p. 16 | The Coming Coronation

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 9, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 28.

The Coming Coronation

But there is coming a coronation in which there will be no failure. The King will not be taken ill; He can not die. The great Master of Ceremonies can not fail. The special servants and attendants are shining immortals. All the earth are invited. The court-dress for all is righteousness. The most beautiful ornament in which to appear, which every one may obtain and wear, is a meek and quiet spirit. Even upon such will the great King look and smile. All who are His, from whatsoever race or land or clime, all who have yielded to His service, will have a part in that coronation; for they, too, will be crowned with coronets and diadems of righteousness, and life, and glory. The crowning will not take place in the limited space of a walled abbey in an old wooden chair, which has only uncertain tradition to make it or the stone which it holds sacred, but upon the great white throne, grounded in the Rock of Ages. The very best of earthly thrones are built upon a foundation in which are mingled orphans' cries, and widows' tears, and dying soldiers' moans, the groans and curses of half-paid or half-starved laborers, the envy and hatred of rivals. But the throne of the coming King will be founded in righteousness and judgment.

"A few more years shall roll, A few more seasons come,"

and we will "see the King in His beauty," and meet around His throne, in glad union and reunion, the true, and pure, and good of all the ages; and then He shall smile upon the old sin-cursed earth, and all sin and all that is identified with sin will pass away forever, and gladness and joy shall come to the earth, "thanksgiving and the voice of melody."

"There every sight that pleases, There every sound that cheers, There sweet immortal breezes, Inspire the balmy years; There all the just join in a band, From every age, from every land, While o'er them reigns King Jesus With crowns of glory now! The people of His grace, Have reached the heavenly place; 'Tis glory, everlasting glory now."

To this coronation and kingdom all are invited. The Spirit and the bride say, Come.