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34 JESUS IS COMING.

He Promised,
"If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again,
and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye
may be also." John 14:2-3. He gave us this promise
as our hope and comfort while He is away.
He said : "In the world ye shall have tribulation"
(John 16:33), "ye shall weep and lament, and... be sor-
rowful...^^ I will see you again, and your heart shall
rejoice." Verses 20, 22.
Nothing can be more comforting to the Church, the
bride of Christ, 5 then this precious promise which our
absent Lord has left us, that He will come and receive us
unto Himself, and that we shall be with Him, to behold
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His glory.
He has given us
The Lord's Supper,
that we should take the bread and the cup in remembrance
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of Him, and to show His death, till He come. 8 We have
this simple and loving memorial for a continual sign of
this promise during all the earthly pilgrimage of the
(5) Eph. 5:25. Husbands, 31. For this cause shall a man
love your -wives, even as Christ leave his father and mother, and
also loved the church, and gave shall be joined unto his wife,
himself for it ; and they two shall be one flesh.
26. That he might sanctify 32. This is a great mystery ;
and cleanse it with the wash- but I ^peak concerning Christ
ing of water by the word, and the church.
27. That he might present It (6) John 17:24. Father, I
to himself a glorious church, will that they also, whom thou
not having spot, or wrinkle, or hast given me, be with me where
any such thing ; but that it I am ; that they may behold my
should be holy and without blem- glory, which thou hast given me ;
ish. for thou lovedst me before the
28. So ought men to love their foundatipn of the world.
wives as their own bodies. He (7) Luke 22 :19. And he took
that loveth his wife loveth him- bread, and gave thanks, and
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self. brake it, and gave unto them,
29. For no man ever yet hated saying, This is my body which
his own flesh ; but nourisheth is given for you : this do in re-
and cherisheth it, even as the membrance of me.
Lord the cnurch : (8) 1 Cor. 11 :26. For as
30. For we are members of often as ye eat this bread, and
his body, of his flesh, and of his drink this cup, ye do shew the
bones. Lord's death till he come.