Editorial by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Feb 9, 1905

Editorial

By Editor

The Voice of Current History

THOSE who are observing the signs of the times in the light of the prophecies must note with an increasing interest the large number of significant events which are found in current history. Here is a partial enumeration of them: the war in the East; the controversy between France and the Vatican; the colonial policy of the United States in its practical working in the Philippines; the remarkable increase of lawlessness; the condition of the financial world as shown by the revelations of “Frenzied Finance;” the condition of the political world as shown by recent magazine articles upon the corruption existing in various States and large cities; the condition of the commercial world as shown by the revelations concerning the great “Trusts;” the death roll of disaster by land and by sea; the ever-present strife between capital and labor, with no signs of permanent settlement; the bold assertions of an infidel science in unsettling faith in the revealed religion of Jesus, and the repudiation of the fundamental principles of the gospel of Christ in the “New Theology;” and the indications of internal trouble in many countries. As showing the extent of this distress among the nations, we call attention to the revolutionary outbreak in Russia, and the recent cabinet crises in Austria and Hungary, in Greece, in Rumania and Denmark, in Spain, and in France. The very foundations of society seem to be weakening, and there are indications of a general breaking up. A remarkable intensity is taking hold of every earthly element, and the supreme moment of the great controversy is not far away. Just now there ought to be the revelation of a new power from above to deliver from all the working of evil and to perfect holiness of character at the very time when iniquity abounds. The voice of current events declares that the end is near, and calls for the preaching of the third angel’s message with a loud cry. Let us heed this voice.