or rather shut out from the minds of Christians by the gigantic accumulation of falsity and evil.
But at this juncture, amid the dense clouds of ignorance and error and doubt and denial—generated by the inordinate loves of self and the world which had extinguished in human minds all the bright and heavenly luminaries—amid these dark encompassing clouds there comes a new and glorious light. A new Morning dawns. A new Age is ushered in by the influx of new life and the revelation of new and higher truth. From underneath the cloud of the letter—out from the living soul of Scripture—the Sun of righteousness arises with healing in his wings. And thus, to humble and open minds, the incarnate God comes and reveals Himself anew—comes with new power and glory in the clouds. Agreeable to his own prophetic declaration: "And they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."
And although the Church is not yet arrayed in her beautiful bridal robes, it is apparent to all eyes that a new Morning has broken upon the world. The light of the New Dispensation is gleaming all around us. Science, philosophy, literature, art, politics, morals, and even religion, have begun to feel the influence of the Second Coming. The old forms of thought have greatly changed, and are still rapidly changing. Old religious dog-
