Unless all language is a deception; unless the promises of God are a baited lie; unless the apostles of Christ are the most shameless of all wanton tricksters; unless the Son of God Himself is the coolest traitor to truth who ever fooled the trusting hearts of needy men; unless He is the one being of all others who had the subtle and effective genius of making promises that fill the ear and are broken to the heart; unless He was the most skillful of all deceivers and rejoiced with malignant delight in deceiving the souls of men and thus proved Himself to be not the Son of God at all but the very son of falsehood, then seeing He is the reverse of all that, is in truth the very Son of God and truth itself, by His own unqualified statement, by its very character as exhortative warning His Coming must be and is--imminent. It is on the threshold of unfolding history and the gates of heaven are ajar ready for His Coming. So imminent is it that there is nothing between us and that event of events but the shout of command, the voice of the archangel and the shattering sound of the trump. So imminent that there is not the thickness of an eyelash between us and that moment when the door in heaven shall open wide and His voice with all compelling power shall say, "Come up hither." Listen to what He says: "Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come." Watch! because He is coming. Watch! because you do not know what hour He will come. Watch! because as the householder He said He might come in any one of the four watches, at even, at midnight, in the cockcrowing or in the morning. He did not come at even. Surely the midnight has come. It is dark enough spiritually. There is not only enough of sorrow, sin, confusion and unbelief in a godless world, but rank treason to the truth and repudiation of the written Word in the professing Church to call it spiritual midnight. It seems sometimes like the cockcrowing. There are sounds of chanticleer, blasts of trumpets, changing of the guards and sentinels of old customs and ways, and echoes in the events now unrolling that prelude the great morning and the great day. There is nothing certain about the hour but its--uncertainty. Watch! because you may be alive at His Coming. That is the word of Holy Scripture and not my suggestion. Listen to the Apostle: "We which are alive, and remain unto the coming of the Lord." The Apostle said that for his generation. He said it not under his own mistaken idea as the Chicago department of "sacred literature" would suggest, but under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of the Holy God. Paul as a mere man might make mistakes just as the modern theological professor not infrequently does. The Holy Spirit speaking through Paul could not make a mistake Himself, neither could it be possible for Paul under the direction of the Holy Spirit to make a mistake. Paul was led by the Holy Spirit to believe it possible the Son of God might come in his day.