How Consistent by ALBERT D. RUST

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 28, 1869

How Consistent.

By ALBERT D. RUST

How ALARMINGLY true is the latter part of the following which appeared not long since in the Missouri Republican:

“History records an age of iron, an age of brass, and an age of gold, and it would seem that America in the present day is destined to complete the catalogue, and crown it with infamy by adding an age of corruption. The most careless observer of men and things, in this country, cannot fail to discern a very decided change for the worse in the last ten years.”

The writer then goes on to show by reference to acts and deeds that crime is on the increase to that extent that it is embraced in the orthodox creeds, which few have moral courage enough to question or dispute.

In taking the article together, we are forced to give the writer a measure of credit for his candor in publishing these omens of the last days; yet how ridiculous Daniel’s image looks standing on its head, and wearing a crown of infamy. In viewing the above, how striking the conclusion that although the symbols and figures are inverted, transposed, or otherwise mutilated, yet the signs of the times are so plain that all are forced to see it. The writer further shows that the “almighty dollar” occupies a large part of the affections of orthodox churches. Ought there not to be a greater mark of distinction between the professed people of God and their persecutors in this respect?

ALBERT D. RUST.