The Revelation of Jesus Christ - The Herald

watchfire she took her stand each night, praying to the winds to hasten on the sluggish
sails, that he who was everything to her might come. Even so that blessed Lord, who has
loved us unto death, has gone away to the mysterious Holy Land of Heaven, promising on
His return to make us His happy and eternal Bride. Some say that He is gone forever, and
that here we shall never see Him more. But His last word was, 'Yea, I come quickly.' And
on the dark and misty beach, sloping out into the eternal sea, each true believer stands by
the love-lit fire, looking, and waiting, and praying, and hoping for the fulfillment of His
word, in nothing gladder than in His pledge and promise, and calling even from the soul
of sacred love, 'Amen! Come! Lord Jesus.'"
"Even so come Lord Jesus."
We would call attention to the sequel to which this beautiful picture points: The longpredicted,
dark, stormy morning, that was to witness the return of Him who gave the
promise, is at last dawning; but before the blessed sunshine of His revealing, before the
full dawn of the light, comes the darkest of the night. While a stricken world has been
reeling to and fro with the shocks of war, revolution, and strife; and while the sea and
waves of anarchy have been roaring and lashing the doomed ship of state of present
institutions, and the pilots have been endeavoring vainly to weather the terrible storm;
some of the Lord's saints who have preserved the true spirit of betrothal ("Come, Lord
Jesus, come quickly") and have been watching and longing for the glorious Apocalypse of
the Divine One, who said that His coming would be like a thief, have by the eye of faith
through the sure word of prophecy, seen a form rising up through the stormy mists,
growing more and more distinct, as once it was seen from Galilee's shore, and have
recognized it to be the One for whom they have been longing. Though these still find
themselves in the midst of life's tempestuous sea, they have the assurance that soon they
will once more hear their Divine Lord command the sea and the waves, saying, "Peace, be
still!" In obedience to that voice, the storms and tempests of earth will cease and again
there will be a great calm. Yea, verily, His presence will yet, soon we trust, bring in the
Day long promised when all the mists, shadows and darkness of the night time will pass
away and give place to the morning of light--the morning of the resurrection; the day of
the prisoner's release; the day for which the whole creation for six thousand years has
waited and travailed in pain; indeed, the day of the great consummation, the day that
shouts the Harvest Home--the day that never dies!
St. John had heard the voice from Heaven saying, "There shall be no more death, neither
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed
away." (Rev. 21:4.) The Prophet, too, declared this same day, saying, "The ransomed of the
Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they
shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."--Isa. 35:10.
Who indeed that has this vision of the Divine Program; this vision of the great Prince of
Peace and of His victorious reign; this vision of Him who will usher mankind into one
grand eternal day of unbroken fellowship and of unspeakable joy--who indeed with such
a vision would not from the depth of his soul cry out with the beloved John--"Even so,