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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 4, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 44, No. 8.

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A Sign of the Times.

By Roswell F. Cottrell

“MR. BEECHER, in a sermon last Sunday, alluded to those who still believe that the world was created in six ordinary days. He said that such individuals were twin brothers of the oldest mummies in Egypt, and that the mummies were the best men of the two sorts. He said that the Biblical teachings regarding the history of the race, the creation, and on astronomy, had been totally refuted by incontrovertible scientific facts.”
The above paragraph is taken from a public journal. I cannot vouch for its truth. But if these are the words of a professed Christian, and an eminent minister of the gospel, the perils of the last days are certainly upon us, when iniquity was to abound and men should depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits. When “the oppositions of science, falsely so called,” are heralded from the pulpits of the leaders of the public mind, what can be the result, but that ungodliness shall increase till there shall be nothing to stay the avenging vials, the seven last plagues?
R. F. COTTRELL.