“Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.” Deut. 8: 2. The same duty is enjoined upon us in the New Testament, in this language: “But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; partly, whilst ye were made a gazing-stock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.” Heb. 10: 32, 33. It has ever been the design of God that his people should remember the manifestations of his providence and power in their behalf; and his object in this is to prove them, to know whether or not they will keep his commandments and serve him. The tenth day of the seventh month, the day fixed in the ancient typical service for the cleansing of the sanctuary, and which in the antitype reached the day of its fulfillment Oct. 22, 1844, brought us to the sounding of the seventh trumpet. The prophet thus describes this event: “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever.” Rev. 11: 15. Then the twenty-three hundred days of Dan. 8: 14 ended, the time came for the cleansing of the sanctuary, and our great High Priest entered into the most holy place of the temple in heaven, to finish the work of atonement for the world. In this temple there was seen the ark of his testament. Rev. 11: 19. And there began the third angel’s message; for “in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God [the gospel] should be finished.” Rev. 10: 7. Thus all the prophecies match and dovetail together. In the first article of this series it was shown that the last of the great terrestrial signs given to foretoken the soon coming of Christ, come within the present generation, thus bringing the closing remnants of this generation within the scope of the declaration: “This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” And why may not all be fulfilled in the present generation? The most weighty4evidence on this point is what those who love his appearing, led by the Holy Spirit, are now working out before the world: “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” Matt. 24: 14. Running back on the world’s great dial but a few years, we find the “falling away,” the great apostasy, which the mystery of iniquity had sprung upon the professed Christian church, burying the people up in darkness and superstition and sin. But the Spirit of God had not left the earth. Light began to spring up with the Reformers, and was cherished till it had permeated a great portion of Christendom. One country did not learn the truth from another, but men were led out and enlightened without being acquainted with one another, and without knowing the sentiments of one another, but moved directly by the Holy Spirit to proclaim the truth for which the world was waiting. We ask the reader to take in the full significance of this fact; for it indicates a movement inaugurated by heaven, which no power on earth can hinder. The doctrine of the second coming of Christ arose and spread in the same way. Heaven knew the time had come for the gospel of the kingdom to be preached in all the world. There were hearts that would love the “blessed hope,” and they were moved upon to proclaim it. In the year 1831 Joseph Wolff, D. D., was sent out by a missionary society in Great Britain to labor in the East. He labored in twenty-two different countries around the Mediterranean Sea and in Western Asia, and in some of the countries of Europe. He spoke to fourteen different classes of people, heralding the coming of the Lord over a vast extent of territory, some of the people being in high official positions, kings and rulers. Among the Arabs he found a book, anticipating his own work, treating of “the second coming of Christ, and his reign in glory.” In the United States, William Miller, who had then but recently become a lover of the Bible, began to write and publish on the advent doctrine in the year 1831. This was before the display of the great sign appeared, already spoken of, marking the beginning of the last generation, in 1833. With William Miller and his co-laborers may be dated the first of the threefold messages of Revelation 14, the beginning of the modern phase of the preaching of the gospel of the kingdom as a witness to all nations, which brings the end. But this gospel could not be preached in all the world, till all the world had opened its doors to the feet of the explorer. But all this has now been done. The way is now open for the completion of the prophecy. And how much more remains to round out the generation, and to finish the preaching? The advent doctrine has been proclaimed more extensively than many are aware, and quite sufficiently to fulfill the predictions of the Scriptures concerning it. It was symbolized by an angel flying through heaven. Answering to the symbol, men, on the earth, were impelled by the Lord to go forth and proclaim the coming of his kingdom. This completed the figure. This message was to go to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. A new awakening, a great revival, followed the proclamation of the advent doctrine wherever it went, which called upon men to repent and prepare to meet their God. Statistics inform us that to every station where missionaries were laboring, the message was sent; so the sound thereof was heard the world around, directing the thoughts of men to the truth that the hour of God’s judgment had come. These facts are among the important former things to be remembered. They are full of significance. When the time is ripe for a new movement in the development of God’s work, a new epoch to be introduced, and the agents appear, and the work of the Spirit is manifest among them, men ought to know the time sufficiently to give due attention to the work in which heaven is enlisted. In the annals of him who is not slack concerning his promises, in whose methods one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, these events will all have their place. More on this point hereafter. One hundred and five years have already passed since the “time of the end” began; seventy years since the stars fell, and the last generation began; fifty-nine years since the seventh angel sounded, the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the cleansing of the sanctuary was entered upon. We are living in the most solemn and important time the world has ever seen. “It is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.” Rom. 13: 11.