manifested in the midst of them, and they were to live and reign with Him a thousand years. To him this last conclusion appeared to be the proper one.
But then they might say might there not be something in this view from which they might recoil? His reply was that it was said in the New Testament that the Saviour could come again; and there was nothing impossible in it. Our blessed Lord had a body and a glorified humanity. He sojourned on earth forty days after his resurrection from the dead, and he was handled and touched by his disciples. The transfiguration on the Mount pointed to the same end. Why then should they have any difficulty in believing that the Saviour would come again? St. Paul spoke most decisively "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also, which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him" It was said by some who did not agree with his views that there was no evidence that the Saviour was to be present on earth. To him (Dr. C) it appeared Christ was to be personally present. In Col iii, 4, it was affirmed "When Christ, who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory"and in the Apocalypse (chap XX) we read "They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years" they were to be "like him", to be "as he is". Throughout the Apocalypse John constantly spoke of his coming. If you were not with him it would be because you were not a Christian. The whole of chapter 20 assumed that Christ the Messiah was literally to reign with him for a thousand years. The lecturer there dwelt upon verse 2 of the chapter, and stated his opinion that much of the crime in the world was the result of Satan's influence. He did not believe Satan to be a myth, as the "Essays" would make him. He also dwelt on "misjustering angels" watching over the Christian during his sojourn on earth. He had often thought that the spirits that had left us were often about us. We did not see them, but they could see us. We were surrounded probably by "a cloud of witnesses and glorified spirits."
Referring to the restricted power of Satan to deceive the earth, the reverend lecturer said, surely if there was a moment in which that power was exercised, it was at this present time. The stupendous events of the last decade would be a magnificent sermon with which to open the forthcoming Exhibition. Why was every nation preparing for war? Ask England, ask France, ask Austria - they could not tell. But it was a blessed thought that at the end of the great war of Almighty God, the stromy morning would end in a bright and lasting moon. The troubled sky would become bright, beautiful and sunny; the noon of time would strike and a thousand years would begin of felicity, without a parallel and without a precedence in the six thousand years which had gone before. It would be a glorious time, when the earth would put on he bridal attire, and joy exceedingly that it -
