were, at the victorious chariot wheels. The central fortress has been
captured, and the rest is an affair of outposts.

My text has for its last word this--the prince's judgment prophesies
the world's future judgment. The process which began when Jesus
Christ died has for its consummation the divine condemnation of all
the evil that still afflicts humanity, and its deprivation of
authority and power to injure. A final judgment will come, and that
it will is manifested by the fact that Christ, when He came in the
form of a servant and died upon the Cross, judged the prince. When He
comes in the form of a King on the great White Throne He will judge
the world which He has delivered from its prince.

That thought, my brother, ought to be a hope to us all. Are you glad
when you think that there is a day of judgment coming? Does your
heart leap up when you realise the fact that the righteousness, which
is in the heavens, is sure to conquer and coerce and secure under the
hatches the sin that is riding rampant through the world? It was a
joy and a hope to men who did not know half as much of the divine
love and the divine righteousness as we do. They called upon the
rocks and the hills to rejoice, and the trees of the forest to clap
their hands before the Lord, 'for He cometh to judge the world.' Does
your heart throb a glad Amen to that?

It ought to be a hope; it is a fear; and there are some of us who do
not like to have the conviction driven home to us, that the end of
the strife between sin and righteousness is that Jesus Christ shall
judge the world and take unto Himself His eternal kingdom.

But, my friends, hope or fear, it is a fact, as certain in the