"The world as yet knows nothing of this unwritten event; the great Ecclesiasticisms are in total ignorance that it occurred. Lot all those who wish to decide positively in their own minds whether it is true or not read for themselves, in the Revised Bible, Matthew xxiv., Mark xiii., Luke xxi., and John xiv., carefully noting the renderings given in the margin. The four Evangelists stand like four solid pillars bearing witness to its truth. No impartial readers who study these four records of the words uttered by our Lord Jesus Christ, concerning the approaching destruction of Jerusalem and its splendid temple, and His own immediate coming after that awful event, can fail to see the truth for themselves of this new light thrown upon that terrible time, and of this immense importance to us that that time is past, and not still to come. They will only be surprised that this truth, notwithstanding all the sarcasms of the opponents of Christianity, has not been discovered in the centuries that have since passed. According to the words of St. Paul, 'blindness in part' must have happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in (Rom. xi. 25).

"The Gentiles shall come to His light, and kings to the brightness of His rising"

(Isaiah ix. 3). Come they must, as the wheels of time carry them forward to blessing or condemnation, whether they know it or not, whether they believe it or not. That day will come to the nations in the midst of teeming masses of men who rule in the insolence of power and the pride of wealth, or suffer in the bonds of oppression and the pangs of poverty. Thus will the God of Jesus and of Moses appear to judge the Gentiles, as once before to judge the Jews.

"The last day" of the Jewish age was signalized by the most wonderful and terrible events conceivable to mortal mind. A few, the saints, the chosen ones of the Lord, were made immortal. On that day all the parables of Jesus were accomplished. [1] The waiting and wise Virgins were saved (Matt. xxv. 1-13). The labourers received every man his penny (Matt. xx. 1-16). The wheat was gathered into the garner and the tares were burnt up (Matt.. iii. 12; xiii. 24-30, 36-43). The good fish in the not were carried home, the bad were cast out (Matt. xiii. 47-50). The vineyard was taken from the wicked husbandman and given to others; and the wretches of individuals at death. See, however, Note, page 70.-E. H. C. who had said 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him!' miserably perished

(Matt. xxi. 33-45). The marriage supper of the Kin was spread (Matt. xxii. 1-14), and Jesus and His bride (the Ecclesia) were united, never to be other than One again

(Rev. xxi. 2,9). " The time which elapsed between the departure of Jesus and His return for the deliverance of the faithful was brief. It was 'a little while,' as He Himself had said

(John xiv. 19; xvi.16-19). The Twelve had not gone through the cities of Israel with their inviting message or warning proclamation, ere their Deliverer again appeared

(Matt. x. 23). The Second Advent occurred before the generation of that day had disappeared. Some who had listened to Jesus before the Crucifixion were still struggling with adversity when His feet again rested on the Mount of Olives. His friends and foes were brought by angelic power to meet Him. The sheep and the goats were parted

(Matt. xxv. 32). At the word of the Lord, persecuted and persecutors, all stood in His presence to hear His words of approval or of condemnation (Matt. xxv. 34, 41).

"The events of the 'last day' of the Jewish age most probably occurred without the presence of any merely outside spectators. Some who were participators therein disappeared from the world in order to be admitted to the celestial habitations prepared for their reception, and these faithful ones are the saints who are to be with Jesus at His Third Advent. Others were doomed to the second death, where darkness reigns and from whence no tales can be told to the living. The rest were condemned to wander over the face of the earth without king or country. The scene at Olivet at that time was one of solitude and desolation. Jerusalem, bard by, was but a heap of stones, and the Temple a pile of ashes. Pharisees and Scribes, lawyers and doctors, Rabbis and the congregation of the synagogue, had all been killed or carried away captive and sold into slavery among the nations. Who, then, was left to tell the world of the wonderful event, and that the promises of the Lord to His Twelve had been fulfilled to the letter ? Listen to these words of the Christ: ' Verily, I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away till all these things be accomplished. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away' (Matt. xxiv. 34, 35). And this declaration is repeated in Mark xiii. 30, and Luke xxi. 32, and is emphasized in John xiv. 28, 29: 'I go away and come again unto you. And now I have told you before it come to pass, that When it is come to pass, ye may believe.'" The late Lady Caithness, 1894.

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