St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-05-25

coming to take his bride away into the
bridal chamber is altogether different
from his first coming in the air-and
that is when we shall be caught up to
meet him, ''For the Lord himself shall
descend from heaven with shout, with
the voice of the archangel, and with the
trump of God and the dead in Christ
shall rise first" Over in the fifth chap
ter OF John, Christ says the day and the
hour is coming when the dead shall hear
the voice of the Son of God, and shall
come forth, and by-and-by these SUM
boring dead shall be awakened by the
voice of God, and they will come forth
from their sepulchres and from their
graves, and fly to meet him. You take
IA magnet and you let pieces of steel be
mixed up with sawdust, and every par
ticle of steel will fly to meet the mag
net; and SO when the great magnet of
heaven shall burst upon the earth, ev-
cry one that he has redeemed shall fly
to meet him. 1t is only question of
time. The hour is coming when the
trump of God shall sound '1the year of
jubilee is, rolling on" Thank God, it
and Christ is going to return and let
us be watching, and waiting, and play
ing that he may come quickly.
There are three facts taught in scrip
ture the first is that Christ has come
and gone, that is admitted the second,
that the Holy Ghost was to come. He
is in the world now. Do you believe
that this assembly would have been
down here for the last three months il
it hadn't been for the Holy Ghost being
in the world i? Do you believe that men
would have been convicted of sin and
converted if it hadn't been for the power
of the Holy Ghost Is there any elo-
quence or any orators in the world to
turn the current of mems whole lives
and make sober men of them? That is
the work of the Holy Ghost. That fact
is established, isn't it? The next great
fact that this bible teaches is that he is
coming again.
81 will come again" That is the
keynote of the fourteenth chapter OF
John. Not that he is going to send
death after us, not that he is going to
send some angel after us, but II am
coming myself"-that is his promise
The Word of God teaches that my Lord
himself is coming back for his bride
He came down into this world to get
him bride, and the world rose up and
cast him out and said he should not
have it. But he went away into the
heavens and took his seat at the right
hand of God and he has been eighteen
hundred Yeas gathering out his bride
and when the last one is gathered up
he will take that bride away.
There is no place in scripture where
we are told to watch for signs, or fol
the rebuilding of Babylon, or for the re-
turn of the Jews to Palestine, or for the
building of Jerusalem, but all through
scripture we are told to watch for him
self, just to be waiting for our Lord
from heaven.
That is the attitude of every true be.
lever in this woodworking for the
SaviOur-loins girded, lamps trimmed
and burning, like those five virgins
watching for the coming of the bride.
groom. And thank God, the cry is he,
ing raised now through the nation, "Be,
hold the Bridegroom cometh :" and lei
us be waiting when he may come.
Looking for that blessed hope, anC
the glorious appearing of the great God
and our Saviour Jesus Christi
In the last chapter of Revelation the
cry is, "Come quickly, Lord Jesus :
and that ought to be the cry of every
saint throughout Christendom, and OF
every child of God.