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of the ages, it is also the crisis of the ages. one will enter these open doors; if an inactive, indifferent Church delays, the arch adversary is always on the alert. Satan never yet lost his opportunity. He was in the garden of Eden as soon as man was; he not only occupies, but preoccupies; with sleepless vigilance he watches while even disciples sleep. His missionaries are everywhere; his synagogues and seats throng the great centres of population and plant their subtle influences through the hills and valleys; his pioneers go before the boldest and bravest who pierce the unknown lands; he sets up his printing-presses long before the Christian literature scatters its healing leaves.

The

Christ is waiting for His final Coronation. Kremlin, that island in a sea of domes, is the sanctuary of Russia. But, in all this maze of temples, towers, ramparts, and palaces, nothing impresses one more than that singular Treasury where are seen the many crowns worn by the rulers who swayed their sceptres over the kingdoms of Poland, the Crimea and Kasan, before they were absorbed in the ever-encroaching gulf of Russian conquest.

The structure of the future has its Throne-room; there lie the crowns of empire, waiting for Him to whom by right they all belong. And, when He shall return to mount His throne, these crowns shall be all laid at His feet. He waits for the

grateful suffrages of a redeemed people, brought out of every nation, before He assumes His rightful dominion. What can you and I do to hasten that consummation!

Some

Let my closing appeal be to young men. of us have passed middle life and our sun is declining; with others of us the sunset hour already reddens the horizon. With you the dawn has yet to climb to its noontide. History is dense with its events. Every year, every day, every hour, is the prolific parent of opportunities that might make angels rejoice, and responsibilities that might make even angels tremble! These pages are now bringing to a conclusion a series of appeals which have been written as with my heart's blood, and in them the energy and enthusiasm of the inmost life have found utterance. And now let the last words be put in capitals, as their emphasis demands:

GOD IS MOVING ON.

HIS MARCH IS SWIFT, AND OUR TIME IS SHORT. NO SUCH AGE HAS EVER BEFORE SHONE ON THIS PLANET. NO SUCH DOORS EVER BEFORE OPENED TO HIS CHURCH. WHO WILL FALL INTO LINE WITH GOD,

JOIN IN HIS MAJESTIC MARCH,

AND IN THE SURE ADVANCE OF HIS PLAN
REACH THE GOLDEN FRUITION OF THE AGES

INDEX.

ABEEL, Rev. David, 201, 263. Aristocratic titles, 80.

Abdul Medjid, 200.

Absorption in God, 179, 180.
Abu-Said, 160; Abu-Taher,
160.

Acceptance of salvation, 26.
Activity, tireless for God, 174.
Acts of the Apostles, incom-
plete, 55; new chapters in,
56, 240; the Missionary
Manual, 62.

Army, God's great, 211.
Ass's ears, 274, 280.
Avarice, Power of, 178.

BABYLON, God's hammer,213.
Baptist, John the, 107.
Bau, Chapel at, 246.
Believers, Needed as channels
of Grace, 144; Secret, 266.
Believing is receiving, 26.

Age to come, 95; Ages, Benevolence, 161.

Seven Golden, 240.

Bengal, 256.

Agriculture, to illustrate God's Bentinck, Gov. William, 261.

work, 110.

Bernard, Sir Charles, 254.

Albert, Prince Consort, to Beseeching men, 106.

young men, 58.

Alexandria, Church at, 157.

Ambassador, 107.

Central, 299.

Besser's story of redeemed

slave, 176.

Bible Translations, 267.

America, Discovery of, 285; | Bicknell, Rev. James, 83.

Birds without wings, 187.

American Baptist Miss. Union, Birth hours of Time, 284.

Christlieb, Prof. Theodore, on
Miracles, 234; Spirit of
Missions, 50.

Buchanan, Claudius, D.D., Chula Lang Korn, 204.

CALCUTTA and Zenana work, Clay, Henry, and sarcophagus,

made how, 131, 132; first, | Dependence of members of the

David, Thrice anointed, 194. Elisha, Casting in salt, 152.

Debtors to man and to Christ, Emerson, on positive con-