are going in England now, the Lord of us all will come in an hour
when we are not aware, and cut us asunder in the deepest and most
real sense, as He came and cut asunder France, Germany, and Austria
only last year, and appoint us our portion with the unbelievers. And
I believe that our punishment will be seven times as severe as that
of either France, Germany, or Austria, because we have had seven
times their privileges and blessings, seven times their Gospel light
and Christian knowledge, seven times their freedom and justice in
laws and constitution; seven times their wealth, and prosperity, and
means of employing our population. Much has been given to England,
and of her much will be required. And if you could only see the
state of mankind over the greatest part of the globe, how infinitely
fewer opportunities they have of knowing God's will than you have,
you would feel that to you, poor and struggling as some of you are--
to you much has been given, and of you much will be required.

Now first, what do I mean by Christ being our king? I daresay there
are some among you who are inclined to think that, when we talk of
Christ being a king, that the word king means something very
different from its common meaning--and, God knows, that that is true
enough. Our blessed Lord took care to make people understand that--
how He was not like one of the kings of the nations, how His kingdom
was not of this world. But yet the Bible tells us again and again
that all good kings, all real kings, are patterns of Christ; and,
therefore, that when we talk of Christ being a king, we mean that He
is a king in everything that a king ought to be; that He fulfils
perfectly all the duties of a king; that He is the pattern which all
kings ought to copy. Kings have been in all ages too apt to forget
that, and, indeed, so have the people too. We English have forgotten
most thoroughly in these days, that Christ is our king, or even a