Milford chronicle., 1905-07-21

out again upon the piazza. why"
said to myself, IF that lightning had
ever hit me it would have struck me
before l knew it. In an instant
would have been dead" There was no
more need Of my jumping than there
was need of the soldier boy of the late
civil war squirming behind the trench
rs when he heard the shell singing over
his head. If that shell was to kill him
it would kill him before he could hear
it sing. The lightning comes in Il flash.
In a flash shall the second coming Of
the Son Of man be
The glory of the lightning is over
pOwering. The suddenneSs of its ap-
pearanee is startling But the univer-
salty of the electric atmospheric
/ forces and currents is just as sugges-
| tive in its divine significance. How
/ this electric power gets into the at
mosphere no scientist bas ever yet
been able to explain There are many
theories but theories are not necessa-
rily facts. The scientists cannot posi-
uhelg lcil uS WY INT tAtNtAAN sun
stances are in the atmosphere any
more than they can positively state
what causes an earthquake OF why
Mount Vesuvius and gigantic Kill
auea, the greatest of all 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
filed with the negative forces of cleo
tricity Then these two forces leap to-
gether ON account Of their affinities.
Then there is a flash, 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 a 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 ia
the untanncd 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 AT. /
rican forests shall see him. In the |
temperate zone the king shall see him |
at his palace door and the poor man 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 hemmed in by any one race 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 universal mas |
ter. for God has. given him name, |
which is above every name; that ut /
the name of Jesus every knee should /
bow of things in heaven and things on |
earth and things under the earth that |
every tongue should confess that Jesus |
Christ is Lord, to tue glory Of GCd the
Father"
Christ will come to EARTH No doubt
is there about the second advent. But |
why is Christ to come to earthZ Let
us ask the lightning and ask Christ |
their missions. I look up and cry, 20
lightning, what is thy missiODg /
hear it say: MY mission is to empty
yonder clouds of their moisture See
me strike. See the rain heating down
into the valleys below See how l am
purifying and clarifying the stmos-
phere." So when 1 cry, 20 Christ,
for what purpose art thou coming to
earthY' l hear Jesus say 4 am COM
ing to claim my own. Yes, as the
lightning shines out of the darkness
Of the night and the black cloud Of the
day, so out Of the blaekness Of your
sins, o man.. I am coming to bring sal
vatiOn and eternal life
Cannot you and take Christ at his
word and prepare to let him save us? .
Are we going TO sneer 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 first ridicuIed and butfooned .
the statements Of the great sage Of
Philadelphia when Benjamin Franklin
claimed that with kite string he had .
drawn electricity out of a storm clOudG .
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 fed from the
side OF the scientist, Herr Werner Sle-
men When they were caught in thun-
derstorm upon the top of the Egyp- /
tian pyramids? There, in the midst Of
that storm. Siemen drew forth electric
sparks from his metallic water gourdl
The sight of these sparks so terrorizek
the Bedouin guides that away they rah |
and never came back. All no, let ea
not deride nor flee Christ's salYatian.