The Mena weekly star., 1911-08-17
The Second Coming
 of Christ

on the above SuDJecJ lO SOUu du- dienee Sunday night. The follow
 ing is synopsis;
 am to speak this evening on the second coming of Christ. There are two great subjects that are being greatly neglected by the preachers of today, namely Second Com
 ing of Christ and the Divinity Of Christ. I desire to speak to you
 now upon the second coming of Christ, as it is related to the doc
 trines of the Bible.
 My text is recorded in the First Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. and the filth Verse. "Ye Men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into Heaven? This same Jesus,
 which is taken up from you into
 Heaven, shall so come in like man.
 ner as ye have seen Him go into Heaven
 The reason that we are expecting Jesus to come the second time IS
 that He said He would, and up to
 this time there never has been a charge successfully sustained
 against the truthfulness of our Lord.
 1.-The doctrine of Repentance. Tn the second Epistle of Peter we
 have these words: "The Lord is
 not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but lis long suffering to usward, not will ling that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" 2.-The doctrine of Regeneration. The first evidence in regeneration is a manifested love. So in the first Epistle of John, 3:2, we find this: Beloved. now we are the
 sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we known that, when He shall appear,
 we shall be like Him. for we shall see Him like He is. "Oh, what a
 privilege for the S-ints of God to stand and gaze into the face of Jesus"
 Doctor Talmage said that when he got to Heaven he wanted to spend the first thousand years with his face buried in the bosom of his
 mother. The second thousand years standing gazing into the face of Jesus who died for him; and the third thousand he would want to explore little.
 3.--The doctrine of Specification. i TheSs,. 3 5:23: And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ"
 4.--This doctrine has direct re-
 lation of the doctrine of the Res- |urrection. fl Thess, 4:f4-iS: For If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them that are also asleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain un-
 to the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
 For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trumpet of God; aid the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore. com fort one another with these words"
 The folks that want everything so quiet here are going to suffer disappointment, whether they go to Heaven or hell. If they go to hell they will have to hear the shrieks and moans of the lost forever; and 1T they go to Heaven they will be | annoyed by the shouts of the saints | eternal in the heavens. In order | to avoid this embarrassment we want to practice a little shouting | while in tho world.
 5.-The second coming of the Lord is connected with the doctrine of the Judgment. Timothy 4:f4-fS: For I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand. l have fought the good light. have finished my course. and l have kept the faith, Hence forth there is laid up for mo crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge. shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but to all them that love His 
 6.-Ihe doctrine of punishment. ii Thess., f:7-9: ''4And ye are troub- led rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Hea- yen with His mighty angels in fam ing fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord .gesus Christ; who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presenae Of our Lord and from the glory of His power" And direct connection with this we have inc doctrine of glorification in the 10th verse: When He shall come to be | slorliied in His saints, and to be Il admired in all them that helievel Drrause our testimony among you vas believed in that day. Thel Prophets bear us out in this. Sec h Danlel 7i3; T saw in the night visions, and behold, one like inc son of man come with the clouds 'l lne Heaven, and came to the