"In that day." Christ came "in the fulness of time." There are
reasons and circumstances specially favourable to the advancement of
the kingdom of Christ. There is a time in the purpose of Jehovah when
all nations shall walk in the light. We may mark the circumstances
which are usually indicative of the further spread of the Gospel.
1. When there is a time of special revival, reformation, and
earnestness in the Church. As in time of Hezekiah. 2. When God stirs
up His people to exert themselves for the world's salvation, it is a
sign that the world's salvation is coming on apace. "When God enters
the chamber, and awakens His children, and bids them rise, it is a
sign that the morning has come." 3. When the church longs, waits,
prays for the success of the work, the time is likely to have come.
"As soon as Zion travailed she brought forth her children." Let the
Church of Christ really desire, believe in, pray for the world's
conversion, and God will open the windows of heaven and pour down the
blessing. Have you been sufficiently interested in the world's
salvation? As individuals? Are we sufficiently interested in our
own?--_J. Rawlinson._