written, "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord" (Isa. lv. 8).

On the other hand, we cannot demand all difficulties shall be removed, all questions answered, or all doubts

solved; while no objection can be, or should be entertained if it be founded on human reason. For man's

word is worthless, when it is wholly a question of "What saith the Lord?"

If God has said that the Millenium is to come first, then it will surely come. If God has said that the preaching

of the Gospel is to convert the world, then no matter what the apparent difficulties may be, or what man may

say about increase of population, insufficiency of means, &c., &c., the world will surely be so converted.

There is no lack of power with God, and if he has said it, He will most assuredly do it.

But if on the other hand, God has said that the object of the Gospel is to take out from the nations a people

for His name, then no more can be done; let ma n preach, and persuade, and toil, as he may. In either case,

exactly what God has said, will be done; no more and no less.

What then does the word of God teach. Our subject as announced tells you our belief, that the Pre -millenial

Advent of Christ is the truth of the Bible.

There are several ways of procedure by which this truth may be established, and many are the Scriptures

which might be quoted. But as our time is limited it may accomplish a double object if we confine ourselves

to those Scriptures which are usually referred to as supporting the post-millenial view.

Of course, the Scriptures may be perverted and wrested; they may be taken apart from their context; they

may be "interpreted," so that when God says one thing, man may say he means another. All this can be

done. The atheist may quote, "There is no God," and the Devil may quote, or misquote, so as to serve his

purpose. The only way to arrive at the mind of God is to study and believe it "all," and take the text with the

context. The Jews of o ld fell into error, yea the Disciples failed to understand the Scripture, simply because

they did not believe "all Scripture." "O fools," said Jesus to His Disciples (Luke xxiv. 25-27) "and slow of

heart to believe ALL that the Prophets have spoken: ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to

enter into His glory?" They were "slow to believe ALL." They did not want Christ to suffer, just as

christians now do not want Him to reign on earth. Christians like to dwell on the "sufferings," and the Jews

liked to dwell on the "glory." But both alike come under the Saviour's censure, "O fools, and slow of heart to

believe ALL that the Prophets have spoken."

Now let us look at a few Scriptures of the Prophets and "believe all."

I. Isa. xi. 9. "The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." But note how

this scene of blessedness is ushered in with judgment and Christ's coming, in verse 4, "With Righteousness

shall he JUDGE the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and He shall smite the earth with

the rod of His mouth and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked" (i.e. at the coming of Christ,

see 2 Thes. ii. 8).

II. Isa. ii. 2, 3. "And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's House shall be

established in the top of the mountains...and all nations shall flow unto it, and many people shall go and

say, Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and He will

teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths, &c." Now note the context in which this prophecy

occurs. The words immediately preceding, declare that it is "concerning Judah and Jerusalem," and the

words that immediately follow tell us that this shall be when "He shall JUDGE among the nations, and shall

rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks;

nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Thus we learn that t his

time of universal peace is ushered in by judgment, and not by the increase of Gospel light.