Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-08-13
The day of Judgment.

That there is day of Judgment, a
time Of final reckoning, is clearly revealed
in the holy scriptures. No one can ina
CINE the terrors and glories of that great
occasion.
We are appalled, by the tread of the
earthquake, by the crushing tornado, or
by the fearful utteraHces of q terrific thun-.
der storm, but what are all these esgs
combined, when compared witsfthe great
day of God Almighty and the Lamb A
day in which will be exhibited
Good in grandeur and world on fire."
"Great day of dread decision and despair!
AT the thoughtof thee, each sublunary wish
Lets goits eager grasp, andquits the world"
Speaking of this day the Apostle Peter
says. "The heavens and the earth, which
are now kept in store, reserved unto fire a
gainst the day of judgment, and perdition of
ungodly men. The heavens saall pass
way with a great noise, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heart; the earth also
and the works that therein shall be burned
up"
Paul speaks of it II Thesa i. 7-9.) as
day "when the Lord Jesus shall be re-
vealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
in flaming FIRE, taking vengeance on them
that know not God, and that obey not the
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall
be punished with everlasting destruction
from the presence Of the Lord, and from the
glory of his power The Apostle Jude
assures us that " the Lord cometh with ten
thousand of his saints, to execute judgment
upon all, to convince all that are ungodly
among them (men) of all their ungodly
deeds which they have ungodly committed,
and of all their hard speeches which ungod-
ly sinners have spoken against him.
This day of Judgment is not appointed
for men merely, but God will bring to judg.
ment the fallen angels too, for says Jude,
the angels which kept not their first es
tate, but left their own habitation, he hath
reserved in everlasting chains under dark
ness unto the judgment of the great day.
From these and other passages, familiar
to the Bible reader, we learn who is to be
the Judge on the great day-the once cru
Gifted, the long contemned Jesus; we learr
also what is to be the manner of his com
ing, and what the object of his advent
The sea shall deliver up the unnumbereC
millions that have gone-down to its deer
and silent chambers-in the storm, annie
the din Of battle, or in the silent Ocean
funeral. The Earth, the great charnel
House of the dead, whose alluvial deposit
are made up in a great measure of the onc'
living nations, will return its dead-an i'm
mense concourse. All these-the long re
splendent lines Of the righteous, clothec
with the robes of immortality the broker
ranks of the i" fearful and unbelieving :
the fallen angels, and the millions of tn
glorifed angels from heaven-all-frou
heaven, earth, and hel}-all- from North
South, East, and West-all- -all-all-
will be seen on that great and awful day
coming, COMING, COMING, to the Thron
of the Eternal!
What rejoicings will be witnessed on tina
glorious day what fearful lamentation
will be uttered What sp!endor and 2ov
er will displayed by the Judge on hi
throne How great the contrast betwee
the crown Of thorns that lecerated His ten
Piles in Herod's Hall, and the resplendeI
diadem that will encircle his brow on tt
great rewarding day,
How great the contrast between tt
robes of mock royalty forced upon Jesus
Herod and his men of war, and the effu
gent robes of purity and light which vi