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mind and heart which
True watching is an attitude of
would joyfully and quickly turn from any occupation toy
meet our Beloved, rapturously exclaiming "this is the Lord;
Him."
we have waited for Isa, 25 :9.
Continue to Watch.
But, perhaps, you say : "The Church has been watching
for eighteen hundred years and He has not come, and He>
may not come for eighteen hundred years more."
Well, possibly He may not ; but do we know He will not ?
and shall we set a date for His coming? and cease to
watch?
Post-millennialists say that He will not come for a thou-
sand years or more, which is equivalent to setting a date,
as it places His coming out of all possibility in our life-
time; and then, dear reader, how quickly do we lay down
our watching..
The principal condemnation pronounced in the Scrip-
ture, in regard to the Lord's return, is to those who say
34
"My Lord delayeth His coming."
35
It is immeasurably better to be ready than to be late.
Pre-millennialists believe that He may come any mo-
ment, and that we should ever be found watching and
waiting, with our loins girded about, and our lights burn-
ing, and ourselves like men that wait for their Lord. Lu.
12:35.
The eighteen hundred years which have passed only make
"our salvation" much "nearer than when we believed," and
Rom. 13:11.
it is "high time to awake out of sleep."
A Little While.
There is no prophesied event which has to be fulfilled be-
fore His coming in the air to receive the Church. Therefore
(34) Mat. 24:48. But and if 51. And shall cut him asun-
that evil servant shall say in his der, and appoint him his portion
heart, My lord delayeth his com- with the hypocrites : there shall
be and
Ing ; weeping gnashing of
49. And shall begin to smite teeth.
his fellow servants, and to eat See also Luke 12 :45.
and drink with the drunken; (35) Mat. 25:10. And while
50. The lord of that servant they went to buy, the bridegroom
shall ccme in a day when he came ; and they that were ready
looketh not for him, and in an went in with him to the mar-
bonr that he is not aware of. riage : and the door was shut