oes not make a great deal of baptism, but the
New Testament only speaks about baptism thirteen times, while it speaks
of the return of our Lord fifty times; and yet the church has had very
little to say about it. Now, I can see a reason for this: the devil does
not want us to see this truth, for nothing would wake up the church so
much. The moment a man takes hold of the truth that Jesus Christ is
coming back again to receive his friends to himself, this world loses
its hold upon him; gas-stocks and water-stocks, and stocks in banks and
horse-railroads, are of very much less consequence to him then. His
heart is free, and he looks for the blessed appearing of his Lord, who
at his coming will take him into his blessed kingdom.

In 2 Peter 1:20, we read: "No prophecy of the scripture is of any
private interpretation." Some people say: "O yes, the prophecies are all
well enough for the priests and doctors, but not for the rank and file
of the church." But Peter says: "The prophecy came not by the will of
man, but holy men spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost," and those
men are the very ones who tell us of the return of our Lord. Look at
Daniel 2:45, where he tells the meaning of that stone which the king saw
in his dream that was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that
broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold.
"The dream is certain and the interpretation thereof sure," says Daniel.
Now we have seen the fulfillment of that prophecy all but the closing
part of it. The kingdoms of Babylon and Medo-Persia and Greece and Rome
have all been broken in pieces, and now it only remains for this stone
cut out of the mountain without hands to smite the image and break it in
pieces till it becomes like the dust of the summer threshing floor, and
for this stone to become a great mountain and fill the whole earth.

BUT HOW IS HE GOING TO COME?

We are told how he is going to come. When those disciples stood looking
up into heaven at the time of his ascension, there appeared two angels,
who said Acts 1:11: "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into
heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so
come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." How did he go
up? He took his flesh and bones up with him. "Look at me; handle me;
give me something to eat; a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me
have; I am the identical one whom they crucified and laid