BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT by Dr. Duff

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 19, 1867

BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.

By Dr. Duff

Come, O Almighty Saviour!—in the infinite sympathies of thy boundless compassion. Come, O Almighty Spirit of all grace!—in the plenitude and overflow of thy soul-reviving and comforting influence. And may the blighting of once fondly cherished hopes, and the consequent prostrations of all high thoughts and lofty imaginations, be in this and all other lands, the discipline and the preparation for that night of storm, which is now so ominously brooding over the nations. And when the gloom is thickest, and the tempest of human passion loudest, and the rage of Satan, who cometh down in great wrath, fiercest,—may we have faith to discern in these the signs and presages of that hallowed morn which shall chase away the long dark night of ages,—the heralds and precursors of the speedy approach of Him, whose “coming like the morn shall be, like morning songs his voice.” Then, then,—amid the dawnings of millennial glory, and the jubilee of a once fallen but now renovated universe,—shall we find fresh emphasis in words of inspiration,—that “the hope of the righteous shall be gladness; but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.”—Dr. Duff, India.