The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-06-25
THE LORDS
COMING.
Address on The Subject
at Grace N. E. Church

The large auditorium Of Grace
Methodist Church was well filled last
evening by people from every part Of
the city to hear the address OF DR..
l.. w. Munhall, tina eminent Metho-
dist evangelist, on the subject Of the
second coming OF Christ.
The pastors of the local churches
were we'll represented in the local
audience, and among those seated on,
the platform were Pastors Keigwin
of West Presbyterian Church, Briggs
of Second Baptist Church, Shape of.
Delaware Avenue Baptist Church,
Elwood Of Olivet Presbyterian Church
and King Of Grace NJ. f. Church.
The meeting was held under the
direction Of the Wilmington Bible
Union, whose president, Thomas
McCorkle conducted the proceed
ings. The opening prayer was Offer
ed by Pastor Shape and Pastor Ell
wood read the fourth chapter Of
First Thessalonians. Mr. Pettingiil,
teacher of the Bible Union, intro
uuccu MI. MunIldll.
The spe aker opened his address by
saying that just SO surely as the
Lord Jesus Christ was once here and
is now in heaven, he will come again.
He said that the only reason for be.
leving any of these things was be-
cause the Bible said so. II man
did not believe that Jesus Christ was
once here, that man was an intidel.
Yet there was no reason for belle wing
that he was once on the earth, which
was net also a reason for believing
that he would come again. Some
times we wondered how it was that
the Jews res listed the Messiah, with
all the testimony of the Old Tesla.
ments, Some members Of the church
were quite fond of throwing stones
at the poor Jew, and yet these same
church members were resisting the
plain teachings Of the Old and New
Testaments concerning the Second
Advent.
The speakers second point waa
that the second coming Of Chri.
would be a pers ona coming II
had said 81 come" and 81 90
The Scriptures say that ''lhis saI
jesus is the one swho would CON
Bishop Merrill of the Methodi st Ep.
copal Church said Jesus Chris
was caught up pers onally, visibly j..
the clouds as he went. -
Dr. Munhall said there ware the
cries held by believers with reglrl
to the second coming. First, it W.
held that the second coming o
Christ had reference to the comm
Of the Holy Spirit on the day Of Pen
tacost. This was not true, for mo-
of the New Testament tcachin.
about the second advent was write
after PentecOSt. Others said tina
Conversion was the second coming q
Christ. Not 50, for the great event,
promis ed TO attend his coming hl
never taken place yet Still other
said it meant death. Not so, ou
Christ is the Lord Of life, not death
In the third place the second com
ing Of Christ was immincnt-that i,
it may take place at any time IN
devil had uscl the Mllcruc Nv
other movements Of error, to 5onfu,
Coils people concerning thi truth
but the truth is still true, "hcth
we believe it or not.
There will be no re5urrcr on T.
Jesus comes. BY our dcsirr o me,
our loved ones who are M lnisSvG
from the home, does the S com
ing Of Christ become tc "thal
blessed hope Also by I.sire
of the heavenly mansion wa rdS
does it become "that BILE hope -
There were 3s3 pass in the
New Testament conccrniu Lords
Coming. Ii is the duty mill
listers of the Gospel to h the
truth concerning this gre. pc OF
the church. Tncre is x so
promotive Of holy Twin thus
truth. "Iou never saw, the
preacher, "a card-playin icing
and theatre going Chllslia your
life who entertained IT, raSel
hope. And if you Lave ; Iris
tanS in Wilmington VIII these
things, they will stop it i y are
rightly instructed in this l."
DR.. Muuhall concluded iii an
aprcal to all his hearers to II and
be ready for the coming OF I.rd.