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question, "Would I be ready for my Lord's return if He should come before I awake in the morning!" '.rhe imminent return of our Lord is the great Bible argument for a pure, unselfish, devoted, unworldly, active life of service. In much of our modern preaching we urge people to live holily and work dili gently because death is swiftly coming, but this is never the Bible argument. The Bible argument always is, Christ is coming. Be ready when He comes. This leads inevitably to the question, "What constitutes readiness for the coming of Christ7'' Luke 21 :34-36 answers the question, ''But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare, for so shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of all the earth. But watch ye at every season, making sitpplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." To put it in other words, sep aration from the world's indulgence of the fie~h, from_ t~e world's immersion in the af fairs of this Zife and intense daily earnestness in prayer is the first part of preparation for
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