THAT the Lord is to come again is clearly taught in Scripture. When the enraptured disciples looked steadfastly up to heaven as they saw their Lord ascend two men stood by them in white apparel and addressed them thus: “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven” (Acts i. 11). It is said by one of the historians of the Jews that their hope of the Messiah’s coming never wholly deserted them as a people in the darkest hours of their history and surely the Church of Christ has in the words of the institution of the Lord’s Supper a hope of His coming again which she must never lose hold of. The Apostle in his Epistle to Titus tells us that one effect produced by the grace of God that bringeth salvation to all men is “Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” The giving a prominent place to this “ blessed hope” does not necessarily mean that we are pre-millennarians. The Second Coming of Christ is a doctrine founded on the plain teaching of Scripture and while we deny the pre-millenarian view of the Coming being before the millennium and His personal reign on the earth during that period yet we hold He is to come again in the clouds of heaven, accompanied by His holy angels, sitting upon the throne of His glory, to summon all flesh before Him and to pass final judgment upon them. We have already dealt at length with the doctrine of the Second Coming in the Magazine* as recently as last year and we do not intend to enter into the subject again at present. We may be permitted, however, in view of a little pamphlet that has recently been issued under the title “100 World-Known Witnesses to the Second Coming of Christ: Personal—Premillennial” by Hy. Pickering to point out that it is not to be taken for granted that all who hold the doctrine of the Second Coming are pre-millennarians. Some of the writers quoted in support of pre-millennarianism may be pre-millennarians but their statements go no further than saying they believe in the personal Second Coming of the Lord which all who believe the Bible must do. It is the same Jesus that the disciples saw ascend at Bethany that will so come in like manner as they saw Him ascend (Acts i. 11).