The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-07-16

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are His enemies;
aZAD in fact it is equiv
alent to the term,
'the day of judgment" 1t refers to a
definite time, known only to God. and
to an event as certain Of fulfillment az
that night follows day. In fact, be-
cause it is the Lords day, the day
when He shall descend into the midst
of men and take final accounting, we
know for certainty that the day OF
the Lord marks an exact point of time
In the Divine economy, and that moth
ing can delay or prevent its coming.
The Lord is exact in His appoint
ments. and never fails in the carrying
out Of His purposes. When the hands
on Gods eternal timepiece point to
the hour, the day of the Lord will be
ushered in, and the events which are
to mark that day will begin to unfold.
And what day that will be! Jere-
miah calls 1t a day of vengeance
Ezekiel declares it shall be day of
clouds, a time of nations" that is, a
time when whole nations will be dealC
with by the Lord. Joel describes 1t as
a day of darkness and gloominess, q
day of clouds and thick darkness, as
the dawn spread upon the noun
tains;" and declares that cas- destruc-
ton from the Almighty shall it come
Malachi refers to 1t as the great and
terrible day of the Lord" and Isaiah.
realizing the awfulness Of that day.
cries unto the people. wall ye," now.
before 1t comes. 'for the day Of the
Lord Is at hand"
xlD HE day Of the Lord is near how
i near no one can know. God guards
His secrets we'll God does not mark on
mans calendar the time of His move
nents, but He does tell us that the "day
of the Lord is near" God does not reck-
on time as does man. With him thou
sand years are as one day and one day as
thousand years." The sun in its course
counts on the days and weeks and
months and years as reckoned by man,
and the day of the Lord draws nearer and
nearer. We know that it is nearer by
several thousand years than 1t was when
the prophet Joel uttered the words OF our
text. Yea, and as the judgment of the
Lord has fallen upon the individual ma
tions successfully since that day the
world has witnessed sort of minor full
fillment Of the prophecy, which gives a
faint but convincing proof of the greater
and more awful day to come. There is
the same spirit of unbelief abroad in the
world to-day as there was In the days
when Noah warned of the coming judy
ment of God in the flood. Jesus made
solemn reference to this when He said:
LAS in those days which were before the
food they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage. until
the day that Noah entered into the ark
and they knew not until the food came
and took them all away; SO shall be the
coming of the Son of Man." Careless in
difference and stubborn unbelief blind
the world to the truth. Either there is
hardness of heart WHICH refuses to be-
1ieve that the Lords day" is coming al
all, or there is that fatal folly which finds
comfort and announcement in its sin
by saying: MY Lord delayeth His com.
ing" Injustice and oppression mark the
relation of man to man; the qualification
of every appetite and desire and lust is
sought with feverish and persistent eff.
fort; the human will and heart run rio
in the life. Man is having his day" t.
TIE fill, but, know We! "the Lord shall
come in day when he expecteth not
and in an hour when he knoweth not.
1.-The day of the Lord is near!"
THERE is sense in which every da,
i is the Lords day. God cannot b.
crowded out of His world, even though
the world has plainly declared that 1
will not have Him rule over 1t. God 4
moving In the midst of men to-day In ,
mysterious way His plans to execute ant
His wonders to perform. 1t is the Lord
day in the sense that God is surely ant
steadily executing the plan Of the ages
It is the Lords day In that He Is near t
them that fear Him and serve Him. It'll
the Lords day In that all the univers
is upheld by His omnipotence and di
rected by His omniscience. It. Is tn
Lord's day while nature responds to Hi
touch and life is vibrant everywhere
But the present day is not the Lords da,
in the sense that He rules supreme. Tn
will Of man is athwart the will OF God
the heart OF man is turned from the Gre
ator to the creature and the things whicl
appeal to the physical life and the lowe
animal nature 1t Il mans day In tn
sense that he may choose good or evil
may serve God or SELF 1t is mans day
because upon him has been bestowed tn
freedom Of choice. His will Is supreme
within the limits Of the human spher
he may think as he wishes, do as h
pleases. and 60 and come as the purpos
OF life or the fancy Of the moment die
tates. He does not ask Of God whethe
he may do so and 80, or 60 to such an
such place. He moves about over tn
surface of Gods earth with perhap
never a thought of Him who has create
all things and Who has given him Ii