THE ADVENT CROWN | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Feb 14, 1854

THE ADVENT CROWN.

THE sight of those who gaze with an unwavering heart on the glory and brightness of our coming Lord, becomes strangely dim to the fascinations of earth. They lose much of themselves, that they once valued, and the love of sense and self vanishes in the sunlight of his perfections. They feel poor in spirit, and hunger and thirst after greater conformity to his image. They begin to cry from the heart, "Let thy kingdom come;" and they are looking for and hastening unto the day of the Lord. Paul once said, "There is laid up for me a crown of RIGHTEOUSNESS, which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me in that day, and not to me only but to all them who love his appearing." By these words the humble and confiding are encouraged, and though they feel most unworthy of a crown, they know that they love the doctrine of his appearing, and therefore hope to receive it, for it is RIGHTEOUSNESS. They long for the glorious hour, when with the elders, they shall cast their crowns at the feet of him who sitteth on the throne, saying, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honor, and power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."

Let us then be diligent, and comfort our hearts with one of his last injunctions—"Behold I come quickly, hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and I will write upon him my new name." Amen, even so come, Lord Jesus.