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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 23, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 6.

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The Lord Cometh.

By G. W. Mitchell

ANY one who reads the Bible and the history of the world, carefully, and observes the signs of the times, must come to the conclusion that the end of time is upon us. As testimony, there is:
1. The age of the world. The best chronologers agree that the six thousand years are about fulfilled. Few chronologers, of any note, put it beyond 1882.
2. The four kingdoms of Daniel are in the past; the last of which closed its period of misrule in 1798.
3. After the death of Pius sixth, a new Pontiff was elected, whose power was confined to a small portion of Italy, and that power has been passing away since 1848, fulfilling the declaration, “They shall take away his dominion, to consume it unto the end;” and now not a vestige of that power remains.
4. The Sultan, whose empire extended from Asia into Africa and Europe, and who has held his right only by sufferance, since 1840, is almost at the point of being driven from Europe into Asia, to “plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas, in the glorious holy mountain.”
5. The lamb-like beast, that came up out of the earth, is almost ready to speak as a dragon, only waiting the confederation of the nominal churches to form the image of the beast, which had the wound by a sword and did live, to become the false prophet.
6. Spiritualism, under the banner of the prince of darkness, is almost ready to work “with all power, and signs, and lying wonders;” when it is declared that Christ shall come.
7. The nations have been preparing for war on a gigantic scale, which proves them to be angry; when it is declared, “Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged.”
8. The condition of the churches as described by Paul—“traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.”
9. We have had signs in the heavens; the darkening of the sun and moon, and the falling of the stars.
10. Signs in the earth are continually appearing: Earthquakes, tornadoes, storms, fires, cyclones, tidal-waves, etc., with unheard-of drouth in some parts of the earth; while other portions are flooded, destroying human life, and much property.
11. The railroads, with their jostling trains, so graphically described by the prophet Nahum, were to be in the day of his preparation.
12. The increase of knowledge, whether confined to the art of man, or to the understanding of the prophecies, is a sign of the great day.
13. The condition of society; and here it is not only murder, rapine, fraud, and every species of crime; but men and women, who, twenty years past, were honest and honorable, are now not to be trusted. Covetousness and selfishness, have got such a hold on the hearts of mankind, that society is held together by a very weak affinity.
14. The gospel has been published in all the world, as testified to by the officers of the various missionary societies. Then shall the end come.
15. The first angel's message was given, from 1840, to 1844, by at least fifteen hundred of God's able ministers.
16. The second angel's message has been given in part.
17. The third angel's message is now preparing for the loud cry, when a short time will suffice to call out the remnant of God's people.
Brethren and sisters, let us gird on the whole armor, and press forward under every trial, and the victory is ours in Christ Jesus. G. W. MITCHELL.
Zanesville, O.