But I must say a word on the other-the dark side of this subject; for whatever has a bright side to the saved has a dark side to the unsaved. It cannot be said to them, Death is yours-your servant. It has to be said, You are death's-its servants. They have not availed themselves of the gracious provision of the cross, and therefore they are yet in their sinful standing, with their sins upon them. Hence, death to the unbeliever is a tyrant. The same verse which tells us that "the righteous hath hope in his death" affirms that " the wicked is driven away in his wickedness." (Prov. 14:32.) Where is he driven? Not to be with' Christ. We have His own word for this. Addressing those who rejected Him, He said, " Ye shall die in your sins:whither I go ye cannot come." (John 8:21.) Where does death take the unsaved? The same infallible One answers. After saying that " the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom," He said, " The rich man also died, and was buried, and in hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment." (Luke 16:23, Revised Version?) I take this to mean just what it says, notwithstanding the efforts to explain away its obvious sense. And though the wicked will come forth from death and hades, it will be no blessing to them, for they will, come forth to judgment. The fame great Teacher said, "All that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation," or judgment, according to the Revised Version. (John 5:28, 29.) Thus death, the result of Adam's sin, ends before judgment as to actual sins begins. The unsaved are brought from death to be judged. Mark, it is "they that have done evil" who come forth unto the resurrection of judgment. They have not received God's salvation ; thus they remain in the flesh or sinful standing in Adam, and the inevitable fruit is " evil." It is in the resurrection-state that, they fully meet God face to face as to their sins, and receive the sentence which is due.

Not only will the resurrection of the unjust differ from that of the just in the character of it, but also in the time of its occurrence. While all are to be made alive by having a resurrection, yet "every man," says the apostle, "in his own order:Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at His coming. Then cometh the end." The word here rendered." then " is the same that is rendered "afterward" in the previous part of the passage, and has that meaning. "Afterward cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and .power; for He must reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." (i Cor. 15:23-26.) Death will be destroyed in all being made alive in resurrection. Those who are Christ's are raised "at His coming; " then, at a subsequent period, designated " the end," death is destroyed, which must be in the resurrection of those who are not Christ's.

We get further light in the twentieth of Revelation. We read, " Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection; on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests pf God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years." John saw-that "the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished." " And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison," and will go forth to " deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth," and yielding to his deceivings, they meet summary judgment, and he is " cast into the lake of fire." Then comes " the end," when death is"'destroyed, yet followed by judgment. " I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened:and another book was opened, which is the book of life:and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave, up the dead which were in it; and death and hades gave up the dead which were in them:and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire. And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire." (Revised Ver.)

Such is the solemn " end." All beyond is eternity. Such is the dreadful outcome of belonging to death, and remaining under the appointment to judgment; in other words, of remaining in the lost condition by nature, and adding sins thereto. That outcome, God says, is "the second death, even the lake of fire;" and all will come to pass just as He says.

But He who has thus spoken has " found a ransom." His own Son gave His life as that ransom. He went into death's dark raging flood, bearing the judgment in His own blessed person, that, as the ark made a safe passage for Israel through the Jordan, those who accept this salvation might, thereby, be taken beyond the dark river of death and the ocean of judgment, and be brought into a life which these waters can never touch. And the love Which has done all this,-the love which was stronger than death, (for it went through it) is ever beseeching all to accept what it has done, with the assurance that the worst one who comes is perfectly welcome, and is at once beyond death and judgment, in a new and blessed life; or, to use the Lord's own words, " hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life."

But if souls neglect so great salvation,-if they go on in their own ways, however religiously, and refuse God's Christ, as "the way, the truth, and the life," how shall they escape? Death must come as a police, to hurry them to their prison in hades, to await the coming forth for judgment. And .God entering into judgment with them, they cannot escape- condemnation, for no man living could be justified if called upon to answer for his sins; and as they would not have God's gracious way of being cleansed from them, they must answer for them before "the great white throne," and pure justice must then have its course. Oh that men were wise! Oh that they would believe God as to their deep need, and take salvation while mercy lingers! Oh that those who are saved would do more to reach the unsaved! Knowing the terror of the Lord, we are to persuade men. The love of Christ should constrain us.

"Call them In-the weak, the weary,
Laden with the doom of sin;
Bid them come and rest in Jesus;
He is waiting-call them in.

"See, the shadows lengthen round us,
Soon the day-dawn will begin;
Can you leave them lost and lonely?
Christ is coming-call them in."

May God bless His word to us; and may we, during the " little while," walk in the power of the truth that death is ours; manifesting, in our spirit and ways, the life which we have in the risen and glorified One, abounding in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost.