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经文: 耶和华的荣耀必然显现，凡有血气的必一同看见。（以赛亚书四十：5）
我们期盼着全世界归向基督的欢乐日子。外邦的神明都被丢弃，虚伪之宗教都被推翻，永不再欺骗世人。世上的王都要向和平之君下拜，万族都要称颂他们的拯救者。有人对这一日的来临已放弃希望。他们视这世界为破成碎片之器皿。我们知道有一日这世界要被烧毁，继之而起的就是新天新地。我们并不会因耶稣迟延再来而失望。我们也不因祂在这漫长的阶段内忍心让教会陷于冲突予盾之中而沮丧。我们相信上帝既已教基督的宝血为世人所流，必不会让世界长久在撒但的控制之中。基督来，为要将这世界从黑暗的极权中释放出来。当人与天使联合发出大声说：“哈利路亚！因为主我们的上帝，全能者，作王了。”（启十九：6），其声音是何等响亮啊！到那日，在为我们的主争战中有分的人，在赢得胜利中有分的人，是何等满足啊！与主一齐并肩作战，为祂的名靠祂的力量争战的人是何等欢乐啊！反之，站在罪恶一方的人将是何等悲哀！因那是失败的一方，而且在此战役中所有的失败者是永远地失败。你在哪一方呢？
Evening, December 24
Scripture: “The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”(Isaiah 40:5)
We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to the moles and the bats; when Romanism shall be exploded, and the crescent of Mohammed shall wane, never again to cast its baleful rays upon the nations; when kings shall bow down before the Prince of Peace, and all nations shall call their Redeemer blessed. Some despair of this. They look upon the world as a vessel breaking up and going to pieces, never to float again. We know that the world and all that is therein is one day to be burnt up, and afterwards we look for new heavens and for a new earth; but we cannot read our Bibles without the conviction that－
“Jesus shall reign where’er the sun
Does his successive journeys run.”
We are not discouraged by the length of his delays; we are not disheartened by the long period which he allots to the church in which to struggle with little success and much defeat. We believe that God will never suffer this world, which has once seen Christ’s blood shed upon it, to be always the devil’s stronghold. Christ came hither to deliver this world from the detested sway of the powers of darkness. What a shout shall that be when men and angels shall unite to cry “Hallelujah, hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!” What a satisfaction will it be in that day to have had a share in the fight, to have helped to break the arrows of the bow, and to have aided in winning the victory for our Lord! Happy are they who trust themselves with this conquering Lord, and who fight side by side with him, doing their little in his name and by his strength! How unhappy are those on the side of evil! It is a losing side, and it is a matter wherein to lose is to lose and to be lost for ever. On whose side are you?
