Noah, whose other name is Gabriel, the Angel of the Resurrection—how could we do without him? He holds the keys to bring us forth from the grave. He is one of our ancestors. His three sons repeopled the earth after the Flood; Shem peopling Asia; Ham, Africa; and Japheth, Europe. We are from Shem, through Abraham and the House of Israel, though mixed with the children of Japheth, the Gentiles.

In Noah's day "a veil of darkness" covered the earth; and according to revelation a like condition is to characterize the Last Day, thus foretokened. The spiritual part of that prophecy is even now fulfilling. What could be darker in a spiritual way than "the gross darkness" that covers the modern world in relation to the things of God? Floundering—floundering—like blind men among breakers, not knowing how to swim, nor in which direction lies the shore! Such is the plight of even the wisest among them.

Of Noah's day, it is written: "As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the son of man be." And it was the Son of Man though I prefer to call him the Son of God—who said it. Baptized with water in the days of Noah, the earth will yet be baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost.