With astounding accuracy, our earth returns to a given point in its journey round the sun. Split second accuracy is, in fact, provided for our great "train" with its precious load of humanity, completing its journey of stupendous distance, inconceivable speed and marvellous comfort, by a time table which runs--365 days, five hours, 45 minutes and 45.51 seconds. No steamship line, railroad company or airline would dare to guarantee arrivals of such regularity and unfailing constancy and dependability. Only God can do things like this.

"God of the morning, at whose voice,
The cheerful sun makes haste to rise,
And like a giant doth rejoice,
To run his journey through the skies"

The writer of Hebrews, in a passage nowhere excelled in adoration of our Lord says:

"And Thou Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of Thy hands. They shall perish, but thou remainest: and they all shall wax old as doth a garment. And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed, but thou art the same, and THY YEARS SHALL NOT FAIL. "

Thank you, Writer of Hebrews, we need your assurance that every thing is proceeding according to the divine fiat. It may be that the agony through which we are now passing is one of these changes slowly taking place. It may be, and probably is, necessary for humanity to undergo sorrow that it may appreciate joy, and to suffer under the domination of the Beast rising from the bottomless pit, that it may appreciate the time when "The government shall be upon his shoulder, and men will, with wor shipful hearts allude to him as The Prince of Peace."

Appropriately enough then, we allude to the present time as A.D., or year of our Lord. It is so, very much so. He made it - every element of it. And, it is good to note this fact, that this year will not fail of achieving his purpose in making it.

But what is this purpose for which so much blood and treasure are being poured out? To what destiny do we come? We cannot know fully, for, "Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." Yet by the revelations of the Spirit of God, we have some inklings of the future that lies before us. First of all, we shall not be cramped for time. Because He lives, we shall live, and because He is alive forevermore, we also shall never die. They, the visible heavens, shall wax old; and, having served their purpose, will be discarded as a useless garment. But we will remain, because we have joined our fortunes with the Everliving.