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due season?" "Blessed is that servant whom His Lord
when He cometh shall find so doing." Lu. 12 :43.
Ah! brethren, post-millennialism is hiding this STAR OB
HOPE from the church, and incurring thereby a responsi-
bility that God alone can estimate. The Church is lan-
guishing because of this neglected truth.
Solemn Warning.
We beg of you to heed the following solemn words from
Dr. Hugh McNeill: "My reverend brethren, watch, preach
the coming of Jesus. I charge you, in the name of our
common Master, PREACH THE COMING OP JESUS; solemnly
and affectionately, in the name of God, I charge you,
PREACH THE COMING OF JESUS. WATCH ye, therefore, lest,
coming suddenly, He find the porter sleeping."
Pre-millennialism has a vital life in it, and gives the dis-
ciple a real love and relish for the Word of God, which
opens up to him like a new book.
Jlven Dr. Brown recognizes this, and he says: "Pre-
millennialists have done the Church a real service by call-
ing attention to the place which the second advent holds in
the Word of God and the scheme of divine truth."*
Many have we heard say, "Why, the Bible is another
book to me since I accepted this truth." And though one
is almost lost in the unfolding majesty and infinity of
God's plans revealed therein, yet do we find it such a store-
house of truth and comfort, that continual study ever gives
us richer food.
It is the MOST PRACTICAL DOCTRINE in the Christian faith,
for "every man that hath this hope in Him (Christ) puri-
fieth himself even as He (Christ) is pure." 1 John 3:3.
And do we not want PRACTICAL HOLINESS?
Again, this doctrine when received into the heart is a
mighty power to separate one from the love of the world.
And were it thoroughly believed and preached in the
Church, she would readily give of her substance so liber-
ally that we should not be begging for money to sustain
our missions.
*The Second Advent, Page 13.