THE
GREAT REMOVAL
To those
of God's saints in this age who are counted worthy a complete escape is to be
granted from the disasters, political, terrestrial and planetary, in which
humanity at large is to be involved at the close of this age. The
whole of Advent truth will fall short of practical profit to us unless it stir
us to watchfulness and prayer:-
“Watch ye, therefore, and pray always that ye may be accounted
worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before
the Son of
This
exhortation, this command, was uttered by our Lord after His own recital of the
programme of catastrophes which are to overtake the world’s population during
the period immediately antecedent to His public appearance in glory. Thus escape from the awful period of earth-judgments
is possible. It
is possible but conditioned:-
“What manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness?”
What
indeed? Can any standard of consecration
be too high, any present sacrifice of self too great, any devotion of service or substance too great, if escape from the judgments described is its reward?
- SAMUEL
HINDS WILKINSON.