St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-08-13

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10 N are His enemies;
~AO in fact it is equiv
alent to the term,
the day of judgment" It refers to y
definite time. known only to God, and
to an event as certain Of fulfillment an
that night follows day. In fact, be-
cause 1t 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 or 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 a day that will be! Jere-
miah calls It a day of vengeance"
Ezekiel declares it shall be a day of
clouds, q time of nations" that is, a
time when whole nations will be dealt
with by the Lord. Joel describes 1t as
2 day OF darkness and gloominess, Z
day OF clouds and thick darkness, n
the dawn spread upon the noun
tains;" and declares that "as destruc-
ton from the Almighty shall it come. =
Malachi refers to 1t a. the great and
terrible day Of the Lord" and Isaiah,
realizing the awfulness Of that day,
cries unto the people, wall ye," nov,
before it comes, for the day Of the
Lord Is at hand" Nothing will be
able to deliver from the hands of tho
Lord in that day. Zephaniah tells us
that, neither silver nor gold shall be
able to deliver them in the day of Je-
hovah's wrath" and the prophet
Amos graphically declares that
though they dig into Sheol, thence
shall My hand take them; and though
they. climb up to heaven, thence will
! bring them down. And though they
hide themselves in the top of Carmel,
I will search and take them OUT
thence; and though they be hid from
My sight in the bottom of the sea,
thence will l command the serpent,
and 1t shall bite them. And though
they go into captivity before their
enemies, thence will command the
sword and 1t shall slay them" There
will be no escaping the Lord in that
great and terrible day"
CT, HE day Of the Lord is near" how
J.. near no one can know God guards
His secrets well. God does not mark on
mans calendar the time of His move
ments, 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 Is
a thousand years" The sun in its course
counts OF 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 1t is nearer by
several thousand years than it 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
lions 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 food. Jesus made
solemn reference to this when He said:
"As in those days which were before the
flood 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 flood 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-
lieye that the Lords day" is coming at
all. or there is that fatal folly which finds
comfort and encouragement 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 Of
fort: the human will and heart run riot
in he.life. n Man is having his day" to
the iii, but, know We! 1.-THE Lord shall
come in ! day when he expecteth not,
and IN An hour when he knoweth not"
saTheiday OF the Lord is near!"
THERE is sense in which every day
isaths Lords day. God cannot be
crowded but Of His world, even though
the world has plainly declared that it
will not have Him rule over it. God is
moving in the midst of men to-day in
MYSTERIOUS way His plans.to execute and
His wonders to perform. tits the Lords
dav III the sense that God is surely and
steadily executing the plan OF the ages.
n is the Lords day in that He is near to
them that fear Him and serve Him. It 10
the Lords day in that all the universe
is upheld by His omnipotence and d.
rected by Hits omniscience 1t is the
Lords day while nature responds to His
touch and life is vibrant everywhere.
But the present day is not the Lords day
IN the sense that He rules supreme. The
viii of man is athwart the will OF God;
the heart of man is turned from the Gre
stor to the creature and the things which
ianpeal to the physical life and the lower