Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE KEY-BEARER THE OPENED DOOR. 'And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith He that is holy, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, He that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept My word, and hast not denied My name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie: behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I coine quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from My God: and I will write upon him My new name. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches.'?Rev. iii, 7-13. THE Epistles to the Seven Churches of Asia, in relation to the Apocalypse regarded as a whole, and until the events of the latter-day glory illumine its mysteriousand awesome darkness, may be likened to the Milky Way?that phantom Rainbow of the Night . They present a space of starry splendour ringed with impermeable blackness. The Epistle now before us is ' one bright particular star.' It is addressed to a Congregation that in the Past had done well, and is designed to stir them to larger service, and grander achievement, and wider rea...