Seven Reasons why I Desire the Kingdom of Christ to Come.
I DESIRE the kingdom of Christ to come soon: 1. Because earthly governments often rise in iniquity, flourish by fraud, stealth, robbery, and war, and fall to rise no more. The kingdom of Christ will be established in righteousness; mercy and truth shall meet together, righteousness and peace shall kiss each other within it, and it shall remain FOREVER. 2. Because here we must needs submit to unjust laws, but more frequently to the unjust administration of law. The law of Christ's kingdom will be established in righteousness, administered in justice, and will be the law of peace. Not to punish the disobedient, for all will be obedient. Not to restrain the vicious, for purity and holiness will be possessed by each subject of that kingdom. Its law will never be violated, for the outbreathings of every heart shall bless it. 3. Because the most vicious of men are often called to sit upon earthly thrones and exercise authority; and if perchance a good man is called to a kingdom he soon dies, and a worse one is called to reign in his stead. Christ will be the sovereign of His own kingdom, who is the Prince of peace, the King of glory. All other kings have been mortal; He hath immortality. His throne will never be vacant; He will reign upon it forever. 4. Because here the rich often grind the faces of the poor, and exact dishonest gain from them. In Christ's kingdom all will share alike in its wealth and glory. The saint shall be heir of "all things." "The kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven," shall be his everlasting portion. 5. Because temporal kingdoms are established upon the sin-blighted territory of the present earth. Brambles and thorns, quagmires and miasma, mortality and grim127death himself are written on it with the very finger of God's curse. The kingdom of Christ will be established in the new earth, blooming in unsullied beauty. The stain of sin's curse will be wiped off from it. Evergreen herbage will adorn its extended plains and blooming vales. The tabernacle of God will crown the holy hill of Zion, and immortality permeate every atom of it. Earth is a wilderness. Paradise will be home. 6. Because death has snatched my loved ones and laid them in his narrow charnel house. In Christ's kingdom I shall receive them again, restored in immortal beauty and vigor. I shall then clasp them again in my arms and press upon them the tender caress of love. I long to be there. 7. Because I am now away from my Saviour. By faith alone I see him who is now invisible. Then I shall see the "King in His beauty." I shall behold the star-gemmed brow of the King of glory. I shall gaze on the sun-lighted beauty that beams from His countenance. I shall measure the inexhaustible depths of His love. I shall sit with Him at the nuptial table of immortal union and undecaying love.—Exchange.