[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1206":3},"DECEMBER 6\r\nBehold, I come quickly: hold that Pa which thou hast, that no man take thy crown (Rev. 3:11).\r\nGeorge Mueller bears this testimony, \"When it pleased God in July, 1829, to reveal to my heart the truth of the personal return of the\r\nLord Jesus, and to show me that I had made a great mistake in looking for the conversion of the world, the effect that it\r\nproduced upon me was this: From my inmost soul I was stirred up to feel compassion for perishing sinners, and for the slumbering world   around me lying in the wicked one, and considered, 'Ought I not to\r\ndo what I can for the Lord Jesus while He tarries, and to rouse a slumbering church?' \"\r\nThere may be many hard years of hard work before the consummation,\r\nbut the signs are to me so encouraging that I would not be\r\nunbelieving if I saw the wing of the apocalyptic angel spread for its last triumphal flight in this day's sunset; or if tomorrow\r\nmorning the ocean cables should thrill us with the news that Christ\r\nthe Lord had alighted on Mount Olivet or Mount Calvary to proclaim\r\nuniversal dominion. O you dead churches wake up! 0 Christ, descend! Scarred temple, take the crown! Bruised hand, take the sceptre!\r\nWounded foot step the throne! Thine is the kingdom. --Rev. T.\r\n\r\nDeWitt Talmage, D. D.\r\nIt may be in the evening,\r\nWhen the work of the day is done,\r\nAnd you have time to sit in the twilight, And watch the sinking sun,\r\nWhile the long bright day dies slowly Over the sea,\r\nAnd the hours grow quiet and holy With thoughts of Me;\r\nWhile you hear the village children\r\nPassing along the street-\r\nAmong those passing footsteps   May come the sound of My Feet. Therefore I tell you, Watch!\r\nBy the Light of the evening star    When the room is growing dusky As the clouds afar,\r\nLet the door be on the latch In your home,\r\nFor it may be through the gloaming I will come.",1783499794096]