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Title: Why I Preach the Second Coming

Author: Isaac Massey Haldeman

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Language: English

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WHY I PREACH THE SECOND COMING

by

I. M. HALDEMAN, D. D.

Pastor First Baptist Church, New York City

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Copyright, 1919, by
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Foreword

THE subject of this volume is an address delivered by the Author
before the World's Conference on Christian Fundamentals at
Philadelphia, May 30, 1919.

The reasons for preaching and teaching the Second Coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ are manifold and each one worth while.

The Author has contented himself with presenting a few as follows:

The Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is the one event most
often recorded in Holy Scripture.

It is bound up with every fundamental doctrine, with every sublime
promise and every exhortation to high, to holy and practical
Christian living.

Only at the Second Coming of our Lord will redemption be complete
and the blood of the cross be justified.

Not till our Lord Jesus Christ comes the Second time will the Church
be exalted into her true function of rulership over the world.

Only at the Second Coming will the solemn and covenant promises of
God to Israel be fulfilled.

Only at the Second Coming of the Christ of God will a government of
everlasting righteousness and peace be established on the earth.

It is at the Second Coming of Christ alone that the earth will be