The antediluvians would not be warned by the preaching of Noah, and suspected nothing till the flood came, and swept them all away. The Jews in like manner would not be warned by our Lord and his apostles, and could not be aroused from their apathy and indifference till their devoted city was invested with armies. So shall it be at the coming of the Son of man. Great trials are upon those who intend to maintain truth and righteousness. May we be able to stand the coming conflict. The love of many is growing cold, and those weary of the restraints of Christ are coming to the surface. Let us not slumber, but watch and strengthen the things that remain and are ready to die. Let us hold fast and be faithful, lest the trying hour come on us unexpected. Let us sing, and sing with the spirit and the understanding: “Nearer, my God, to thee.” May we find grace to stand in the evil day, and having done all to stand. HOW THE CAUSE OF REFORMATION WAS ADVANCED. With preachers from the farms, shops, stores, law offices, doctors’ offices, with a little learning, and many almost without it, we carried this cause forward, and in defiance of all opposition have triumphantly planted it in all directions in this and in many other countries. The power was not _in the men_ but in the truth of God; the clear and unquestionable truth, that could be made plain and reliable to all men, and that, too, with very little learning or talent. The ground taken was invulnerable, manifestly right. The Bible is from God, divine, and admitted by all to be right, and there is not a reason in the world for not taking and going by it. We have struck down all human authorities, human names, and humanism of every sort, and restored to the people of this generation to a wonderful degree the divine, the supreme and absolute authority of the Bible, and are now commanding respect in a remarkable degree, not as a _new denomination_, but as the people of God, called out from the world and from Babylon, and planted upon the Rock of God.