has 80 shamefuUy neglected shall appear in the clouds of heaven, and put down every enemy under His feet ? — Surely he will call on the rocks to fall on him and on the hills to cover him. (Hosea x. 8.) But he wiU call in vain for help, if he has never called on Christ before. Happy will they be in that day who have fled betimes from the wrath to come, and been washed in the blood of the Lamb ! We see, secondly, in this passage, how complete wiU be the security of true Christiana at the second advent of Christ. We read that our Lord said to His disciples, " When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads ; for your redemption draweth
nigh."
However terrible the signs of Christ's second coming may be to the impenitent, they need not strike terror into the heart of the true believer. They ought rather to fill him with joy. They ought to remind him that his complete deliverance from sin, the world, and the devil, is close at hand, aud that he shall soon bid an eternal farewell to sickness, sorrow, death, and temptation. The very day when the unconverted man shall lose every- thing, shall be the day when the believer shall enter on his eternal reward. The very hour when the worldly man's hopes shall perish, shall be the hour when Hie believer's hope shall be exchanged for joyfdl certainty and fuU possession.
The servant of God should often look forward to Christ's second advent. He will find the thought of that day a cordial to sustain him under all the trials and per- secutions of this present life. " Yet a little time," let him remember, ''and he that shall come will come and will not