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charlatan s also do g reat harm by pre tending to know th e day and th e hour when th e Lord will come. Times and seasons are not for us b u t th e Lord will come. He may come rig h t soon. Cer tain signs raise our hopes very high. The love of many waxes cold and the devil is doubly busy; and th e la st is no doubtful sign. When you see a farm er beginning to bu rn th e gates and break down th e hedges and unroof th e barns, and so on, you say ‘T h at fellow’s lease is run ou t.’ “ Satan has g reat w rath when he knows th a t his tim e is short. In th e case of the demoniac child we. read, ‘As he was yet a coming the devil threw him down and ta re him .’ He knew th a t he was about be expelled and so he did his worst. The double veiling of the heavens only1brings on th a t d ark est p art of th e night which precedes the dawn of day. When th e tale of bricks is doubled, Moses appears and th e same is tru e of our still g reater Deliverer. Let us tak e courage and be of good h eart, for while we lift Christ on high and glorify His name, He is on His way to take up the qu arrel of H is covenant and to ro u t His foes.”-A-F. W. F arr. WHAT IS IT TO YOU? There was a certain young man in Philadelphia who grew up w ith rever ence for the Bible b u t no real love for it. He adm ired it, as he would some ancient temple and regarded it as. a Temple of T ru th composed of 39 blocks of g ranite w ith a broad base a t Genesis and 27 p illars of alabaster, towering into a lofty dome a t Revelation. But th is temple seemed to him cold and life less, as if th ere was no te n an t w ithin. One day, th e day of his conversion, he heard th e voice of th e King from w ithin saying: “Study to show thyself ap proved unto God, a workman th a t need- eth not to be ashamed, righ tly dividing th e word of tru th .” He resolved to make a tou r of th e temple. W ith th e Holy
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IBBON h^s shown th a t belief in the m illennium and the Lord’s second coming was the faith of th e church of Christ un til the Council of Nice. It began to be discredited when th e church passed under
th e shadow of the Roman apostasy which threw all the vital doctrines of th e Gospel into eclipse. Its first check was received when Con stan tine, in imperial splendor, ascended the throne and dreame4 of a m illennium of which he should be th e head. The church lost th e conception of its heav enly calling and became a g reat worldly institu tion . Apostate L atin Christianity is the heir of th is fallacy today. As descendants of th e first P ro testan ts we should p ro test against th is error. The late A. J. Gordon declared th a t th e acceptance of m illennialism rested upon a three-fold consideration, viz., the voice of prim itive Christianity, the literal in terp retation of th e Scriptures and the well nigh unanimous consensus of critical scholarship. In the la st public address of Chas. H. Spurgeon before hi3 death, he said: - “Once more, d ear friends, our rela tion and position to o u r Lord is th a t of waiting for His coming. I do not know how far th e most of you are warm ly affected toward th e blessed tru th of the Second Advent, bu t I tru s t th a t many of you believe and are enlivened by faith in it. “This g reat hope of Christ’s Second Coming is gaining ground among lovers of evangelical doctrine. A t first m in isters seemed half afraid of th is grand belief because of the fanaticism which is supposed to grow out of it. Certain
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