The End is Near | AdventAI

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · OAKLAND, CAL. · Dec 31, 1874

The End is Near.

CLOUDS of darkness gathering o'er us, Awful tidings with them bear ; Scenes of misery spread before us— Death, and pestilence, and war ; All, in one loud, piercing chorus, Tell us that the end is near.

Hearts of men within them failing For the coming woes they fear ; All their efforts unavailing— No propitious signs appear ; Sin increasing, crime prevailing, Tell us that the end is near.

Selfishness in all abounding ; Gold the idol everywhere, Worshiped by a host, confounding Gold for all that's good or fair ; Crowds the mammon-god surrounding, Tell us that the end is near.

Formal godliness increasing, Power denied, and forms held dear ; Christ and fashion coalescing, Forming now the character ; Rites so popular and pleasing, Tell us that the end is near.

Lawlessness so vastly spreading, Void of reverence, awe, or fear ; Sacred things beneath it treading, Stamped with God's own signature ; Never once his vengeance dreading, Tell us that the end is near.

War, that heaviest curse of nations, Running on its dread career ; While the mass its desolations Listless or applauding hear ; War, with its abominations, Tell us that the end is near.

Saints of God all evil hating, Faithful to the name they bear, For their coming Saviour waiting, To be caught up in the air ; Hence their rest and blessing dating, Tell us that the end is near.

Sinner, wouldst thou in the glory Of that "cloudless morning" share? Wouldst thou have this hope before thee? Wear the crown saints then will wear? Oh! believe redemption's story ; Look to Christ! the end is near.

—Prophetic Key.