Looking for an Expected Guest

*’ When lue expect any one, ive hint our eyes that way, as the wife looks towards the sea, when she expects her husbancVs i-eiiirnr Surely, then, if we look for Christ to coma we shall keep our eyes heavenward, and our minds occupied with the country from which he cometh. If we mind earthly things, it will be evidence that the coming of the Lord has no power over us.

Yet a good wife does not sit idly by the sea watching for a sail, but she sets the house in order for her husband’s return. She who should sit looking out of window, or studying almanacks, and have no provision made for the home-coming, would show but scant love for her lord. We should watch, but we should also stand with our loins girt, and do the duty of the hour, that when our Lord comes he may not blame our negligence in his service. If we know little of the prophecies, v.-e can show our expectancy by keeping the precepts.