Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-07-17

4 ALC AA041 WIZ 1tla the pet
dog was extending piece OF bread to-
ward the dog. There he was stretch
ing forth his hand, and as Or. Butler
said: .'The dogs mouth was opened
and his dead face had on il the ex-
preston: Give me some more. Come,
master, give me some more" Yes,
the lightning has speed swifter than
any seven Ieagued boots. It goes so
fast that il seems TO 20 everywhere
/ ct once, and then it is gone.
When Christ.shali come to earth the
second time he viii not only come with
the glory Of the lightning, but with the
velocity of the lightning. He will come
1 quicker than the winds, quicker than
/ the gasp of your breath. He win not
come as an ordinary human visitor. He
| will fash before you as an electric
spark Could the suddenness of Christ's
coming be pictured more wildly? some
years ago l was standing upon the ho-
tel piazza in Waynesburg, ". Va.
watching magnificent thunderstorm.
! Suddenly a great ball of fire seemed
| to aIight upon the caves at the end of
/ the porch. With jump 1 Ieaped clear
across the porch and into the hallway
| Of the hotel. Then, with a nervous
| laugh, | turned in the hall and went
out again upon the piazza. why I
said to myself, IF that lightning had
ever hit me it would have struck me
| before | 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
es 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 a flash.
In a fash shall the second coming of
the Son Of man be-
The glory of the lightning is over
! towering The suddenness of its an
pearance is startling. But the uniyer-
salty of the electric atmospberic
| forces and currents is just as sugges-
! tive in its divine significance. How
this electric power gets into the at
mosphere no scientist has ever vet
been able to explain. There are many
theories, but theories are not necessa-
rily facts. The scientists cannot posi-
lively tell us why the electric sub
] stances are in the atmosphere any
more than they can positively state
what causes an earthquake or 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 filed with the positive forces Of
electricity and the Other seems to be
filed with the negative forces of cleo
trtcity. Then these two forces leap to-
gether on account of their afinities
Then there is 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. It will be universal appear
ance Of Christ. The second advent
shall be seen everywhere at once.
In Palace and Hut.
Away up in the arches 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 At
rican forests shall see him. In the
| @o,,, II, ~. Id,
at his palace door and the poor man In
his hut. Then 'tthe glory Of the Lord
shall cover the earth, even as the wa
tiers 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 a universal mas
ter, for God has given him name,
which is above every name; that at
the name of Jesus every knee should
DOW of things in heaven and things on
earth and 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
is there about the second advent But
why is Christ to come to earth? Let
! US ask the lightning and ask Christ
uner missions. I look up and cry, 80
t hghtning, what is thy mission?' 1
2 near 1t say: My mission is to empty
:. yonder clouds of their moisture. See
: me strike. See the rain beating down
a into the valleys below See how I am
a purifying and clarifying the at1nos-
r phere." So when I cry, 20 Christ.
: for what purpose art thou coming to
+ earth?" l hear Jesus say. Il am com
f ing to claim my own. Yes, as the
f lightning shines out of the darkness
o of the night and the black cloud of the
day, so out Of the blackness of your
e sins, O man, am coming to bring sal
l. vation and eternal life"
}, Cannot you and l take Christ at his
e word and prepare to let him save us