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Blind unbelief is sure to err,And scan his word in vain;God is his own interpreter,And he will make it plain."page 26May we not with the angels sing "Glory to God in the highest,on earth peace, good will toward men:"Tell the whole world these blessed tidings,Speak of the time of rest that nears;Tell the oppressed of ev'ry nation,Jubilee lasts a thousand years.What if the clouds do for a momentHide the blue sky where morn appears:Soon the glad sun of promise given,Rises to shine a thousand years.A thousand years earth's coming glory--'Tis the glad day so long foretold:'Tis the bright morn of Zion's glory,Prophets foresaw in times of old."====================R255 : page 27PART II.----------WHY WILL THERE BEA SECOND ADVENT?THAT our Lord intended us as his disciples, to understand, thatfor some purpose, in some manner, and at some time, he wouldcome again, is, we presume, admitted and believed by allfamiliar with the Scriptures.When he said, "If I go away, I will come again," we believe thathe certainly referred to his second personal coming. Some thinkhe referred to the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; others,to the destruction of Jerusalem, etc.; but all apparently forget thefact that in the last book of the Bible, written more than sixtyyears after Pentecost, and twenty-six years after Jerusalem'sdestruction, he that was dead, and is alive, speaks of the event asyet future, saying: "Behold, I come quickly, and my reward iswith me." And the inspired John replies: "Even so come LordJesus."Quite a number think that when any are converted, that forms apart of the coming of Christ, and that so he continues cominguntil all the world is converted. Then, say they, he will havefully come.