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laugh, turned IN the hail aud went
out again upon the piazza. why" I
said to myssif, "if that Lightning had
ever hit me II would have struck me
before I knew It. In an instant
would have been decd" There w. no
more need Of my Jumping than there
was need Of the soldier boy Of the late
civil war sQuirmlng behind the trench
81 when he heard the she'll sinelng over
bis head. n that shell was to I'LL him
It would kill him before lie could hear
1t sing. The lightning comes in q nash.
In dash shall the second coming Of
the Son Of man be-"
The glory Of the lightning 10 over
towering. Tho suddenness Of it, 40.
pearance 10 startling But the univer.
salty Of the electric atmospheric
forces aud currents is Just AZ sugges.
tive in IL divine Significance. How
this electric power gets into the Mt.
mosphere no scientist has ever vet
been able to explain. There are many
theories, but theories are not necessa.
r1ly facts. The scientists cannot posi-
lively tell US why the electric SUBJ
stances are in the atmosphere any
more than they can positively state
what causes an earthquake or why
Mount vesuvius aud gigantic XII.
auea. the greatest Of oil volcanoes
have their vomiting spells. But this
fact we do know--everywhere In the
atmosphere are these electric forces.
Thus when two mighty storm clouds
drift toward one another one seems to
be filled with the positive forces Of
electricity and the other seems to be
filled with the negative forces Of cleo
tricity. Then these two forces leap to-
gcther on account OF their afiinities.
Then there Is q fash, and the explosion
soon follows. Thus we find the causes
Of electricity everywhere When the
divine lightning shall appear at the
second advent, it will not be Christ
coming to any one place or to any one
people. 1t will be universal appear
ance Of Christ. The second advent
shall be seen everywhere ut once.
In Palace and Hut.
Away up in the arctics among the
polar bears and the spOuting whales
and the obelisks Of Ice the Eskimo In
the untanned skins shall see him.
Down among the beautiful flowers of
the tropics. amid the scented air
within sound Of the prima donnas Of
the woods, the black man Of the AZ.
rican forests shall see him. In tho
temperate zone the king shall see him
at his palace door and the poor inan In
his hut. Then '''the glory of the Lord
shall cover the earth, even as the wa
ters cover the seas" Yes. yes; the
second coming Of Jesus Christ shall
not be henmed in by any one rice or
BY any one people or by any one cline.
Christ. like the electric forces In the
air. shall be seen everywhere at once.
Christ shall come as n universal mas.
ter, for God has given him a name,
which is above every name; that at
the name Of Jesus every knee should
bow Of things in heaven and things OH
earth ana things under the earth, that
every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ Is Lord, to the glory Of God the
Father"
Christ will come to earth. No doubt
10 there about the second advent But
why u Christ to come to earthf Let
10 ask TIE lightning and ask Christ
their missions. look up and CRY. %
lightning, what 10 thy mission7' I
hear It say: MY mission is to empty
yonder clouds Of their moisture. Zee
me strike. See the rain beating down
into the valleys below. See how I am
purifying and clarifying the at,nos.
phere." So when cry. 20 Christ,
for what purpose art thou coming to
earth?" l hear Jesus shy: Il am CON-
Ing to claim my own. Yes, as the
lightning shines out Of the darkness
Of the night and the black cloud Of the
day. 90 out Of the blackness OF your
sins. O man. nm coming to bring sal.
walton and eternal life"
Cannot you and l take Christ at his
word and prepare TO let him save US?
Are we going to sheer at and ridicule
his statements and divine authority, as
Frederick the Great and all his Prus.
sian court and the Royal Society Of
London at frst ridiculed and bufooned
the statements of the great sage of
Philadelphia when Benjamin Franklin
claimed that with kite string he had
drawn electricity out Of storm cloud?
Are we going to fee the miraculous
and divine saving power OF Jesus
Christ, the power TO save US from sin,
as the BedOuin guides 6ed from the
side Of the scientist. Herr Werner Sic.
men when they were caught in a thun.
derstorm upon the top of the Egyp.
tian pyramids? There, In the midst Of
that storm, Slemen drew forth electric
sparks from his metallic water gourl.
The sight Of these sparks SO terrorized
the Bedouin guides that away they ran
and never came back. All. no. let US
not derids nor Zee Christ's salvation.
LIT ,ls take Christ at his word. In tho
gospel OF John be distinctly states that
he Is going to heaven for little while
to prepare place for US. Then what
does he say? Il will come again aud
receive you unto myself, that where
am there ye may be also" VIII you
believe that he is coming?
~ Knew You Would Come"
Christ never breaks his word. He
would no more break II with us than
you would Intentionally break q prom
ise made with your little child. Many