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tle while I am coming, and they you have sent to heaven from the bodies buried, those bodies changed and glorified are coming out from the graves, and we are Coming to gether! Comfort one another with these words.” Does your heart thrill under the influ ence of these massive revelations ? And does a new impetus throb in the nerve? And a new hope gladden the soul? Aye, and a longing that He may swiftly come 1 short address and prepared the way for the all-night prayer meeting which followed. . It was a memorable night and will never be forgotten by those who, participated. Many battles were fought and won and eternal results attained. The club enters a new era in its unique experience, and we wish it the largest meas ure of prosperity and blessing in its great work. of the righteous Lord, are nearer the mark. “Apart from the Second Advent of our Lord, the world is more likely to sink into a pandemonium than to rise into a millen nium. A Divine interposition seems to me the hope set before us in the Scripture, and, indeed, to be the only hope adequate to the Occasion. . . There will spring up' in the Christian church, and round about it, a body of faithless men who profess to have faith; unsaintly men who will unite with the saints; men having the form of godli ness, but denying the power. We may call these hard times, but we have hardly yet Come to the border of these' truly hard times when it will go hard with the church, and she shall need, even more than today, to cry mightily unto the Lord to keep her alive.” - : : ' .....
and go up or ever I know it, to be forever with the Lord. O it is no wonder that Paul said, “Com fort one another with these w o r d s .S u r e ly he used the right word, “Comfort.” For what a comfort is contained in this truth! And that is what we need. For the tide is pulling, and the eddies drag, and sometimes the' anchor of our belief seems as though it were going to loosen and let us drift; but He says, “Just remember that in a lit O N Saturday evening, August 7, the Fishermen’s Club gathered for the first time in its capacious club room. A short musical program was followed by a brief address of welcome by Lyman Stewart, president of the Institute, who on behalf of the Institute presented the room to the club for its exclusive use. After'refreshments had been served, Mr. Horton, the teacher of the class, made a “I have no fear for the Bible if only people will study it, Whenever it is at tacked, the best course to adopt is to un muzzle it and allow it to speak for itself«- To every fair-minded student it will vindi cate its claims and demonstrate its Divine origin, character and authority. “Paul does not paint the future with rose color; he is no smooth-tongued prophet of a golden age, into which this dull earth may be imagined to be glowing. There are sanguine brethren who are looking forward to everything growing better and better and better, until, at last, this present age ripens into a millennium. They will not be- able to sustain their hopes, for Scripture gives them no solid basis to rest upon. We who believe that there will be no millennial reign without the King, and who expect no rule of righteousness except from the appearing
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