We wait for the crown of glory, until he come. 1 Pet. v. 4.
We wait for re-union with departed friends, until he come. 1 Thes. iv. 13-18.
We wait for Satan to be bound, until he come. Rev. xx. 3.
And so let us watch and wait till he comes.
D. L. Moody, who is perhaps the most popular and efficient preacher of the gospel of Christ in the world, to-day, is evidently fully committed to a belief in the speedy coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, to judge the world and establish his eternal kingdom. Looking over the published reports of his sermons in Great Britain and in this country, since the beginning of 1874, I give extracts which go to show in a plain light the man's inner love and hope as relates to the last things, and his warm, bold, consistent manner of expressing the same. Thousands pray, God bless D. L. Moody.
1. Mr. Moody proclaims that the grand symbols of Daniel's, second and seventh chapters, announce four dominant world empires, and but four, to cover all centuries of human probation.
2. That these kingdoms are and were Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome.
3. That these have had their day of earthly supremacy and the last has nearly passed away.
4. That the fifth kingdom of Daniel is God's, to come in its order as the fifth, to overthrow all previous kingdoms, to be a visible and eternal kingdom, and to be established by Christ in person at his second coming.