Evening, December 24
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“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 forever. On whose side are
you?