The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-23

ing the atmosphere" So when I cry, 70 Christ, for what purpose art thou coming to earth?" | hear Jesus say: T am com ing to claim my own Yes, as the hght- ming shines out the darkness of the night and the black cloud of the day, so out of the blackness of your sins, Q man, I am coming to bring salvation and eters nal life"
 Cannot you and take Christ at his word and prepare to let him save us? Are we going to sheer at and ridicule his state ments and divine authority. as Frederick the Great and all his Prussian court ana tho Royal Society of London at first ridi- culed md buffooned the statements or tie great sage of Philadelphia when Ben iamin FrsnlSlin claimed that with Kite string he had drawn electricity out or storm cloud? Are we going to flee the miraculous and divine saving power or Jesus Christ. the power to save us rom sin as the Bedouin guides lied from the side of the scientist, Herr Werner Sie- men when they were caughe1n thuhder- storm upon the top of the Egyptian pyra-
 mids? There, in the midst of that ser mon Siemen drew forth electric sparks from his metallic water gourd. The sight Of these sparlks so terrOriZed the Bedouln guides that away they ran and never came back An no, let us not deride nor nee Christ's salvation. Let us take onr'st VI, his word. m lIle SOSpti pt "Nis'-
 tinctly states that he is going 10 beaVeh for n little while to prepare place TOT ne Then what does he say? 'I will come again and receive you unto myself tla, where am there ye may be also VIII you believe that he is comingE
 "I Knew You Would Come.
 Christ never breaks his word lie
 wnuId no more break it with us than you would intentionally break a promise made with your little child. Many years ago the Duke of Wellington was crossing one of the London bridges with his little son He placed him in a certain seat and said: "Now. wait here, my boy, until come back. l have a very important errand 1 wish to do. and then l will come ana ret VOL" After the errand the dnke iOf- got all about his son. But late In the afternoon he remembered what he had done and the promise he had made. Ihe anxious father hurried back to the bridge and there he found his boy.
 Were you tired. my son2 Why dld you wait so patiently?" Well" said the boy
 "I got tired. father, but I waited because I knew you would come. You have never vel broken a promise you made With me.
 The duke may have forgotten his prom ,se that he would return to his son, but our Christ will never break the promise he has made to his children He IS com ing. He Is SuIe1g tOilllnb- ''N i'''' P'Nft' ised that he will come to claim his own
 seAs the lightning oometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west so shall the coming of the Son of man be.
 Rut as l see Christ coming to claim his own by the flash of the lightning l know he is also coming on that day to separate tine goats from the sheep. l know that as the electricity of the atmosphere is an agency of life so it is also an agency
 of death and of destruction. Did you ever know that in the year 1900 nearly s00 people were killed by lightning in the United States alone. One of my brother ministers of Chicago had son struck down in that year just few miles from his home. Did you know in the United states in the seven years between 1885 and 1892 from known records. there were at leaat 3.51G fires from lightning and nearly si3Oo000o worth of property was thereby destroyed? see Christ in the symbol of the lightning coming to save. [ also see Christ in the symbol of the lightning coming to destroy.
 And the saddest part about this symbol