altogether a matter of reward. It is for those to whom at the Judgment Seat our Lord shall say: "Well done thou good and faithful servant.' VII. Christ as Judge is already imminently before the door of the Church.

This is the Divine and Holy Ghost way of saying that the coming of Christ for His Church is imminent.

So imminent is it that the Holy Ghost says He is before the door. If the door should be opened the Church would find herself face to face with Him, not only as her Saviour but as her righteous Judge.

And this is the announced order; as it is writ

ten:

"The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God."

While many predicted events are between us and the appearing of Christ in glory, many things which form the burden of prophetic warning and find their amplified accent in our Lord's discourse and are uttered and illuminated for us in the parenthetic chapters of Revelation, those terrible chapters which extend from the sixth to

the nineteenth, between us and the coming of the Lord for the Church, there is not a single foreannounced event.

It may be at any hour and therefore at any

moment.

He has only to speak, the door will be opened. According to the Word of God, the testimony of the Son of God and the corroborative and unbroken testimony of the Apostles, there is not the thickness of tissue paper between us who are Christians and the Judgment Seat of Christ.

In the light of this tremendous judicial imminency the corollary of the present opportunity is immensely self-evident.

As Christians we ought to arouse.

We ought to make our calling and election

sure.

What an unspeakable experience it would be if before morning we should be summoned to the Judgment Seat of Christ and learn sooner or later that we could not pass the examination with honor to ourselves nor glory to the Lord!

The Apostle John speaks of being put to shame in that hour.

O what disaster, what shame if for the sake of a dance, a game of cards, a glass of wine, a night in the theatre; what a disaster if for the sake of self pleasure, self gratification of any sort, an unwillingness to be strong and steadfast and to stand for truth, a compromise and failure by the way; what disaster, what indescribable shame if we should find we were shut out from that golden hour, that splendid sweep of a thousand heaven illuminated years.

It is time to awake and let go the grip upon the things of earth; time to let the vision of heaven and heavenly things enter in and possess the soul; time to let go the handfuls of dust we call our plans, plans already slipping through our loosening fingers and falling into the ever opening trench men call a grave; time to realize God in our daily experience, be as conscious of God as we are of the winds that blow or the heat that burns, or the circumstance that disturbs, hinders or makes us turn; time to arouse because should the voice call and the hand of power lift us to the judgment seat we should be ready without hesitation and wholly unafraid to answer and say:

"Here Lord am I."

Το you who are unsaved listen to the word of warning: If Christ should come to-night, or tomorrow you would be left behind to certain woe and sorrow which even the symbols given of God fail fully to reveal. At the last you would die. For a thousand years you would be held in the prison house of the underworld. Then would come the second resurrection, the second death. As a forever disembodied soul you would pass out into eternity where the cry of anguish would ring through the endless and hopeless darkness, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken

me?"

Hear me, I pray! Get into Christ, let Christ get into you. Take God at His word, believe the record, stand on the promise, offer Christ as your sacrifice, claim Him as your substitute; say, “O God, death is my doom and death is my due; but, Thou hast given Thy Son for such as I. Accept the judgment which fell on Him as though it had fallen on me. By His bloody pains, His anguish and His woe, let me go free. Accept me in His name, make me Thy child and Thine forever more."

Say that and mean it, and quickly as you say it God will accept and save you.

God forbid you should trifle! God forbid any one of you here in spite of the love of God, the blood of Christ, the call of the Gospel, the conviction of the Spirit and the prayers of those who love you, God forbid you should be among those in eternity who shall take up the cry, not the cry of adoration and praise from the lips of the blood-washed and enraptured hosts, but the cry wrenched from the sunless souls of the unredeemed, that unspeakably awful cry which shall make a universe to quiver "Lost! Lost! We are forever lost"-God forbid it.