False Christs in the Last Days
By Editor
We pause upon the margin of 1866, and feel, as the students of prophecy have been giving out for ages, that it must bring forth occurrences of unwonted significance and moment to the church and to the race! Signs of various sorts are multiplying on every side. False christs are appearing. We have just received certain printed documents proposing the re-organization of society, from one who announces himself as "The Promised Son of Man." He propounds his scheme as "the world's desired, prayed for, and expected kingdom of and from Heaven." He says, "Jesus, and the Christ in him, came the first time to preach about the kingdom spoken of by the prophets, which has been repeated unto this day; but now, having received the kingdom, and returned in the present Son of Man, I come not to preach about it, but to set it up, practically, without money, hire, or price, that the praying for it may be answered and ended." Is not this in the direct line of the Saviour's words, that, as the day draws near, "there shall arise false christs, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert, go not forth; behold, he is in the secret chambers, believe it not."