Gem #36 - A New World Coming

God's good pleasure is, that this world shall one day be totally redeemed

from sin; God's good pleasure is, that this poor planet, so long covered in

darkness, shall soon shine out in brightness, like a new-born sun.

Christ's death has done it. The stream that flowed from His side on

Calvary shall cleanse the world from all its blackness. That hour of mid-

day darkness was the rising of a new sun of righteousness, which shall

never cease to shine upon the earth. Yes, the hour is coming, when guns

and cannons shall be forgotten things, when the harness of war and the

pageantry of pomp shall all be laid aside for the food of the worm or the

contemplation of the curious. The hour approaches when old Rome shall

shake upon Her seven hills, when Mohammed's crescent shall no longer

increase on the earth, when all the gods of the heathens shall lose their

thrones and be cast out to the moles and to the bats; and then, from the

equator to the poles Christ shall be honored, the Lord paramount on earth,

when from land to land, from the river even to the ends of the earth, one

King, shall reign, one shout shall be heard, "Hallelujah, hallelujah, the

Lord God Omnipotent reigns."