Enoch was the seventh from Adam-a complete circle of men, as seven days are a complete circle of time. He walked with God. Then he was not-for God took him. Before he was taken from this world he spake God's message to the sinners of his day:'' Behold the Lord cometh . . . to execute judgment upon all," for their "ungodly deeds and hard speeches spoken against Him." (Jude 14, 15).

What occurred after Enoch's translation? Judgment- unsparing judgment upon those who had neglected His warning and despised His grace. When "God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:5), He sent the Deluge, and men were, destroyed from the earth, except Noah and they that were with him in the ark. History repeats itself. God is about to translate to heaven those who have, heeded His word-who have bowed at the feet of Jesus, confessing Him as their Saviour, confessing His cross as the means by which their sins have been put away. Such "walk with God," for the sense of His love displayed toward them in this great salvation produces love in their souls and the desire to please Him. The Spirit of God who dwells in them gives them the power to please God, and so they go on pleasing God, while waiting for His Son from heaven.

But oh, the heart shrinks from the thoughts of what is to follow. What a scene this earth will be! What terrors must have filled the souls of the multitudes who had despised God's warnings, as they saw themselves engulfed in the rising waters! A far greater and fuller testimony is being sounded abroad now, and correspondingly greater and more terrible judgments are in the future for all who despise or neglect them.

Brethren-all we who are in Christ Jesus, do we value aright the grace that has put us "in Christ?" If so, let us show it by the devotedness of our lives, pleasing God as Enoch did. F.