Waiting for Christ’s Coming.
“We have waited for Him, and he will save us.” “BLESSED are they that wait for him; blessed are they who watch and pray and deny themselves; blessed are they who make their whole life an advent, a season of preparation for Christ’s coming, that they may be always ready, at midnight or at cock-crowing; for we are not going to abide forever in this house of pilgrimage. The whirl of earthly life is not going on forever; the buying and selling, the losing and gaining, the marrying and giving in marriage, will soon be over. ‘The night is far spent, the day is at hand.’ Shall that day break upon us unawares while we are troubled about many things? If it thus comes, we shall look on God only to be condemned.” “Great Judge, to thee our prayers we pour,
In deep abasement bending.”