Earlier text: APPEAL TO YOUNG SABBATH-KEEPERS.THY KINGDOM COME.
By J. C. Ryle
Reader, I dare say you have often heard those words, “Thy kingdom come.” They are part of the Lord’s prayer. Perhaps you have often used the words yourself. But did you ever consider what the words mean? Reader, the subject is one about which many mistakes prevail. It is one about which it is most important to your own comfort to have clear views. Give me your attention, while I try to explain to you the kingdom of God. I ask you then to understand, that Jesus Christ will come back again to this world one day, and reign over it as a king. He shall return with power and great glory in the clouds of heaven, and the kingdoms of this world shall all become His. And then shall be fulfilled the words of the Lord’s prayer, “Thy kingdom come.” Then He intends “to execute judgment upon all the ungodly” inhabitants of Christendom—“to burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire”—and “in flaming fire to take vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the gospel.” (Jude 15; Matt. iii, 12; 2 Thess. i, 8.) Then He intends to raise His dead saints and gather His living ones, to gather together the scattered tribes of Israel, and to set up an empire on earth, in which every knee shall bow to Him, and every tongue confess that Christ is Lord. When, how, where, in what manner, all these things shall be, we cannot say particularly. Enough for us to know that they shall be. The Lord Jesus has undertaken to do them, and they shall be performed. As surely as He was born of a pure virgin, and lived on earth thirty-three years as a servant, so surely He shall come with clouds in glory, and reign on earth as a king. Reader, I charge you to settle it down in your mind, that Christ is one day to have a complete kingdom in this world,—that his kingdom is not yet set up,—but that it will be set up in the day of His return. Know clearly whose kingdom it is to be one day: not Satan the usurper’s, he is to be cast out: when the Lord Jesus returns in person, and not before. Know these things clearly, and you will do well. Know these things clearly, and then you will not cherish extravagant expectations from any church, minister or religious machinery in this present dispensation. You will not marvel to see ministers and missionaries not converting all to whom they preach. You will not wonder to find that while some believe the gospel, many believe not. You will remember that “the days are evil,” and that the time of general conversion is not arrived. Alas! for the man who expects a millennium before the Lord Jesus returns! How can this possibly be, if the world in the day of His coming is to be found as it was in the days of Noah and Lot? (Luke xviii, 26–30.) Know these things clearly, and then you will not be confounded and surprised by the continuance of immense evils in the world. Wars, and tumults, and oppression, and dishonesty, and selfishness, and covetousness, and superstition, and bad government, and abounding heresies, will not appear to you unaccountable. You will not relapse into a state of apathy and disgust when you see churches full of imperfections, and theologians making mistakes. You will say to yourself, The time of Christ’s power has not yet arrived,—The Devil is still working among his children, and sowing darkness and division broadcast among the saints,—the true king is yet to come. Know these things clearly, and then you will see why God delays the final glory, and allows things to go on as they do in this world. It is not that He is not able to prevent evil,—it is not that He is slack in the fulfilling of His promises,—but the Lord is taking out for himself a people by the preaching of the gospel. (Acts xvi, 14. 2 Peter iii, 9.) The Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Once let the number of the elect be gathered out of the world,—once let the last elect sinner be brought to repentance, and then the kingdom of Christ shall be set up, and the throne of grace exchanged for the throne of glory. Know these things clearly, and then you will work diligently to do good to souls. The time is short. “The night is far spent. The day is at hand.” The signs of the times call loudly for watchfulness, and speak with no uncertain voice. The Turkish empire is dying up. The Jews are cared for as they never have been for eighteen hundred years. The gospel is being preached as a witness in almost every corner of the world. Surely if we would pluck a few more brands from the burning before it is too late, we must work hard, and lose no time. Know these things clearly, and then you will be often looking for the coming of the day of God. You will regard the second advent as a glorious and comfortable truth, around which your best hopes will all be clustered. You will not merely think of Christ crucified, but you will think also of Christ coming again. You will long for the days of refreshing, and the manifestation of the sons of God. (Acts iii, 19; Rom. viii, 19.) You will find peace in looking back to the cross, and you will have a joyful hope in looking forward to the kingdom.—J. C. Ryle. Wait for others to advance your interests, and you will wait until they are not worth advancing. Many can love at their tongue’s end; but the godly love at their finger’s end. —It is asserted in Paris that the king of Greece has resolved to abdicate. This startling piece of news has been spread by a Vienna journal, and is not yet confirmed. But assuming it to be true, people ask what the Powers will do with Greece. They are also curious to know what will become of the projected marriage between the young king and the daughter of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia. It was to make her queen of the Greeks that the Imperial family of Russia consented to the union; they may not be willing to bestow her on the cadet of a third-rate reigning family. —Seventeen divorce cases were acted upon in Chicago, one day last week. Great Alarm in Rome.—London, Oct. 7. Despatches from Rome state that great agitation and alarm prevailed in that city. What Napoleon Says.—Paris, Oct. 6. It is reported that Napoleon has informed the Italian government that it may occupy Roman Territory with its troops, but they must not enter the city of Rome. Europe.—Florence, Oct. 7. Reports hourly received here from the south show that the revolutionary volunteers are invading Roman territory on all sides. Yesterday a detachment of troops was sent out from Rome to meet the invaders in Frosinone, a province lying southeast of the city. A fight took place between them and the Garibaldians near the Abruzzo frontier. The Papal troops were again defeated and compelled to fall back toward Rome. Deputations are arriving here and memorials are pouring in from all cities of the kingdom demanding that Rome be made the capital of Italy. The press throughout the country are urging subscriptions and money for the Garibaldian volunteers who have been wounded in fights which have occurred in Viterbo. We reprint the New York Tribune’s letter from its Louisville correspondent, enumerating some hundreds of outrages, committed upon unoffending freedmen and upon loyal whites, in reconstructed Kentucky. The deplorable condition of affairs it depicts, is an exposition of what might be expected in the ten States now under military supervision, if readmitted to the Union without equal suffrage. To take the ballot from the blacks would be to leave them defenceless in the midst of their worst enemies. The irrepressible conflict seems to be raging in Kentucky with greater fierceness than in any other portion of the country. There a black man insults a white man by looking him straight in the eye. There a colored girl, proceeding along the public highway to Sabbath School, may be ravished with impunity. There one of the dominant class can shoot down a darkey to test his skill as a marksman, without fear of arrest or punishment. There to sell a patch of ground to an “African” becomes an act calling for the prompt interference of the regulators. There persons of the persecuted race are liable to be ordered out of the country by an incensed people for daring to frequent the highways. There marauders are not brought to justice for robbing and burning the dwellings of freedmen. There these outrages are occasionally varied by toasting a negro’s feet at a slow fire. There mobs delight to drag from the jails colored men incarcerated for petty offences, and hang them to the first convenient limb. There Judges are pleased to discharge from custody, on writs of habeas corpus, criminals arrested by order of the Freedmen’s Bureau for committing the above deeds. There a band of guerillas, regularly286armed, equipped and mounted, overawe four counties, rule with a rod of iron, and defy the power of the State Government. There white sojourners are subject to have their right of presence brought into question, on account of their suspected political sentiments. Such is Kentucky, a State in the Union. Such is Kentucky without impartial suffrage. It exemplifies what condition of affairs might be looked for in the unreconstructed States, if re-admitted on a basis of white voters only. Kentucky never formally seceded; but it contributed men to the rebel armies. Though part of the battle-ground of the war, it early comprehended the downfall of the Confederacy. Civil government, often imperiled, never ceased. Just near enough to the scene of conflict to feel its effects without being overwhelmed, and just near enough to the North to understand the temper of its people, Kentucky’s first act was to welcome home as heroes its recreant sons. In that State, treason has been growing more and more respectable ever since; and the sectional animosity that precipitated rebellion has been steadily intensifying. A proposition to enfranchise the negroes was met with scorn and derision. The whole political community has lapsed into the hands of disloyalists. Private rights have ceased to be respected. Officers of the law are derelict in the performance of duty. Free speech and a free press are under the ban of a pernicious public opinion, as in the old days of slavery. Color, irrespective of conduct, is a badge of disgrace, and subjects its possessor to persecution and outrage. Such is a picture of reconstruction without impartial suffrage. The party that holds sway in Kentucky is the same party that wants to hold sway in States under military supervision. The spirit which animates Kentucky also animates its ten sisters. The theory of race put in practice by Kentucky, is also put in practice by the others, so far as they have opportunities. If these opportunities are increased by reconstruction on a white basis, Kentucky will be the model after which the new governments will pattern. The proposition of the Democrats to disfranchise the negroes, on the plea of their ignorance, is, in other words, a proposition to leave the fate of the freedmen in the hands of their late masters and present enemies. What that fate would be can be learned from Kentucky’s example. Let the Democratic or Kentuckian plan of reconstruction prevail, and the complications awaiting adjustment would not only be augmented in localities where they exist, but would also spread to the halls of Congress, in which twenty disloyal Senators and fifty-eight disloyal Representatives would sow dissensions broadcast. The Reconstruction acts offer the only reliable and enduring settlement of the Southern imbroglio.—Chicago Tribune. I need thee, precious Jesus,
For I am full of sin;
My soul is dark and guilty,
My heart is dead within.
I need the cleansing fountain,
Where I can always flee—
The blood of Christ most precious,
The sinner's only plea. I need thee, precious Jesus,
For I am very poor—
A stranger and a pilgrim,
I have no earthly store.
I need the love of Jesus,
To cheer me on my way;
To guide my doubting footsteps,
To be my strength and stay. I need thee, precious Jesus,
I need a friend like thee!
A friend to soothe and sympathize,
A friend to care for me.
I need the heart of Jesus,
To feel each anxious care—
To tell my every trouble,
And all my sorrows share. I need thee, precious Jesus,
For I am very blind—
A weak and foolish wanderer,
With dark and evil mind!
I need thy charming presence
To tread the narrow road,
To guide me safe to glory,
To bring me home to God. The unexampled wet summer, followed by a warm, dry autumn, has produced its natural and disastrous effect upon the general health of the country. The earth, first deeply saturated with moisture, and its surface subsequently baked and cracked with heat, has become a veritable Pandora’s box, with an open lid, from which is escaping its plentiful supply of diseases. Thus in the southern portion of our country the intense miasmatic poison has generated yellow-fever, with a virulence hardly ever before equaled, and in the north and west, where congestive and intermittent fevers usually prevail in a mitigated form, even in seasons most favorable to health, they have this year become more rife and severe. So intense is the miasmatic poison, and such its diffusive force, that there is reason to believe that it is exerting its baleful power in places which have been hitherto proof against its influence. There is a simple and most effective means of weakening, if not of annulling, the force of the miasmatic poison. Where this is less intense such means will of course be more advantageously applied, although they will be of use even in the presence of its most virulent manifestation. The means alluded to consist merely of a good blazing fire, lighted at least every morning and evening, but still better, kept burning the whole day. In spite of our sunny autumnal days, and seductive Indian Summers, it would be advisable for every family in town or country to have daily a fire of wood or coal in each inhabited room of the house. No furnace will do; there must be a blaze in the open fire-place, so not only that the apartment may be dried by the heat, but that it may be thoroughly ventilated by the current set in motion by the burning fuel exposed to the air. Don’t be governed either by your sensations, your thermometers, or the date of the month, in first lighting the fires. Light them betimes, even now, and keep them burning long. If the heat should force you to open the window, so much the better, for thus you will have a stronger and purer current of air. If you wish to escape agues and fevers, we repeat: “Light your fires.”—Harper’s Weekly. For the first time in fifty years Mexico is at peace. Since Iturbide, in 1821, declared the country independent, and made good the claim, its history is one of uninterrupted civil war. President succeeded President, Dictator followed Dictator; the success of any chieftain created a dozen rivals, and the Government was no sooner set up by one faction than it was pulled down by another. The victor banished or executed the conquered, only to find himself in a short time the victim of his own revengeful policy. No administration was safe from revolt; no leader dare trust his comrades; the army was now the instrument of Guerrero, now of Santa Anna, now of Bustamante. Quiet there was none for the country; it was either at war, or preparing for war, and the only periods during which internal strife was suspended were those of the Spanish invasion, and the aggression of the United States. The condition of the nation was indeed desperate when it could only be saved from ruining itself by the necessity of repelling its foes, and when the advance of a foreign army was the only hope of union and peace at home. The causes of this perpetual strife are evident. Mexico had never succeeded in reconciling her different races; the people were unfitted for self-government, and assumed all the dangers of a Republic without the ability to secure its blessings. The country was burdened with an ambitious clergy, owning, it has been calculated, one-half of its real estate; and if the soldier did not begin a revolution, his neglect was remedied by the priest. Nature, too, had done her share in fitting the country for continual war; in that superb climate armies were easily sustained, and if money was needed the inexhaustible silver mines supplied it. Thus wars which would have ruined greater nations were borne by the Mexicans with comparative ease, and their evil was not so much the exhaustion of the country as the paralysis of its enterprise, and the absolute suspension of its progress. The condition of Mexico could hardly have been worse in 1861, when, while the administration of Juarez was struggling to maintain itself, the European alliance was consummated, and that long war began with France which has ended in the triumph of the Republic. Mexico had rough training in this perpetual war, and probably the French invasion will mark the beginning of a new and brighter era. The Mexicans owed the usurpation of Maximilian to their own quarrels, and may profit by the bloody lesson. A people who fought as the Liberals fought, and who prized so dearly their independence, and sacrificed so much to maintain it, cannot be incapable of self-government. Radical as their faults may be, their virtues are no longer to be questioned. The execution of Maximilian was a proof of weakness, yet it must be admitted that there was cause for retaliation. It was a cruel ending to a cruel war. But with the late Emperor died all the hopes the Powers of Europe may have had of establishing their rule upon American soil; the Austrian fleet which will carry back to his own land the body of Maximilian will bear with it another corpse, and in the vaults of St. Stephen the vast ambition of Napoleon, side by side with its victim, will share the darkness of its sleep. Mexico, by the proof she has given of her strength, has secured long peace with her alien foes; her leaders have but to unite in repressing domestic factions to make their Republic only second to our own; it is in their power to renew the ruinous struggles of the past, or to build enduring peace in the future. The task is hard: the character of a nation is not changed by war; but it must not be forgotten that this war has swept away many evils, and that, as we rid ourselves of Slavery, Mexico has annihilated the political power of the Church. Difficult as it is to understand the Mexican situation, and impossible to discern the intentions of the leading Generals, it is clear, we think, that the war has united certain factions, and inspired the nation with a higher patriotism. With the death of Maximilian the passion for revenge seems appeased. The trials at Queretaro have not ended in the execution of the prisoners; Escobedo, Casanova, Salm-Salm, and the rest, have been sentenced to imprisonment. Gen. Castillo, who had been condemned to death, has been pardoned. It is probable that the executions of the Imperialists are ended. In this moderation we rejoice, and it is equally encouraging to find that many of the reports of Mexican enmity to the United States had no better foundation than the invention of the foes of the Republic. Escobedo has formally denied the calumny that he was in favor of the exclusion of foreigners from the country, and we take this letter as proof that no influential party in Mexico aims to prevent peaceful immigration and friendly relations with other States. Gen. Diaz, it is said, has united with Juarez in the effort to unite the country. It is true there still are divisions of the Liberals, and the elements that threaten new troubles, but if Diaz honestly sustains Juarez, the party of Union must succeed in the end. Since that letter was written the telegraph has brought the tidings of the flight of Marquez. Thus one danger is averted. It is conceded that while the popularity of the other Liberal chieftains is limited to their own districts, that of Juarez is universal. It is to him that Mexico must look for deliverance, and he has shown the qualities of a deliverer. But whatever may be the fate of his efforts they must command our sympathy. The people of the United States are not concerned in the civil affairs of Mexico, or in the downfall or elevation of any of her leaders; but in the pacification of the country and the permanence of the Republic, they have an interest which will deepen with time, which no event can destroy.—New York Tribune. The Publishing Association.
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We call the special attention of the reader to the subjects of the nature of man, his condition in death, and his destiny of the wicked. More than ordinary importance attaches to these subjects, at the present time. We would confidently recommend to all a thorough reading of the work by H. H. Dobney entitled, Future Punishment, as advertised in our book list. The reader will find it a work exhaustive in its investigations; and remarkable for its candor, and the strength and clearness of its reasoning. Which? Mortal or Immortal? is a lower-priced and more-condensed work on the same subjects. While “The End of the Wicked,” and the one, two and three cent tracts may be found sufficient to awaken interest with those who would not commence with larger works. For the convenience of those who may wish to purchase books for general circulation, we have put up assorted packages of tracts in two sizes, which we will send post-paid at 50c., and $1.00, respectively. 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—LIV OG DÖD: “Life and Death;” a work in Danish, on the Nature of Man, the Saints’ Inheritance, and the Destiny of the Wicked. 280 pp., paper cover, 40c., weight 12 oz. —THE BIBLE STUDENT’S ASSISTANT, in Danish. A work on the plan of the Assistant in English, containing scripture references on a variety of subjects, adapted to the Danish Bible. 5c., 1 oz. —FORTY QUESTIONS ON IMMORTALITY, in Danish. 2c., 1 oz. —THE SABBATH, Its Nature and Obligation, in German. 10c., 2 oz. The Sabbath, in Holland. 5c., 1 oz. In French. 5c., 1 oz. In Danish 10c., 1 oz. —AN EXPOSITION of Dan. ii and vii, in French. 5c., 1 oz. —THE SEVEN SEALS: An Exposition of Rev. vi. —THE TWO LAWS. The Distinction shown between them. —PERSONALITY OF GOD. A popular error disproved. —THE LAW OF God, the Ten Commandments by John Wesley. —APPEAL to Men of Reason on Immortality. —THOUGHTS for the Candid on the Nature of Man. —STATE OF THE DEAD, Brief Thoughts. Author unknown. —TIME LOST; or Old and New Style Explained. —THE HEAVENLY MEETING; a thrilling rhapsody on the joy of the saint as he first meets his Saviour and the heavenly host. —GEOLOGY AND THE BIBLE; or a Pre-Adamite age of our world doubtful; showing that no true claims of Geology are against Bible facts. —SUNDAY-KEEPING. The reasons for it examined and refuted. —THE SABBATH: The time of its Institution. —THE SABBATH: A stirring Argument by Elihu. —INFIDELITY and Spiritualism, shown to be of like character. —WAR and the Sealing, an Exposition of Rev. vii. —WHO CHANGED the Sabbath? Roman Catholic Testimony. —PREACH THE WORD: An Argument for the Sabbath. —DEATH AND BURIAL; or, Scriptural Baptism. —MUCH IN LITTLE: A Collection of Choice Extracts on eternal misery. —POSITIVE INSTITUTIONS; their Nature and Claims. —THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, popular objections to this scriptural doctrine briefly considered. This thorough little treatise removes in a masterly manner the difficulties supposed to lie in the way of the resurrection of the identical matter that goes into the grave. —THE LAW of God, By H. H. DOBNEY, England. —JUDSON’S LETTER ON DRESS: An appeal to the female members of the Christian churches of the United States. —SCRIPTURE REFERENCES. Same as B. S. Assistant without cover. —MARK of the Beast, and Seal of the Living God. —SPIRITUAL GIFTS: An Argument to show that the Gifts set in the Church, 1 Cor. xii, Eph. iv, &c., were to continue to the end of time. —THE WICKED DEAD: A thorough and Scriptural Exposition of the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus. —THE LAW OF GOD on a Chart of a size to be used by Preachers, varnished and mounted, $2.00. —THE PROPHECIES of Daniel and John, illustrated upon a Chart, to be used by Preachers, varnished and mounted, $2.00. The two Charts with Key, $4.00. The two printed on cloth, with Key, $3.00. The two on cloth without rollers, by mail, postpaid, $2.75. —SMALL CHART. A Pictorial Illustration of the Visions of Daniel and John, on paper 20 by 25 inches. Price 15c. by mail, postpaid. The law requires the prepayment of postage on books as follows: Bound Books, four cents for each four ounces or fractional part thereof; Pamphlets and Tracts, two cents for each four ounces or fractional part thereof. In the foregoing list, the weight of each book is given in connection with the price; and all who order books can estimate the amount of postage required, which should invariably be sent with the order, in addition to the price of the books. Thus, two 2 oz. books can be sent for the same postage as one; or four 1 oz. books for the same postage as one, two or three of the same kind and so on. All communications in reference to the Publishing Association, the Review, Instructor, and any of the foregoing books, should be addressed to J. M. Aldrich, Battle Creek, Mich. All business pertaining to the Western Health Reform Institute, or Health Reformer, should be addressed to Dr. H. S. Lay, Battle Creek, Mich. Important bequests are frequently lost to the Association through informality. Those who wish to will property to the Association to be devoted to the spread of the truth, should adopt the following form of bequest: “I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease, to the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, located in the city of Battle Creek, Michigan, to be applied by the Trustees of that Corporation, to its charitable uses and purposes.” These witnesses should state that the testator declared this to be his last will and testament, and that they signed it at his request, and in his presence and in the presence of each other.