Editorial by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 23, 1910

Editorial

By Editor

“For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith; but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back.” Heb. 10:37-39.

A Straight Path.—The prophecy of Rev. 14:6-14 reveals a straight pathway of divine truth leading from the judgment-hour cry, in verse 6, to the coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven, in verse 14. It is one complete prophecy. As the pioneers in our work saw the light of the third angel’s message, and took their stand for “the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus,” they could plainly see the straight path, and pressed joyously along it to carry the warning cry to all the world.

Time’s Vindication.—The mass of the First-day Adventists, instead of accepting the third message, and pressing on in the path of fulfilling prophecy, practically repudiated even the path along which they had come up to the final judgment-hour cry, in 1844. Their experiences, and that of our own people, were thus referred to by Elder U. Smith in the number of the REVIEW closing the year 1870, when for twenty years this paper had been pointing out the straight, undeviating pathway to the city of God:—

The REVIEW is the only paper advocating the third angel’s message of Revelation 14, the message that immediately precedes the second appearing of the Son of man. It alone, therefore, of all the advent papers published, occupies a consistent position on the advent question. During the comparatively long period of its publication, how many ignoble theories of men have we seen crushed into their mother dust by the stately tread of Time! Men, groping in blindness, have set time after time for the Lord to appear; they have marked out certain revolutions to transpire at a certain time; they have set up an insignificant personage as the man of sin, the Antichrist, the destined monarch of the world, etc., and have pathetically appealed to Time to prove them correct. But he, as it must seem to them, like a careless, blundering Jehu, has passed right over their daintily-constructed theories, and trodden them out of sight in his onward march. The past history of these interpreters is but an accumulation of misapplied prophecies and demolished theories. Under no such incubus of multiplied failures does our cause labor. On the contrary, every passing year confirms and strengthens our positions. With tenfold more confidence can the great features of present truth be now set forth than they could even a few years ago.

AND since 1870, what a revelation of fulfilling prophecy has been spread before us! Then our enemies scoffed at the interpretation which saw the rise of a Sunday-law movement in this country. People said it would never come. We have been fighting it, face to face, these recent years. In 1870 not a messenger of ours had crossed the sea. Now the representatives of the message are found in nearly every land, and year by year new tongues are praising God for the truth that transforms the life, and gives hope of soon seeing the Lord Jesus coming in power and glory.