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management gave you so that they could put in the papers the next aay the façt that you were there, and thus encourage somebody else to go?” When the Iroquois Theater was burned down here some years ago, among; those who were taken out charred, corpses were five ministers of one of our denominations. I will not mention which one', for it might just as well have been any other as that one. For my part, I would rather die somewhere else. But it is not death that is held out here ; it is the coming of our Lord. I would rather my Lord would find me some where else if He should come. Thé motive that is held out here for thi? readiness is not that of death. That is the fnotive We constantly hear, arid put forth in our preaching, “You may die at any moment!” but this is an infinitely ' higher motive than that of the coming of death, The Tord is coming! Would riot the bride, if she knew that her lover was coming, be careful not to be doing anything that would displease Him When he came? You know there are some wives who are not anxious for their husbands to come back right away, because they are having a fine time flirting with other men. So there are many professing Christians who are not at all anxious for the speedy return of our Lord. They are flirting with thé world. Never go anywhere you would not like ,to have the Lord find you if He should come. It may be at morn ; it may be at mid night; it may be tonight; I do not know. A letter was handed to me a few moments ago asking what train I.was going to take out of town to night. I do not know. I may go on the up-train. I do not know of anything revealed in the Word of God that has to come to pass before my Lord comes. There are a great many things that have to come to
pass before He comes to the earth to destroy the Anti-Christ, and to judge the world; but there is nothing revealed that must come to pass be fore He comes in the air, when we shall be caught up to meet Him in the air, and be forever with the Lord. 7. In this very same chapter the Coming of our Lord is held out as a motive to holiness in a seventh aspect, from the 45th to the 51st verse: “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 w doing. Verily I say urito you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delay- eth his coming; (That is what a lot of theologians are saying. I heard a preacher in this town say that the Lord could;not come for two thousand years. That is very popular theology just now. That is the theology of the unfaithful servant, or “evil servant” as he is called here,) And shall begin to smite his fel low 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.” The aspect of holiness described here is that^ of faithful, untiring ser vice in feeding the dock the Word of truth, and in going out to win the lost. The man or or woman who is not a soul winner is riot a holy man or woman, in the Bible sense of holi ness. Bible holiness is active holi-
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