The certainty of our Lord's return is repeatedly affirmed in Scripture, and to question that evidence involves a contradiction of the Holy Spirit by whom the truth has been certified and sealed… All hope for an otherwise despairing world is bound up with the investiture of the Son of God with all glory, majesty, might, and dominion. To that testimony the seal of God is put, and upon Christ's ultimate enthronement over the earth the beams of prophetic light have steadily and unwaveringly converged. No acrimonious controversy should be suffered to cloud the skies and obscure the Star that in undimmed splendor is yet to rise and usher in the glorious consummation.

That "blessed hope" with all its precious implications enables one to bear up under many a grievous burden… proclaimed not to engender strife, but to speak peace and comfort to the troubled heart. It is a chord that should be struck with a gentle hand; unsounded, it leaves in silence one of the sweetest strains in heaven's music. Ford C. Ottman