. drank, they married, they were given in mar riage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all; after the same manner shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed'' (Luke 17 :26- 30). Everything will be going on in its cus tomary way. As already said in another con nection, men and women will not be gath ered on hilltops in white robes waiting for the descent of their Lord, but men will be engrossed in their ordinary occupations, eat ing and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, buying and selling, planting and building; everything shall go on as usual up to the very moment of our Lord's coming. Some would press these words further than this and make them teach that as the days of Noah and Lot were peculiarly wicked days, so will the days of our Lord's return be days of extraordinary wickedness, but this is pressing the words which our Lord speaks here beyond their evident intent. Our Lord
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