lordship. True restoration, however, was to be much more than turning back the clock, even to the best of the past. It was to mean nothing less than the universal manifestation of the age to come in the present age. It was to be heaven on earth in the hearts, lives, labours and societies of men, as these became transformed by the power of the gospel. Jesus answered the apostles’ question directly. There was to be no date-setting about the Day of the Lord. It