meet God. And our Lord says, " so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.''
Let us mark this text, and store it up in our minds There are many strange opinions current on this subject, even among good men. Let us not flatter ourselves that the heathen will all bo converted, and the earth filled with the knowledge of God, before the Lord comes. Let us not dream that the end of all things cannot be at hand, because there is yet much wickedness both in the Church and in the world. Such views receive a flat contradiction in the passage now before us. The days of Noah are the true type of the days when Christ shall return. Millions of professing Christians will be found thoughtless, unbelieving, Godless, Christless, worldly, and unfit to meet their Judge. Let us take heed that we are not found amongst them.
The second thing that demands our attention, is the awful separation that loill take place when the Lord Jesus comes again. We read twice over, that '^ one shall be taken and the other left."
The godly and the ungodly, at present, are all mingled together. In the congregation and in the place of wor- ship— in the city and in the field — the children of God and the children of the world are all side by side. But it shall not be so always. In the day of our Lord's re- turn, there shall at length be a complete division. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. at the last trumpet, each party shall be separated from the other for ever- more. Wives shall be separated from husbands — parents from children — brothers from sisters — masters from servants — preachers from hearers. There shall be no