A Prophecy Fulfilled

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 24, 1884

A Prophecy Fulfilled.

PAUL gives the following plain description of professedly Christian people in the last days: “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” 2 Tim. 4:3, 4. We claim to have reached that time, and that the disposition which Paul describes is plainly exhibited on the part of most of the churches of the land. This is why it is so hard to gain the ears of the people for the proclamation of the truth. They are turned away from it to pleasing fables which suit them better. Hence it is at this time that the ministers of God are reined up by the charge of the apostle, in view of the impending advent of the Lord Jesus, to preach the word.

But when we apply this language to the popular