STRANGE CO-INCIDENCE

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1868

STRANGE CO-INCIDENCE.

THE following we take from a paper published in 1844, previous to the great political revolution of 1848, and the subsequent turmoil and changes in national affairs since then to the present time.

“The Courier Français states, that some days since, a statesman and academician, in the course of a conversation which took place in the library of the National Institute, observed that in the middle of each century for the last five hundred years, some great social crisis had occurred in Europe. ‘In 1450,’ said he, ‘it was the art of printing which created a revolution. In 1550, it was Luther, who shook the foundation of Catholicity. In 1650, it was Bacon and Descartes, who demolished the infallibility of Aristotle. In 1750, it was philosophy which triumphed, and prepared the way for the revolution of 1789. We approach the year 1850, and it is evident society is preparing to undergo a fundamental revolution.’”

From observation and analogy alone men can almost read aright the signs of the times. Why will they not look at them in the light of revelation, and learn of a surety what is to take place in these last days? Society is indeed preparing to undergo a fundamental revolution, even the last great crisis, which shall bring destruction to all evil doers, and salvation to the righteous. Since 1848, the anger of the nations has been preparing them for the last great battle; the gross departure from God on the part of the professed churches of the land, is preparing them to share the fearful doom of great Babylon; while the rapid spread of every form of vice and iniquity, is fast rendering the masses of the world fit subjects for the last vials of divine wrath. These things show us that we are now in the great day of God’s preparation, which will soon culminate in the transfer of the kingdoms of this world to their rightful Sovereign, when our Lord shall take unto himself his great power and reign. We live in momentous times. Let us be watchful.