Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-05
aTHF SECOND CoMINoo

ssrext: Then we which are alive and
remain shah be caught UP together with
them In the clouds. to meet the Lord In
the air, and 60 shall we ever be with the
Lord. Wherefore comfort one another
with these words.'-1 Thessalonians, VI,
17-1s
ssThis meeting mentioned IN the Bible
IS the greatest that ever will be held In
all the world. There have been many
wonderful meetings. II was a wonderful
meeting when the children Of Israel met
At the Red Sea after the host Of Pharaoh
had been destroyed, and Miriam, the
sister OF Moses. led the people with sing
ing and with timbrel as they rejoiced. 1t
was wonderful meeting at the foot OF
Mt Sinai when Moses descended with the
commandments given to him by God In
the midst of fire and lightning and
thunder IL was n wonderful meeting at
Mt. Carmel, when Elisha slew $50 OF the
prophets Of Baal.
"It was a wonderful meeting when
David came and danced before the ARK
Of God. II wac a wonderful meeting
when Solomon dedicated the temple. IL
was a wonderful meeting on the banks OF
the Jordan when Gods lion-hearted
preacher. John the Baptist, preached the
truths of God. and the Bible says MS
clothes were OF camers hair and he was
fed on iocusts and wild honey. 1t was
a wonderful meeting when Jesus preached
the sermon on the mount and fed 5000
with a few Ioaves and fishes, and Moses
no mr. i
was a wonderful meeting at Pentecost
when the Holy Spirit came down as a
mighty wind and 5000 we're converted. III
was mighty meeting when the CRU
eaders went to Jerusalem to DEFEND tne
Christians from the infdel Turks 1t
waa a mighty meeting In the day when
Constantine saw the cross I'm the SKY ana
n mighty wave of Christianity swept over
Rome.
'It was a mighty meeting when Sa-
Vonarola stood in the square OF tlorence
and hurled the truths of God at the mob
until they caught him and tied him to
a stake and watched him burn until he
was incinerated. 1t was a mighty meet
ing in the days of Martin Luther when
he converted others to Justification by
faith in the Saviour instead of justihca-
tion by faith in the church. There were
mighty meetings in the days OF wesley
and Whitfield, and Calvin and Knox and
in later days Finney and Moody, and
today-Torrey-a they spread the gos-
pei. But these cannot compare with the
meetings that will come when the Lord
comes again. That is the one meeting
for which all are preparing, and all OF
these other meetings are but simple
preparations for the meetings that take
place in the air.
JESUS WILL RETURN.
Jesus not only foretold His going
away, but said He would return.
watch, for you know not the hour or
the day in which the Lord cometh.
"There is no prophecy yet to be full
flled before the Lord comes back. Jesus
said in Matthew 81: And this gospel
of the kingdom shall be preached in all
the world for witness unto all nations
and tneu shall the end come. There Is
not a nation on earth where the gospel
has not been preached. 1t says preached
in the nations, and then the end shall
come 1t does not say they shall all be
saved and then the end shall come.
That's what am doing here-preaching.
I'm giving you chance
'"The second coming OF Christ has been
the pole star OF religion. 1 was talking
to one preacher and 1 said: DO you
think that Jesus Christ will come back
TO earth tonight?' He thought minute.
and said: Mo- That's the trouble. so
many think not, and yet Jesus said:
'watcn and pray, for we know not what
hour the Son of Man cometh,' and yet
so many preachers say nothing about
this. Would you go by them? Would
you travel on train where the engineer
did not read his orders? Would you
travel on a steamship where there was
no pilot or compass? Call II rubbish II
YOU will, but Peter, Paul, James and
John called it BLESSED Hope"
-. aRAF FNrFlV
ingly. say to me, oh, it's nothing TO
me. I'm not interested in it Then you
ahouId better get out of the pulpit II
you're not interested. Would you board
a train when you knew the engineer had
refused to accept his orders?
There's no word in the Blple Mhlch
saws to look for the millennium. There
can be no millennium until Jesus Christ
comes. His very presence Will bring the
"Many think the millennium will come
gradually, by everybody getting better
but the Bible doesn't teach any such
thing. 1t says the world will grow worse
Iavgiessness will grow worse. AS in the
days OF Noah so 1t is today. Then there
was robbery, thieving, murder, adultery
and vileness until the flood came anu
wiped II all away. So II VIII De again
I don't know whether it will be pestllehee'
flood or fire: but 1t will come.
by an Increase of knowledge. culturei
with the discovery and invention or arr
ships, radium, liquid air. They think
these things have more TO DO Win the
millennium than Christ has. It's all hol
air. The personal reign of Jesus Christ
has nothing to do with an airship. It's
ali poppycock and nonsense, and Jesus
never Intended any person TO preach any
such stun and pretend to get Z out OF
the Bible. It's the personal reign OF
Christ that brings the millennium. not
gasoline engine.
saThe trouble today is that many preach
ars, instead of going to the Bible. go tc
hooks and take their colorlng for VIVA
the Bible says of Jesus Christ. Thati
where they get their candy.
'aThe fact that Jesus Christ WASH
recognized when He came the hrst tint
shows that 1t is dangerous 10 trust 4
tradition. To a great many they are a.
DANGEROUS as they we're TO Nieodemus