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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 14, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 11.

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The Crisis Steadily Nearing

By Maximo Trummer

MAXIMO TRUMMER
As the people with the last message of grace, we have the greatest trust that has ever been committed to man. The Lord has brought us together from the different nations and from the different denominations and united us in the church whose principal object and work is to admonish all nations that our world has reached the time of its end. A solemn message indeed!
The greatest evidence of the approaching culmination is seen in the things which are now coming to pass, and which we have been assured by the Word of God would come to pass before the end. It is easy to understand, then, how necessary it is that there be watchmen to point out these evidences until the end. As God’s watchmen it is high time therefore that we discharge our duty most faithfully. As Seventh-day Adventists we are responsible in a large measure for warning the world of its danger.
The words of Christ, “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come,” never have merited a closer attention than now. The times are becoming more critical year by year. According to the latest statistics, the great strike of last year cost England the enormous sum of fifty million dollars, which makes it one of the most expensive labor uprisings in the history of the world. At the present time we have collisions in governmental affairs and war in eight different countries, or in the fourth part of the world. The newspapers are continually full of the most foreboding news, and it is only because of the increasing repetition of these occurrences and conditions that they fail to startle us.
In giving account of the Chinese revolution, La Prensa, the leading newspaper of Argentina, declared that for the last twenty years books on the French Revolution had been translated into Chinese, and that the present state of affairs showed the result. The thrones which have stood the test of time for four thousand years fall easily before the spirit of unrest of the present generation. It is not known, as yet, what significance will attach to the fall of the oldest monarchy of the world and the inauguration of the great republic of China. Surely, in our age we shall have to face the greatest problems of all ages. The angels of God are still holding the winds, but only until the servants of God are sealed.
The present truth is a guiding star which will point our way through the most critical crisis. That crisis is near for all of us. Let us watch vigilantly, warn faithfully, and press forward joyfully, until the glad morning of eternal rest shall dawn.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.