Saviour, and except that Christ wept over Jerusalem because she had not known, and that in this, her day, what things were for her peace, God made no move, but bore with them. But His day came when the Romans came, and when the whole Jewish nation was given up to fire and sword and famine and pestilence and banishment and slavery; But even the horrors of Jerusalem's siege, though a figure, are but a faint reflection of the woes to come. That and such like calamities which the world has yet known were, says St. Clement, " but the skirmishes which precede the final and decisive conflict between the forces of guilt and retribution." O God! if a brush between the outposts be such, what shall be the horrors of the general engagement? Wisdom (v. 18) describes God as " putting on the armor of His zeal and wielding the sword of His wrath and shooting as missiles shafts of lightning and thick hail from the clouds, and inciting the winds and the seas to rage against and destroy His enemies." " That day," says the Prophet Sophronius, " is a day of wrath, a day of tribulation and distress, a day of calamity and misery, a day of darkness and obscurity, a day of clouds and whirlwinds. I will distress men, and they shall walk like blind men, and their blood shall be poured out as earth and their bodies as dung. Neither shall their silver and gold be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord."
Brethren, though many descriptions of the last day are found in Scripture, the Lord's account is, naturally, unsurpassed. And verily, the subject, the death
