A True Forecast by C. E. H.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 9, 1910

A True Forecast

By C. E. H.

IN 1844 George Junkin, then president of Miami University (Ohio), published in his lectures on the Bible prophecies, the following comment on the third angel's message (Rev. 14: 9, 10):—

The ministry symbolized by this angel shall exhibit the lion-like spirit of the Protestant Reformers—“saying with a loud voice.” Clear and decided language will they utter. No timid, doubting state of mind, hesitating whether to say hard things against the beast and his image, or to speak smoothly and fawningly. . . . Their language will be the fearless and honest exposure of their thoughts.

In answering the inquiry as to when the ministry so symbolized would arise, and who they are, he continues:—

We must look for them subsequently to the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. . . . The fulfilment is yet future, but confining upon the present. The alarm is just beginning to be sounded; and the manifest growth of numbers and of zeal for pure Christianity in Geneva, Lyons, Montauban, Paris, and other parts of France, in Britain and Ireland, in some parts of Germany, and especially in America,—these are the beginning of great events. . . . Catholicism is manifestly waking up for a last desperate effort; and the unblushing effrontery of her emissaries is arousing, and will arouse, the Protestant world to a sense of its danger. The present movement on the subject of popery will continue; the prophecies that bear on it will be studied more and more. The fearful consequences of adhering to the despotic system will be still more clearly

exhibited before the eyes of mankind, and the essential hatefulness and tyranny of the system be held up to the execration of the race, until the day of antichrist’s destruction shall come, and the vengeance be poured out that is written in the Word of God.—“Lectures on Prophecy,” pages 237-240.

What this writer has predicted, based upon the revelator’s word, has been remarkably fulfilled. Since 1844 until the present time there has been an increased study of the prophecies, and a flood of literature pointing out the Papacy as the antichrist has been poured upon the world.

C. E. H.