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come and with what results for us individually, all is uncertain, for these things are known to no man, neither Adventist nor so-called prophet, no, not even to the angels in heaven, but to the Father alone. This certain uncertainty it is which gives a peculiarly dreadful aspect to the other horrors of the last day. In the Acts of the Apostles we are told that when Paul the Apostle preached on judgment before Governor Felix, that Pagan's heart stood still in terror. Yet for a Christian how much more real and full of meaning is that awful subject. Dies tree, dies ilia, or as the Scriptures term it, the great day, the day of the Lord. A great day indeed, which shall sum up in itself the events, the effects, the reckonings of all previous days, and on which the storm-cloud of God's wrath, which through all time has been slowly gathering, shall burst upon the world. In a moment the world's motion, the rush of the heavenly bodies, and the bustle of human activity shall give way to eternal silence, as when the power is shut off in a mighty factory, and presently each of us shall depart for his allotted home forever and ever. Dies magna, yes, and day of the Lord too. All time may be said to consist of two days, man's day and God's. Through life we are free agents, able even to defy and outrage God, and God patiently bears it all, as though He heeded not or slept. But be assured His day is coming when His will alone shall prevail, and when past accounts shall be squared. Thus it happened to the Jews. They had their day when they Stoned the prophets and persecuted and crucified the