SOMETHING FOR OUR READERS.
By Editor
Of another item—and only one item—of what the SIGNS furnishes during the year in Bible instruction, we wish here to speak. There is no more important event to occur in this world's career than the coming of the Lord. It, with its cluster of events of vital moment, stands co-equal in importance with the first advent of the Son of God and its various steps in redemption. With the latter is connected the incarnation of Christ, His example and teaching, His crucifixion, His resurrection, and ascension; with His second coming is connected the judgment, the resurrection, the conferring of immortality upon the good, the desolation of the earth, the millennium, the eternal extinction of sin, and the everlasting reward. Men may ridicule the doctrine as they do the Book, but it will suffice the Christian that it was taught by Jesus Christ personally, and by His Spirit through prophet and apostle. There are many misunderstandings relative to the coming of the Lord. Proportional to its importance Satan has blinded men to its wonderful, awful, significant, and glorious truths. Yet God's Word makes them plain, and the SIGNS OF THE TIMES is glad to do all in its power to make these truths clear to the world. Therefore, beginning in the SIGNS of May 7, at the close of the series by Prof. J. A. L. Derby, we will begin a most interesting series of articles on “The Coming of the Lord,” by L. A. Phippeny. The topics severally opened before the reader are as follows:— Why Should the Lord Come? God's Original Design for the Earth, Time of the Second Advent, The Forthshining of His Presence, These articles cover a period of practically three months, and there will be others contemporary with them equally good. These, we are sure, will present new thoughts, and open new avenues of light to those who have studied the subject, and will reveal a mine of wealth to the earnest student who knows it not. We appeal to our friends to circulate widely the instruction contained in the above series. The SIGNS OF THE TIMES for three months is 40 cents.