p. 5 | WHAT IS OUR HOPE? by C. H. Spurgeon

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 15, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 24.

WHAT IS OUR HOPE?

By C. H. Spurgeon

It strikes the thoughtful observer that the coming of the Lord Jesus is far more the hope of the church than any remedial processes, or evolutions, or progresses among mankind. Under some aspects, the world grows better, but in the deepest and most solemn sense, evil men and seducers wax worse and worse. Increasingly do we see the weakness of the flesh, and the need of a divine interposition. It is ours to plod on as if all depended upon us; but it is still more ours to look up and believe that our redemption draweth nigh, and that, not from our endeavors, but from the appearing of the Son of God. His day will blaze with His own glory; He alone shall be glorified in His saints, and admired in all them that believe. “The Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.” O, that it would soon dawn! In hopeful expectation we look no more upon the flying scud, and the boiling waters, but fix our eye upon the Pole Star which abideth and shineth forever.—C. H. Spurgeon.