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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · September 3, 1867

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 12

A good comment on the fact that in the closing up of the last message of mercy, the Lord will perform a speedy work and cut it short in righteousness, is found in the following which we clip from an exchange:

In the world's great eras, the Divine procedure is marked by slow preparation, and rapid execution. An eternity preceded the first act of creation, but when creation began, six days sufficed for the work. Centuries of seemingly religious inaction went before the appearance of Christ, but from the day of Pentecost the Christian church grew with creative rapidity. The Dark Ages wasted, in seeming uselessness, their wearisome night before the Reformation, but when the dawn began, the glow and warmth spread swiftly over Europe. Our American struggle against slavery seemed only to lengthen her cords and strengthen her stakes, but how swift this movement when God began to lead forth his oppressed people. Day before yesterday, as it were, they were slaves, yesterday they were freedmen, to-day they are voters!