Makes for Spirituality

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 7, 1910

Makes for Spirituality

THERE is no truth of the Sacred Scriptures so quickening to spiritual life as the return in glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Indeed this doctrine is set before the church as the great focal point to which they are to look and for which they are to plan. J. M. Weaver, D. D., in the Western Recorder (Baptist) of March 24, 1910, says of this blessed truth:—

Over three hundred times in the Old and New Testaments the second coming of Christ is mentioned, showing its certainty and its importance as a doctrine presented in the gospel, and intended to be proclaimed to the world. Yet the vast majority of men, even of professed Christians, disregard or think little of it. That he will come sometime, no Christian denies, but few believe he will come in their day, consequently it has but little influence over their lives; and yet Jesus says, “They shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” Where this doctrine is received and believed, it leads to deeper spirituality, to more godly living, causing the child of God to think more about the future life than he would otherwise.

Every true and sincere believer in Christ’s second coming has felt this quickening influence in his experience. Expecting soon to meet his blessed Lord, he has sought to “purify himself even as he is pure.”