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30 JESUS IS COMING.

is entirely unscriptural to instruct the believer to look for
death, as being synonymous with, or equivalent to, the
Lord's coming.
Dr. David Brown's Testimony.
Rev. David Brown, although a prominent Post-millenial-
ist, recognizes this and he says : "The coming of Christ to
individuals at death however warrantably we may speak
so, and whatever profitable considerations it may suggest
is not fitted for taking that place in the view of the be-
liever which Scripture assigns to the Second Advent." And
he very properly illustrates by the following passages:
"
'Let not your heart be troubled (said Jesus to his sor-
: In my Father's house are many man-
rowing disciples)
sions ; I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go away'
What then? 'Ye shall soon follow me? Death shall short-
ly bring us together?' Nay; but 'If I go away, I will come
again and receive you unto myself; that where I am there
ye may be also.' John 14:3.
" 'And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He
went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing
up into heaven, this same Jesus which is taken up, from
you into heaven shall' "What? Take you home soon to him-
self at death? Nay, but shall 'so come in like manner as
ye have seen Him go into heaven.' Acts 1 :10-11."
"And," he adds, "how know we that by jostling this
event (the Advent) out of its scriptural place in the ex-
pectations of thej Church, we are not, in a great degree, de-
stroying its character and power as a practical principle?
Can we not believe, though unable to trace it, that God's
methods are ever best ; and that as in nature, so perhaps in
revelation, a modification by us of the divine arrangements,
apparently slight, and attended even with some seeming
advantages, may be followed by a total and unexpected
change of results, the opposite of what is anticipated and
desired? So we fear it to be here."* We would that we
had space to quote more, for we admire this frank admis-
*
Second Advent, pages 21, 22.