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If I’ did not know that Christ .were coming again I would necessarily be plunged into the depths of a hopeless pessimism and despair. If the Lord Jesus were not coming there would be and could be nothing for this sad world to do but to build its merciless’ dread- naughts and submarines and zeppelins and airplanes, and devise more and more destructive gases and more power ful and more frightful explosives. and go on fighting one another until this world became transformed into one uni versal charnel house of maimed, tor tured, dying and dead. War will con tinue, more frightful wars even than this, until He comes, but His coming, the Prince of Peace, will end it all. Boastful man tells us how he will bring all evil to an end by his evolutionary progress and the growth of knowledge. Only a few weeks ago we were saying that when Jenner discovered vaccina tion for smallpox he put an end to smallpox, and when antitoxin was dis covered for diphtheria that put an end to diphtheria; that when the typhoid serum and typhus serum were discov ered that would eliminate typhoid and typhus, that there would never be an other great pestilence among civilized nations. But what answer came to our foolish boastings? Influenza, and eleven thousand dead in Philadelphia in a single month; forty thousand dead in the State of Pennsylvania; twenty- two thousand dead in the State, of Illinois; more dead throughout the world than this appalling war has claimed as victims. O man, with all thy boastings what a puny creature of the dust thou art. We need God, we need Jesus. When He comes all plagues and pestilences will spread their foul and murky wings and take their flight. When He comes war will end, except for that brief space at the end of the millennium when Satan shall be loosed for a little season that he may meet his overwhelming and final defeat. This war will end, tyranny will end, unbelief
place, in this world or some other world, at some time, all men shall be brought to repentance and thus saved. Alas! it is a baseless hope, woven of our delusive wishes and not from the teaching of the Word of God. The premises and conclusions of Universal- ism have been answered time and time again, but the final answer will be God’s own answer when the Lord Jesus returns, when, as the passage just quoted declares, “those who know not God” and those who “obey not the gospel” will be punished with “eternal destruction.” Oh impenitent sinners, persistent rejectors of our Lord Jesus Christ, hugging to your bosoms the delusive phantom of a baseless hope that you will have another chance in some after world, throw that delusive and destroying hope to the winds and accept Jesus now while it is time. Sur render to Him as your' Lord, confess Him as such before the world, and go forth to live and to please Him in every thing day by day. And you false prophets who are encouraging silly men and women in such a hope, and while posing as their merciful friends are proving yourself their cruelest enemies, cease your well meaning but really destroying work today. VII. The Second Coming of Christ, God’s Final Answer to All Would Be World Conquerors and World Rulers. In the seventh place, the second com ing of Christ will be God’s final answer to all would be world conquerors and world rulers. God gave Napoleon His answer to his wicked claims in 1815, God has given the cruel ambitions of Kaiser Wilhelm II His answer in the past few weeks, but when Jesus comes again God will give all the proud sons of Satan who aspire to rule the nations of the earth their final and crushing answer. His coming will be the solu tion of all the world’s problems and the cure for all the ills of human society. He alone can bring peace and He will.
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