Foretold by Seers by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 11, 1909

Foretold by Seers

By Editor

Editorial

Foretold by Seers.—The prophets pictured in clear outline the conditions in the world just before the coming of Christ. We see the lights and shadows of the picture rapidly filling in—the lights, in the rapid progress of the gospel message through the world; the shadows, in the gathering of forces for the last-day struggles for power and wealth.

Warnings of the Crisis.—Note how the magazines and reviews are discussing the approaching crisis. For instance, the October McClure's quotes Lord Roseberry's recent speech to the representatives of the press in London:—

There never was in the history of the world so threatening and so overpowering a preparation for war. . . . For forty years it has been a platitude to say that Europe is an armed camp.

In the November Everybody's, Mr. E. A. Powell, F. R. G. S., has an article on the situation in Europe, in which he says:—

To-day all Europe is divided into two armed camps, waiting breathlessly for the morrow with its Armageddon.

In the London Contemporary Review for September, Mr. H. Newton Marshall says:—

The whole of Asia is in the throes of rebirth. At last we may see these three—the yellow race, the Indian race, and the Arab-Persian Mohammedan race. And all that is making for the Armageddon. These quotations are but examples of the warnings being uttered by observers in many lands, as if moved with one accord to raise the warning cry.

Our Eyes See It.—Yes, right before our eyes, the picture outlined with the prophetic pencil is being filled in. And the newspapers and magazines and reviews are by their reports echoing the words of the prophets. Twenty-seven centuries ago the prophet Joel saw what these journalists are talking about, and he wrote it down in the Book:—

“Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near. . . . Let the heathen be wakened. . . . Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.”

We, Too, Must Awake.—The manner in which just now the press of the world and statesmen are pointing out these things, from the world's view-point, should stir Seventh-day Adventists to whole-hearted surrender to God, and to such activity as we have never before manifested in publishing to all the meaning of these developments, and the way of escape from the things coming upon the earth.

“Ye pilgrims, rise, break forth and sing The glorious coming of your King; The thrilling cry,—we hear it sound,— ‘Prepare to meet your Lord.’”