“To wait for His Son from heaven” does not mean inactivity and idleness. Some who do not know the teaching of the Scriptures concerning Christ’s second coming mistakenly think that interest in “that blessed hope” makes for a passive folding of the hands and doing nothing. But Paul writes to the Thessalonians, “How ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for His Son from heaven.” There can be no passivity in serving the living and true God. When the Lord appointed seventy, He “sent them two and two before His face into every city and place, whither He Himself would come.” While that refers to the travels of His earthly ministry, when He first came to this earth, it may have also a suggestion of the truth made so prominent elsewhere, that the church must carry the good news to every part of this earth, to which Christ is so soon coming again. His next words to the seventy are significant. “Therefore said He unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into His harvest.” And when he was teaching His disciples about His second coming He said: “And the gospel must first be published among all nations. . . . And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.” Mark 13:10, 26.—Sunday School Times.