"OCCUPY TILL I COME."

WAITING FOR THE MORNING.
Rev. 19:7.

There is no roof in all the world, of palace or of cot. That hideth not some burdened heart, nigh breaking for its lot;

The earth is sunk in pain and tears, and closer draws the gloom;

And balm for cure there can be none, till Christ, the Lord, shall come.

"O morn, when like a summer bird, my spirit shall go free,

When I shall see Thee as Thou art, and be, my God, like Thee!

Like Thee! like Thee! All spotless white-this heart, this will, as Thine!

O love of God, O blood of Christ, O grace and power divine!

"My Saviour, who doth know the thirst the longing spirit feels,

O Bridegroom, now so long afar, why stay thy chariotwheels?

Were ever eyes so dim with grief, breasts so oppressed with care?

Did ever hearts so yearn to catch Thy whisper from the air?"

Thou lonely one, lift up thy head, array thee for the feast;
He that hath tarried long is near-the glow is in the East!
O Morning Star, so soon to lead Thy chosen one away-
O Sun of Righteousness, bring in the everlasting day!

"REDEMPTION DRAWETH NIGH."
Luke 21:28.

My soul crieth out for a jubilee song!

There is joy in my heart, let me praise with my tongue;
For I know, though the darkness of Egypt still lowers,
That the time ere release is not ages, but hours.

As sailors, not yet within sight of the strand,
Know well their approach by the "loom of the land;"
So they, who will bend but a listening ear,
Can now catch the whisper that tells He is near.

He Is near-the stars in their courses prepare
To utter the sign He hath bid them declare!
The world in its guilt waxeth haggard and grim,
And its cup of iniquity fills to the brim!

The curse so long camped upon Bosphorus' side,-
And she that sits queen upon Tiber's foul tide,-
And Famine and Pestilence stalk in the band

Of witness, attesting the Lord is at hand.

Spent at last the long cycle of wilderness dearth,
Once again sounds of latter-rain gladden the earth
In the land, still despised, but preparing e'en now
For the feet that shall stand upon Olivet's brow.

And thither to gather the tribes have begun,
From the East and the West, from the climes of the sun
For the times of the Gentiles have answered their need,
And the hiss has gone forth unto Israel's seed.

The world as of yore, naught of all doth divine,-
Saith again that believers are filled with new wine,-
Suffers warning to pass all unseen and unheard,
And, like Herod, fulfills while opposing His word.

Then welcome, thrice welcome, ye tokens of God!
What else but His coming can comfort afford?
What presence but His set this prisoned earth free?
O Star of the Morning, our hope is in Thee!

-From "Waiting for the Morning and Other Poems."

CHAPTER XXI.

Plan of the Aions (Ages).

The following diagram is intended to illustrate the chronological arrangement of the dispensations and some of the principal events of Bible History.

The division of time into days, months and years, is fixed by the movements of the earth and moon. The term century is not used in the Scriptures, but the next greater measure of time above the year (Sabbatic year and Jubilee year) is the Greek term AION or English EON, from which comes our word age. This word is used 124 times in the New Testament and is translated by eight different English words, viz: "WORLD” 35 times.

or 42 times, for in each of these 21 passages it is used twice, and, in all but Heb. 1:8, it is in the plural and multiplied form, "AIONS of AIONS." It is also plural in

If the reader will carefully examine these passages, and substitute the original word aion or aions, he will at once see that it is used not to indicate the material or physical world, but as a measurement of time.

"It shall not be forgiven him, neither in this aion, neither in the aion to come." Mat. 12:32.

"The harvest is the end of the aion."-"So shall it be at the end of this aion." Mat. 13:39-40.

"Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for an aion." Mat. 21:19.

"What shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the aion." Mat. 24:3.

"Hath not forgiveness to (or for) the aion, but is in danger of aionian* sin." Mark 3:29.

"But he shall receive

life." Mark 10:30.

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in the aion to come eternal

*The adjective "aionios" is used 70 times, as follows:

It is translated everlasting, eternal or forever except in three passages, where it is world, Rom. 16:25 aionian times, 2 Tim. 1:9, and Titus 1:2 before aionian times.

"For ever," i. e. for the aions. Luke 1:33; Rom. 1:25; 9:5; 11:36; 2 Cor. 11:31; Heb. 13:8.

"For ever," i. e. for the aion. Luke 1:55; John 6:51-58; 8:35; 12:34; 14:16; 2 Cor. 9:9; Heb. 5:6; 6:20; 7:17; 21, 24, 28; 1 Pet. 1:25; 1 John 2:17; 2 John 2; Jude 13.

"The children of this aion are dren of light." Luke 16:8.

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"The children of this aion marry. . . . but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that aion and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage." Luke 20:34-35.

"Shall thirst not for the aion." John 4:14.

"Not for the aion." John 8:51-52; 10:28; 11:26; 13:8; 1 Cor. 8:13.

"Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the aion." (lit. from an aion). Acts 15:18.

"To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for the aion." Rom. 16:27.

"Not the wisdom of this aion, nor of the princes of this aion . . . . but we speak even the hidden wisdom

which God ordained before the aions." 1 Cor. 2:6-7.

"For our admonition upon whom the ends of the aions are come." 1 Cor. 10:11.

"In whom the God of this aion." 2 Cor. 4:4.

"Who gave himself . . . . that He might deliver us from this present evil aion." Gal. 1:4.

"Not only in this aion, but also in that which is to come." Eph. 1:21.

"That in the aions to come." Eph. 2:7.

"The mystery which from the aions hath been hid." Eph. 3:9.

"According to the purpose (plan) of the aions." Eph.

3:11.

"Unto him be glory throughout all the generations of the aion of the aions." Eph. 3:21,