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THE BRIDE OF CHRIST. 97

yearning to go. God has made the wedding and prepared
the feast, and all things (except the Bride) are ready for
the rapturous meeting, and blessed are they who are
called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. Rev. 19 :9.
0! that the Church would work a hundredfold more
earnestly for the conversion of souls and the edifying of
the body of Christ, that the bride might be complete, and
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thus hasten the coming of her Lord, ever listening to
catch the midnight cry: "Behold the Bridegroom cometh!"
and "so be ready to go out to meet Him." Mat. 25:6.
"O! I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved is mine;
He brings a poor vile sinner into His 'house of wine.'
I stand upon His merit I know no safer stand,
Not e'en where glory dwelleth in Immanuel's land.
The bride eyes not her garment, but her dear Bridegroom's
face;
I will not gaze at glory, but on my King of Grace;
Not at the crown He giveth, but on His pierced hand
The Lamb is all the glory of Immanuel's land."
(46) 2 Pet. 3 :11. Seeing then 12. Looking for and hasting
that all these things shall bedis- the coming of the day of God,
solved, what manner of persons wherein the heavens being on
ought ye to be in all holy con- fire shall be dissolved, and the
versation and godliness. elements shall melt with fer-
vent heat?