T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S of Heaven before the eyes of men, so in like manner He will return. I be lieve that, after our Lord Jesus Christ comes again, the earth shall be renewed and the curse removed; the devil shall be bound; the godly shall be rewarded, the wicked shall be punished; and that before He comes there will be no Mil lennium and that not till after He comes shall the earth be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. Finally, I believe that all true Chris tians ought to expect as little as pos sible from churches or governments under the present dispensation, to hold themselves ready for tremendous con vulsions, and to expect their good things only from Christ’s Second Ad vent.— J. C. Ryle. IT SPREADS Writing to the Bible Institute concern ing the chart entitled “ The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error” , G. E. Ardill of New South Wales Evangeliza tion Society, says: “ We have republished this chart and are giving it a wide free distribution. One friend has contributed fifty pounds so as to send out thousands of copies. We have sent a copy to each minister throughout the states of New South Wales, Queensland, and we are under taking the other states, South Australia, Vietoria, Tasmania and Western Austra lia.” M AN ILLUSTRIOUS MASTER On one occasion Hudson Taylor was addressing a crowded meeting in Mel bourne, and introducing him the chair man referred to him as “ our illustrious guest.” Quietly Mr. Taylor stood for a moment, “ the light of God on his face,” as one who was present recalled, and then began his address by saying, in a way that won all hearts, “ Dear friends, I am the little servant of an illustrious Master.”
178 , Well, then, God might let all men for time and eternity receive the full, inevitable consequences of their sin, thereby being forever separated and cut off from fellowship with Him. Thus all human beings would go to hell, for ever lost. This also is unthinkable; God did not create the human race in his own image to have that race, in its^ entirety, forever lost. There is only one other possibility. God cannot ignore sin; and God can not ignore man. Then God Himself must pay the penalty of man’s sin in ! order that man may he saved, while at the same time sin is taken fully into account and dealt with as the black, heinous fact that it is. God cannot condone sin; He must condemn it. The wages of sin is death; and God cannot set aside or abrogate those wages while he con tinues to be a holy and righteous God. If only a single member of the human race is to he saved from paying the death penalty of sin, God must pay that penalty Himself. And that is the necessity for the death of Christ. His death indeed showed forth the supreme love of God for men. But we see that it did infinitely more.— Trumbull. Sag BISHOP RYLE BELIEVED IT I believe that when the end comes, it will find the earth in much the same state as when the Flood came in the days of Noah. I believe that the widespread unbe lief, indifference, formalism, and wick edness are things distinctly predicted. I believe that the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is the great event which will wind up the present dispen sation, and for which we ought daily to long and pray. I believe ,that the Second Coming pf our Lord. Jesus Christ will be a real, literal, personal, bodily coming; and that, as He went away in the clouds
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