The Days of Confusion

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 18, 1866

The Days of Confusion.

Why is it that the conductors of the secular press more readily discern the signs of the times, and have a far more correct knowledge of the abounding iniquity which now prevails throughout the world, than those do who have the control of the religious publications of the day? Is it willful ignorance, and an inveterate hatred of the truth? Is it pride, denominationalism, the love of the world, or all combined together, that induces the conductors of the religious press, to reject the evidences of the rapid fulfilment of prophecy? Has the Lord given them the choice between truth and error; and in consequence of their choosing the latter, has he smitten them with moral blindness? The following remarks are from a popular monthly magazine, the proprietors of which are

professors of religion, but probably borrow their views of things from their file leaders.

“Things are not now as they have been. A new era has dawned, or is beginning to dawn. The world is getting to believe, however slowly, in the Fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of man. The day of narrowness and bigotry, of class and caste, seems passing away. There is, beyond dispute, a spirit abroad in the earth, exciting to humane thoughts, rousing to generous endeavor, stimulating to philanthropic deeds, refining constitutions and laws, and seeking by all right methods, to broaden and elevate our common humanity.”—Harper's Magazine for August.

The “Peace and Safety” cry must be kept up, contrary to the evidence of every one's senses. “Peace, Order, Tranquility and Civil Authority Exist in and throughout the whole of the United States of America.”

“We have heard of a “Great Revival of Religion near,” of a temporal Millenium “about to dawn;” but we think, on reading the following extract from the Cincinnati Times, that they are at a great distance from us.