The Revelation of Jesus Christ"-the last message communicated to " His servants" (Chap. 1:i)-after the usual salutation, begins with the announcement, "Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him; and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so; Amen." We should expect, then, that this last message of the Lord Jesus Christ would have to do with the great fact of His coming, and the events closely preceding His advent as Judge. Ephesus, Pergamos and Sardis are warned of it (chap. 2:5, 16; 3:3); a remnant in Thyatira comforted (chap. 2:25); Philadelphia both warned and comforted (chap. 3:ii); while Laodicea will be spued out of His mouth at His coming-publicly disowned and rejected! (vers. 15, 16).

To Philadelphia He says, "Behold, I come quickly."

Then, in the last part of the book, He again exclaims, with a blessing, "Behold, I come quickly:blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book" (chap. 22:7); and again, with a warning, "And, behold, I come quickly" (ver. 12).

Finally,-and the very last words of the Lord Jesus from heaven, which closes the sum of all His communications to men by revelation and prophecy, -canonically completing the Holy Scriptures,-He says:"Surely I come quickly." To which the apostle John adds, "Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus " (chap. 22:20).

Did it ever strike you, reader, that this event must therefore be that which the Church is to look and pray for? What were His last words ? "Surely, I come quickly." Would you not think that "His servants" would treasure the memory of His last utterance ? Would you not think that as He closes the last book, reminding His people of His coming, that is the thing, and the principal thing, He would have them thinking and talking about ?-this, of course, as concerning themselves and His desire for them. Would you not think that this would be constantly borne witness to ?

He says:" I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches " (chap. 22:16). How would the Holy Spirit teach the Bride to pray ?-what would He teach her to say ? (the Bride is the Church, of course)-" The Spirit and the Bride say, Come" (ver. 17). To whom is this prayer voiced? To "the bright and Morning Star" (ver. 16), the Bridegroom, the Lord Jesus Himself.

Do you hear Christians pray that way ? Do you pray so ? You will, if taught of the Holy Spirit. .

"And let him that heareth say, Come." This is the personal desire of the Bride when her affections are stirred. But will she become selfish, and think only of her own rapture ? Will she not turn about, in the warmth of her firs