New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-05
THE NEvER-ENDING KINGDOM.

The media orlal kingdom OF Christ shall end but
the kingdom Of God shall never end. The media
tora power has been invested In the Son until the
Kingdoms Of this world shall have become the
kingdom OF one God AMI Of His Christ: This will
never be until after the final crisis at the close of
the millennium. 1t is then that the wicked one
himself Is east into the lake OF fire. The great
white throne Is set. The general judgment of all
the of tho dead takes place-all the rest mean
ing the others who did not rise at the second
coming of Christ. and were not associated In Hts
milennal reign. Death and hades are cast into
the lake OF fire. The heavens and the earth fee
take their place. The holy city. the New Jerusa.
over 1t. The tabernacle OF God is with men He
dwcIls with them. They are Ills people. and He
While the Scripture. is very silent concerning this
latter and final period Of history Of the holy dead
at length become the centre OF economy and order
inhsbltaton who is the second Adam the Lord
from heaven; that i will be tho theatre for the
And while she will not be denied the Fellowship Of
Heaven as hs is not denied 1t. who is, her head
viii WIN ne part on the be
There are three thoughts that fasten Themselves
fact Of sin 1t is ever the same whether the age
mIenniaI II is that thing in the human heart :,
which dormnnt or active. s stili opposed to God
cannot remove II. To enter the kingdom Of heaven
the man in whom II dwalls (and IN whom by nature
does II not dwe) must be born again
The second thought associates itself with the
hope Of glory. No wonder that an Inspired apostle
speaks Of II as an eternal weight OF glory. No
wonder that he snys the suferngs OF this present
time not worthy to be compared with II. The
cence OF Rome. exclaimed: who would not tight
for such a city?" But what was Rome at her
suprcmcst In comparison with the glorics OF the
New Jerusalem? Who would not fight for them
against every enemy OF the soul? Who would not
suffer them? Who in the face OF them would
not rather lose his life in the present time that he
might find Il unto life eternal?
The third thought associates itself with the work
OF Christ. 1t - to Him. be II remembered that We
owe, and shall ever eve. these things. They are
tho benefits OF His passion which accrue to MS He
bore our sins In his body the tree. He
hath reconced us unto God and His Father by
His blood He intercedes for that fail not.
He sanctihes us by His spirit and makes us meet
for the Inheritance of the saints in light He
unites us TO Himself by faith so that because lie
lives we may live also Who would not confess
and hasten 70 co 1fess such a Saviour? Who wou.l
not obey and submit himself In all things to such
"A Lord? | appeal to the lost to-day II there arc
any here. appeal to the half-hearted and wor dly
Christians. oh, may tho goodness OF God lead thee
10 repentance. Break OF thy sins by righteous
ness. Believe the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
upon earth. that when Christ. who is the lie OF
the believer shall appear then shall ye also appea:
, with Him In glory. And AT last be among that
blessed number, concerning whom II Is written
that after the hrst heaven and the first earth have
been removed God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes, and there shall DO no more death.
neither sorrow nor cyinS. neither shsn there b