he glory of His eternal
and unbegun sonship with the Father, as chief of the angels and as
that man who is very God, as that God who is real and immortal man.
Then will He set up the kingdom, the government for which the ages
have dreamed and groaned and guessed and prayed.

That hour of hours!

Satan bound, iniquity overthrown, God and Christ and the Holy Spirit
ruling in the lives of men. The very air surcharged with the
righteousness of God; so surcharged that he who thinks a lie shall
fall dead in the tracks where he meditated it. No longer need of
judge, of jury, of prison bars, nor hangman's rope, nor electric
chair.

An hour when no longer the scarlet poppies of hate, of jealousies
and mad ambition shall bud and blossom into war. War over forever,
swords beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks. Every
man the same right as any other man, the right to sunshine, to air,
to water, the beauty of the landscape and all the usufruct of earth.

That hour when no man shall call another his master; when no longer
a man shall toil and bend his back and break his heart for a stipend
of bread; for a hole in the ground and the worm of corruption as
mistress of his bed.

That hour when life shall be worth while and when the centuries of
peace and perfectness of actual being shall pass on till they are
counted as eternity.

And because this government of peace and splendour and all the
outflowing possibilities of a world in which righteousness shall
reign and God shall be first can be brought about only by and at the
Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; because until He does so
come wars and sorrows and the darkness of sin will continue; because
all the legislation of man and all the leagues of nations will
utterly fail to establish permanent peace; because in spite of the
best endeavours of all the merely moral forces in the earth there is
nothing can keep this system called the world from going on the
rocks; because only the hand of God's Christ can break the bands of
iniquity, quiet earth's fever pulses and putting down all authority
bring in the peace that never can be broken; because when He comes
the government of right and truth and the life that is really worth
while shall come; and because from my heart I want to see that
longed-for hour of heaven on earth, I preach the Second Coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ.

VII

It is at the Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ that the Earth
Wil