The Signs of the Times

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 6, 1908

The Signs of the Times

The inspired inquiry of our Master, “Can ye not discern the signs of the times?” should come home to teachers with great force. We may instruct our pupils never so well in all branches of common study, but if we fail to teach them to read the signs of the times, we have come short in our work, and short of our privileges as teachers. On every hand, evidences of the soon coming of our Master are multiplying most rapidly. Every daily newspaper proclaims the fulfilment of prophecy. The most stirring events are taking place, in nations, in nature, in all grades of society. Everywhere men are uniting, and are laying plans and shaping events in a manner to fulfil most strikingly those scriptures which describe the last days.

Our schools are established for no other purpose than to point out the trend of events, and to prepare the children and young to meet the calamities which are coming upon the earth.

Lawlessness is rife. Disobedience is increasing. Children should be taught that they, by living in contrast to this spirit of lawlessness, are to be signs in themselves of the soon-coming Saviour. So in every way should we as teachers hold before the young, growing minds the vast importance of the hour in which we live, that we may prepare them to stand in the awful events so soon to occur.