The Church invites us during Advent to turn our thoughts towards the Second Coming of Christ--His Coming in judgment at the end of the world. The subject of the Last Judgment is perhaps one which we are rather inclined to avoid in our Meditations; but it is one about which Our Blessed Lord said a great deal; it is continually mentioned, too, in the Epistles and in the Apocalypse, and as we shall most certainly take a part in that last great scene of the world's drama, it is surely well for us to have a rehearsal from time to time. POINT I. THE COMING OF THE JUDGE. _When will He come?_ God "hath _appointed_ a day wherein He will judge the world in equity by the Man whom He hath appointed." (Acts XVII. 31). The day then is _fixed_, "but of that day and hour no one knoweth, no not the Angels of Heaven, but the Father alone." (St. Matt. XXIV. 36). _How will He come?_ He "shall so come as you have seen Him going into Heaven" (Acts I. 11), the Angel told the Apostles who had just watched His Ascension. He will come, that is, in His beautiful Resurrection Body, dazzling with brightness and glory, with the wounds in Hands and Feet and Side. He will come "with much power and majesty" (St. Matt. XXIV. 30) for He will come to judge, not to preach penance nor atone for sin; He will come unexpectedly "as a thief in the night" (1 Thess. V. 2) "at what hour you think not" (St. Luke XII. 40); He will come "with thousands of His Saints" (Jude 14) for all those "who have slept through JESUS will God bring with Him" (1 Thess. IV. 13); He will bring, too, "all the Angels with Him" (St. Matt. XXV. 31); He will come "with the voice of an Archangel, and with the trumpet of God" (1 Thess. IV. 15); He will come "with the clouds" (Apoc. I. 7); He will come "in the glory of His Father with His Angels" (St. Matt. XVI. 27); He will come "as lightning" (XXIV. 27) and before Him will come His Cross--"the sign of the Son of man" in the heavens (verse 30), every eye shall see it. What different emotions that sign will excite! POINT II. THE EFFECTS OF HIS COMING. "Every eye shall see Him, and they also that pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth shall bewail themselves because of Him" (Apoc. I. 7). "We shall all rise again." (1 Cor. XV. 51). "The sea will give up the dead that are in it, and death and hell ... their dead that are in them." (Apoc. XX. 13). "The dead who are in Christ shall rise first." (1 Thess. IV. 15). "We shall be changed, for this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." (1 Cor. XV. 52). "He shall send His Angels with a trumpet, and a great voice, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds." (St. Matt. XXIV. 31). "Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them (those who died in Christ) in the clouds to meet Christ." (1 Thess. IV. 16).