The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-01-14
Mr.. MOODY On TIE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.

NIX Moobi On HE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
This is the first subject ! have brough.
| up here that the church Is divided upon.
some believe that Christ is coming before
the millennium; others are Just rs sure thu.
ne viii come after the thousand Years ui
peace. | don bring up the subject to stir
up controversy, hut - lead you 10 study 1t.
Many are afraid TO touch the subject, but
tlierr Is no portion ci scripture thgt God
uues not want US 70 study If we
study II in the right spirit. ! believe that
he Is coming this side OF tho mil
Iennium; men for whom | have the
highest respect believe that he il coming
afterwards. Don { take what say or VIVA.
any other man says about II, but study up
the subject for yourselves. Compare scrip
turc with Scripture. fused to think thar inc
world was going 10 grow so good that 1t
would draw tniist right down from heaven,
but ! don think sU HOW | believe this
world Is coming 10 an end III u crush.
"Do you know, there - more said In the
Bible q out the return OF our LOrd than
Their Is about bap isml And every church
aUmits that baptism ~ 81 great importance.
Pau! speaks OF tap ism thirteen times.
There are 26J chapters III the New Testament
and 3ls passages ,hal refer 70 Christ second
coming. lake mat fifteenth chaltcr OF :.
Corinthians. admitted to De the most famous
chapter that Paul ever wrote, the high-a aver
marx VI Pads writings Inc reason why 1t
Is read ana preached from more than
shylhiug else Pau ever said is because
II brings ont the fact that Christ Is
coming back again. The most precious
chapter in the whole Bible is John
xiv, because it tell sus not only that
Christ has gone away to prepare n place for
us, but also that he will come again. We
have the same authority that Christ is com-
ing back that w havc that no was coming
the first time.
"1he reason so many people are afraid OF
this subject Is because II has suffered so
much at the hands OF its friends, far more
than from the opposition of It's enemies. Too
many have attempted to set thcday and hour
when Christ shall come. and that he himself
tells us no man knows, not even the angels
which are in heaven On the contrary, he
will come iddenly and Unexpectedly. 1t
Is best Or US not to know the time Of his
coming, or the time OF tour own death, which
last would certainly unit us for life.
We are not TO watch for death, hut we are
distinctly commanded 10 watch for his re-
turn. j believe that Christ never spoke OF
his return that he did not say, watch
watch !" But that Is not oil. Every maj
has his work to do-not some work, but his
work. There Is not another man living that
can do my work. and II ! don't do II, 1t will
never be lone. See that you are doing your
work while you watch for his coming. The
first epistIe that Paul ever wrote was First
T~hessalonions. II the Lord did not want us
TO read these things and study them np,they
would not have been put on record for us."
MIR. Moody then referred to Pauls last
message, found In Second Timothy, calling
special attention to the third chapter, asking
II tho men there described could be found
In New York at tho present day, and making
many pointed applications. Among other
things, he said he could hardly go into a
small town without being asked for his pho
togrnph and n history Of his ~lifc,all Of which
rendered to make a man pulled up" He
said he could give u history OF his life in a
very few words: 81 was born OF the flesh |
in 1887 / was born Of the Spirit In 1886.
can't tell when the flesh is going to die. and
the spirit is going to live for ever"