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the thought of how unlike I was to my Mas ter, the glad thought has thrilled me that it will not always be so, but some day, that glad day when the Lord Himself shall de scend· from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God, and I am caught up to meet Him, and when I see Him as He is, I too will be just like Him, in all the infinite perfection of His character, then shall I "attain unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.'' 5. And now a still more wonderful result follows, OUR Lo RD J Esus WILL BE UNITED IN MA.RBI.A.GE WITH THE CHURCH, Hrs BETROTHED BRIDE (cf Eph. 5 :23, 32), and the marriage supper of the Lamb be celebrated. J obn says, ''And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of many thunders, saying, Hallelujah; for the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigneth. Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made herself ready. And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the
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