The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together
Isaiah 40:5
We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be
converted to Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to
the moles and the bats; when Romanism shall be exploded, and the
crescent of Mohammed shall wane, never again to cast its baleful rays
upon the nations; when kings shall bow down before the Prince of
Peace, and all nations shall call their Redeemer blessed. Some
despair of this. They look upon the world as a vessel breaking up and
going to pieces, never to float again. We know that the world and all
that is therein is one day to be burnt up, and afterwards we look for
new heavens and for a new earth; but we cannot read our Bibles
without the conviction that--
"Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run."
We are not discouraged by the length of His delays; we are not
disheartened by the long period which He allots to the church in
which to struggle with little success and much defeat. We believe
that God will never suffer this world, which has once seen Christ's
blood shed upon it, to be always the devil's stronghold. Christ came
hither to deliver this world from the detested sway of the powers of
darkness. What a shout shall that be when men and angels shall unite
to cry "Hallelujah, hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent
reigneth!" What a satisfaction will it be in that day to have had a
share in the fight, to have helped to break the arrows of the bow,
and to have aided in winning the victory for our Lord! Happy are they
who trust themselves with this conquering Lord, and who fight side by
side with Him, doing their little in His name and by His strength!
How unhappy are those on the side of evil! It is a losing side, and
it is a matter wherein to lose is to lose and to be lost for ever. On
whose side are you?
