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down in front of me and Mr. Moody’s eldest sister, Mrs. Walker, was sit ting there. Her face was a study. It was radiant with joy and peace un speakable. After the lecture I went down to speak to her, “ Oh,” she said as she took my hand, “ Mr. Torrey, it was the gladdest moment of my life. I thought the Lord had really come.” Suppose He should come at this moment, suppose right now there should be the shout and we should hear the voice of the archangel and the trump o f God and the Lord Him self should descend with power and great glory, would it be the gladdest moment of your life? Sixth, When our Lord Jesus comes again, He is coming in the glory o] His Father with the holy angels. In Matthew 16:27, R. V., He is re corded as saying, “ For the Son of man shall come in the glory of the Father with His angels; and then shall He reward every man accord ing to His. deeds.” All heaven will empty itself to follow in His train when He comes again. How many angels there may be I do not know, myriads and myriads of them. Men of our day have a w'ay of thinking that the human race are the only persons there are in the universe; how stupid and unreasonable, to say nothing about how unscriptural the thought. Are we to believe that all these countless worlds of light that dot the heavens by night are not in habited? Some one will say, “ Astron omy teaches us that many of them could not be inhabited for they have no atmosphere that a human being could breathe.” Yes, but are there no beings but human beings ? Are there no beings that can live under other conditions than those under which we can live? This earth that man inhabits is a very small portion of the universe. It is so small a speck in space that compared with one of
Jehovah (see Ex. 19:9; 34:5; Ps. 91: 1, 2 ; Matt. 17:5;: Ps. 104:3; Isa. 19:1). For our Lord to say that He was coming in the clouds was as much as for Him to say that when He came again, He was coming as Jehovah. Before His incarnation our Lord existed in the form of God (Phil. 2 :6 ), that is to say, as the Heavenly world beheld Him they be held Him in a visible form of such infinite glory that it told at once that He was God. When He came to this earth, He came as a man, wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger. They did what they pleased with H im ; they despised and rejected Him; they spat upon Him, they slapped Him in the face, they scourged Him, they nailed Him to the cross of Calvary, they killed Him, but when He comes again, He will come as Jehovah, when every knee must bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord (Jehovah) to the glory of God the Father (Phil. 2:9-11). The glory of His coming is beyond description. No earthly pageant that this world ever saw can, for a moment, be compared with it. Some years ago, I was speaking in the auditorium at Northfield on the Second Coming of Christ. It was a hot, sultry day. As I spoke the clouds gathered and it became very dark, black clouds gathered right above the auditorium. I had just read Matthew 24:30 and said “ The Son of man is coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” The word “ glory” had scarce ly fallen from my lips when there was a sudden flash and an awful crash, the whole auditorium was a blaze of light—the lightning had struck the building where we were gathered! Some sprang to their feet and screamed. I simply said, “ This is nothing to what it will be when the Lord really comes.” I looked
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