Stirring Times | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 1, 1867

Stirring Times.

According to the Court Journal, Monseigneur-Dupanloup has issued a remarkable pastoral letter. He says that the time spoken of in the Scriptures, in which there should be wars and rumors of wars, and earthquakes and famines, appears to have arrived. He denounces, with great energy, the impiety which prevails, and the atheistical teachings of many writers: “War on God and on religion becomes fiercer every day. Atheism marches with the head erect. In this respect the eighteenth century is far exceeded.” As Fenelon predicted the great Revolution, so he anticipates the “gravest calamities” before the end of this century. “What is preparing in Europe is frightful to contemplate. I shall perhaps not see it, but I announce it!” The letter will certainly create a sensation on account of the high position which the Bishop occupies in the Church—he is unquestionably the foremost ecclesiastic of the day in France—of his literary renown, and of his high political character.—The National (Eng.) Reformer.