THE ADVENT.
He will come in his glory. Whilst an unthinking and unbelieving world is neglecting still his great salvation, that event will break on mankind in a day when they are not aware, and in an hour when they think not. All things shall be going on in their accustomed order ; the merchant busied in his schemes of commerce and speculation; the senator intent upon the affairs of legislation ; the pleasure-seeker eager as ever to slake his thirst with waters whereof whosoever drinks shall thirst again ; the money seekers pressing all the magnificent energies of mind and body into the pursuit of the gold which is dug out of the earth ; and all save the elect people of God immersed in the things time and of sense, to the neglect of the unseen and eternal. Ungodliness may become more daring than ever, infidelity assume a bolder attitude, and every form of antichrist continue with more deadly hostility to oppose the progress of divine truth. The taunt of the scoffer of the last days shall be heard on every side, —"Where is the promise of his coming ?" But, meanwhile, in the midst of an infidel generation, there will have been a cry of the elect people of God, "Why tarry the wheels of his chariot?" The voices of the martyred dead shall join the loud complaint, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth ?" From many and many a saint the cry shall be heard, "Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly ; till at length the slumbering world shall be startled by the approach of the Son of Man, and the recompence to be showered on the redeemed, no less than the judgments to be executed on them that obey not the gospel, shall combine to establish the truth of the saying, " Shall not God avenge his own elect who cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them ? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily." And who can tell whether we may not be standing now up-
on the very margin of these events ? Who can tell how near we mav now be to the time wh<n the cry, " Heboid he co neth," sin!! -mss from lip to lip and from tongue t > tan's of the earth.— The Rev. Li. Bickerstith, 21. A.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 9, 1 December 1855, Page 6
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401THE ADVENT. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 9, 1 December 1855, Page 6
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