| Show THE SECOND ADVENT J M r I a The first advent of our Lord iu in the meridian of time timea a h 7 is the great event of history The overshadowing event of prophecy is His second advent of which the Scriptures a t speak with a and clearness cleanness that leave no room for forse se a 1 doubt This same Jesus which is taken lip up from you into ht shall so conic come ill un like manner as ye have 1 have seen him o a r 1 ill into to n Acts J a n 1 I This is a prophetic declara declaration 1 tion with no uncertain sound j l r 1 There i is diversity of opinion as to the interpretation of ti Scripture passa passages e relating g to the thc second advent the nil mil fit t t and kindred subjects and it is necessary to lobe he watch watchful ful against premature conclusions and nd uncharitable criticisms But as IS it is a I fact that the Lord will conic and establish g lisp lish Ills His kin kingdom dom up il this earth it behooves the thc Bible Bibe stu student t t dent humbly to tn watch for th sj signs ns of Ills Ilis coming and to tobe tore re k f f it 1 be prepared for the midnight cry r k 1 p r The present time is undoubtedly ly the hour of Gods prep prepy y for the great day When we behold the he 7 orF tt inventions and of our age we wc are arc a forced d to t 0 time the conclusion t that wc tC t are arc drawing c C and the establishment of the promised kingdom of the thc gin t I M Lord This is the time of th end in which as the Prophet Taniel expresses it manly sll shall run to and fro and know knowl knowledge t j sr 4 edge be increased increase lit his comments on this text Sir Isaac Newton wrote I should not he be surprised if the time 1 would come that Would w uld travel at the rate of fifty miles to an hour Voltaire ridiculed Sir Isaac Isa c Newton and called clIed i S him a poor old dotard because lie he declared that he found in j i f ial r one of the la 1 of Daniel a prediction of speedy travel i f as one of the characteristics of the tine time of the end But we ll u i SS rF r beli ye ve Newton has been heen more than vindicated by the events l S i as we notice them around us cyer every day dayAs r As for the th increase of knowledge another character characteristic characteristic of the period of the end when was there a time in the le history of man in which this increase was so marked as the Children from ten to fourteen years ears of age are areS S generally instructed upon subjects of which in former j t generations only few did ever dream A century ago bare barely barei i i ly to read reach and and to write were deemed great achievements To Today Tot t i I day clay a child that does docs not know something of algebra last lan languages and the numerous other subjects that go to make makeup up e the studies in the common schools is considered ignorant d ol I Knowledge is increasing Man lan is approaching the ver very boundaries of the spiritual world worl that is manifest in the mat ma mag g serial creation Dr Loeb belIeves he has found some of pr secrets of life He has announced that he has succeeded in producing organisms showing all the essentials of animal lift life Prof Le Lc flue Duc a Frenchman has just announce announced that I plant lift can he be produced h by action Uis llis plants t Hr t i have nothing of the vegetable e in their makeup but they he Have after their production as do the real vegetables the they theys It ru s rr a t p pIt resemble under natural conditions Into the makeup of r a tl f thc these c products nothing living enters Prof Le Due t seeds scads in pill forms formes one port of sulphate of copper and tO taro tarot t parts of glucose These are arc deposited in bullion mode made of q s t gelatine to which is added 3 per cent of ferro cyanide oft of hi t r t potassium ant and a little sea salt The seeds g give c birth to toJ J j plants re resembling seaweeds and other marino marine plants elms The plants thus produced arc influenced similarly b by III heat at and am w i i coM cold as are the ve vegetables et they re resemble The m of scientists arc realty marvelous Xo No prophecy has ever i been more clearl clearly fulfilled than this concerning the increase 4 t o of travel and the increase of knowledge ft We arc also nho t told ld that one of the characteristics of the them I I m r time of the end is the multiplication of trouble If we wet I I look Jook about its IIse we think it is not Mt hard hIml to discern the elements I I t 94 ef t r from which a multitude of troubles will tinlI spring pring We i 6 seem to hc be nearing the time ill iii which human passion Ilu hu human t man frenzy will know no bounds and before which law and nud 1 order arc nrc by complete anarchy a h we read react of a time when 1 it brothers h Brothers slay J Ji Sisters i children Shed each others blood 5 t 5 i Hard is lh the world l i e a Sensual Semual silt sill grows huge huget t There ar are ages i Shields are arc cleft it twain s ages i 1 S S Till the world falls dead And much mon no longer spare Or pit pity one another a s If we closely study the signs of the times we are arc also justified in the hope that the day da is drawing near when the thc blessings of o the Lord shall fill the whole 1 F earth during the millennial 31 reign of the King of kings and andt t f t Lord of lords This expectation shouted invite to a deeper study of the subject and inspire the Scriptural prayer 1 Even so come Lord Jesus For then t All evil there thereon an endless death white while goodness dr From that great purified at last lasto r ur I y o a life far higher better nobler than the past pastS S S |
