I suppose,
-like that of yesterday morning. A prophet 1800 years ago foretold
-it exactly, if we will be at the trouble of understanding stars falling
-to mean falling stars; or <q><foreign rend='italic'>hoi asteres tou ouranou epesan eis teen geen</foreign>,</q>
-in the only sense in which it is possible to be literally true.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Henry
-Dana Ward, in Journal of Commerce, Nov. 14, 1833.</hi>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Not only here in Matthew 24 is attention directed to
-these signs as premonitory of the coming of Christ. The
-Lord through the prophet Joel says:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
-before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<pb n='053'/><anchor id='Pg053'/>
-
-<p>
-Under the sixth seal, as given in Rev. 6:12-17, we
-have the following language:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there
-was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of
-hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto
-the earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is
-shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when
-it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out
-of their places.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-That the fourth and fifth seals apply to the papal persecution
-there can be no reasonable doubt. If so, then the
-great earthquake with which the sixth seal opens would be
-that of Lisbon, in 1755, which agitated the greater part of
-the earth and destroyed many thousands of lives, 60,000
-in Lisbon alone.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The darkening of the sun and moon follows in 1780,
-and the falling of the stars in 1833. Consequently the
-next event which we are to expect under this seal is the
-departing of the heavens as a scroll. This being future, we
-may say that we are living between the thirteenth and
-fourteenth verses of Revelation 6.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-In the gospel as written by Luke, however, we have at
-this point some additional specifications given, which are of
-such interest at the present juncture. And they rightfully
-belong to this exposition, since both Matthew and Luke are
-giving versions of the same discourse. The passage from
-Luke to which reference is made is the following:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the
-stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea
-and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking
-after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of
-heaven shall be shaken.</q> Luke 21:25-27.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<pb n='054'/><anchor id='Pg054'/>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_054.png' rend='width: 80%'>
- <head>Modern Cyclone.</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-<pb n='055'/><anchor id='Pg055'/>
-
-<p>
-The signs in the sun, moon, and stars are here spoken of
-less specifically than by Matthew, while other features of the
-times, which Matthew does not notice, are introduced between
-those signs and the shaking of the powers of heaven. These
-are of peculiar interest to us because we are living in the
-very days when the things that Luke speaks of are coming
-to pass. The signs here predicted consist of violent commotions
-upon earth which cause anxiety, perplexity, and distress
-among nations and in the hearts of men. We may refer the
-expression, <q>the sea and the waves roaring,</q> to unusual disturbances
-of the natural elements, and we have the most
-abundant evidences of its fulfillment in the storms and convulsions
-of nature that are occurring by sea and land, filling
-the heart with dread at the sight of every dark cloud that
-arises. The tidal waves and volcanic upheavals at sea have,
-in the last two or three decades, been marked with extraordinary
-violence. On land, cyclones and earthquakes have
-carried on a fearful work of destruction. Many instances
-might be cited to substantiate this statement, but the events
-are too familiar to require it. Hardly a week passes but
-some great calamity of this kind is recorded.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But the expression referred to is probably susceptible
-of another application in which it will be found to be as
-forcible and pertinent to the present state of affairs as in
-the one just noticed. This would be to give the term <q>sea
-and waves</q> its symbolic meaning. The prophet of old
-said: <q>And behold the four winds of heaven strove upon
-the great sea.</q> Dan. 7:2. We are told that the sea represents
-<q>peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.</q>
-Rev. 17:15. Taking the words in this sense, the meaning
-and fulfillment are still as apparent as before; and the expression
-joins its force to that of the remainder of the passage—<q>upon
-the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;
-<pb n='057'/><anchor id='Pg057'/>
-the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them
-for fear and for looking after those things which are coming
-on the earth.</q> In this sense the expression in question
-would indicate commotion and violent disturbance in the
-social and political world. In this meaning all will at once
-see the vivid force of the text as applied to our times.
-</p>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_056.png' rend='width: 80%'>
- <head>Assassination of Carnot.</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The times we live in are anomalous to any that have
-ever preceded us. For some years there have been universal
-and active preparations for war, and almost universal
-peace. To secure the greatest efficiency of armed forces
-for defensive and offensive purposes, has been the prime
-consideration of government, especially so, as far as the Old
-World nations are concerned. Europe echoes to the tread
-of vast hosts of war while the nations are driven to their
-wits' end to provide for their support. It is well known that
-these costly preparations are not for show; and the hearts
-of men quail in view of the culmination which, though delayed,
-must soon be reached.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But while the temple of Janus is closed as far as international
-strife is concerned, and angel hands are holding the
-winds of war (see Rev. 7:1-3), internal strife and dissension
-are rending the vitals of the great nations of earth. Within
-the confines of its own border, each of these nations is cherishing
-elements of the deadliest nature. Trouble is brewing
-that has for the people far more terror than foreign complications.
-For some time the ominous mutterings of an oncoming
-storm have been heard in every land, and it requires
-no remarkable acumen to discern the rapid approach of the
-crisis.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The apostle James strikes directly at the matter in a
-prophetic glance and exhortation in the following language:—
-</p>
-
-<pb n='058'/><anchor id='Pg058'/>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that
-shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments
-are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them
-shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
-Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire
-of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you
-kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped
-are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in
-pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your
-hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the
-just; and he doth not resist you.</q> James 5:1-6.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-The apostle locates the circumstances he here refers to
-in the last days. He denounces the rich men who have
-heaped together treasures, the rust and canker of which will
-be a witness against them. They live in pleasure and wantonness
-while the cries of those whose wages they have kept
-back enter into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-There is a universal cry of hard times in all the world.
-It is hard to obtain money; and yet, there never was so much
-money as at present. But it is being collected—gathered
-in heaps—by the powerful few, while the limited
-means of the masses are dwindling lower and lower. The
-poorer classes witness the absorption of wealth by the
-money-kings, with feelings that are being aroused to the
-point of desperation by the sense of their inability to secure
-what seems to them a more equitable distribution of the
-things of this world. The laborers cry, and God hears
-their cry.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-That these things are taking place to-day as the most
-prominent feature of our social life no one will for a moment
-deny. Such colossal fortunes the world has heretofore at
-most but dreamed of. There are men living to-day who
-have risen in wealth from obscure stations to become lords
-<pb n='059'/><anchor id='Pg059'/>
-of untold millions. Their wealth passes the bounds of just
-computation, for it includes the power of oppression by which
-it may be indefinitely increased. The lavish expenditure of
-these means for selfish pleasure often amounts to wantonness.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Well then, what is to be done? It is a difficult and
-delicate matter to frame and secure legislation by which
-this or any other class of men shall be deprived of the
-management of their own business as long as that business
-is legitimate and is legitimately conducted. Shall anarchy
-and violence be resorted to? Shall the laborer seize the
-torch and the weapons of death? Shall the country be
-devastated by strikes, strife, and civil war? Shall our communities
-be rent with murder, arson, treason, and intense
-personal hatred and enmity? No one possessing the natural
-instincts of humanity could contemplate such a condition
-of affairs except with horror. There are ghouls of society
-who gloat in blood; but such are not true citizens, they
-are not neighbors, they certainly are not Christians.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But what shall we do as citizens, neighbors, and Christians?
-This is a question of great importance just now.
-Inspiration long ago foresaw our situation. The pitying
-Saviour long since anticipated the sufferings that are to
-come upon this generation; and having, through his servant,
-outlined the present condition of affairs so closely, he
-certainly would not leave his followers uninformed as to
-the course he would have them pursue. We have to read
-only two verses farther in James's letter to find the counsel
-we need.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q><hi rend='italic'>Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.</hi> Behold,
-the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath
-long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye
-<pb n='061'/><anchor id='Pg061'/>
-also patient; stablish your hearts; <hi rend='italic'>for the coming of the Lord draweth
-nigh</hi>.</q> James 5:7, 8.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_060.png' rend='width: 80%'>
- <head>Chicago Riot.</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Oppression and revolt, combination and intrigue, strife
-and bloodshed, never will cease until the supreme selfishness,
-which in the absence of divine grace controls all men,
-gives place to true philanthropy, and a brotherhood that
-is not outlined by class or sectional interests. This happy
-time is coming. When Jesus comes, he will take to himself
-his power and reign in righteousness. Then will the hills
-be brought low, the valleys exalted, the crooked be made
-straight, and the rough places smooth.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Those who are weary of strife, those who through misfortune
-or oppression have been made to feel their need
-of relief will find rest to their souls in looking for the
-coming of the Lord. It is vain to match evil with evil or
-to try to cure wrong with wrong. The gospel of Christ is
-the only remedy for these ills. And all that we can really
-do to counteract the annoyances of this life must be done
-through the gospel of peace. In this time of perplexity,
-distress, and fear, let every Christian hold up Christ. Let
-his patient suffering be exemplified in whatever circumstances
-may come. Just a little beyond, there is relief.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Strikes, boycotts, lock-outs, trusts, unions, or any other
-human device or demonstration only augments the trouble,
-as the experience of the past few years shows. For there
-never was so much of these things as now, and never was
-capital so insecure, business so uncertain, and labor in such
-distress as at present. The employment of arbitrary force
-provokes greater efforts on the opposite side, and thus the
-breach is widened and the strife becomes more bitter. We
-do not argue the merits or demerits of the case. That there
-is deep wrong involved, the fruits plainly show. It is our
-task only to point out the one remedy available alike to
-<pb n='062'/><anchor id='Pg062'/>
-either and all. That remedy is the gospel of Christ, which
-is soon to close in a glorious triumph for those who have
-patiently and faithfully wrought his will.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head><q>The Powers Of Heaven Shall Be Shaken.</q></head>
-
-<p>
-We do not apprehend that this circumstance will occur
-as a sign of Christ's coming, but rather that it will constitute
-one of the events of his coming, the same as the features
-mentioned in the next verse. An evident distinction may
-be drawn between the <emph>signs</emph> of the advent and the circumstances
-of it. With the falling of the stars, the former
-cease; and with the next event the latter commence. This
-event, the shaking of the powers of heaven, we must regard
-as being future. It holds the same place in the events
-of this chapter, that the departing of the heavens as a
-scroll does in the events of the sixth seal of Revelation 6.
-Both follow the falling stars. The Scriptures plainly teach
-that, prior to the resurrection of the just by the voice of
-the Son of God, the voice of God the Father will shake the
-heavens and the earth, when will be fulfilled the shaking
-of the powers of the heaven. This is not the voice of the
-Son of God as he descends to raise the dead. It comes
-from the throne of God in the temple of heaven.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from
-Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but the Lord
-will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of
-Israel.</q> Joel 3:16.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q>Therefore will I shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out
-of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his
-fierce anger.</q> Isa. 13:13.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Paul quotes from the words of the Lord by Haggai and
-comments as follows:—
-</p>
-
-<pb n='063'/><anchor id='Pg063'/>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And
-this word, yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that
-are shaken.</q> Heb. 12:26, 27.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head><q>Sign Of The Son Of Man.</q></head>
-
-<p>
-Neither is this one of the signs showing that the coming
-of the Son of man is near, but <q>the sign of the Son of
-man in heaven.</q> It is that which indicates his position.
-When Christ ascended from the mount of Olivet, <q>a cloud
-received him</q> from the sight of his disciples. They still
-gazed at the cloud as it rolled upward, bearing the Saviour
-toward the Father's throne but they could not see his
-person. When he comes <q>in like manner</q> as he was taken
-up to heaven, the cloud will appear, small in the distance,
-but as it draws near, it will signify to those who are looking
-for his return, that he is there, and soon his presence
-will fill the earth with matchless glory. In Rev. 14:14,
-the holy seer records his view of the coming Saviour in
-the following words: <q>And I looked, and behold a white
-cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of
-man.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-This is not a mass of vapor but a cloud of resplendent
-glory. He comes <q>with power and great glory.</q> He
-will <q>come in the glory of his Father</q> (Matt. 16:27);
-in his own glory, <q>and all the holy angels with him.</q>
-Matt. 25:31. The glory of the Father, of the Son, and
-of all the holy angels—this glory will comprise the cloud
-which attends him on the way. Of its intensity we can
-form no just conception. In the presence of one angel
-the Roman guard <q>did quake and became as dead men.</q>
-There are ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands
-of thousands of them in this throng. Above the brightness
-of their glory is that of the Father and the Son.
-</p>
-
-<pb n='064'/><anchor id='Pg064'/>
-
-<p>
-At first the cloud is only perceptible, but as it approaches,
-it attracts attention, and at length every eye is fastened
-intently upon the wonderful spectacle. The trumpet resounds,
-the voice of the Archangel awakens the dead, and
-they come forth to share in the glorious revelation of
-their Redeemer. All nature is convulsed with her coming
-dissolution. Each moment the glory draws nearer, and
-soon the wicked can no longer endure the sight.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall
-see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and
-great glory.</q> Verse 30.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Again attention is directed to the parallel language of
-Rev. 6:15-47:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich
-men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bond
-man, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks
-of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us,
-and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from
-the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of his wrath is come; and
-who shall be able to stand?</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-The prophet Isaiah describes the same thrilling event
-from the other standpoint—that of the waiting people of
-God:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will
-wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall
-he take away from off all the earth; for the Lord hath spoken it.
-And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited
-for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for
-him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.</q> Isa. 25:8, 9.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-The apostle Paul gives a vivid description of the event
-with its attendant circumstances as follows:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
-them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have
-<pb n='065'/><anchor id='Pg065'/>
-no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so
-them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this
-we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and
-remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which
-are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a
-shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God:
-and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and
-remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet
-the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.</q> 1 Thess.
-4:13-17.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-The once slighted, insulted, and crucified Saviour, now
-King of kings and Lord of lords, is coming near the earth!
-His glory blazes everywhere! The saints hope and rejoice
-with trembling. But what an hour for the wicked! The
-tribes of the earth mourn. Amid the ruins of shivered
-creation they hold one general prayer-meeting. Kings
-and great men, rich men, chief captains and mighty men,
-free and bond, all, yes, all unite in the general wail. As
-the Son of man in the glory of his Father, attended by
-all the holy angels, draws still nearer, consternation fills
-every breast. They hide in dens and in the rocks of the
-mountains. Their only hope is to be concealed from the
-glory of that scene. They know it is too late to pray for
-mercy, that probation for the human family has ended
-forever.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But rocks cannot shelter them from the burning glory
-manifested by the King of kings, attended by the whole
-heavenly host. When <q>the Son of man shall come in the
-glory of the Father,</q> <q>and all the holy angels with him,</q>
-no sinner can endure the scene and live. The exceeding
-brightness of that vast multitude of angels, brighter than
-a thousand suns at noonday, will pierce the sinner's lowest
-hiding place, and will <q>make even a speedy riddance of
-all them that dwell in the land.</q> Zeph. 1:18. The Son
-<pb n='066'/><anchor id='Pg066'/>
-of man will be seen <q>coming in the clouds of heaven
-with power and great glory.</q> But before his coming a
-great work will be done for his people. Should he suddenly
-burst upon them now, they could not endure <q>the
-power and great glory</q> of the scene. This subject is
-well illustrated by the following words of the prophet:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord; his
-going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as
-the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.</q> Hosea 6:3.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-The morning is a beautiful figure of the opening glory
-of the day of God. The day-star first appears, then the
-dawn of day. And as the light of day increases, the eyes
-are enabled to endure it, and view the sun shining in his
-strength. But should the light of the sun burst upon the
-world suddenly at midnight, no human eye could endure it.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-So will the people of God be prepared to meet their
-coming King. They must first break away from the love
-and cares of this world, and consecrate all to the Lord.
-Then will they, in due time, share the outpouring of the
-Holy Spirit <q>as the rain, as the latter and former rain
-upon the earth.</q> The day-star will arise in their hearts.
-2 Peter 1:19. Those who have taken heed to the sure
-word of prophecy through the dark, watching night, then
-raise their heads in triumph. They are filled with faith
-and with the Holy Spirit. Glory is poured upon them till
-they can gaze on Christ and angels. The trumpet sounds.
-The angels are dispatched to the graves of the righteous.
-The voice of the Son of God awakes the sleeping saints of
-all ages. They come forth in immortal perfection and,
-as they leave the earth, the living saints are changed.
-The <q>elect from one end of heaven to the other,</q> each
-with an angel bright and strong to lead the way, are caught
-<pb n='067'/><anchor id='Pg067'/>
-up to meet the Lord, who waits in mid-heaven to receive
-the purchase of his blood. As language would fail to describe
-what follows, we leave the reader to contemplate it,
-praying that we may be prepared to participate in the meeting
-scene.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>Parable Of The Fig-Tree.</head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verses</hi> 32, 33: <q>Now learn a parable of the fig-tree; when his
-branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is
-nigh. So likewise ye when ye shall see all these things, know that it
-[<q>he,</q> R. V.] is near, even at the doors.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-This parable is probably the most forcible figure that
-could be used with which to illustrate this subject. When
-the trees of the field begin to put forth their leaves, and
-the tender grass springs up, and the ground is being covered
-with its green velvet carpet, we know that summer is nigh.
-It is a certainty with us that summer is coming when we
-see these signs in nature. We know that summer is nigh
-<q><emph>So, likewise</emph>,</q> or, with the same certainty, we may <emph>know</emph>
-that Christ's coming is near when the signs in the sun,
-moon, and stars are fulfilled. How near?—Even at the
-doors. How near may that be?
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verse</hi> 34: <q>Verily I say unto you. This generation shall not
-pass, till all these things be fulfilled.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-It is sometimes claimed that the generation spoken of
-was the one then living. If so, it could have been to no
-greater extent than referring to the answer of the question
-relating to the destruction of Jerusalem. But it would
-be wholly illogical to limit the application of the statement
-to that generation or to place its principal significance
-there. <q>All these things</q> must include the signs and
-circumstances of which Christ has been speaking. In the
-<pb n='068'/><anchor id='Pg068'/>
-preceding verses he gives the parable of the fig-tree, and
-addresses those who are to be living at that time directly.
-<q>So likewise <emph>ye</emph>, when <emph>ye</emph> shall see all these things, <emph>know</emph>
-that it is near.</q> And then, <q><emph>This</emph> generation shall not
-pass.</q> What generation? Evidently the one which he
-was addressing, and which saw <q>these things come to
-pass.</q> Not only does such an interpretation do no violence
-to the Saviour's meaning, but it is obviously the only one
-that can be reasonably entertained in regard to it.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Paul speaks in the first person of those who will be
-living when Jesus comes, for he says, <q>We shall not all
-sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the
-twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.</q> 1 Cor. 15:51, 52.
-Or, <q>Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught
-up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
-the air.</q> 1 Thess. 4:17. The things here mentioned by
-the apostle did not take place in his day. They have not
-yet taken place. Notwithstanding, he speaks of them as
-though they would take place in his day, and as if he were
-to have a part in them.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The proclamation of the coming and kingdom of Christ
-is given to the last generation. God sent Noah to preach
-to the last generation before the flood, not to any preceding
-one. The very generation which was destroyed by the
-waters of the flood saw Noah build the ark, and heard
-his warning voice. So God has raised up men to give the
-solemn warning to the world at the right time to give force
-to the warning. And the very generation of men that live
-after the three great signs are fulfilled, and who hear and
-reject the warning message of Heaven, will drink the cup
-of the unmingled wrath of God. And those of this very
-generation who receive the message, suffer disappointments,
-and endure the trials of the waiting position, will witness
-<pb n='069'/><anchor id='Pg069'/>
-the coming of Christ, and exclaim, <q>Lo, this is our God;
-we have <emph>waited</emph> for him, and he will save us.</q> Isa. 25:9.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-With what emphasis our Lord gave utterance to this
-sentiment! It is a rebuke upon our unbelief. As we
-read it, God help us to believe it: <q>Verily I say unto
-you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be
-fulfilled.</q> And as though this were not enough to lead us
-to unwavering faith, he adds these forcible words: <q>Heaven
-and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass
-away.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The word and promises of men may fail; but Christ
-has given assurance that his word, and his word in reference
-to this solemn truth, will stand though heaven and
-earth fail.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head><q>The Day And Hour.</q></head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verses</hi> 36, 37: <q>But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no,
-not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of
-Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-This has become a very familiar passage of scripture
-because of the frequent use that is made of it to prove that
-nothing can be known of the proximity of the second coming
-of Christ. But if we pause a moment and lay beside
-this verse those we have just studied, we shall be able to
-discover the exact truth at once. <q>When ye shall see these
-things, know that it is near even at the doors;</q> and, <q>This
-generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled;</q>
-<q>But of that day and hour knoweth no man.</q> The line
-of knowledge, then, lies between the former expressions and
-the latter—between <q>even at the doors</q> and the definite
-day and hour. The former we may know, and every
-Christian is commanded to know. The latter no man knoweth.
-One may consistently say that he knows an event is
-<pb n='071'/><anchor id='Pg071'/>
-near, and yet say that he does not know the hour nor the
-day when it will take place. That this is the scriptural
-teaching upon this point may be readily proved by a reference
-to 1 Thess. 5:1-4:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that
-I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the
-Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say,
-Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail
-upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren,
-are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-An evident distinction is here drawn between two classes.
-Upon one class the day of the Lord will come as a thief.
-Those of the other are not in darkness that that day should
-come as a thief upon them. The children of God are
-children of light. Their heavenly Father knows the end
-from the beginning, and he has promised to reveal his
-secret to his people through his servants the prophets.
-Amos 3:7.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The apostle Peter also bears testimony to the same truth.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do
-well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
-until the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts.</q> 2 Peter
-1:19.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-The dark place here spoken of is the future. The past
-is lighted up by history, the present is brought to our
-knowledge by press and telegraph; but the future no
-human art or wisdom can penetrate. Prophecy throws its
-gleam into those dark regions, yet unexplored, and marks
-out the path of human history centuries and ages before
-it has echoed to the footsteps of mankind. When at last
-we pass along the pathway, we may, if we will, recognize
-the waymarks set up here and there, every one of which
-<pb n='072'/><anchor id='Pg072'/>
-is a monument to the wisdom and knowledge of God, and
-the faithfulness of his word. Those who have no eyes to
-discern these things, no ears to hear, nor hearts to understand
-their significance, will pass on, and the final event
-will come upon them unawares. Not so with those who
-take heed to the things God has spoken.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-We would not detract an iota from the force of the
-verse under consideration. It means all it says. No man
-knows the definite time of Christ's coming. The day and
-hour, and even the year of the second advent are purposely
-hidden. Some of the prophetic periods reach to the time of
-the end, while others extend still farther down, very near to
-the end itself; yet none of them reach to the coming of the
-Son of man. The prophecies clearly point to the period of
-the second advent, but do not give the definite time of that
-event.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But with this passage before us we may claim that it
-would be transcending its meaning to claim upon its authority
-that nothing should or could be known of the
-approach of Christ's coming. More than that, it is not
-inconsistent with the text nor improbable that prior to that
-event the Lord will in his own way reveal that which has
-hitherto been withheld. Those who claim that the text
-proves that nothing may be known of the period of the
-second advent, make it prove too much for their own unbelief.
-As recorded by Mark, the declaration reads: <q>But
-of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the
-angels which are in Heaven, neither the Son, but the
-Father.</q> If the text proves that men will know nothing
-of the period of the second advent, it also proves that
-angels will know nothing of it, and also that the Son will
-know nothing of it, till the event takes place! This position
-proves too much, therefore proves nothing to the point.
-<pb n='073'/><anchor id='Pg073'/>
-Christ will know of the period of his second advent to
-this world. The holy angels who wait around the throne
-of heaven to receive messages relative to the part they act
-in the salvation of men, will know of the time of this closing
-event of salvation. And so will the waiting, watching
-people of God understand. An old English version of the
-passage reads, <q>But that day and hour no man maketh
-known, neither the angels which are in heaven, neither the
-Son, but the Father.</q> This is the correct reading, according
-to several of the ablest critics of the age. The word
-<emph>know</emph> is used in the same sense here that it is by Paul
-in 1 Cor. 2:2: <q>For I determined not to know [make
-known] anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him
-crucified.</q> Men will not make known the day and hour,
-angels will not make it known, neither will the Son; but
-the Father will make it known. Says Campbell:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Macknight argues that the term <emph>known</emph> is here used as a causative,
-in the Hebrew sense of the conjugation <foreign rend='italic'>hiphil</foreign>, that is, <emph>to make known</emph>....
-His [Christ's] answer is just equivalent to saying, The Father will
-make it known when it pleases him; but he has not authorized man,
-angel, or the Son to make it known. Just in this sense, Paul uses the
-term <emph>know</emph>, 1 Cor. 2:2: <q>I came to you <emph>making known</emph> the testimony of
-God; for I determined to <emph>make known</emph> nothing among you but a crucified
-Christ.</q></q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Albert Barnes, in his <q>Notes on the Gospels,</q> says:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Others have said that the verb rendered <emph>knoweth</emph> means sometimes
-to <emph>make</emph> known, or to reveal, and that the passage means, <q>that
-day and hour none maketh known, neither the angels, nor the Son, but
-the Father.</q> It is true the word has sometimes that meaning, as
-1 Cor. 2:2.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-When the patriarch's work of warning and building was
-finished, God said to him, <q>Come thou and all thy house
-into the ark.</q> <q>For yet seven days and I will cause it to
-rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.</q> So when
-<pb n='074'/><anchor id='Pg074'/>
-the waiting, watching, weeping, toiling time shall be finished,
-and the saints shall all be sealed, and shut in with
-God, then, we conclude, will the voice of the Father from
-heaven make known the definite time. See Rev. 16:17;
-Joel 3:16; Jer. 25:30.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The present is emphatically the waiting, watching time.
-It is the especial period of the patience of the saints. The
-Lord appeals to us thus:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Watch ye, therefore; for ye know not when the Master of the
-house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the
-morning; lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say
-unto you I say unto all, Watch.</q> Mark 13:35-37.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-One of the fatal consequences of not watching is distinctly
-stated in Rev. 3:3:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief,
-and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-In consequence of not watching, the people will remain
-in ignorance of the approach of that hour. And the unavoidable
-inference is that by watching they will be aware
-of and prepared for its coming. In answer to the agonizing
-prayer of the Son of God, <q>Father, glorify thy name,</q> there
-came a voice from heaven, saying, <q>I have both glorified
-it, and will glorify it again.</q> The disciples understood
-these words from heaven, while the people that stood by
-said it thundered. John 12:27-29. So will the waiting
-disciples of Christ understand the voice of God when he
-shall speak from on high. But the unbelieving world will
-not understand it. In comparing Noah's days and ours,
-the Lord continues:—
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>Noah's Time And Ours.</head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verses</hi> 38, 39: <q>For as in the days that were before the flood,
-they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until
-<pb n='075'/><anchor id='Pg075'/>
-the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood
-came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son
-of man be.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-A picture of the present condition of the mass of mankind
-is here drawn. The people of the last generation will
-be like those before the flood, while the ark was preparing.
-While Noah preached, and warned them of the coming
-flood, they mocked. He built the ark; and they scoffed and
-jeered. He was a preacher of righteousness. His works
-were calculated to give edge to, and send home to the heart,
-what he preached. Every righteous sermon, and every
-blow struck in building the ark, condemned a careless,
-scoffing world. As the time drew nearer, the people grew
-more careless, more hardened, more bold and impudent,
-and their condemnation surer. Noah and his family stood
-alone. And could one family know more than all the world?
-The ark was a matter of ridicule, and Noah was regarded
-as a willful bigot.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But the Lord calls Noah into the ark. And by the hand
-of Providence the beasts are led into the ark; and the Lord
-shuts Noah in. This is regarded at first by the scoffing
-multitude as something wonderful; but it is soon explained
-away by the wiser ones, so as to calm their fears, and they
-breathe easier.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The day of expectation finally arrives. The sun rises
-as usual, and the heavens are clear. <q>Now where is old
-Noah's flood?</q> is heard from a thousand impious lips. The
-farmer is caring for his herds and lands, and the mechanic
-is pursuing his work of building. On this very day, some
-are being joined in marriage. With many it is a day of
-unusual feasting and sports. And while all are looking to
-long years of future prosperity and happiness, suddenly the
-heavens gather blackness. Fear fills every heart. The windows
-<pb n='076'/><anchor id='Pg076'/>
-of heaven open, and the rain descends in torrents.
-<q>The fountains of the great deep are broken up,</q> and here
-and there come gushing up rivers of water. The valleys are
-fast filling up, and thousands are swept away in death.
-Awful death! made still more horrible by being in consequence
-of slighted mercy! But where is Noah? Ah!
-safe in the ark, borne upon the billows. Safe from the
-flood, for God <q>shut him in.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-By some people, the evidences of the soon coming of
-Christ are considered insufficient to base faith upon. But
-the testimony and acts of one man in the case of Noah,
-condemned the people destroyed by the flood. The evidences
-then were sufficient, otherwise the world would not
-have been condemned. But a hundred times more convincing
-evidences come pouring in upon us that the day of
-the Lord is near, and hasteth greatly. We follow down
-the several prophetic chains of Daniel and of the Revelation,
-and we find ourselves in every instance standing just
-before the day of wrath. We see the signs spoken of by
-prophets, by Christ, and by the apostles, fulfilling or fulfilled.
-And at the right time, and in the right manner, to
-fulfill certain prophecies, a solemn message arises in different
-parts of the world: <q>Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and
-sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants
-of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord cometh,
-for it is nigh at hand.</q> Joel 2:1. Wherever we look,
-we see prophecy fulfilling. While the knowledge of God
-and the spirit of holiness are departing, spiritual wickedness,
-like a flood, covers the land.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But these evidences are considered insufficient to rest
-faith upon. Well, what kind of evidence would the unbelieving
-have? <q>When the signs of the end,</q> says the
-skeptic, <q>are fulfilled, they will be so plain that no one
-<pb n='077'/><anchor id='Pg077'/>
-can doubt.</q> But if the signs are of such a nature, and are
-fulfilled in such a manner, as to compel all to believe in
-the coming of Christ, how can it be as it was in the days
-of Noah? Men were not then compelled to believe. But
-eight believing souls were saved, while all the world besides
-sank in their unbelief beneath the waters of the flood.
-God has never revealed his truth to man in a manner to
-compel him to believe. Those who have wished to doubt
-his word, have found a wide field in which to doubt, and
-a broad road to perdition; while those who have wished
-to believe, have ever found an everlasting rock upon
-which to rest their faith.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Just before the end, the world will be hardened in sin,
-and indifferent to the claims of God. Men will be careless
-in regard to the warnings of danger, and blinded by cares,
-pleasures, and riches. An unbelieving generation will be
-eating, drinking, marrying, building, planting, and sowing.
-It is right to eat and drink to sustain nature, but the sin is
-in excess and gluttony. The marriage covenant is holy,
-but God's glory is seldom thought of. Building, planting,
-and sowing, necessary for convenient shelter, food,
-and clothing, are right; but the world has gone wholly
-after these things, so that men have no time nor disposition
-to think of God, heaven, Christ's coming, and the
-Judgment. This world is their god, and all their energies
-of body and mind are made to serve it. And the evil
-day is put far away.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The faithful watchman who sounds the alarm as he
-sees destruction coming, is held up before the people from
-the pulpits of our land, and by the religious press, as a
-fanatic, a teacher of dangerous heresies; while in contrast
-is set forth a long period of peace and prosperity to the
-church. So the churches are quieted to sleep. The scoffer
-<pb n='079'/><anchor id='Pg079'/>
-continues to scoff, and the mocker mocks on. But that
-day is coming. Thus saith the prophet of God:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a
-destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all hands be faint,
-and every man's heart shall melt. And they shall be afraid; pangs
-and sorrows shall take hold of them.... Behold, the day of the
-Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land
-desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.</q> Isa.
-13:6-9.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p rend='text-align: center'>
- <figure url='images/i_078.png' rend='width: 80%'>
- <head>The Day of Wrath.</head>
- <figDesc>Illustration</figDesc>
- </figure>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Most dreadful day! and is it near?—Yes; it hasteth!
-It hasteth greatly! What a description given by the
-prophet! Read it; and as you read, try to realize how
-dreadful will be that day:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly,
-even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there
-bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a
-day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a
-day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm
-against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. And I will
-bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because
-they have sinned against the Lord; and their blood shall be poured
-out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. Neither their silver nor
-their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's
-wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy;
-for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell
-in the land.</q> Zeph. 1:14-18.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>Peace And Safety.</head>
-
-<p>
-The attitude of the religious world toward this most
-important subject is worthy of more than passing notice
-both because of its effect upon the cause of truth and also
-because it of itself is a sign of the times. While it is
-true that many individuals in the different Christian denominations
-recognize with more or less distinctness the
-fact that we are living in the last days, with many of these
-<pb n='080'/><anchor id='Pg080'/>
-it does not become a practical truth. Outside of these
-there are many who ridicule the idea as preposterous and
-outlandish; and in opposition to the message that Christ
-is soon coming, raise the cry of, <q>Peace, peace, when
-there is no peace.</q> Such teaching is alluded to by the
-prophet in Eze. 13:10, 11.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The groundwork of the peace and safety cry is the
-doctrine of the temporal millennium. This teaches that
-the world is now entering, or about to enter upon a period
-of universal peace and good will, that the moral tone of
-the world is improving, men and nations are learning
-righteousness; and the gospel of Christ is about to become
-the controlling principle in public and private life. And,
-further, this happy state will continue for one thousand
-years, which period of time the word millennium literally
-signifies. At the end of that time, perhaps, the Lord
-will come. However, if this doctrine be true, it will
-make but little difference to this generation or to the
-one living at the close of the period whether he does or
-not. The verses we have just considered which liken the
-last days to those of Noah wholly disprove this position.
-In addition to what Matthew states, Luke gives a still
-more forcible version of our Saviour's words:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days
-of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they
-were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
-and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was
-in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold,
-they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of
-Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them
-all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.</q>
-Luke 17:26-30.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Paul writes in his epistles to Timothy as follows:—
-</p>
-
-<pb n='081'/><anchor id='Pg081'/>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some
-shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines
-of devils.</q> 1 Tim. 4:1.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q>This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
-For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
-blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural
-affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers
-of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures
-more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the
-power thereof: from such turn away.</q> 2 Tim. 3:1-5.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q>But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving,
-and being deceived.</q> Verse 13.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-In very many scriptures it is plainly declared that when
-Christ comes, he comes not only to reward and save his
-people but also to punish his enemies. Looking upon the
-last days he exclaims, <q>Nevertheless when the Son of man
-cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</q> Luke 18:8.
-The idea of a thousand years of peace and righteousness
-before Christ comes might be dismissed as utterly out of
-the question. But space will be given to one or two passages
-supposed to teach it, which will represent the whole class.
-The first and chief is found in Isa. 2:2-4:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the
-Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall
-be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many
-people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of
-the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of
-his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth
-the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall
-judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they
-shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into
-pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither
-shall they learn war any more.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Almost the same language is used in Micah 4:1-3.
-It is enough to call attention to the authorship of the
-<pb n='082'/><anchor id='Pg082'/>
-propositions contained in the text. They come from the
-people. <q>Many people shall go and say, Come ye,</q> etc.
-Inspiration asserts that in the last days the mountain or
-power of the Lord's house or church shall be established
-in the tops of the mountains, or civil power. Undoubtedly
-it will. Everything is tending to the union of Church
-and State and the professed church of Christ is riding on
-a high tide to civil power in all lands. But farewell to
-godliness and spiritual power. When this is accomplished,
-in a general chorus all will proclaim the dawning millennium.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-How the Lord regards the people who are saying these
-things is shown in the succeeding verses:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,
-because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the
-Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
-Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of
-their treasures; their land also is full of horses, neither is there any
-end of their chariots: their land also is full of idols; they worship the
-work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.</q>
-Isa. 2:6-8.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Now let us see what God says on the same point and
-concerning the same time:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; prepare war, wake up the
-mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: beat
-your ploughshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let
-the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye
-heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy
-mighty ones to come down, O Lord. Let the heathen be wakened,
-and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge
-all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is
-ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for
-their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of
-decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
-The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw
-<pb n='083'/><anchor id='Pg083'/>
-their shining. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his
-voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but
-the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children
-of Israel.</q> Joel 3:9-16.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Mark, this is not what the people say, but what the Lord
-says of the very same time when the people are preaching
-a good time coming.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Another verse referred to, and representing quite a
-numerous class of similar ones, is found in Num. 14:21.
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory
-of the Lord.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-There is no occasion to modify or limit the meaning of
-those words; for their utmost significance will be realized.
-But when?—When sin and the curse are wiped away.
-After the purifying fires of the day of the Lord have
-burned up the last work and relic of rebellion, and the
-earth made new in Edenic glory comes again from the
-hand of its Maker, as beautiful, yea, more beautiful, if
-possible, than at first. It would not be within the limits
-of this pamphlet to follow out this subject, but the reader
-is referred to the following scriptures: Isa. 65:17-22;
-2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21 and 22, and to published
-works.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-In that state this and all kindred scriptures will meet
-a fulfillment that is ample and complete. But for such a
-condition of things this side of the coming of Christ
-neither the Bible nor the trend of events give any promise
-whatever.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Judging of the probability of the conversion of the world
-from the facts, it would seem to be far from striking. The
-following table gives a comparatively accurate showing of
-the present religious status of the world:—
-</p>
-
-<pb n='085'/><anchor id='Pg085'/>
-
-<lg>
-<l>Jews and Parsees 15,470,000</l>
-<l>Greek Catholics 84,136,000</l>
-<l>Protestants 114,815,500</l>
-<l>Brahminical Hindoos 120,000,000</l>
-<l>Mohammedans 122,400,000</l>
-<l>Roman Catholics 255,000,000</l>
-<l>Pagans 227,000,000</l>
-<l>Buddhists 482,000,000</l>
-<l>Unclassified 51,050,000</l>
-</lg>
-
-<p>
-Concerning the very small proportion of this number
-classed in the list of Christians, Bishop Foster has very
-aptly said:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>There are some who too fondly anticipate a millennium. There
-is a lack of information on the progress of Christianity. The facts are
-misstated daily in pulpits all over the country. Ministers hesitate to
-present the worst side for fear of causing discouragement, and they
-create hopes that are never realized. We are not at the dawn of a
-millennium. Compared with the work to be done, the past is nothing.
-Our children's children for ten generations to come must labor harder
-than we are doing, to accomplish the conversion of the world. The
-world's population is 1,500,000,000. Of these, Christians number less
-than a third; and half of that third belongs to the Roman Catholic
-Church. The Protestants number 114,000,000. They are divided into
-500 sects. And this number of their strength includes, also, all the
-thieves, ex-convicts, the debased, besotted, and the speckled and streaked
-in Christendom.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Northwestern Christian Advocate of Dec. 2, 1885.</hi>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Farther on in the same article the Bishop said:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Before us we have the great problem—the 1,100,000,000 of pagans
-to convert to Christianity. That is the solid rock that looms up in
-our path. Look at it; see what work has been done in 1800 years, and
-how much is yet to be accomplished. In India, after more than a
-hundred years of mission work, we have 600,000 native converts and
-2,000,000 Christians among 260,000,000 heathen. Can we remove that
-solid boulder that is as old as the hills?... Our Methodist Church we
-think the most divine and ineffable. We boast that we are going to conquer
-<pb n='086'/><anchor id='Pg086'/>
-the world, and come from our palaces and princely farms to subscribe
-fifty cents a head for the undertaking! It is a burning disgrace
-that excites pity and disgust.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-And as to the prospects for universal peace, the following
-recent statement of the armament of Europe does not
-indicate that the nations are really contemplating such a
-happy consummation:—
-</p>
-
-<lg>
-<l>Russia: 1,519,810 men, 181,000 horses, 2,084 cannon</l>
-<l>Germany: 835,000 men, 96,000 horses, 2,022 cannon</l>
-<l>Austria: 856,980 men, 58,125 horses, 1,600 cannon</l>
-<l>England: 478,800 men</l>
-<l>France: 1,850,000 men</l>
-</lg>
-
-<p>
-The remaining states of Europe make up with the above
-a total of about 6,000,000 men.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>The Final Separation.</head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verses</hi> 40, 41: <q>Then shall two be in the field; the one shall
-be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill;
-the one shall be taken, and the other left.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-This language shows the final separation between the
-righteous and the wicked. There is no elaborate explanation
-as to how the circumstances will meet their fulfillment,
-but that is not the essential force of the text. The line will
-in some cases be drawn between those who are intimately
-related. Some members of the same family will be taken
-away by the judgments of God, while others will be left
-to receive their coming Lord.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>Those Who Watch Will Know The Time.</head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verses</hi> 42-44: <q>Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour
-your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the good man of the
-<pb n='087'/><anchor id='Pg087'/>
-house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have
-watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
-Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not the
-Son of man cometh.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-The injunction to watchfulness is repeatedly given by
-our Saviour in connection with his teaching in reference
-to his second advent. These injunctions must apply especially
-to those who live in proximity to that event. This
-fact is convincing evidence that the Lord is not displeased
-with those who anticipate his coming, and study the word
-in reference to it. No one watches for that which he does
-not expect, and indifference or aversion toward the coming
-of Christ is sure evidence of coldness toward Christ
-himself. If we love Jesus, we shall love his appearing and
-if we love his appearing, we shall be eagerly watching and
-waiting for it. But if we knew the hour when he would
-come, we should not watch for his coming, nor could we
-with eagerness expect his coming if we had no knowledge
-of its approach. The course of time has been measured off
-in definite periods down to the beginning of the present
-generation. The time from the end of the prophetic periods
-to the coming of Christ is emphatically the waiting, watching
-time. Those who watch, as our Lord commands, will
-eventually know the time. No man will make it known, for
-it is not revealed to man in the Scriptures. Angels will
-not make it known, though they may minister to, and communicate
-with, the children of men. Neither will the Son.
-But the Father will make it known when he speaks again
-from heaven.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-It is undoubtedly true that the unscriptural and irrational
-course pursued by many so-called Adventists in
-repeatedly setting a time of their own for the Lord to
-come has had the effect to disgust many with the whole
-<pb n='088'/><anchor id='Pg088'/>
-matter. This is the enemy's work. He will seek thus to
-obscure each truth by bringing it into the shadow of reproach.
-But it is unwise to be thus misled. Probably
-there is no prophecy that better describes the present state
-of unbelief in the world in regard to the second advent,
-caused partly by fanatical time-movements, than the following:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of
-Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? Tell
-them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God: I will make this proverb to
-cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say
-unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision. For
-there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within
-the house of Israel. For I am the Lord: I will speak, and the word
-that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged,
-for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will
-perform it, saith the Lord God.</q> Eze. 12:22-25.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-The burden of this prophecy is time; therefore the
-word here mentioned that the Lord will speak, will be
-the time. Rev. 3:3, is also to the point:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Remember, therefore, how thou hast received and heard, and
-hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come
-on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come
-upon thee.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Those who do not watch, will not know the hour.
-Those who watch will know the hour.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The present watching, waiting position requires much
-faith and patience. Says Paul:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which hath great recompense
-of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye
-have done the will of God [in proclaiming the coming of Christ], ye
-might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall
-come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith;
-<pb n='089'/><anchor id='Pg089'/>
-but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
-But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but of them
-that believe to the saving of the soul.</q> Heb. 10:35-39.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-Says James: <q>Be patient therefore, brethren, unto
-the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth
-for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long
-patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
-Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the coming of
-the Lord draweth nigh.</q> James 5:7, 8.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Jesus says: <q>Because thou hast kept the word of my
-patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation,
-which shall come upon all the world to try them that
-dwell upon the earth.</q> Rev. 3:10.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The present position and present duty of God's people
-are defined in Rev. 14:12: <q>Here is the patience of the
-saints; here are they that keep the commandments of God,
-and the faith of Jesus.</q>
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>The Faithful And Wise Servant.</head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verses</hi> 45-47: <q>Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom
-his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due
-season? Blessed is that servant whom his lord when he cometh shall
-find so doing. Verily I say unto you, that he shall make him ruler
-over all his goods.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-In this figure, Christ is represented as the Lord of the
-household of faith (see Mark 13:35; Heb. 3:6), leaving
-his house, and committing the work of caring for his
-church to his servants. A blessing is promised those servants
-who are found faithfully discharging this duty when
-their Lord comes. They are to feed the flock of God,
-over whom the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers.
-Acts 20:28. They must preach the word. 2 Tim. 4:2.
-They should watch for souls as they that must give account.
-<pb n='090'/><anchor id='Pg090'/>
-Heb. 13:17. They will not only give meat to
-the household, but they will give it in due season. They
-will preach the <emph>present</emph> truth.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-And meat in due season when Christ's coming draws
-near, will be the gospel of the kingdom. Verse 14. It
-will embrace warnings, instructions, and encouragements
-pertaining to a message that is designed and adapted to
-prepare the world for so solemn an event. Suppose, for
-a moment, that when Noah had received his message of
-the coming flood to give to the world, he had reasoned
-with worldly wisdom that as such a thing never had occurred,
-and from all appearances seemed very unlikely to
-occur, and hence to preach it would subject him to reproach,
-it would be better to avoid any particular allusion
-to such an unwelcome subject. His preaching seemed to
-excite only ridicule. He could retain his own private
-convictions and preach the ordinary principles of righteousness,
-saying, <q>Do not so, my brethren.</q> And if the
-people were only prepared for the flood, that would be all
-that would be necessary. Of such a course we can say
-two things. He would thus have proved very unfaithful
-to his trust, and the blood of his fellow-men would have
-been upon him; and he would have done just as thousands
-are doing now. He certainly would not have represented
-the faithful and wise servant. So it is now. A solemn
-responsibility is placed upon the watchmen:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto
-them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land
-take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: if when
-he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and
-warn the people; then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet,
-and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his
-blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the
-trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But
-<pb n='091'/><anchor id='Pg091'/>
-he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman
-see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not
-warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them,
-he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the
-watchman's hand. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman
-unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at
-my mouth, and warn them from me.</q> Eze. 33:2-7.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-When Jesus comes, the faithful servants will be found
-proclaiming his coming and teaching the necessary preparation.
-The Saviour speaks of such as <q>faithful and wise.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-1. He is faithful. As a faithful watchman, he will
-give timely warning when he sees the sword coming.
-His work just before the end, is seen in the following
-scriptures:—
-</p>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<q>Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy
-mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of
-the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand.</q> Joel 2:1.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q>Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show
-my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.</q>
-Isa. 58:1.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q>I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ,
-who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom,
-Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove,
-rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and doctrine. For the time
-will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their
-own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
-and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned
-into fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the
-work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.</q> 2. Tim. 4:1-5.
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-2. He is wise. <q>He that winneth souls is wise.</q> He
-must be wise. He will hold forth the truth in its harmony
-and beauty, and thus expose error and win men to the
-truth. When it becomes his duty to <q>reprove and rebuke,</q>
-it will be at a proper time and place, and then
-with all <q>long-suffering and doctrine.</q> He will study to
-<pb n='092'/><anchor id='Pg092'/>
-show himself <q>approved unto God, a workman that needeth
-not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.</q>
-2 Tim. 2:15.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>The Evil Servant.</head>
-
-<quote rend='display'>
-
-<p>
-<hi rend='smallcaps'>Verses</hi> 48-51: <q>But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart,
-My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellow-servants,
-and to eat and drink with the drunken; the lord of that servant
-shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour
-that he is not aware of; and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him
-his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing
-of teeth.</q>
-</p>
-
-</quote>
-
-<p>
-What the evil servant says and does, shows most clearly
-the position and work of the faithful and wise servant. The
-evil servant says, <q>My lord delayeth his coming,</q> because
-the faithful servant is proclaiming the coming of
-his lord. The evil servant smites the faithful servant, because
-he teaches the soon coming of his Lord. The faithful
-servant, true to his commission to preach the <q>gospel
-of the kingdom</q> to a fallen church and a scoffing world,
-toils on, and for this the evil servant smites him. Not with
-the fist, perhaps, but with the tongue of obloquy and reproach.
-That there should be professed servants of Christ
-engaged in smiting those who are faithfully warning the
-world, need not cause surprise in view of the past, but
-must cause sorrow in the heart of every lover of truth.
-The wicked servant says in heart, and some are saying with
-their lips, The Lord is not coming. The world is now just
-starting out upon its career of knowledge and enjoyment.
-Where is the promise or indication of his coming? Some
-say, He may come to-night, he may not come in a million
-years, thus neutralizing the truth. Such men will be found
-criticising and discounting the Scriptures and subjecting
-them to the tests of human philosophy and science. The
-<pb n='093'/><anchor id='Pg093'/>
-only safety for the people is to look beyond such watchmen.
-Let them take the Bible for themselves, and there
-discerning the truth, embrace it, and live according to it.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-<index index='toc'/>
-<index index='pdf'/>
-<head>Conclusion.</head>
-
-<p>
-The impression prevails to some extent that he who
-teaches that Christ is soon coming is acting the <foreign rend='italic'>rôle</foreign> of an
-alarmist. If so, we have seen that the great Teacher has
-placed himself at the head of the class. No one has
-spoken more positively upon this point than he has done.
-He said, <q>In my Father's house are many mansions; if it
-were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a
-place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you,
-I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that
-where I am, there ye may be also.</q> John 14:2, 3.
-There is nothing ambiguous about that language. A child
-can understand it. It means that Jesus will come again.
-In the remarkable chapter we have here reviewed, the
-Saviour takes up the subject specifically, and not only
-affirms the fact of his coming, but foretells in explicit
-language the events which he would have us recognize as
-signs of the near approach of his coming and the end of
-the world.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But the message of Christ's second coming is not sensational
-in its essential character. It is a solemn, practical
-truth. It is full of warning and admonition to sinners and
-worldly professors, and full of comfort to the faithful followers
-of Christ. It is spoken of in the Scriptures as a fact,
-established upon the word which never fails. When speaking
-<pb n='095'/><anchor id='Pg095'/>
-of his second advent, the Saviour said, <q>Heaven and
-earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.</q>
-Matt. 24:35. To disbelieve in his coming would be to
-doubt one of the two great features of the gospel plan.
-What the harvest is to seed-time, Christ's second advent
-will be to his first. To doubt that he ever came to earth
-would be to subvert the gospel. To disbelieve his second
-coming would nullify in the mind his first coming, and
-rob the sacrifice of its glorious reward.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The apostle Paul speaks of the second advent as <q>that
-blessed hope.</q> Titus 2:13. Jesus says: <q>And when
-these things [the signs of his coming] begin to come to
-pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption
-draweth nigh.</q> The prophet Isaiah anticipates
-the feelings of God's people who will witness the event,
-and expresses them in the following manner: <q>And it
-shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have
-waited for him, and he will save us: This is the Lord;
-we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in
-his salvation.</q> Isa. 25:9.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-At his coming, the dead in Christ will be raised to everlasting
-life. The righteous living will be changed to immortality.
-The hand of our Saviour will wipe away all
-tears; <q>there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor
-crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former
-things are passed away.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Why should we not rejoice in such a prospect? Who
-would not welcome such a friend? Who would not rejoice
-in the prospect of such a consummation?
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But it is true that the grand event will not be attended
-with joy alone. There will be dismay and anguish. For
-while one prophet records the exclamations of joyful anticipation,
-another has foreseen and recorded the cry of despair.
-<pb n='096'/><anchor id='Pg096'/>
-<q>And the kings of the earth, and the great men,
-and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty
-men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves
-in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and
-said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us
-from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from
-the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of his wrath is
-come; and who shall be able to stand?</q> Rev. 6:15-17.
-A vast number will thus lament. All who cannot join the
-shout of welcome will unite in the wail of despair. There
-will be but two classes in that day. And to one of those
-classes each one living will belong. To which shall I
-belong? Solemn question. To which party will you belong,
-reader? No one can <emph>wait</emph> for Christ who is not
-prepared for his coming. Only the precious blood of
-Jesus that cleanses from sin can prepare us to receive
-him and fit us to dwell in his presence. Have you an
-interest in his forgiving love? Is your peace made with
-God? If so, his coming will have no terror to you, for
-he comes to save his waiting people.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<pb n='097'/><anchor id='Pg097'/>
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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -http://www.gutenberg.org/license. If you are not located in the United -States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are located -before using this ebook. - - - -Title: His Glorious Appearing - -Author: James Springer White - -Release Date: June 15, 2017 [Ebook #54914] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: US-ASCII - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HIS GLORIOUS APPEARING*** - - - - - - His Glorious Appearing - - An Exposition of Matthew Twenty-Four - - By - - James Springer White - - Revised and Illustrated - - "What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the - world?"--DISCIPLES. - - "When ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the - doors."--JESUS. - - Eleventh Edition. - - Review and Herald Publishing Co. - - Battle Creek, Mich. - - 1895 - - - - - -CONTENTS - - -Introductory. -Christ's Prophecy. - Persecution And False Prophets. - Iniquity Abounds. - The End. -When Shall These Things Be? -What Shall Be The Sign Of Thy Coming? - Shortened For The Elect's Sake. - Lo, Here, And Lo, There. - The Signs Of Christ's Coming. - "And The Stars Shall Fall." - "The Powers Of Heaven Shall Be Shaken." - "Sign Of The Son Of Man." - Parable Of The Fig-Tree. - "The Day And Hour." - Noah's Time And Ours. - Peace And Safety. - The Final Separation. - Those Who Watch Will Know The Time. - The Faithful And Wise Servant. - The Evil Servant. -Conclusion. -Choice Religious Books. - - - - - - - [Book Cover] - - - - - - [Illustration] - - The Light of the World - - - - - -INTRODUCTORY. - - -"Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his -servants the prophets." Amos 3:7. - -No truth of inspiration can be more clearly demonstrated than that God -reveals his designs to his prophets, that men and nations may be prepared -for their accomplishment. Before visiting with judgments, God has -uniformly sent forth warnings sufficient to enable the believing to escape -his wrath, and to condemn those who have not heeded the warning. This was -the case before the flood. The wickedness of the world had become very -great. Every imagination of the thoughts of the hearts of men was only -evil. It would seem that they had forfeited all claims for consideration. -Violence and corruption filled the earth, and the only way to eradicate -evil was to destroy it with its workers. But before doing so, the world -must be warned of the impending doom; and there was found one man who -would engage in the work. Noah had faith in God, and preached for one -hundred and twenty years the message of warning and salvation. His work -also testified with his words. - - - "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, - moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by - the which he condemned the world." Heb. 11:7. - - -At a later period, when the nations had again become sunken in idolatry -and crime, and the destruction of wicked Sodom and Gomorrah was -determined, the Lord said,-- - - - "Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; seeing that - Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the - nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?" Gen. 18:17, 18. - - -And due notice was given to righteous Lot, who, with his daughters, was -preserved; and none, even in that guilty city, perished without due -warning. Lot evidently warned the people; and in thus communing with them, -was "vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked." 2 Peter 2:7, 8. -His righteous life had been a rebuke to them; and we have every reason to -believe that the holy example of Abraham in his worship of the true God -was known to them. He had at one time been their saviour, and rescued -their captives and spoil from the victorious enemy who was carrying them -away. But when Lot warned his friends of the approaching doom, "he seemed -as one that mocked." Gen. 19:14. They, like the antediluvians, persisted -in sin, and drank of the wrath of God. - -At a subsequent time the sins of Nineveh rose to heaven, and Jonah was -sent to bear to that proud capital the startling message, "Yet forty days -and Nineveh shall be destroyed." The consciences of those sinners told -them the message was true; and from the least of them to the greatest they -humbled themselves, and the overhanging judgment was averted. - -Before Christ commenced his earthly mission, John the Baptist was sent as -the voice of one crying in the wilderness, "Prepare ye the way of the -Lord." By this means the expectation of the people was raised, and -doubtless many were through it led to accept of salvation, while the -generation at large was condemned for rejecting the light. - -Our Saviour in his time saw the destruction of Jerusalem just in the -future of that generation, and faithfully warned the people, foretelling -signs by which it might be known when the desolation thereof was nigh. -Luke 21:21. Such is the testimony of inspiration respecting the dealings -of God with his people in past ages. - -All who accept the Bible as the inspired word of God acknowledge that he -has been very faithful in warning people in past ages of impending -judgments and other events which affected their eternal welfare. Such -having been the divine plan in relation to past events, we would certainly -be justified in anticipating such warnings of Christ's second coming as -would comport with the importance of the event. But when we come to regard -the future, and especially our own immediate future, the incredulity of -very many is at once aroused. - -But what are the facts in the case? Can anything be learned from the Bible -relative to the time of the second advent? This is a grave inquiry; and, -from the very nature of the subject, is worthy of close investigation, and -a candid answer. It is a matter of painful regret that many, under the -influence of popular prejudice, have decided that the period of the second -advent is a secret, hidden with the Lord. While these can scarcely be -reached with this subject, as long as they remain under the influence of -those who denounce all investigation of it as prying into the secrets of -the Almighty, there is still, we believe, a larger class who wait for -evidence before deciding. - - [Illustration] - - Christ Weeping Over Jerusalem - - -We accept the Bible as a revelation from heaven. What God has revealed in -that book, let no man call a mystery, or a secret of the Almighty. "The -secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are -revealed belong unto us and to our children forever." Deut. 29:29. If the -sacred Scriptures, in a most clear and harmonious manner, point out the -signs of the approach of that great event, and if there is evidence that -"it is near, even at the doors," the subject at once assumes great -importance. - -When the disciples inquired, "What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of -the end of the world?" Jesus did not reprove them for inquiring into this -matter, nor tell them that it was purposely hidden from all men; but he -answered their question in the most definite manner. - -The simple fact that the Lord mentions signs of his second advent, is the -best proof possible that his people were not to remain ignorant of the -relative nearness of the event. Add to this his injunctions to -watchfulness, and the blessings which he pronounces upon those who are -awake and watching at his coming, and it becomes a certainty that he would -not leave his people ignorant of the proximity of that event. Paul also -says that "unto _them that look for him_ shall he appear the second time -without sin unto salvation." Heb. 9:28. And that a crown of righteousness -will be given "unto all them also that love his appearing." 2 Tim. 4:8. - -With these assurances we may look for plain and emphatic tokens of the -Saviour's second coming. - - - - - -CHRIST'S PROPHECY. - - - [Illustration] - - Jesus on the Mount of Olives - - -Probably no other chapter of the Bible speaks more fully, and more -definitely, upon the subject of the second advent, than Matthew 24, in -Christ's own words. We invite the attention of the candid reader to a -brief explanation of the entire chapter. - - - VERSE 1: "And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple; and - his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the - temple." - - -Jesus had been addressing the multitude, in the presence of his disciples. -He had reproved the scribes and the Pharisees for their sins, and had -declared, in the previous chapter, the doom of the Jews, their city, and -their temple. The disciples supposed that the temple would stand forever, -and they called the attention of Christ to its magnificence and strength, -and to the great stones that entered into the structure. On this point the -historian of those times, Josephus, says: "Now the temple was built of -stones that were white and strong, and each of their lengths was twenty- -five cubits, their height was eight, and their breadth about -twelve."--_"__Antiquities,__"__ book xv, chap. xi._ If we compute a cubit -at twenty inches, we shall be able to gain some idea of the size and -"manner" of these stones. - - - VERSE 2: "And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? - Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon - another, that shall not be thrown down." - - VERSE 3: "And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples - came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things - be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of - the world?" - - -This statement from the Master could not but deeply interest the -disciples. And it matters not whether they supposed that the destruction -of the temple, the coming of Christ, and the end of the age, would all -occur at the same time, or at different periods, since Christ, in his -answer in this chapter, has distinctly spoken of each separately, and has -given each its place in the prophetic history of events. If it were their -impression that the overthrow of the temple and the end of the world would -occur at the same time, it by no means proves that this would be the case. -As the Scriptures show, up to the time of the out-pouring of the Holy -Spirit on the day of Pentecost, their ideas upon many points were crude -and inaccurate. Take as proof of this the parable which the Lord spake -when he was going into Jerusalem. Luke 19. They thought that the kingdom -of God should immediately appear. To correct this impression, the parable -of the nobleman was spoken. If they understood the parable at the time -when it was spoken, it did not fully eradicate the impression from their -minds, as is proved by what they did when they entered Jerusalem. We -cannot believe that they would have hailed him as the Son of David, and -rejoiced before him as a King in his triumph, if they had realized that he -was going into the city to be condemned and crucified as a malefactor. -Palm branches and shouts of triumph did not attend the steps of the lowly -and the condemned. - -John admits for himself and Peter, after they had seen the empty -sepulcher, that "they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from -the dead." John 20:9. - -Again, after his resurrection, Jesus reproved two of his disciples, who, -though they had trusted that he would redeem Israel, were then sad and -disheartened. They did not then understand that Christ ought "to have -suffered these things, and to enter into his glory." The suffering part -was still a mystery to them. And some of the apostles were so slow to -realize that which he had spoken to them, that they could hardly be -persuaded that he was indeed risen from the dead. And after he had been -with them full forty days, speaking to them of the things pertaining to -the kingdom, they did not yet understand "the times and the seasons," and -therefore asked him, "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the -kingdom to Israel?" - -However the matter may have been entertained in the minds of the -disciples, it is evident that their query consisted of two distinct -questions in the mind of the Saviour. These questions relate, first, to -the destruction of Jerusalem; and, second, to Christ's second coming at -the end of the world or age. They were distinctly answered by our Lord; -not, however, before the promiscuous multitude; but on the occasion of a -private interview with his disciples. Christ here speaks to his disciples; -hence his words in this prophetic discourse are addressed especially to -the church. - - - VERSES 4, 5: "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed - that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I - am Christ, and shall deceive many." - - -Jesus knew the hearts of men, and that many impostors would arise, and -deceive multitudes. He here warns his disciples, and guards them against -the deceptions of corrupt and ambitious men. Such was the general -expectation of the appearance of the Messiah among the Jews, that many -would set up the claim that they were the Christ, to carry out selfish -purposes, or to gain notoriety, and the credulous people would be easily -led into the deception, and then be destroyed for sedition. We are -informed that in the days succeeding those of Christ, impostors arose in -great numbers. Josephus tells us of an Egyptian false prophet who led -30,000 men into the desert to show them signs, and then brought them to -Jerusalem as if to attack the city. He caused great pillage and -destruction in Judea, but in the time of battle, ran away, leaving his -followers to the exasperated Romans.--_"__Wars of the Jews,__"__ book ii, -chap. xiii._ - - [Illustration] - - Ancient Jerusalem - - -In the former part of the second century Cazibee set himself at the head -of the Jewish nation and proclaimed himself their long-expected Messiah. -To facilitate the success of his bold enterprise he changed his name to -that of Barchocheba, alluding to the Star foretold by Balaam. Adrian -raised an army, and sent it against him. He retired into a town called -Bither, where he was besieged. Barchocheba was killed in the siege, the -city was taken, and a dreadful havoc succeeded. The Jews themselves allow -that, during this short war against the Romans in defense of this false -Messiah, they lost five or six hundred thousand souls.--_Buck's -Dictionary._ - -Dr. A. Clarke says, on the authority of Josephus, that "a few years -afterward, under the reign of Nero, while Felix was procurator of Judea, -impostors of this stamp were so frequent that some were taken and killed -almost every day." And at intervals since then the Jews who are all the -time expecting the appearance of the Messiah have been repeatedly the -victims of cruel deception. - - - VERSE 6: "And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that - ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but - the end is not yet." - - -It is proper that we should consider what is meant by the term "the end," -used in this verse; in verse 14, "then shall the end come;" and in verse -3, "the sign of thy coming, and the end of the world." In the first place, -it may be unhesitatingly claimed that the term does not refer to the end -of the Jewish dispensation, which terminated at the crucifixion, nor to -the destruction of Jerusalem, which occurred about forty years later. -Because, first, Jesus treated the question concerning the destruction of -the temple and that referring to his coming and the end of the world as -relating to two distinct events, widely separated in time. Second, the -signs which were to be premonitory of the end did not transpire before the -destruction of the temple. Third, the second coming of Christ, the close -of probation, the judgment, the resurrection, and the end of sin, death, -and mortality, are frequently and prominently associated together in the -Bible as constituting the most important epoch in human history. To limit -this thrilling discourse to the local and long past destruction of -Jerusalem would be to rob it of its force and grandeur. Not only would the -twenty-fourth of Matthew which we are now studying be stultified, but very -much of the life and power of the Scriptures would be sacrificed by such a -course. - -As to the meaning of the phrase, "the end of the world," it may -consistently be translated "the end of the age," and in the margin of the -Revised Bible it is rendered "the consummation of the age." For an -inspired definition of the term, let the reader turn to Matt. 13:38-40 and -its context, where the same words are used and repeated in the original:-- - - - "The tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that - sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and - the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered - and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. - The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather - out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them that do - iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall - be weeping and gnashing of teeth." - - -From Rev. 14:14-16 we learn that the harvest of the earth and the second -coming of Christ are identical. So that by no possible means could it be -established that the "end of the world" means the destruction of -Jerusalem. Further evidence is found in Matt. 28:20 where the same -expression, both in the original and in the translation, is used: "Lo I am -with you alway, even unto the end of the world." But no one would have the -audacity to claim that this promise expired in A. D. 70, as it must have -done if those questions of the disciples and the subsequent discourse of -Christ related only to the impending doom of the temple and city. - - - VERSES 7, 8: "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom - against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and - earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of - sorrows." - - -Wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes have occurred all along since -these words were spoken. Therefore, these, as they have ever existed, -cannot be regarded as the especial signs of the end. It may be claimed, -however, with a good degree of consistency, that the Scriptures teach that -these calamities would abound in the last days to such an extent as to -constitute a sign of the approaching Judgment. We wish to keep the -important fact distinctly before the mind, that the sacred Scriptures do -teach when men may not, and when they may, look for the second appearing -of Christ. - -The sacred writers have so uniformly associated such judgments as war, -famine, pestilence, and earthquake, with the last Judgment, that the -disciples would be in danger of concluding that the end would immediately -follow the first appearance of these calamities; hence the caution given: -"These things must come to pass, but the end is not yet." Here the -disciples were clearly taught that they should not expect the end in their -day. This fact is worthy of the candid attention of those who object to -the proclamation of the second advent of Christ in the form of an especial -message. These sometimes assert that it was right for the disciples to -look for Christ in their day, and that it has been scriptural and right -for all Christians to look for the second appearing of Christ in their -time, from the days of the chosen twelve to the present time. And they -decide that no more can be learned and believed upon this subject in our -time than by the Christians of past generations, and that the public mind -should not now be moved upon this great question, any more than in all -past time since the first advent of Christ. - -We have seen that this position is incorrect so far as the early disciples -were concerned. They are directed to the distant future as the time when -their Lord should come. They are assured that they need not be troubled at -hearing of wars and rumors of wars; "for all these things must come to -pass, but the end is not yet." Our Lord then guides the minds of his -disciples, as we shall see in the examination of this chapter, down over -the time of the great apostasy, and the long period of the rule of papal -Rome, before mentioning a sign of his second advent. He does not intimate -that his people during these long periods may expect the end. No, not -once. But when he comes to a later time, the Lord names signs in the sun, -in the moon, and in the stars, and adds: "When ye shall see all these -things, know that it is near, even at the doors." - -Mark this: Our Lord does not mention wars, famines, pestilences, and -earthquakes as signs of his second advent; but rather as events of common -occurrence all the way through the Christian age, which must exist before -the end. And history attests the fact that these calamities have covered -at least seventeen centuries. The following is from a work of Noah -Webster, LL. D., published in 1799:-- - - - "By famine and sword, 580,000 Jews were destroyed between A. D. 96 - and A. D. 180. - - "In Antioch, from A. D. 96 to A. D. 180, earthquakes destroyed 13 - cities and over 100,000 lives. - - "In Rome, A. D. 169, pestilence destroyed 10,000 daily. - - "In Rome, A. D. 187, pestilence appeared and continued three - years. - - "In London, A. D. 310, by famine, 40,000 died. - - "In A. D. 446, September 17, an earthquake shook down the walls of - Constantinople, and 57 towers fell. - - "In Rome, A. D. 539, in one district 50,000 died. - - "In Antioch, A. D. 588, an earthquake killed 60,000. - - "In A. D. 542, the plague killed 10,000 in one day in Turkey. - - "In A. D. 679, a severe famine in England, three years. - - "In A. D. 717, in Constantinople, 300,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1005, earthquakes three months, followed by pestilence, - by which it is said one third of the human race died. - - "In A. D. 1077, in Constantinople, so many died by plague and - famine the living could not bury them. - - "In A. D. 1124, in Italy, there was such famine that the dead lay - in the streets not buried; and in England one third of the people - died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1294, in England thousands died of famine. - - "In A. D. 1346, in London, 50,000 died of plague and famine, and - were buried in one grave-yard; in Norwich, 50,000; in Venice, - 100,000; in Florence, 100,000; in Eastern nations, 20,000,000. It - was called the black death. - - "In A. D. 1352, in China, 900,000 died of famine. - - "In A. D. 1427 in Dantzic, 80,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1570, in Moscow, 200,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1572, in Lyons, 50,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1625, in London, 35,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1656, in Naples, 300,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1665, in London, 68,000 died of plague. - - "In A. D. 1755, an earthquake destroyed the city of Lisbon, - killing 50,000. In Mitylene, and the Archipelago, it shook down - 2000 houses. It shook all the Spanish coast. The plague followed, - which destroyed 150,000 persons in Constantinople." - - -Doubtless the figures in the above list should in some instances be -corrected to correspond with facts. But, taken as a whole, they do not -nearly represent the ravages of death in their enormity. For instance, the -Encyclopedia Britannica states that Hecker estimates the celebrated "black -death" of the fourteenth century in the different epidemics, to have swept -away one fourth of the inhabitants of Europe, or 25,000,000 people! - - - - -Persecution And False Prophets. - - - [Illustration] - - Martyrdom of Huss - - - VERSES 9, 10: "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and - shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's - sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one - another, and shall hate one another." - - -Here is a brief description of the afflictions and martyrdom of the church -of Christ. Thousands of the faithful followers of Jesus were most cruelly -put to death by pagan Rome; yet the prophecy doubtless applies more -particularly to the long period of papal persecutions, in which not less -than fifty millions of Christians were put to death in the most cruel -manner that wicked men and demons could devise. In these verses we are -brought down over the long period of the martyrdom of the church of Jesus -Christ, to near the present generation. These verses being parallel with -verses 21 and 22, this subject will be noticed again. - - - VERSE 11: "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive - many." - - -A true prophet is one who speaks for God. The spirit of prophecy is the -testimony of Jesus. Rev. 19:10. It is Jesus Christ speaking through human -lips or pen to his people. _Pseudo_, or false prophets, speak through the -agency of wicked spirits and the power of Satan. Their work is to deceive. -And while this is true of those who are under the direct inspiration of -superior beings, good or evil, it is true in a more restricted sense that -consecrated teachers of divine truth may be regarded as God's prophets; -and teachers of error may properly be called false prophets. True and -false prophets may be known. - - [Illustration] - - The Crucifixion - - -The prophets of God are teachers of purity, reprovers of sin, and faithful -in warning the people of coming dangers. The duties of those whom God -calls to speak in his great name are clearly expressed by the sacred -writers. We here quote from three of them:-- - - - ISA. 58:1: "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a - trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of - Jacob their sins." - - JOEL 2:1: "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my - holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for - the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand." - - 2 TIM. 4:1, 2: "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord - Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his - appearing and his kingdom; preach the word; be instant in season, - out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and - doctrine." - - -False prophets do not reprove the people for their sins, and do not warn -them of coming danger; but they proclaim peace to the sinner. Their -teachings lead from God and his word, and are such as please the -unconverted mind. The inspired writers have also spoken definitely of the -testimony and work of false prophets. We here give several for example:-- - - - EZE. 13:9, 10: "And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see - vanity, and that divine lies. They shall not be in the assembly of - my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the - house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; - and ye shall know that I am the Lord God. Because, even because - they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no - peace; and one built up a wall, and lo, others daubed it with - untempered mortar." - - JER. 6:13, 14: "For from the least of them even unto the greatest - of them, every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet - even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. They have healed - also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, - Peace, peace, when there is no peace." - - JER. 14:13, 14: "Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, the prophets - say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have - famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. Then the - Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I sent - them not, neither spake unto them." - - -After stating the duty of the faithful servant of God to preach the word, -to reprove, to rebuke, and exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine, -the apostle says:-- - - - "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; - but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, - having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the - truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Tim. 4:3, 4. - - -That time has now fully come. The people choose pleasing fables, which do -not disturb them in their sins, rather than the reproving, searching -declarations of the word of God. They love to be deceived by the teachings -of false prophets, and "say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, -Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy -deceits." Isa. 30:10. - - - "Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord. Shall not my - soul be avenged on such a nation as this? A wonderful and horrible - thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and - the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have - it so; and what will ye do in the end thereof?" Jer. 5:29-31. - - -The ears of the people are filled with the pleasing fables of the world's -conversion, a good time coming, and that we are just entering the golden -age. The threatenings of God's word on the proud, the haughty, the vain, -the rich, the sinners in Zion, and those out of Zion, are kept back by the -false teachers of these times. Many of them even dare to teach that the -moral code of the ten commandments is abrogated. And as the result of such -a course, and of such teaching, we see in the professed church of Jesus -Christ, that - - - - -Iniquity Abounds. - - - VERSE 12: "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many - shall wax cold." - - -It is evident that both the abounding of iniquity and the waxing cold of -the love of many, are fulfilled in the professed church of Jesus Christ. -Men must first experience the love of God and of heavenly things before -that love can grow cold. Hence, common, unconverted sinners are not here -referred to as apostatizing. And, again, the prevalence of iniquity in the -unconverted world alone, would stimulate the church to greater diligence, -and more godliness, instead of being a cause of apostasy. Hence, the -iniquity here mentioned is in the very heart of the professed church, -diffusing its chilling influence through the whole body. As the result, -the love of many has grown cold. With this, agree the words of the -apostle:-- - - - "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. - For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, - proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, - without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, - incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, - heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; - having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from - such turn away." 2 Tim. 3:1-5. - - -Here is a catalogue of eighteen sins, all resting upon those having a form -of godliness. These are not infidels and common worldly sinners, for they -have not a form of godliness; but they are men and women professing to be -followers of Jesus Christ. And although they make a profession of piety as -high as heaven, these very sins lie at their doors. And by reason of their -example, and their chilling influence, many are led from the humble path -to heaven, and their love waxes cold. - - [Illustration] - - The Ascension - - - - -The End. - - - VERSE 13: "But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall - be saved." - - -As before noted, the word _end_, whenever used in this chapter, refers to -the end of the age, and to nothing else. It is the end associated in the -New Testament with the second appearing of Jesus Christ. If it be urged -that the word "end" has reference to the close of mortal life, then we -reply that the disciples did not ask their Lord (see verse 3) when they -should die; but "what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of -the world?" Neither does the Lord speak of death, when he says (see verse -6), "But the end is not yet." And it would be strange indeed to suppose -that the word "end" (verse 14) meant death. If any think such a position -admissible, let them read it into the text, as follows: And this gospel of -the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all -nations, and then shall death come. Absurdity! - - - VERSE 14: "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached In all - the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end - come." - - -This is the first sign of the end given by our Lord in answer to the -question, "What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the -world?" - -But it is robbed of its distinct power by that interpretation, sometimes -given, by which it is assumed that all men will receive the gospel and be -converted, and that then instead of the end, there will ensue a thousand -years in which all shall know the Lord. After this long period of peace -and safety, the end will come. How much is assumed on this text will -appear when we consider that the text does not say that every individual -will even hear this gospel of the kingdom. It does not state that any one -will be converted and made holy by it. And we find it far from intimating -that the world will be converted and remain so one thousand years. We have -no reason to conclude that greater measure of success is implied in this -text than that which has always attended the preaching of the gospel. -While a few have believed and received it, the great mass of men have -passed it by unheedingly. The text simply states: First, "And this gospel -of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world;" second, "For a witness -unto all nations;" third, "And _then_ [not one thousand years later, but -THEN] shall the end come." - -But to what does the term "gospel of the kingdom" refer? The query -sometimes rises as to whether the gospel in the common acceptation of the -word, or a gospel peculiarly related to the second coming of Christ is -here meant. No such distinction is to be drawn. There neither is, has -been, nor will be more than one gospel. "But though we, or an angel from -heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached -unto you, let him be accursed." Gal. 1:8. - -The gospel, then, in this instance, is the same as Paul preached, which -was the "power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth." But in -Rev. 14:6 and 7 we read:-- - - - "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the - everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, - and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying - with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour - of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven, and - earth, and the sea, and the fountain of waters." - - -The gospel is here called the "everlasting gospel," and must necessarily -be referred to the gospel of Christ. In connection with the preaching of -that gospel, was the proclamation that the judgment hour had come. Not -that this message was appended to the gospel, but the angel who had the -everlasting gospel to preach said, "Fear God ... for the hour of his -judgment is come." - -The gospel of Jesus Christ embraces all truth relating to salvation. The -warnings, counsel, invitations, promises, precepts, prophecies, or -whatever the Lord would have the people hear,--the gospel embraces them -all. In the days of Noah, the gospel included repentance, faith, -obedience, with the promises of grace and mercy; it also included the -warning of the impending judgment. And the only way to escape that -judgment was through the gospel. So here in Revelation we have the gospel -with all it implies, including the message of Christ's second coming and -kingdom and the judgment. Closely associated with this message are two -others as given in Rev. 14:8-12. The first is merged into these. Then -immediately following their proclamation we have the following scene:-- - - - "And I looked and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat - like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and - in his hand a sharp sickle.... And he that sat on the cloud thrust - in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped." Rev. - 14:14-16. - - -In Rev. 14:6-16, then, we learn what is the meaning of the term "gospel of -the kingdom." It is _the_ gospel, and it embraces the admonitions and -instructions relative to the second coming of Christ. And now that we have -reached that time, the complete gospel embraces the good news of the -coming kingdom with appropriate warnings and teachings. Our Saviour says -it "shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations." -The Revelator says the message is to be preached "to every nation, -kindred, tongue, and people." When this shall be done, the end will come. - -The world-wide proclamation of the soon coming of Christ was inaugurated -about 1832. Since that time, the work of extending its warning voice has -gone on. A most remarkable feature of this movement is the fact that in -different countries individuals were moved upon, almost simultaneously, to -study the prophecies and proclaim the nearness of the end, although they -knew nothing of what was being done by others. In the United States and -Canada, in Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and in Asia, a profound -interest in this subject was created, and people were led to expect the -early appearance of Jesus. Since that time clearer light has appeared in -connection with the other messages of Revelation 14, and still the work is -onward. Wherever the light of the Bible has penetrated, the good news of -the coming Saviour is now going. Not only so, but messengers bearing this -gracious warning are rapidly finding their way into the dark portions of -the earth. Evidence of its extent and progress might be expressed in facts -and figures, but the rapid development of the work would soon leave these -in the rear. Let it suffice to say that at present the everlasting gospel -is being preached and published in all the leading languages and countries -of the world. The work has encircled the globe. It is rapidly reaching -every nation. We now wait for the approaching end; for when the purpose of -God in the proclamation of the coming reign of Christ shall be fully -accomplished, then the end will come. - -Thus far in this discourse Jesus has passed over the entire Christian -dispensation. Beginning with a warning against the deceptions that were to -succeed his own times, he next describes wars and disasters, persecutions, -apostasy, the perils of the last days, and closes with a distinct sign of -the end. - - - - - -WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE? - - - VERSES 15-20: "When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination of - desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy - place (whoso readeth, let him understand); then let them which be - in Judea flee into the mountains; let him which is on the housetop - not come down to take anything out of his house; neither let him - which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe - unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those - days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither - on the Sabbath day." - - -Our Lord having in verses 5-14, passed over the important events in the -Christian age down to the end, goes back and introduces in verse 15 the -destruction of Jerusalem, in answer to the inquiry, "When shall these -things be?" Luke's version of this language is, "When ye shall see -Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof -is nigh." Luke 21:20. By this we know that the term "abomination of -desolation" refers to the Roman army. This desolating power is spoken of -by Daniel as follows:-- - - - "And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the - city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, - and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.... And for - the over-spreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even - until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon - the desolate." Margin, "desolator." Dan. 9:26, 27. - - - [Illustration] - - Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus - - -Here is a clear prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman -armies. Our Lord referred to the book of Daniel, and taught his disciples -to read and understand it; and when they should see take place what was -there predicted, they must make their escape. - -It would seem to be impracticable to flee from a city after it was -encompassed with armies; but our Saviour did not speak at random. Josephus -tells us that Cestius, the Roman general who first led the attack upon -Jerusalem, became dismayed at the apparent forces and strength of the -city, and after having surrounded the city raised the siege. The historian -says: "He retired from the city, without any reason in the -world."--_"__Wars,__"__ book ii, chap. xix._ And in the first words of the -succeeding chapter he further states: "After this calamity had befallen -Cestius, many of the most eminent Jews swam away from the city, as from a -ship when it was going to sink." - -Dr. A. Clarke, commenting on verse 16, says:-- - - - "This counsel was remembered and wisely followed by the Christians - afterwards. Eusebius and Epiphanius say, that at this juncture, - after Cestius Gallus had raised the siege, all who believed in - Christ left Jerusalem and fled to Pella, and other places beyond - Jordan." - - -The flight of the Christians of Judea to the mountains would be attended -with difficulties. And their subsequent condition would be that of -hardship and suffering. The Lord knew this, and gave them the instructions -and warnings necessary. The statement of verse 19 was given to save them -from the sorrows of unnecessary woe. That was a time of trouble. - -Jesus recognizes the existence of the Sabbath, in verse 20, as late as the -destruction of Jerusalem, as verily as he does the seasons of the year. -_The Sabbath_, is the uniform term of both Testaments to designate the -very day on which Jehovah rested after the creation, the day upon which he -put his blessing, and which he set apart for man. Not only in this -instance does our Saviour show his regard for the sacred day of rest, but -in his life he kept it (see Luke 4:16); in his teaching he upheld it, and -taught its true character (Matt. 12:12); and when he lay in the tomb, the -devout women reverently rested "according to the commandment." He himself -is Lord of the Sabbath, and he declares that it was made for man. Mark -2:27, 28. Jesus does not speak of the Sabbath as being only a seventh part -of time, or one day in seven, and no day in particular. The Sabbath is the -term used, referring to the last day of the first week of time, and to the -last day of each subsequent week. - -It is thus that Jesus answered the question, "When shall these things be?" -He now proceeds to answer the second great question. - - - - - -WHAT SHALL BE THE SIGN OF THY COMING? - - - VERSE 21: "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not - since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall - be." - - -It is not surprising, perhaps, that upon a casual reading some should -conclude that this verse had its fulfillment at the siege of Jerusalem by -Titus. It was a time of great suffering, and the verse follows so closely -those which relate to the destruction of the city, that this explanation -suggests itself readily enough. But for good reasons we cannot accept that -application of this verse. Jesus is giving a continuous prophecy. The -narrative proceeds from verse to verse along the line of the entire -dispensation. - -The "great tribulation" mentioned in verse 21 is that of the church of -Christ, and not the tribulation of the Jews at the destruction of -Jerusalem. We offer the following reasons for so deciding:-- - -1. It is a fact that the tribulation of the Christian church, especially -under the reign of the papacy, was greater than God's people had suffered -before "since the beginning of the world." The tribulation of the -Christian church has been greater than it will ever be again. True, a time -of trouble "such as never was," spoken of in Dan. 12:1, is coming _upon -the wicked_; but we find in the same verse this blessed promise, "And at -that time thy people shall be delivered." The tribulation of the Jews at -the destruction of Jerusalem was not greater than the world will ever -witness. The vials of Jehovah's unmingled wrath are yet to be poured out, -not upon the people of one nation only, but upon the guilty people of all -nations. - - - "The slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the - earth even unto the other end of the earth; they shall not be - lamented, neither gathered, nor buried." Jer. 25:33. - - -2. If the tribulation be applied to the Jews, or to any other class of -unbelieving men, it cannot be harmonized with Dan. 12:1, which speaks of -the time of trouble such as never was, when Michael shall stand up. -Certainly there cannot be two times of trouble at different periods, -greater than ever was or ever would be. Therefore the "tribulation" spoken -of in Matt. 24:21, 29, applies not to the Jews, but to the church of -Christ, extending through the 1260 years of papal persecution; and the -"trouble" mentioned in Dan. 12:1, to the unbelieving world, to be -experienced by them in the future. - - [Illustration] - - St. Bartholomew Massacre. - - -3. The period of tribulation was shortened for the elect's sake. This -cannot refer to the Jews, for their house had been pronounced desolate. -They were left of God in their hardness of heart and blindness of mind. -Says Paul, "Lo, we turn to the Gentiles." The elect were the followers of -our Lord Jesus Christ. And where were they when tribulation was upon the -Jews?--They had fled to the mountains. It is absurd, then, to say that the -days of tribulation of the Jews in the city of Jerusalem, were shortened -for the sake of the elect, who had fled from the place of tribulation. -Moreover the tribulation that came upon Jerusalem was not restrained or -modified, but continued until the city was destroyed and its people were -given to the sword and to captivity. - -4. The connection between verses 20 and 21 shows that the tribulation was -to commence with those Christians who were to flee out of the city. "But -pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath-day; -for then shall be great tribulation." Our Lord here speaks of the -tribulation which his people would suffer from the time of their flight -onward. We follow them in their flight to the mountains, and then pass -along down through the noted persecutions of the church of God under pagan -Rome, and we see, indeed, _tribulation_. And when we come to the period of -papal persecutions, we see them suffering the most cruel tortures, and -dying the most dreadful deaths that wicked men and demons could inflict. -This last period is especially noted in prophecy. - -The prophet Daniel saw the papacy, its blasphemy, its ignorance, its work -of death on the saints, and its duration as a persecuting power, under the -symbol of the little horn. - - [Illustration] - - Taking the Pope Prisoner. 1798. - - - "And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall - wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times - and laws; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and - times and the dividing of time." Dan. 7:25. - - -It is generally admitted that "a time and times and the dividing of time" -is 1260 years. The proof of it may readily be seen by comparing Rev. -12:14, 6; 13:5, with the scripture just quoted. In these passages we learn -that "time, times, and the dividing of time" is equivalent to a thousand -two hundred and threescore days, which equals three and one half Biblical -years, or "forty and two months." Applying the scriptural rule of -interpretation, a day for a year (Eze. 4:6), we have 1260 years. - -This period is to cover the supremacy of the papacy. The beginning of it -will be the point of the establishment of the power of the papacy. This -was the year 538 A. D. Justinian, emperor of Rome, with his capital at -Constantinople, espoused the cause of the bishop of Rome; and in 533 A. D. -issued a decree which constituted that prelate head of all the churches. -But the Arian Ostrogoths had possession of Rome, and it was not until they -had been rooted up that the city was accessible to the bishop. This was -accomplished in 538, by Belisarius, Justinian's celebrated general. For a -concise and clear account of this occurrence we refer the reader to the -"Two Republics," by A. T. Jones, pp. 551-553. - -Commencing the 1260 years A. D. 538, they reach to A. D. 1798, when -Berthier, a French general, took possession of Rome. The pope was made a -prisoner and carried with violence away from his palace and out of Italy. -The papacy was stripped of its civil power. Here ended the days of -tribulation spoken of by our Lord, which were-- - - - - -Shortened For The Elect's Sake. - - - VERSE 22: "And except those days should be shortened, there should - no flesh be saved; but for the elect's sake those days shall be - shortened." - - -The papacy was clothed with civil power to punish heretics, which it held -for 1260 years; and had not the period of tribulation of the elect in the -providence of God been shortened, the martyrdom of the church would have -continued to 1798, in which event, no flesh of the elect would have been -saved. But the Reformation under Martin Luther, and those associated with -this great reformer, modified this tribulation, and continued to restrain -the rage and power of the papacy until the suppression of the Jesuits in -1773, since which time, there has been no general persecution waged -against the church. Thus we are brought in this prophetic discourse of our -Lord, down into the eighteenth century, very near the present time. We -would naturally expect, then, that the instructions and warnings which -follow would be applicable to this generation. - - - - -Lo, Here, And Lo, There. - - - VERSES 23-27: "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is - Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false - christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and - wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive - the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they - shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: - behold: he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the - lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west; - so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." - - -In these verses the great theme of Christ's second coming is again vividly -brought forth. Satan is ever on the alert to contravene by some device or -art, the work of God. His most successful plan is to deceive. By this -means he gains ready access to all such as desire to evade the force of -truth. And having deceived an individual, he not only prevents his -salvation, but gains to himself an adherent if not an active agent. So, as -the time for the second advent draws near, the enemy becomes particularly -active, knowing that he hath but a short time. In the words last quoted -our Lord seeks to prepare the minds of his people for the deceptions that -are to be practiced upon those who live near the time of his second -coming. There will be those who will cry, "Lo, here; or Lo, there," some -will even claim to be Christ. They will purport to represent the truth in -regard to Christ's coming in various plausible or fanatical ways. Others, -in order to reach other minds, will present theories of human device -accounting for the advent of Christ in various so-called rational schemes. -Many sincere people will be led to expect the conversion of the world -through a millennium of peace. Others will be persuaded that the coming of -Christ means death. And even false prophets, showing great signs and -wonders, will appear. All these form an atmosphere of deception, the -miasma of which will stupefy, if it were possible, the elect of God. - -In this fearful work will be engaged the notorious deceiver, the trained -agents of Satan, the worldly philosopher, worldly preachers, popular -ministers, critics of the Bible, and many whose eyes do not discern the -signs of the times. The Mormons call the people to the desert; -Spiritualism invites us to the secret chamber, where Satanic signs and -wonders are wrought to captivate the mind and divert it from the truth. Of -these "false prophets" Paul speaks in 1 Tim. 4:1:-- - - - "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some - shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and - doctrines of devils." - - -In another scripture the apostle places the coming of Christ in connection -with-- - - - "The working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, - and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that - perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they - might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong - delusions, that they should believe a lie." 2 Thess. 2:9-11. - - -These are some of the deceptions of which Christ is speaking in the text. -It is undoubtedly the work of modern Spiritualism. This work, in its -present form, originated in the year 1848, and constitutes and is to -constitute one of the most prominent signs of the end. - -Let no one be deceived by any means. For these are but subterfuges. They -are not the coming of Christ. He has said, "I will come again, and receive -you unto myself." John 14:3. - -The angels said at his ascension,-- - - - "_This same Jesus_, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall - _so come in like manner_ as ye have seen him go into heaven." Acts - 1:11. - - -Paul tells us,-- - - - "The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the - voice of the archangel and with the trump of God." 1 Thess. 4:16. - - -And here our Saviour says:-- - - - "As the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth, unto the - west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." - - -He will come literally, personally, the same Jesus who was here upon the -earth. Not in lowly form as an offering for sin, to be set at naught, -abused, and crucified, but in "all his glory" attended with "all the holy -angels." Matt. 25:31. We shall know when he comes for "every eye shall see -him." Rev. 1:7. - -None of these evasions of the truth will ever be able to counterfeit the -real event. The Roman army did not come to Jerusalem in this way. Death -does not come in this way. The deceptive wonders of Spiritualism cannot -imitate the glory of Christ's second coming. He will come in power and -great glory (verse 30); he will come in the glory of his Father (chapter -16:27); and in the glory of the holy angels (Luke 9:26); all the holy -angels shall come with him. Matt. 25:31. His coming will be as glorious -and resplendent as the lightning. When Jesus revealed himself to Saul of -Tarsus, there was a light above the brightness of the sun (Acts 26:13); of -the angel who appeared at the tomb after the resurrection of Jesus it is -said, "His countenance was like lightning" (Matt. 28:3); and Ezekiel says -of the messengers of the Most High, they "ran and returned as the -appearance of a flash of lightning." Eze. 1:14. - -When Jesus comes in the glory of his Father, with so glorious a train -attendant, his coming will indeed be as the lightning coming out of the -east and shining to the west, and no one will have any more occasion or -opportunity to say to his fellow, "See here," than one would have to call -another to behold a gleam of lightning flashing through the heavens. The -vivid lightning flashing out of the distant east, and shining even to the -west, lights up the whole heavens. What, then, when the Lord comes in -flaming glory, and all the holy angels with him? The presence of only one -holy angel at the sepulcher where Christ lay dead, caused the Roman guard -to shake, and become as dead men. The light and glory of one angel -completely overpowered those strong sentinels. The Son of man is coming in -his own kingly glory, and in the glory of his Father, attended by all the -holy angels. Then the whole heavens will blaze with glory, and the whole -earth will tremble before him. - - - - -The Signs Of Christ's Coming. - - - VERSES 29-31: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days - shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, - and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the - heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son - of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth - mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of - heaven, with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels - with a great sound of a trumpet; and they shall gather together - his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the - other." - - -We have before seen that our Lord speaks in this chapter of the long -period of tribulation that was to come upon his followers, and we have -also seen how those days of tribulation were shortened for the elect's -sake. Christ says that the sun should be darkened immediately after the -tribulation of those days. Mark in his gospel, gives it as follows:-- - - - "In those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, - and the moon shall not give her light." Mark 13:24. - - -This makes the time in which the sun was to be darkened more distinct and -definite. The days of tribulation were the 1260 years of papal supremacy, -beginning in 538 A. D. and ending with the capture of Rome and the pope by -the French in 1798. But we have already seen that the "tribulation" or -persecution of those days was "shortened" for the elect's sake. That is, -the active persecution of the church by papal power ceased in 1773. Then, -according to Mark's statement, the sun should be darkened between that -date and 1798. It was fulfilled. May 19, 1780, has passed into history as -"the dark day." - -This is a fact of so general knowledge that we need not consume space in -elucidating it. A few references to undoubted authorities will suffice. - -Noah Webster's dictionary, in the edition for 1869, under the head of -Explanatory and Pronouncing Vocabulary of Noted Names, says:-- - - - "_The dark day_, May 19, 1780--so called on account of a remarkable - darkness on that day extending over all New England. In some - places, persons could not see to read common print in the open air - for several hours together. Birds sang their evening songs, - disappeared, and became silent; fowls went to roost; cattle sought - the barn-yard; and candles were lighted in the houses. The - obscuration began about ten o'clock in the morning, and continued - till the middle of the next night, but with differences of degree - and duration in different places. For several days previous, the - wind had been variable, but chiefly from the south-west and the - north-east. The true cause of this remarkable phenomenon is not - known." - - -From another good authority we quote:-- - - - "A solemn gloom of unusual darkness before ten o'clock,--a still - darker cloud rolling under the sable curtain from the north and - west before eleven o'clock,--excluded the light so that none could - see to read or write in the House, even at either window, or - distinguish persons at a small distance, or perceive any - distinction of dress in the circle of attendants; wherefore, at - eleven o'clock adjourned the House till two in the - afternoon."--_Journal of the Connecticut House of Representatives, - Friday, May 19, 1780._ - - -Herschel, the great astronomer, says:-- - - - "The dark day in Northern America was one of those wonderful - phenomena of nature which will always be read with interest, but - which philosophy is at a loss to explain." - - -A contemporary paper contained the following:-- - - - "During the whole time a sickly, melancholy gloom overcast the - face of nature. Nor was the darkness of the night less uncommon - and terrifying than that of the day, for notwithstanding there was - almost a full moon, no object was discernible but by the help of - some artificial light, which seen from the neighboring houses and - other places at a distance appeared through a kind of Egyptian - darkness which seemed almost impervious to its rays. This unusual - phenomenon excited the fears and apprehensions of many - people."--_Mass. Spy, Correspondence, 1780._ - - -From another good authority we take the following:-- - - - "Almost, if not altogether alone as the most mysterious and as yet - unexplained phenomenon of its kind in nature's diversified range - of events during the last century, stands the dark day of May 19, - 1780, a most unaccountable darkening of the whole visible heavens - and atmosphere in New England, which brought intense alarm and - distress to multitudes of minds, as well as dismay to the brute - creation, the fowls fleeing, bewildered, to their roosts, and the - birds to their nests, and the cattle returning to their stalls. - Indeed thousands of the good people of that day became fully - convinced that the end of all things terrestrial had come; many - gave up, for the time, their secular pursuits, and betook - themselves to religious devotions."--"_Our First Century._" - - -An extract from a sermon preached at that time will be of interest:-- - - - "But especially I mention that _wonderful darkness_ on the 19th of - May inst. [1780]. Then, as in our text, the sun was darkened; such - a darkness as probably was never known before since the - crucifixion of our Lord. People left their work in the house and - in the field. Travelers stopped; schools broke up at eleven - o'clock; people lighted candles at noonday; and the fire shone as - at night. Some people, I have been told, were in dismay, and - thought whether the day of Judgment was not drawing on. A great - part of the following night also was singularly dark. The _moon, - though in the full, gave no light_, as in our text."--_From a - manuscript sermon by Rev. Elam Potter, delivered May 28, 1780._ - - -By the remarkable obscuration of the moon on the following night, the next -sign, "And the moon shall not give her light," was fulfilled. Concerning -this it is only necessary to insert a few words:-- - - - "The night succeeding that day (May 19, 1780) was of such pitchy - darkness that, in some instances, horses could not be compelled to - leave the stable when wanted for service. About midnight, the - clouds were dispersed, and the moon and stars appeared with - unimpaired brilliancy."--"_Stone's History of Beverly._" - - -Mr. Tenny, of Exeter, N. H., quoted by Mr. Gage, to the Historical -Society, speaking of the dark day and dark night of May 19, 1780, says:-- - - - "The darkness of the following evening was probably as gross as - has ever been observed since the Almighty first gave birth to - light. I could not help conceiving at the time, that if every - luminous body in the universe had been shrouded in impenetrable - darkness, or struck out of existence, the darkness could not have - been more complete. A sheet of white paper held within a few - inches of the eye was equally invisible with the blackest velvet." - - -Concerning a similar phenomenon in the Old World a reliable work says:-- - - - "Three years later, and Europe with its teeming millions went - under as mysterious a cloud, which, though not so dense, yet - continued longer and awoke a wonder and fear that was widely felt. - A haze, for which no known cause was then assigned (though in - subsequent years it has been supposed by some to have been - volcanic dust), spread through the entire breadth of the - atmosphere over all the continent far into Asia. It appeared in - Denmark, May 29, reached France, June 14; Italy, June 16; Norway, - June 22; Austria and Switzerland, June 23; Sweden, June 24; and - Russia, June 25. By the close of the month it had overspread like - a pall all Syria, and on July 18, had penetrated the heart of Asia - to the Altai Mountains. The obscurity prevailed a greater portion - of the summer, imparting to the sun an unnatural color of a dull, - rusty red, and causing both the days and nights to wear a weird - and gloomy aspect. The atmosphere was highly electric, and nature - was greatly convulsed. - - "Dr. N. Webster in his valuable 'History of Pestilences,' vol. ii. - p. 274, testifies to the general fear. As it was in America on the - occurrence of the 'dark day,' so the churches in Europe were - crowded with alarmed multitudes supplicating mercy of Heaven. - Professor Lalande, the astronomer of France, attempted to quiet - the popular fear by ascribing the darkened heavens to exhalations - arising out of the earth; but both Webster and Humboldt (Cosmos - IV., p. 75) rejected this solution of the mysterious obscurity. - Protestant England shared in the alarm it occasioned; and the poet - Cowper sang that all the elements 'preached the general doom.' It - was to this unaccountable obscuration of light that he refers in - his 'Task:'-- - - " 'Nature seems with dim and sickly eye - To wait the close of all.' " - - --"_Great Consummation._" - - - - -"And The Stars Shall Fall." - - -How this sign can be fulfilled is a query with some people, who, perhaps -captiously, remark that it would be impossible, since the earth itself is -but a small body compared with many of the vast worlds of space. But all -such queries are out of date now since the sign itself has already been -witnessed. On the night of November 13, 1833, the grandest display of -celestial fireworks ever beheld took place. From works of accepted -authority we take the following descriptions of this remarkable event:-- - - - "But the most sublime phenomenon of shooting stars, of which the - world has furnished any record, was witnessed throughout the - United States on the morning of the 13th of November, 1833. The - entire extent of this astonishing exhibition has not been - precisely ascertained; but it covered no inconsiderable portion of - the earth's surface.... The first appearance was that of fireworks - of the most imposing grandeur, covering the entire vault of heaven - with myriads of fire-balls, resembling sky-rockets. Their - coruscations were bright, gleaming, and incessant, and they fell - thick as the flakes in the early snows of December. To the - splendors of this celestial exhibition the most brilliant sky- - rockets and fire-works of art bear less relation than the - twinkling of the most tiny star to the broad glare of the sun. The - whole heavens seemed in motion, and suggested to some the awful - grandeur of the image employed in the Apocalypse, upon the opening - of the sixth seal, when 'the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, - even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken - of a mighty wind.' "--_Burritt's __"__Geography of the - Heavens,__"__ p. 163, ed. 1854._ - - - [Illustration] - - The Falling Stars. - - -A celebrated astronomer and meteorologist, says:-- - - - "Those who were so fortunate as to witness the exhibition of - shooting stars on the morning of Nov. 13, 1833, probably saw the - greatest display of celestial fire-works that has ever been since - the creation of the world, or at least within the annals covered - by the pages of history. - - "In nearly all places the meteors began to attract notice by their - unusual frequency as early as eleven o'clock, and increased in - numbers and splendor until about four o'clock, from which time - they gradually declined, but were visible until lost in the light - of day. The meteors did not fly at random over all parts of the - sky, but appeared to emanate from a point in the constellation - Leo, near a star called Gamma Leonis, in the bend of the - Sickle.... - - "The extent of the shower of 1833 was such as to cover no - inconsiderable part of the earth's surface, from the middle of the - Atlantic on the east to the Pacific on the west; and from the - northern coast of South America to undefined regions among the - British possessions on the north, the exhibition was visible, and - everywhere presented nearly the same appearance. This is no longer - to be regarded as a terrestrial but a celestial phenomenon, and - shooting stars are now to be no more viewed as casual productions - of the upper regions of the atmosphere, but as _visitants from - other worlds_, or from the planetary voids."--_Prof. Olmstead, of - Yale College._ - - "No philosopher or scholar has told or recorded an event, I - suppose, like that of yesterday morning. A prophet 1800 years ago - foretold it exactly, if we will be at the trouble of understanding - stars falling to mean falling stars; or '_hoi asteres tou ouranou - epesan eis teen geen_,' in the only sense in which it is possible - to be literally true."--_Henry Dana Ward, in Journal of Commerce, - Nov. 14, 1833._ - - -Not only here in Matthew 24 is attention directed to these signs as -premonitory of the coming of Christ. The Lord through the prophet Joel -says:-- - - - "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, - before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come." - - -Under the sixth seal, as given in Rev. 6:12-17, we have the following -language:-- - - - "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there - was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of - hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell - unto the earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when - she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a - scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island - were moved out of their places." - - -That the fourth and fifth seals apply to the papal persecution there can -be no reasonable doubt. If so, then the great earthquake with which the -sixth seal opens would be that of Lisbon, in 1755, which agitated the -greater part of the earth and destroyed many thousands of lives, 60,000 in -Lisbon alone. - -The darkening of the sun and moon follows in 1780, and the falling of the -stars in 1833. Consequently the next event which we are to expect under -this seal is the departing of the heavens as a scroll. This being future, -we may say that we are living between the thirteenth and fourteenth verses -of Revelation 6. - -In the gospel as written by Luke, however, we have at this point some -additional specifications given, which are of such interest at the present -juncture. And they rightfully belong to this exposition, since both -Matthew and Luke are giving versions of the same discourse. The passage -from Luke to which reference is made is the following:-- - - - "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the - stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; - the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, - and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: - for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." Luke 21:25-27. - - - [Illustration] - - Modern Cyclone. - - -The signs in the sun, moon, and stars are here spoken of less specifically -than by Matthew, while other features of the times, which Matthew does not -notice, are introduced between those signs and the shaking of the powers -of heaven. These are of peculiar interest to us because we are living in -the very days when the things that Luke speaks of are coming to pass. The -signs here predicted consist of violent commotions upon earth which cause -anxiety, perplexity, and distress among nations and in the hearts of men. -We may refer the expression, "the sea and the waves roaring," to unusual -disturbances of the natural elements, and we have the most abundant -evidences of its fulfillment in the storms and convulsions of nature that -are occurring by sea and land, filling the heart with dread at the sight -of every dark cloud that arises. The tidal waves and volcanic upheavals at -sea have, in the last two or three decades, been marked with extraordinary -violence. On land, cyclones and earthquakes have carried on a fearful work -of destruction. Many instances might be cited to substantiate this -statement, but the events are too familiar to require it. Hardly a week -passes but some great calamity of this kind is recorded. - -But the expression referred to is probably susceptible of another -application in which it will be found to be as forcible and pertinent to -the present state of affairs as in the one just noticed. This would be to -give the term "sea and waves" its symbolic meaning. The prophet of old -said: "And behold the four winds of heaven strove upon the great sea." -Dan. 7:2. We are told that the sea represents "peoples, and multitudes, -and nations, and tongues." Rev. 17:15. Taking the words in this sense, the -meaning and fulfillment are still as apparent as before; and the -expression joins its force to that of the remainder of the passage--"upon -the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves -roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those -things which are coming on the earth." In this sense the expression in -question would indicate commotion and violent disturbance in the social -and political world. In this meaning all will at once see the vivid force -of the text as applied to our times. - - [Illustration] - - Assassination of Carnot. - - -The times we live in are anomalous to any that have ever preceded us. For -some years there have been universal and active preparations for war, and -almost universal peace. To secure the greatest efficiency of armed forces -for defensive and offensive purposes, has been the prime consideration of -government, especially so, as far as the Old World nations are concerned. -Europe echoes to the tread of vast hosts of war while the nations are -driven to their wits' end to provide for their support. It is well known -that these costly preparations are not for show; and the hearts of men -quail in view of the culmination which, though delayed, must soon be -reached. - -But while the temple of Janus is closed as far as international strife is -concerned, and angel hands are holding the winds of war (see Rev. 7:1-3), -internal strife and dissension are rending the vitals of the great nations -of earth. Within the confines of its own border, each of these nations is -cherishing elements of the deadliest nature. Trouble is brewing that has -for the people far more terror than foreign complications. For some time -the ominous mutterings of an oncoming storm have been heard in every land, -and it requires no remarkable acumen to discern the rapid approach of the -crisis. - -The apostle James strikes directly at the matter in a prophetic glance and -exhortation in the following language:-- - - - "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that - shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments - are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of - them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as - it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. - Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, - which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them - which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of - Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; - ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have - condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you." James - 5:1-6. - - -The apostle locates the circumstances he here refers to in the last days. -He denounces the rich men who have heaped together treasures, the rust and -canker of which will be a witness against them. They live in pleasure and -wantonness while the cries of those whose wages they have kept back enter -into the ears of the Lord of Hosts. - -There is a universal cry of hard times in all the world. It is hard to -obtain money; and yet, there never was so much money as at present. But it -is being collected--gathered in heaps--by the powerful few, while the -limited means of the masses are dwindling lower and lower. The poorer -classes witness the absorption of wealth by the money-kings, with feelings -that are being aroused to the point of desperation by the sense of their -inability to secure what seems to them a more equitable distribution of -the things of this world. The laborers cry, and God hears their cry. - -That these things are taking place to-day as the most prominent feature of -our social life no one will for a moment deny. Such colossal fortunes the -world has heretofore at most but dreamed of. There are men living to-day -who have risen in wealth from obscure stations to become lords of untold -millions. Their wealth passes the bounds of just computation, for it -includes the power of oppression by which it may be indefinitely -increased. The lavish expenditure of these means for selfish pleasure -often amounts to wantonness. - -Well then, what is to be done? It is a difficult and delicate matter to -frame and secure legislation by which this or any other class of men shall -be deprived of the management of their own business as long as that -business is legitimate and is legitimately conducted. Shall anarchy and -violence be resorted to? Shall the laborer seize the torch and the weapons -of death? Shall the country be devastated by strikes, strife, and civil -war? Shall our communities be rent with murder, arson, treason, and -intense personal hatred and enmity? No one possessing the natural -instincts of humanity could contemplate such a condition of affairs except -with horror. There are ghouls of society who gloat in blood; but such are -not true citizens, they are not neighbors, they certainly are not -Christians. - -But what shall we do as citizens, neighbors, and Christians? This is a -question of great importance just now. Inspiration long ago foresaw our -situation. The pitying Saviour long since anticipated the sufferings that -are to come upon this generation; and having, through his servant, -outlined the present condition of affairs so closely, he certainly would -not leave his followers uninformed as to the course he would have them -pursue. We have to read only two verses farther in James's letter to find -the counsel we need. - - - "_Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord._ - Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the - earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early - and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; _for - the coming of the Lord draweth nigh_." James 5:7, 8. - - - [Illustration] - - Chicago Riot. - - -Oppression and revolt, combination and intrigue, strife and bloodshed, -never will cease until the supreme selfishness, which in the absence of -divine grace controls all men, gives place to true philanthropy, and a -brotherhood that is not outlined by class or sectional interests. This -happy time is coming. When Jesus comes, he will take to himself his power -and reign in righteousness. Then will the hills be brought low, the -valleys exalted, the crooked be made straight, and the rough places -smooth. - -Those who are weary of strife, those who through misfortune or oppression -have been made to feel their need of relief will find rest to their souls -in looking for the coming of the Lord. It is vain to match evil with evil -or to try to cure wrong with wrong. The gospel of Christ is the only -remedy for these ills. And all that we can really do to counteract the -annoyances of this life must be done through the gospel of peace. In this -time of perplexity, distress, and fear, let every Christian hold up -Christ. Let his patient suffering be exemplified in whatever circumstances -may come. Just a little beyond, there is relief. - -Strikes, boycotts, lock-outs, trusts, unions, or any other human device or -demonstration only augments the trouble, as the experience of the past few -years shows. For there never was so much of these things as now, and never -was capital so insecure, business so uncertain, and labor in such distress -as at present. The employment of arbitrary force provokes greater efforts -on the opposite side, and thus the breach is widened and the strife -becomes more bitter. We do not argue the merits or demerits of the case. -That there is deep wrong involved, the fruits plainly show. It is our task -only to point out the one remedy available alike to either and all. That -remedy is the gospel of Christ, which is soon to close in a glorious -triumph for those who have patiently and faithfully wrought his will. - - - - -"The Powers Of Heaven Shall Be Shaken." - - -We do not apprehend that this circumstance will occur as a sign of -Christ's coming, but rather that it will constitute one of the events of -his coming, the same as the features mentioned in the next verse. An -evident distinction may be drawn between the _signs_ of the advent and the -circumstances of it. With the falling of the stars, the former cease; and -with the next event the latter commence. This event, the shaking of the -powers of heaven, we must regard as being future. It holds the same place -in the events of this chapter, that the departing of the heavens as a -scroll does in the events of the sixth seal of Revelation 6. Both follow -the falling stars. The Scriptures plainly teach that, prior to the -resurrection of the just by the voice of the Son of God, the voice of God -the Father will shake the heavens and the earth, when will be fulfilled -the shaking of the powers of the heaven. This is not the voice of the Son -of God as he descends to raise the dead. It comes from the throne of God -in the temple of heaven. - - - "The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from - Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but the Lord - will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children - of Israel." Joel 3:16. - - "Therefore will I shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove - out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the - day of his fierce anger." Isa. 13:13. - - -Paul quotes from the words of the Lord by Haggai and comments as follows:-- - - - "Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And - this word, yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things - that are shaken." Heb. 12:26, 27. - - - - -"Sign Of The Son Of Man." - - -Neither is this one of the signs showing that the coming of the Son of man -is near, but "the sign of the Son of man in heaven." It is that which -indicates his position. When Christ ascended from the mount of Olivet, "a -cloud received him" from the sight of his disciples. They still gazed at -the cloud as it rolled upward, bearing the Saviour toward the Father's -throne but they could not see his person. When he comes "in like manner" -as he was taken up to heaven, the cloud will appear, small in the -distance, but as it draws near, it will signify to those who are looking -for his return, that he is there, and soon his presence will fill the -earth with matchless glory. In Rev. 14:14, the holy seer records his view -of the coming Saviour in the following words: "And I looked, and behold a -white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man." - -This is not a mass of vapor but a cloud of resplendent glory. He comes -"with power and great glory." He will "come in the glory of his Father" -(Matt. 16:27); in his own glory, "and all the holy angels with him." Matt. -25:31. The glory of the Father, of the Son, and of all the holy -angels--this glory will comprise the cloud which attends him on the way. Of -its intensity we can form no just conception. In the presence of one angel -the Roman guard "did quake and became as dead men." There are ten thousand -times ten thousand and thousands of thousands of them in this throng. -Above the brightness of their glory is that of the Father and the Son. - -At first the cloud is only perceptible, but as it approaches, it attracts -attention, and at length every eye is fastened intently upon the wonderful -spectacle. The trumpet resounds, the voice of the Archangel awakens the -dead, and they come forth to share in the glorious revelation of their -Redeemer. All nature is convulsed with her coming dissolution. Each moment -the glory draws nearer, and soon the wicked can no longer endure the -sight. - - - "And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall - see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and - great glory." Verse 30. - - -Again attention is directed to the parallel language of Rev. 6:15-47:-- - - - "And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, - and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bond man, - and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of - the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, - and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and - from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of his wrath is - come; and who shall be able to stand?" - - -The prophet Isaiah describes the same thrilling event from the other -standpoint--that of the waiting people of God:-- - - - "He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe - away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall - he take away from off all the earth; for the Lord hath spoken it. - And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have - waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have - waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." - Isa. 25:8, 9. - - -The apostle Paul gives a vivid description of the event with its attendant -circumstances as follows:-- - - - "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning - them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which - have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, - even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. - For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which - are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent - them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from - heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the - trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we - which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them - in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever - be with the Lord." 1 Thess. 4:13-17. - - -The once slighted, insulted, and crucified Saviour, now King of kings and -Lord of lords, is coming near the earth! His glory blazes everywhere! The -saints hope and rejoice with trembling. But what an hour for the wicked! -The tribes of the earth mourn. Amid the ruins of shivered creation they -hold one general prayer-meeting. Kings and great men, rich men, chief -captains and mighty men, free and bond, all, yes, all unite in the general -wail. As the Son of man in the glory of his Father, attended by all the -holy angels, draws still nearer, consternation fills every breast. They -hide in dens and in the rocks of the mountains. Their only hope is to be -concealed from the glory of that scene. They know it is too late to pray -for mercy, that probation for the human family has ended forever. - -But rocks cannot shelter them from the burning glory manifested by the -King of kings, attended by the whole heavenly host. When "the Son of man -shall come in the glory of the Father," "and all the holy angels with -him," no sinner can endure the scene and live. The exceeding brightness of -that vast multitude of angels, brighter than a thousand suns at noonday, -will pierce the sinner's lowest hiding place, and will "make even a speedy -riddance of all them that dwell in the land." Zeph. 1:18. The Son of man -will be seen "coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." -But before his coming a great work will be done for his people. Should he -suddenly burst upon them now, they could not endure "the power and great -glory" of the scene. This subject is well illustrated by the following -words of the prophet:-- - - - "Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord; his going - forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the - rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." Hosea 6:3. - - -The morning is a beautiful figure of the opening glory of the day of God. -The day-star first appears, then the dawn of day. And as the light of day -increases, the eyes are enabled to endure it, and view the sun shining in -his strength. But should the light of the sun burst upon the world -suddenly at midnight, no human eye could endure it. - -So will the people of God be prepared to meet their coming King. They must -first break away from the love and cares of this world, and consecrate all -to the Lord. Then will they, in due time, share the outpouring of the Holy -Spirit "as the rain, as the latter and former rain upon the earth." The -day-star will arise in their hearts. 2 Peter 1:19. Those who have taken -heed to the sure word of prophecy through the dark, watching night, then -raise their heads in triumph. They are filled with faith and with the Holy -Spirit. Glory is poured upon them till they can gaze on Christ and angels. -The trumpet sounds. The angels are dispatched to the graves of the -righteous. The voice of the Son of God awakes the sleeping saints of all -ages. They come forth in immortal perfection and, as they leave the earth, -the living saints are changed. The "elect from one end of heaven to the -other," each with an angel bright and strong to lead the way, are caught -up to meet the Lord, who waits in mid-heaven to receive the purchase of -his blood. As language would fail to describe what follows, we leave the -reader to contemplate it, praying that we may be prepared to participate -in the meeting scene. - - - - -Parable Of The Fig-Tree. - - - VERSES 32, 33: "Now learn a parable of the fig-tree; when his - branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer - is nigh. So likewise ye when ye shall see all these things, know - that it ['he,' R. V.] is near, even at the doors." - - -This parable is probably the most forcible figure that could be used with -which to illustrate this subject. When the trees of the field begin to put -forth their leaves, and the tender grass springs up, and the ground is -being covered with its green velvet carpet, we know that summer is nigh. -It is a certainty with us that summer is coming when we see these signs in -nature. We know that summer is nigh "_So, likewise_," or, with the same -certainty, we may _know_ that Christ's coming is near when the signs in -the sun, moon, and stars are fulfilled. How near?--Even at the doors. How -near may that be? - - - VERSE 34: "Verily I say unto you. This generation shall not pass, - till all these things be fulfilled." - - -It is sometimes claimed that the generation spoken of was the one then -living. If so, it could have been to no greater extent than referring to -the answer of the question relating to the destruction of Jerusalem. But -it would be wholly illogical to limit the application of the statement to -that generation or to place its principal significance there. "All these -things" must include the signs and circumstances of which Christ has been -speaking. In the preceding verses he gives the parable of the fig-tree, -and addresses those who are to be living at that time directly. "So -likewise _ye_, when _ye_ shall see all these things, _know_ that it is -near." And then, "_This_ generation shall not pass." What generation? -Evidently the one which he was addressing, and which saw "these things -come to pass." Not only does such an interpretation do no violence to the -Saviour's meaning, but it is obviously the only one that can be reasonably -entertained in regard to it. - -Paul speaks in the first person of those who will be living when Jesus -comes, for he says, "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, -in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump." 1 Cor. 15:51, -52. Or, "Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together -with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air." 1 Thess. 4:17. The -things here mentioned by the apostle did not take place in his day. They -have not yet taken place. Notwithstanding, he speaks of them as though -they would take place in his day, and as if he were to have a part in -them. - -The proclamation of the coming and kingdom of Christ is given to the last -generation. God sent Noah to preach to the last generation before the -flood, not to any preceding one. The very generation which was destroyed -by the waters of the flood saw Noah build the ark, and heard his warning -voice. So God has raised up men to give the solemn warning to the world at -the right time to give force to the warning. And the very generation of -men that live after the three great signs are fulfilled, and who hear and -reject the warning message of Heaven, will drink the cup of the unmingled -wrath of God. And those of this very generation who receive the message, -suffer disappointments, and endure the trials of the waiting position, -will witness the coming of Christ, and exclaim, "Lo, this is our God; we -have _waited_ for him, and he will save us." Isa. 25:9. - -With what emphasis our Lord gave utterance to this sentiment! It is a -rebuke upon our unbelief. As we read it, God help us to believe it: -"Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these -things be fulfilled." And as though this were not enough to lead us to -unwavering faith, he adds these forcible words: "Heaven and earth shall -pass away but my words shall not pass away." - -The word and promises of men may fail; but Christ has given assurance that -his word, and his word in reference to this solemn truth, will stand -though heaven and earth fail. - - - - -"The Day And Hour." - - - VERSES 36, 37: "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not - the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe - were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." - - -This has become a very familiar passage of scripture because of the -frequent use that is made of it to prove that nothing can be known of the -proximity of the second coming of Christ. But if we pause a moment and lay -beside this verse those we have just studied, we shall be able to discover -the exact truth at once. "When ye shall see these things, know that it is -near even at the doors;" and, "This generation shall not pass, till all -these things be fulfilled;" "But of that day and hour knoweth no man." The -line of knowledge, then, lies between the former expressions and the -latter--between "even at the doors" and the definite day and hour. The -former we may know, and every Christian is commanded to know. The latter -no man knoweth. One may consistently say that he knows an event is near, -and yet say that he does not know the hour nor the day when it will take -place. That this is the scriptural teaching upon this point may be readily -proved by a reference to 1 Thess. 5:1-4:-- - - - "But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that - I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of - the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall - say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, - as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But - ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake - you as a thief." - - -An evident distinction is here drawn between two classes. Upon one class -the day of the Lord will come as a thief. Those of the other are not in -darkness that that day should come as a thief upon them. The children of -God are children of light. Their heavenly Father knows the end from the -beginning, and he has promised to reveal his secret to his people through -his servants the prophets. Amos 3:7. - -The apostle Peter also bears testimony to the same truth. - - - "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well - that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, - until the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts." 2 Peter - 1:19. - - -The dark place here spoken of is the future. The past is lighted up by -history, the present is brought to our knowledge by press and telegraph; -but the future no human art or wisdom can penetrate. Prophecy throws its -gleam into those dark regions, yet unexplored, and marks out the path of -human history centuries and ages before it has echoed to the footsteps of -mankind. When at last we pass along the pathway, we may, if we will, -recognize the waymarks set up here and there, every one of which is a -monument to the wisdom and knowledge of God, and the faithfulness of his -word. Those who have no eyes to discern these things, no ears to hear, nor -hearts to understand their significance, will pass on, and the final event -will come upon them unawares. Not so with those who take heed to the -things God has spoken. - -We would not detract an iota from the force of the verse under -consideration. It means all it says. No man knows the definite time of -Christ's coming. The day and hour, and even the year of the second advent -are purposely hidden. Some of the prophetic periods reach to the time of -the end, while others extend still farther down, very near to the end -itself; yet none of them reach to the coming of the Son of man. The -prophecies clearly point to the period of the second advent, but do not -give the definite time of that event. - -But with this passage before us we may claim that it would be transcending -its meaning to claim upon its authority that nothing should or could be -known of the approach of Christ's coming. More than that, it is not -inconsistent with the text nor improbable that prior to that event the -Lord will in his own way reveal that which has hitherto been withheld. -Those who claim that the text proves that nothing may be known of the -period of the second advent, make it prove too much for their own -unbelief. As recorded by Mark, the declaration reads: "But of that day and -that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in Heaven, neither -the Son, but the Father." If the text proves that men will know nothing of -the period of the second advent, it also proves that angels will know -nothing of it, and also that the Son will know nothing of it, till the -event takes place! This position proves too much, therefore proves nothing -to the point. Christ will know of the period of his second advent to this -world. The holy angels who wait around the throne of heaven to receive -messages relative to the part they act in the salvation of men, will know -of the time of this closing event of salvation. And so will the waiting, -watching people of God understand. An old English version of the passage -reads, "But that day and hour no man maketh known, neither the angels -which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." This is the correct -reading, according to several of the ablest critics of the age. The word -_know_ is used in the same sense here that it is by Paul in 1 Cor. 2:2: -"For I determined not to know [make known] anything among you, save Jesus -Christ and him crucified." Men will not make known the day and hour, -angels will not make it known, neither will the Son; but the Father will -make it known. Says Campbell:-- - - - "Macknight argues that the term _known_ is here used as a - causative, in the Hebrew sense of the conjugation _hiphil_, that - is, _to make known_.... His [Christ's] answer is just equivalent - to saying, The Father will make it known when it pleases him; but - he has not authorized man, angel, or the Son to make it known. - Just in this sense, Paul uses the term _know_, 1 Cor. 2:2: 'I came - to you _making known_ the testimony of God; for I determined to - _make known_ nothing among you but a crucified Christ.' " - - -Albert Barnes, in his "Notes on the Gospels," says:-- - - - "Others have said that the verb rendered _knoweth_ means sometimes - to _make_ known, or to reveal, and that the passage means, 'that - day and hour none maketh known, neither the angels, nor the Son, - but the Father.' It is true the word has sometimes that meaning, - as 1 Cor. 2:2." - - -When the patriarch's work of warning and building was finished, God said -to him, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." "For yet seven days -and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights." -So when the waiting, watching, weeping, toiling time shall be finished, -and the saints shall all be sealed, and shut in with God, then, we -conclude, will the voice of the Father from heaven make known the definite -time. See Rev. 16:17; Joel 3:16; Jer. 25:30. - -The present is emphatically the waiting, watching time. It is the especial -period of the patience of the saints. The Lord appeals to us thus:-- - - - "Watch ye, therefore; for ye know not when the Master of the house - cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the - morning; lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say - unto you I say unto all, Watch." Mark 13:35-37. - - -One of the fatal consequences of not watching is distinctly stated in Rev. -3:3:-- - - - "If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a - thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee." - - -In consequence of not watching, the people will remain in ignorance of the -approach of that hour. And the unavoidable inference is that by watching -they will be aware of and prepared for its coming. In answer to the -agonizing prayer of the Son of God, "Father, glorify thy name," there came -a voice from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify -it again." The disciples understood these words from heaven, while the -people that stood by said it thundered. John 12:27-29. So will the waiting -disciples of Christ understand the voice of God when he shall speak from -on high. But the unbelieving world will not understand it. In comparing -Noah's days and ours, the Lord continues:-- - - - - -Noah's Time And Ours. - - - VERSES 38, 39: "For as in the days that were before the flood, - they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, - until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until - the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming - of the Son of man be." - - -A picture of the present condition of the mass of mankind is here drawn. -The people of the last generation will be like those before the flood, -while the ark was preparing. While Noah preached, and warned them of the -coming flood, they mocked. He built the ark; and they scoffed and jeered. -He was a preacher of righteousness. His works were calculated to give edge -to, and send home to the heart, what he preached. Every righteous sermon, -and every blow struck in building the ark, condemned a careless, scoffing -world. As the time drew nearer, the people grew more careless, more -hardened, more bold and impudent, and their condemnation surer. Noah and -his family stood alone. And could one family know more than all the world? -The ark was a matter of ridicule, and Noah was regarded as a willful -bigot. - -But the Lord calls Noah into the ark. And by the hand of Providence the -beasts are led into the ark; and the Lord shuts Noah in. This is regarded -at first by the scoffing multitude as something wonderful; but it is soon -explained away by the wiser ones, so as to calm their fears, and they -breathe easier. - -The day of expectation finally arrives. The sun rises as usual, and the -heavens are clear. "Now where is old Noah's flood?" is heard from a -thousand impious lips. The farmer is caring for his herds and lands, and -the mechanic is pursuing his work of building. On this very day, some are -being joined in marriage. With many it is a day of unusual feasting and -sports. And while all are looking to long years of future prosperity and -happiness, suddenly the heavens gather blackness. Fear fills every heart. -The windows of heaven open, and the rain descends in torrents. "The -fountains of the great deep are broken up," and here and there come -gushing up rivers of water. The valleys are fast filling up, and thousands -are swept away in death. Awful death! made still more horrible by being in -consequence of slighted mercy! But where is Noah? Ah! safe in the ark, -borne upon the billows. Safe from the flood, for God "shut him in." - -By some people, the evidences of the soon coming of Christ are considered -insufficient to base faith upon. But the testimony and acts of one man in -the case of Noah, condemned the people destroyed by the flood. The -evidences then were sufficient, otherwise the world would not have been -condemned. But a hundred times more convincing evidences come pouring in -upon us that the day of the Lord is near, and hasteth greatly. We follow -down the several prophetic chains of Daniel and of the Revelation, and we -find ourselves in every instance standing just before the day of wrath. We -see the signs spoken of by prophets, by Christ, and by the apostles, -fulfilling or fulfilled. And at the right time, and in the right manner, -to fulfill certain prophecies, a solemn message arises in different parts -of the world: "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy -mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the -Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand." Joel 2:1. Wherever we look, we see -prophecy fulfilling. While the knowledge of God and the spirit of holiness -are departing, spiritual wickedness, like a flood, covers the land. - -But these evidences are considered insufficient to rest faith upon. Well, -what kind of evidence would the unbelieving have? "When the signs of the -end," says the skeptic, "are fulfilled, they will be so plain that no one -can doubt." But if the signs are of such a nature, and are fulfilled in -such a manner, as to compel all to believe in the coming of Christ, how -can it be as it was in the days of Noah? Men were not then compelled to -believe. But eight believing souls were saved, while all the world besides -sank in their unbelief beneath the waters of the flood. God has never -revealed his truth to man in a manner to compel him to believe. Those who -have wished to doubt his word, have found a wide field in which to doubt, -and a broad road to perdition; while those who have wished to believe, -have ever found an everlasting rock upon which to rest their faith. - -Just before the end, the world will be hardened in sin, and indifferent to -the claims of God. Men will be careless in regard to the warnings of -danger, and blinded by cares, pleasures, and riches. An unbelieving -generation will be eating, drinking, marrying, building, planting, and -sowing. It is right to eat and drink to sustain nature, but the sin is in -excess and gluttony. The marriage covenant is holy, but God's glory is -seldom thought of. Building, planting, and sowing, necessary for -convenient shelter, food, and clothing, are right; but the world has gone -wholly after these things, so that men have no time nor disposition to -think of God, heaven, Christ's coming, and the Judgment. This world is -their god, and all their energies of body and mind are made to serve it. -And the evil day is put far away. - -The faithful watchman who sounds the alarm as he sees destruction coming, -is held up before the people from the pulpits of our land, and by the -religious press, as a fanatic, a teacher of dangerous heresies; while in -contrast is set forth a long period of peace and prosperity to the church. -So the churches are quieted to sleep. The scoffer continues to scoff, and -the mocker mocks on. But that day is coming. Thus saith the prophet of -God:-- - - - "Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a - destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all hands be faint, - and every man's heart shall melt. And they shall be afraid; pangs - and sorrows shall take hold of them.... Behold, the day of the - Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the - land desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of - it." Isa. 13:6-9. - - - [Illustration] - - The Day of Wrath. - - -Most dreadful day! and is it near?--Yes; it hasteth! It hasteth greatly! -What a description given by the prophet! Read it; and as you read, try to -realize how dreadful will be that day:-- - - - "The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth - greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man - shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of - trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of - darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day - of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against - the high towers. And I will bring distress upon men, that they - shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the - Lord; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh - as the dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to - deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land - shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he shall make - even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land." Zeph. - 1:14-18. - - - - -Peace And Safety. - - -The attitude of the religious world toward this most important subject is -worthy of more than passing notice both because of its effect upon the -cause of truth and also because it of itself is a sign of the times. While -it is true that many individuals in the different Christian denominations -recognize with more or less distinctness the fact that we are living in -the last days, with many of these it does not become a practical truth. -Outside of these there are many who ridicule the idea as preposterous and -outlandish; and in opposition to the message that Christ is soon coming, -raise the cry of, "Peace, peace, when there is no peace." Such teaching is -alluded to by the prophet in Eze. 13:10, 11. - -The groundwork of the peace and safety cry is the doctrine of the temporal -millennium. This teaches that the world is now entering, or about to enter -upon a period of universal peace and good will, that the moral tone of the -world is improving, men and nations are learning righteousness; and the -gospel of Christ is about to become the controlling principle in public -and private life. And, further, this happy state will continue for one -thousand years, which period of time the word millennium literally -signifies. At the end of that time, perhaps, the Lord will come. However, -if this doctrine be true, it will make but little difference to this -generation or to the one living at the close of the period whether he does -or not. The verses we have just considered which liken the last days to -those of Noah wholly disprove this position. In addition to what Matthew -states, Luke gives a still more forcible version of our Saviour's words:-- - - - "And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days - of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, - they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into - the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also - as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they - bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day - that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from - heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day - when the Son of man is revealed." Luke 17:26-30. - - -Paul writes in his epistles to Timothy as follows:-- - - - "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some - shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and - doctrines of devils." 1 Tim. 4:1. - - "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. - For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, - proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, - without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, - incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, - heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; - having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from - such turn away." 2 Tim. 3:1-5. - - "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, - and being deceived." Verse 13. - - -In very many scriptures it is plainly declared that when Christ comes, he -comes not only to reward and save his people but also to punish his -enemies. Looking upon the last days he exclaims, "Nevertheless when the -Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8. The idea -of a thousand years of peace and righteousness before Christ comes might -be dismissed as utterly out of the question. But space will be given to -one or two passages supposed to teach it, which will represent the whole -class. The first and chief is found in Isa. 2:2-4:-- - - - "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of - the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, - and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow - unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go - up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; - and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: - for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord - from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall - rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into - ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not - lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any - more." - - -Almost the same language is used in Micah 4:1-3. It is enough to call -attention to the authorship of the propositions contained in the text. -They come from the people. "Many people shall go and say, Come ye," etc. -Inspiration asserts that in the last days the mountain or power of the -Lord's house or church shall be established in the tops of the mountains, -or civil power. Undoubtedly it will. Everything is tending to the union of -Church and State and the professed church of Christ is riding on a high -tide to civil power in all lands. But farewell to godliness and spiritual -power. When this is accomplished, in a general chorus all will proclaim -the dawning millennium. - -How the Lord regards the people who are saying these things is shown in -the succeeding verses:-- - - - "Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, - because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers - like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children - of strangers. Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither - is there any end of their treasures; their land also is full of - horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: their land - also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, - that which their own fingers have made." Isa. 2:6-8. - - -Now let us see what God says on the same point and concerning the same -time:-- - - - "Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; prepare war, wake up the - mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: - beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into - spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and - come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: - thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. Let the - heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for - there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in - the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the - press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. - Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of - the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon - shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The - Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from - Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord - will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children - of Israel." Joel 3:9-16. - - -Mark, this is not what the people say, but what the Lord says of the very -same time when the people are preaching a good time coming. - -Another verse referred to, and representing quite a numerous class of -similar ones, is found in Num. 14:21. - - - "But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the - glory of the Lord." - - -There is no occasion to modify or limit the meaning of those words; for -their utmost significance will be realized. But when?--When sin and the -curse are wiped away. After the purifying fires of the day of the Lord -have burned up the last work and relic of rebellion, and the earth made -new in Edenic glory comes again from the hand of its Maker, as beautiful, -yea, more beautiful, if possible, than at first. It would not be within -the limits of this pamphlet to follow out this subject, but the reader is -referred to the following scriptures: Isa. 65:17-22; 2 Peter 3:13; -Revelation 21 and 22, and to published works. - -In that state this and all kindred scriptures will meet a fulfillment that -is ample and complete. But for such a condition of things this side of the -coming of Christ neither the Bible nor the trend of events give any -promise whatever. - -Judging of the probability of the conversion of the world from the facts, -it would seem to be far from striking. The following table gives a -comparatively accurate showing of the present religious status of the -world:-- - -Jews and Parsees 15,470,000 -Greek Catholics 84,136,000 -Protestants 114,815,500 -Brahminical Hindoos 120,000,000 -Mohammedans 122,400,000 -Roman Catholics 255,000,000 -Pagans 227,000,000 -Buddhists 482,000,000 -Unclassified 51,050,000 - -Concerning the very small proportion of this number classed in the list of -Christians, Bishop Foster has very aptly said:-- - - - "There are some who too fondly anticipate a millennium. There is a - lack of information on the progress of Christianity. The facts are - misstated daily in pulpits all over the country. Ministers - hesitate to present the worst side for fear of causing - discouragement, and they create hopes that are never realized. We - are not at the dawn of a millennium. Compared with the work to be - done, the past is nothing. Our children's children for ten - generations to come must labor harder than we are doing, to - accomplish the conversion of the world. The world's population is - 1,500,000,000. Of these, Christians number less than a third; and - half of that third belongs to the Roman Catholic Church. The - Protestants number 114,000,000. They are divided into 500 sects. - And this number of their strength includes, also, all the thieves, - ex-convicts, the debased, besotted, and the speckled and streaked - in Christendom."--_Northwestern Christian Advocate of Dec. 2, - 1885._ - - -Farther on in the same article the Bishop said:-- - - - "Before us we have the great problem--the 1,100,000,000 of pagans - to convert to Christianity. That is the solid rock that looms up - in our path. Look at it; see what work has been done in 1800 - years, and how much is yet to be accomplished. In India, after - more than a hundred years of mission work, we have 600,000 native - converts and 2,000,000 Christians among 260,000,000 heathen. Can - we remove that solid boulder that is as old as the hills?... Our - Methodist Church we think the most divine and ineffable. We boast - that we are going to conquer the world, and come from our palaces - and princely farms to subscribe fifty cents a head for the - undertaking! It is a burning disgrace that excites pity and - disgust." - - -And as to the prospects for universal peace, the following recent -statement of the armament of Europe does not indicate that the nations are -really contemplating such a happy consummation:-- - -Russia: 1,519,810 men, 181,000 horses, 2,084 cannon -Germany: 835,000 men, 96,000 horses, 2,022 cannon -Austria: 856,980 men, 58,125 horses, 1,600 cannon -England: 478,800 men -France: 1,850,000 men - -The remaining states of Europe make up with the above a total of about -6,000,000 men. - - - - -The Final Separation. - - - VERSES 40, 41: "Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be - taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the - mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left." - - -This language shows the final separation between the righteous and the -wicked. There is no elaborate explanation as to how the circumstances will -meet their fulfillment, but that is not the essential force of the text. -The line will in some cases be drawn between those who are intimately -related. Some members of the same family will be taken away by the -judgments of God, while others will be left to receive their coming Lord. - - - - -Those Who Watch Will Know The Time. - - - VERSES 42-44: "Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your - Lord doth come. But know this, that if the good man of the house - had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have - watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. - Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not - the Son of man cometh." - - -The injunction to watchfulness is repeatedly given by our Saviour in -connection with his teaching in reference to his second advent. These -injunctions must apply especially to those who live in proximity to that -event. This fact is convincing evidence that the Lord is not displeased -with those who anticipate his coming, and study the word in reference to -it. No one watches for that which he does not expect, and indifference or -aversion toward the coming of Christ is sure evidence of coldness toward -Christ himself. If we love Jesus, we shall love his appearing and if we -love his appearing, we shall be eagerly watching and waiting for it. But -if we knew the hour when he would come, we should not watch for his -coming, nor could we with eagerness expect his coming if we had no -knowledge of its approach. The course of time has been measured off in -definite periods down to the beginning of the present generation. The time -from the end of the prophetic periods to the coming of Christ is -emphatically the waiting, watching time. Those who watch, as our Lord -commands, will eventually know the time. No man will make it known, for it -is not revealed to man in the Scriptures. Angels will not make it known, -though they may minister to, and communicate with, the children of men. -Neither will the Son. But the Father will make it known when he speaks -again from heaven. - -It is undoubtedly true that the unscriptural and irrational course pursued -by many so-called Adventists in repeatedly setting a time of their own for -the Lord to come has had the effect to disgust many with the whole matter. -This is the enemy's work. He will seek thus to obscure each truth by -bringing it into the shadow of reproach. But it is unwise to be thus -misled. Probably there is no prophecy that better describes the present -state of unbelief in the world in regard to the second advent, caused -partly by fanatical time-movements, than the following:-- - - - "Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of - Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? - Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God: I will make this - proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in - Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of - every vision. For there shall be no more any vain vision nor - flattering divination within the house of Israel. For I am the - Lord: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to - pass; it shall be no more prolonged, for in your days, O - rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith - the Lord God." Eze. 12:22-25. - - -The burden of this prophecy is time; therefore the word here mentioned -that the Lord will speak, will be the time. Rev. 3:3, is also to the -point:-- - - - "Remember, therefore, how thou hast received and heard, and hold - fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come - on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come - upon thee." - - -Those who do not watch, will not know the hour. Those who watch will know -the hour. - -The present watching, waiting position requires much faith and patience. -Says Paul:-- - - - "Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which hath great - recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye - have done the will of God [in proclaiming the coming of Christ], - ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that - shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live - by faith; but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure - in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but - of them that believe to the saving of the soul." Heb. 10:35-39. - - -Says James: "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. -Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and -hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be -ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord draweth -nigh." James 5:7, 8. - -Jesus says: "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will -keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world -to try them that dwell upon the earth." Rev. 3:10. - -The present position and present duty of God's people are defined in Rev. -14:12: "Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the -commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." - - - - -The Faithful And Wise Servant. - - - VERSES 45-47: "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his - lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due - season? Blessed is that servant whom his lord when he cometh shall - find so doing. Verily I say unto you, that he shall make him ruler - over all his goods." - - -In this figure, Christ is represented as the Lord of the household of -faith (see Mark 13:35; Heb. 3:6), leaving his house, and committing the -work of caring for his church to his servants. A blessing is promised -those servants who are found faithfully discharging this duty when their -Lord comes. They are to feed the flock of God, over whom the Holy Ghost -hath made them overseers. Acts 20:28. They must preach the word. 2 Tim. -4:2. They should watch for souls as they that must give account. Heb. -13:17. They will not only give meat to the household, but they will give -it in due season. They will preach the _present_ truth. - -And meat in due season when Christ's coming draws near, will be the gospel -of the kingdom. Verse 14. It will embrace warnings, instructions, and -encouragements pertaining to a message that is designed and adapted to -prepare the world for so solemn an event. Suppose, for a moment, that when -Noah had received his message of the coming flood to give to the world, he -had reasoned with worldly wisdom that as such a thing never had occurred, -and from all appearances seemed very unlikely to occur, and hence to -preach it would subject him to reproach, it would be better to avoid any -particular allusion to such an unwelcome subject. His preaching seemed to -excite only ridicule. He could retain his own private convictions and -preach the ordinary principles of righteousness, saying, "Do not so, my -brethren." And if the people were only prepared for the flood, that would -be all that would be necessary. Of such a course we can say two things. He -would thus have proved very unfaithful to his trust, and the blood of his -fellow-men would have been upon him; and he would have done just as -thousands are doing now. He certainly would not have represented the -faithful and wise servant. So it is now. A solemn responsibility is placed -upon the watchmen:-- - - - "Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto - them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the - land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: - if when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the - trumpet, and warn the people; then whosoever heareth the sound of - the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take - him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound - of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. - But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the - watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the - people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from - among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I - require at the watchman's hand. So thou, O son of man, I have set - thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt - hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me." Eze. 33:2-7. - - -When Jesus comes, the faithful servants will be found proclaiming his -coming and teaching the necessary preparation. The Saviour speaks of such -as "faithful and wise." - -1. He is faithful. As a faithful watchman, he will give timely warning -when he sees the sword coming. His work just before the end, is seen in -the following scriptures:-- - - - "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy - mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day - of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand." Joel 2:1. - - "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show - my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins." - Isa. 58:1. - - "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, - who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his - kingdom, Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; - reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and doctrine. For - the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but - after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, - having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the - truth, and shall be turned into fables. But watch thou in all - things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make - full proof of thy ministry." 2. Tim. 4:1-5. - - -2. He is wise. "He that winneth souls is wise." He must be wise. He will -hold forth the truth in its harmony and beauty, and thus expose error and -win men to the truth. When it becomes his duty to "reprove and rebuke," it -will be at a proper time and place, and then with all "long-suffering and -doctrine." He will study to show himself "approved unto God, a workman -that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 -Tim. 2:15. - - - - -The Evil Servant. - - - VERSES 48-51: "But and if that evil servant shall say in his - heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his - fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; the lord - of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, - and in an hour that he is not aware of; and shall cut him asunder, - and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be - weeping and gnashing of teeth." - - -What the evil servant says and does, shows most clearly the position and -work of the faithful and wise servant. The evil servant says, "My lord -delayeth his coming," because the faithful servant is proclaiming the -coming of his lord. The evil servant smites the faithful servant, because -he teaches the soon coming of his Lord. The faithful servant, true to his -commission to preach the "gospel of the kingdom" to a fallen church and a -scoffing world, toils on, and for this the evil servant smites him. Not -with the fist, perhaps, but with the tongue of obloquy and reproach. That -there should be professed servants of Christ engaged in smiting those who -are faithfully warning the world, need not cause surprise in view of the -past, but must cause sorrow in the heart of every lover of truth. The -wicked servant says in heart, and some are saying with their lips, The -Lord is not coming. The world is now just starting out upon its career of -knowledge and enjoyment. Where is the promise or indication of his coming? -Some say, He may come to-night, he may not come in a million years, thus -neutralizing the truth. Such men will be found criticising and discounting -the Scriptures and subjecting them to the tests of human philosophy and -science. The only safety for the people is to look beyond such watchmen. -Let them take the Bible for themselves, and there discerning the truth, -embrace it, and live according to it. - - - - - -CONCLUSION. - - -The impression prevails to some extent that he who teaches that Christ is -soon coming is acting the _role_ of an alarmist. If so, we have seen that -the great Teacher has placed himself at the head of the class. No one has -spoken more positively upon this point than he has done. He said, "In my -Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told -you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for -you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, -there ye may be also." John 14:2, 3. There is nothing ambiguous about that -language. A child can understand it. It means that Jesus will come again. -In the remarkable chapter we have here reviewed, the Saviour takes up the -subject specifically, and not only affirms the fact of his coming, but -foretells in explicit language the events which he would have us recognize -as signs of the near approach of his coming and the end of the world. - -But the message of Christ's second coming is not sensational in its -essential character. It is a solemn, practical truth. It is full of -warning and admonition to sinners and worldly professors, and full of -comfort to the faithful followers of Christ. It is spoken of in the -Scriptures as a fact, established upon the word which never fails. When -speaking of his second advent, the Saviour said, "Heaven and earth shall -pass away, but my word shall not pass away." Matt. 24:35. To disbelieve in -his coming would be to doubt one of the two great features of the gospel -plan. What the harvest is to seed-time, Christ's second advent will be to -his first. To doubt that he ever came to earth would be to subvert the -gospel. To disbelieve his second coming would nullify in the mind his -first coming, and rob the sacrifice of its glorious reward. - -The apostle Paul speaks of the second advent as "that blessed hope." Titus -2:13. Jesus says: "And when these things [the signs of his coming] begin -to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption -draweth nigh." The prophet Isaiah anticipates the feelings of God's people -who will witness the event, and expresses them in the following manner: -"And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for -him, and he will save us: This is the Lord; we have waited for him, we -will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." Isa. 25:9. - -At his coming, the dead in Christ will be raised to everlasting life. The -righteous living will be changed to immortality. The hand of our Saviour -will wipe away all tears; "there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, -nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things -are passed away." - -Why should we not rejoice in such a prospect? Who would not welcome such a -friend? Who would not rejoice in the prospect of such a consummation? - -But it is true that the grand event will not be attended with joy alone. -There will be dismay and anguish. For while one prophet records the -exclamations of joyful anticipation, another has foreseen and recorded the -cry of despair. "And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the -rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, -and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the -mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us -from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the -Lamb: for the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to -stand?" Rev. 6:15-17. A vast number will thus lament. All who cannot join -the shout of welcome will unite in the wail of despair. There will be but -two classes in that day. And to one of those classes each one living will -belong. To which shall I belong? Solemn question. To which party will you -belong, reader? No one can _wait_ for Christ who is not prepared for his -coming. Only the precious blood of Jesus that cleanses from sin can -prepare us to receive him and fit us to dwell in his presence. Have you an -interest in his forgiving love? 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