Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-02

waiting for His return.
Loot Tor second Coming.
II Is not enough 60 say: "Oh, I'm .
Christian; I'm all right
We are not all right unless we obey
the command to watch, for It Is GER
tsinly as much OF a command TO look
for the coming OF the Lord as Il Is 20
keep the sabbath holy. Nothing else
will do so much to keep us right where
we should be In our religious experience.
Knowing that the bank examiner may
drop in at any moment keeps many a
cashier from becoming dishonest
1 suppose there would be a mighty
scramble to get right with God II you
all found out that Jesus was going to re-
turn tonight.
This old world is going TO wake up
some morning and find that all good men
and women have beaten Il. and she'll rub
her eyes when she finds out that the
Lord has been here on the lob and takon
His own with Him
Every time l preach and every time
you do personal work. feel that we are
helping to bring about the second coming
of the Lord, and II sets my oones on fire
when think that the last man or woman
need only be saved before this campaign
Is over I'm order that the Lord may come.
That is my incentive to do the work.
am doing. 1t is my hope chat before
finish here the church will be purified
as a bride, ready to meet Jesus. the
bridegroom, In the air.
Can't Make saints.
Loot at the reign OF wickedness in our
great cities in both high life ana low
No college has ever yet made a saint or
ever win. Education may improve con-
ditions. but It can never onanee OF cleanse
the heart.
Look at the lukewarmncPs and indiffer-
ence in the churches everywhere, and
see what many of them are compelled to
resort to in order TO keep from going un-
der. See TO what schemes and lodges
and foolishness some preachers have to
resort to to get anybody to go And hear
them
There can be no millennium until Jesus
comes; 1t is His presence that makes
the millennium. You might rs well talk
of daylight not coming until the sun goes
down. The millennium cannot begin un-
til satan has been bound IN the pit Moth
ing is moro certain than that the glory
of God shall cover the earth but It will
be after Jesus comes.
Many have an idea the world will
grow better and better until the coming
of the millennium, and everybody will be
converted, and you hear that stuff
preached but the Bible does not teach
any such trash.
On the day before the flood there were
no doubt many people who were sincere
in thinking that the world was growing
better, and yet 1t was 30 hopelessly
wicked that God had to destroy II.
On the day before the cruciflxion there
were men in Jerusalem who undoubtedly
agreed with each other that the world
was growing better.
Likewise also as 1t was In the days
of Lot, they did eat, they drank, they
bought. they sold, they planted, they
builded. But the same day that Lot
went out of Sodom 1t rained fire and
birthstone from heaven and destroyed
them all.
Must Go to bible for Word of God.
Many think and preach that the millen-
mum will be brought about by the in
crease of knowledge. culture, great dis
coveries, such as the gasoline engine
automobile. electricity, radium, llquifiec
air. wireless telegraphy, airships, etc.
These have nothing to do with bring
! ing the millennium. It is the personal
reign OF Christ that brings the millen-
mum. Those who have been the greatest
blessing to the world were filled with
this hope-and preached It.
Big men have been mistaken about
vital things just about as often as little
ones. The safest pilot is not the man
/ who knows the channel best.
II is high time for Christians to in
terpret unfulfilled prophecies by the light
OF prophecies already fulfilled.
The curses of the Jews were brought
to pass literally; so also will be the
blessings.
The scattering was literal so also will
be the gathering.
The pulling down of Zion was literal
so also must be the building up.
The rejection OF Israel was literal: and
so also must be the restoration.
The first coming of Christ was literal
visible and personal. and what right hal
anybody to conclude that His second
coming will be altogether spiritual2 II
His first advent was a real body, why
not the same with His second coming2
What right nave we to say that the
words Judah. Zion, Israel and Jeru-
salem ever mean anything but literal
Judah, Zion, Israel and Jerusalem?
Some one has called attention to the
fact that there are only two or three
places in the whole New Testament
where such names are used in what may
be called a spiritual or figurative way.
While face TO face with them. Jesus
taught His disciples to be In constant
expecta ton of His early return, and they
50 understood Him and lived accordingly
They preached the doctrine and taught II
in their epistles, everyone OF them.
Every time we do personal work or tn
TO get anybody saved, we may be doinI
something that will bring the comlnl
Of the Lord.
Won't Know when II Comes.
There remains no prophecy to be full.
filled. There Is not a nation where tht
gospel has not been preached. So Chris
must be waiting for the completion o.
the body of believers.
When the rupture comes it will com,
I'm the twinkle Of an eye. Those whC
have died In the Lord will be rssurrected
and they, with the believers who ar,
alive, will be caught up to meet tn,
Lord in the air.