As the years roll over us, it is well to ponder our blessed Lord's last utterance to His Church. It seems to have been left last on record that, whatever else might be forgotten through lapse of time, the blessed promise then given might linger on the heart and ear of His loving people. Like the last words of a valued friend, a parting legacy ever to be remembered, so should we treasure these words of our Lord, "I come quickly."
Prophecies of woe untold, and of bliss unsearchable, had filled the wonderful "book of this prophecy"; but it was neither the woe nor the bliss that was preeminently to occupy the mind of the reader, but his personal relation to Christ, and the pledge of His return. Hope and fear may alike forget this central object, the Person of Christ, if love rule not; and He knows how prone love is to wax cold, even as it had done in the church at Ephesus, amid her activities and zeal, her labor and patience. "First love" will only be kept alive as the Person of the Lord is kept preeminently in view.