The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-10-13

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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 It the eX-
preston. Give me some more. Come,
master. give me some more" Yes.
the lightning has speed swifter than
any seven leagued boots. II goes so
fast that IL seems to 20 everywhere
al once and then IL is gone
When Christ shall come to earth the
second time he will not only come with
the glory Of the lightning, but with the
velocity Of the lightning lie will come
quicker than the winds, quicker than
the gasp Of your breath He win not
come as an ordinary human visitor. He
Will flash before you as an electric
spark. Could the suddenness Of Christs
coming be pictured more vividlyf Some
years ago was standing upon the no
tel piazza IN Waynesburg W Va.
watching d magnificent thunderstorm.
Suddenly a great ball OF ire seemed
TO alght upon the caves al the end Of
the porch With a jump leaped clear
across the porch and into the hallway
Of the hotel Then. with nervous
laugh / turned IN the hall and went
out again upon the piazza. why" !
said to myself, ~ that lightning had
ever hlt me IL would have struck me
before / knew 10. 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 squirting behind the trench
es when he heard the shell singing over
his head II that shell was 70 kill him
il would kill him before he could hear
It sing. Tie lightning comes in a fash.
In a flash shall the second coming Of
the Son Of man be"
The glory Of the lightning is over
towering The suddenness of its APP
pearance Is startling. But the uniyer-
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 has ever yet
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 Vesuyius and gigantic XII
auea. the greatest of all volcanoes,
have their vomiting spells. But this
fact we do knOw-everywhe In the
atmosphere are these electric forces.
Thus when two mighty storm clouds
lrift toward one another one seems 20
be filled with the positive forces of
electricity and the other seems 10 be
Tiled with the negative forces Of cleo
tricity Then these two forces leap to-
gether on account Of their afinities.
Then there is a fash. and the explosion
soon follows. Thus we find the causes
If electricity everywhere. When the
livine lightning shall appear at the
second advent, Il will not be Christ
coming to any one place or TO any one
people II will be a universal appear
lnce Of Christ The second advent
shall be seen everywhere at once.
Away up in the arctics among the
polar bears and the spouting whales
and the obelisks Of Ice the Eskimo In
the Unframed 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 bis 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 az once.
Christ shall come as universal mas
ter, for God has given him a name,
which Is above every name; that al
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, 10 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 earth7 Let
rs ask the lightning and ask Christ
their missions. look up and cry. 20
lightning. what Is thy missionT /
hear 1t say: MY mission Is TO empty
yonder clouds OF their moisture. See
me strike. See the rain beating down
into the valleys below. See how l am
purifying and clarifying the atmoU
pierre" 30 when cry. 20 Christ
for what purpose art thou coming to
earthT hear Jesus say: Il am com
Ing 10 claim my own. Yes. as the |
lightning shines out of the darkness
Of the night and the black cloud Of the |
day, 30 out of the blackness Of your
sins, o man, am coming to bring sal |
walton and eternal life"
Christ never breaks bis word. DE
would no more break il with us than |
you would Intentionally break prom
lse 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 have a
very important errand wish to do,
and then l will come and get you"
After the errand the duke forgot all |
about his son. But late In the after
noon he remembered what he had done
and the promise he had made. The
anxious father hurried back to the
bridge, and there be found bis boy
Were you tired. my SOM Why did
you wait so patiently7 We'll" said
the boy. Il got tired, father but l walt.
ed because / knew you would come