fering and wipe away all tears?

Will it bring back the lost paradise? Will famines and pestilences,
earthquakes now be stopped? Will as a result of the victory of
democracy groaning creation be delivered from its groans by the removal
of the curse which has rested upon it so long? Has the perfect day
come when all strife ceases forever and the sword can never again be
unsheathed?

With all the achievements of our times and the realization of our human
hopes the age is still "this present evil age," Satan is not yet
dethroned, but he is still the ruler and the god of the age. The night
is still on. The promised daybreak has not yet come when the shadows
flee away. May God's people remember this now when a wave of optimism
no doubt will soon sweep this world, when everywhere the message of
"peace and safety" will be preached, when the rush for world betterment
will become almost irresistible.

Not Till He Comes

Not till the Lord Jesus Christ comes again and is enthroned as King
over this earth will that day break when the shadows flee away. He
alone can bring that longed for better day for the earth. His is the
power and the glory to do it. He came from heaven down into this night
of sin to purchase back His alienated creation. He paid the price so
wonderfully great which only God can rightly value. The crown of
thorns He wore because the thorns are the emblems of the curse which
rests now upon creation as the result of man's sin. He tasted death
for everything. On the cross He accomplished the mighty work, procured
salvation for believing sinners, sealed Satan's doom, and that work is
furthermore the pledge and guarantee of the victory for God in bringing
back creation to its former perfect condition, only with greater glory
added.

The once thorn-crowned Christ is in glory yonder. There faith's eye
sees Him, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering
of death crowned with glory and honor. But some day He will get the
many crowns of which He is worthy, and when that glorious day comes,
the shadows flee away.

"Come then, and, added to thy many crowns,
Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth,
Thou who alone art worthy! It was thine
By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth;
And Thou hast made it thine by purchase since,
And overpaid its value with Thy blood."[1]

Let us see then what shadows will flee away when He comes back to earth
again and claim