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It Came at Last

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Dec 20, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 50.

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It Came at Last

By Editor

It Came at Last.—Long and dry has been the summer, not unusual in California; nevertheless the rains in this section seemed to tarry longer than usual. The dead, dull gray of dust was upon everything. Were it not for the evergreens and the occasionally irrigated patches one could almost imagine at times and in spots that he was looking upon a dead world, and that never again would the fields spring to life, beautified with vegetation. The eventides came, the nights were clear and cold, sometimes frosty, the days generally remarkably pleasant; but the fields were dry, and the herds longed for green pastures. At last it came, unheralded by wind or black clouds or threatening foretokens of any sort. The sky grew softly gray with clouds, and the drops of rain began to fall as gentle as a mist and warm as summer. All through the long night and part of the day fell the rain, and the dry and thirsty land drank it eagerly. How sweet is the air, washed from its dust. How grateful the fragrance of the moistened soil. Already a ghost of green appears in the fields, erstwhile so dry and dead; and in a few days the vernal carpet will everywhere be spread, save where the plowman turns the soil for richer crop than unaided nature affords. Even so God pours out His Spirit upon and into the thirsty, dry, dead soil of human hearts. “I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground; I will pour My spirit upon thy seed, and My blessing upon thine offspring.” Thank God for the rain and its lessons.
We give, as we advertise, fifty numbers each year. This present issue is our fiftieth; therefore there will be no paper next week.
Our next issue is dated Jan. 3, 1911. We wish all our readers a HAPPY NEW YEAR, a year in which self shall be forgotten for others’ good. Let the blood of Jesus Christ cleanse the past, and let His life fill you for service in the year to come.