Show THE COMING OF CHRIST Rev Varley Says the Second Advent is at Hand r 1 THE TIMES ARE RIPE AND PROPHECY FIXES THE DATE Will Not Be Delayed More Than a Few Years This i Not an Age of Miracles But One is Coming These Who Will Rule With Christ i the Holy City HE Personal Advent of the Lord Jesus k7I Christ or the Coring MI Cor-ing Great Revolution rti I t Revolu-tion was the subject t71L I 1 sub-ject discoursed by vA the eloquent London k41 I Lon-don evangelist Rev 1 Henry Varley be fcre a large audience at the theater last 1 night Mr Varley exploited ihe somewhat some-what startling theory the-ory that the second appearance of the ChrlbL > o ci occur within the next few years and that judgments and distress among men were to precede the great latterday advent of the king of kings The gospel of Christs first appearance appear-ance he said was preached in the simple sim-ple sentence On earth good will peace towards menThe men-The chief object of Christ he continued con-tinued a not to reveal God though that was one of his purposes it was not to make 0 great sacrifice for men although he accomplished both of these the principal motive was that he might reign as king But the world in its blindness rejected the deliverer have read has The prophet of whom we ha come the priest has come the sacrifice has been made but the king is not yet People said when the ruler came we know no king but Caesar and they were unwilling to become members of the greater kingdom of Christ When geater kingom wilderness 1 John came before him out of the derness his message was The kingdom king-dom of God is at hand Then God himself him-self came and was in contact with the prince of this world who spent 40 days in attempting to overcome his allegiance allegi-ance to the father in heaven GOD AT WORK Then God himself was at work among the multitude feeding them and curing them of their evils and establishing I curing lishing his title a the competent king lshing hs Then there is a new chapter and the great king of mankind is rejected The aim was that glory to God in the highest should he given But he a rejected and as a result glory to man was permanent Alexander Napoleon Na-poleon and Louis of France have arisen and wielded the scepter Men did not want peace or the king of peace and I we have had 19 centuries of war as a result We have in lieu of a righteous right-eous dominion international conferences confer-ences strifes separation between socialism so-cialism and monarchial leadership Christ himself saw what the future would be He told i in the New Testament Tes-tament He likens himself to a nobleman noble-man who has gone into a far country to receive a kingdom and who will return re-turn I cannot be said that the kingdom king-dom was overthrown by Christs rejection re-jection it has simply been delayed The time foreseen by Daniel has not yet been fulfilled When it is Christ will return to the earth The outcome I of human history during the absence of the Nobleman will be that the great I majority will reject him and the minority mi-nority will be his disciples This has 1crltY illustrated and is illustrated in iustrted all the great cities of the world and during all the centuries There are ten servants and a great mass of Christ witnesses of esses rejecting citizens We are rejectng tzens the actual fulfillment of what he foresaw fore-saw There is no characteristic change during the Lords absence Not many citizens become servants Do not delude de-lude yourself into the belief that in being be-ing with the Christrejecting majority servants of you are safe Only the Christ are secure I SECOND COMING IS NIGH I think continued Mr Varley that Christ is at hand because Jerusalem Jeru-salem was to be trodden down a the nations until the times of the Gentiles were fulfilled The times may be justly calculated ap 2520 years and as I the treading down began about 600 years before the coming of the Savior the day of fulfillment cannot be long delayed This is no Idle speculation Jerusalem is now under the sway of the Eru Mahometan prophet I I am morally certain that the year I I of 1899 will not close without our seeing that Jerusalem has ceased to be under I the sway of the sultan Therefore I are on the eve of splendid and important im-portant events I Rev Varley then discussed the second sec-ond coming in the light of a logical and i harmonious event and said that nothing i noth-ing could be more natural than that 1 tie 1 T at ruler should come again to I bring the world into a quiescent state 1 At that time he said the faithful servants will be instantly caught up I into his presence Bodies now lying I in I the tomb will be made spiritual and wi will come forth in the splendid phalanx I of the son of God Then the day of the sceptic will be over sceptc wi NO MIRACLES NOW Referring to the miracles which Chnst performed Mr Varley said it was true that none of these were known now I was material he said I that there should be no miracles today This was a dispensation of faith when the truth of Christ made the appeal I and not miracles Miraculous times had t I alwayS from the beginning of the world alternated with long periods of silence I was demonstrated from the I j days of Adam to Christ Christ he claimed was both human and divine His mother was human but his father was a God I Another age of miracles he said is destined to come according to the I purposes of the Heavenly Father The day of the resurrection will he one of I these Christ when he left the world I said I go to prepare a place for you j and that is one of the reasons for his I absence This is a beautiful thought Contemplation of this is better than the vanities of dress or novel reading or I the pleasures of the card table Mr Varley then referred eloquently I to the glories of the eternal city which I would occupy a ground space equal to the whole ofEurope In these days I he said there wit be 144000 chosen ones who are to rule with Christ in the holy city These are to be they who will have the executive power They will include I believe all the righteous ones from the beginning I Is beauti ful to think of the politics of the eternal eter-nal city where the mansions are People Peo-ple will be given places of executive trust according to their fitness just a they are in our own government Not all the faithful will be rulers there I Is unnatural to believe so beIee The residence of Christ and his people peo-ple in that day will not be the earth I 1 will ho over the earth and will shine before I be-fore the eves of the mundane like a brilliant constellation constelaton Suicides and murders have increased I alarmingly Inferior powers are being oppressed and subjugated by superior ones The whole world IP I groaning and in travail and is waiting not for the I science of men but for the coming of the rejectedking and ruler of the earth In that day which is distant but a little lit-tle while the tares will be separated from tho wheat Rev Varley speaks tonight at the theatre and on Thursday night will de = > I liver Congregational his farewell church discourse at the First |