Dr. Tyng and the Signs by M. E. C.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 27, 1875

Dr. Tyng and the Signs.

By M. E. C.

At a meeting “to evangelize the Jews,” held in N. Y. city a few years since, the celebrated Dr. Tyng (as reported in the Christian Observer) offered the following resolution and remarks:—

“Resolved, That the signs of the times are such as should arouse all who love the Lord Jesus Christ, and wait for his salvation, to renewed earnestness and enlarged effort in this holy enterprise.”

“We now see all the prophecies coming to a conclusion. Babylon has been swallowed up by the Persian Empire, and that by the Macedonian, and that by the Grecian, and that by the Roman. Rome, too, has been divided into ten parts or kingdoms, each one of which is now heaving, and threatened with ruin. Every event that transpires goes to fix the coming of the Saviour as near. Never were there such overturnings as in these days. Soon he will come forth in glorious triumph, and set himself upon the mountain of his holiness, and reign upon the throne of his glory; and those nations that will not serve him shall be trodden under foot. Surely the signs of the times are such as should arouse us to renewed earnestness and effort in seeking the salvation of Israel. In conclusion (said Dr. Tyng), I will read, as embodying what else I may be expected to say on this resolution, those lines of Charlotte Elizabeth, each one of which contains a reference to some part of Scripture. The piece is entitled,”

SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

When from scattered lands afar, — Matt. 24: 6, 8. Spreads the voice of rumored war, — Luke 21: 25. Nations in tumultuous pride, — Haggai 2: 7. Heave like ocean’s roaring tide, — Heb. 12: 26, 29. When the solar splendours fail, — Matt. 24: 29. When the crescent waxeth pale, — Rev. 16: 12. And the powers that starkly reign, — Matt. 24: 29. Sink dishonored to the plain, — Joel 2: 10, 31. World! do thou the signal dread, — Luke 21: 26, 36. We uplift the expectant eye, — Luke 21: 37, 38. Our redemption draweth nigh; — Eph. 1: 14. When the fig-tree shoots appear, — Rom. 8: 19, 23. Men behold their summer near; — Matt. 24: 22, 23. When the hearts of rebels fail, — Luke 21: 29, 31. We the coming Conqueror hail. — Isa. 59: 18, 19. Bridegroom of the weeping spouse, — Rev. 19: 11, 16. Listen to her longing vows, — Rev. 19: 7, 9. Listen to her widowed moan, — Rev. 6: 10. Listen to creation’s groan. — Luke 18: 3, 7, 8. Bid, O bid Thy trumpet sound, — Rom. 8: 22, 23. Gather thine elect around. — 1 Thess. 4: 16. Gird with saints thy flaming car, — Matt. 24: 31. Summon them from clime afar, — Jude 14. Call them from life’s cheerless gloom, — Isa. 24: 13–15. Call them from the marble tomb, — Matt. 24: 40, 41. From the grass-grown village grave, — Rev. 20: 4–6. From the deep dissolving wave, — Luke 14: 14. From the whirlwind and the flame, — Ps. 49: 14, 15. Mighty Head, thy members claim. — 1 Thess. 4: 17. Where are they whose proud disdain, — Col. 1: 15. Scorned to brook Messiah’s reign? — Luke 19: 12, 27. Lo, in waves of sulphurous fire, — Matt. 13: 41, 42. Now they taste his tardy ire; — Luke 17: 27, 30. Fettered till the appointed day, — Rev. 19: 20, 21. When the world shall pass away, — Rev. 18: 3, 5, 9. Quelled are all thy foes, O Lord, — 2 Pet. 2: 9. Sheathe again the dreadful sword. — Rev. 19: 15, 21. Where the cross of anguish stood, — Ps. 110: 5, 7. Where thy life distilled in blood, — Isa. 53: 3, 5, 12. Where they mocked thy dying groan, — Mark 15: 29. King of nations, plant thy throne, — Isa. 24: 23. Send thy law from Zion forth, — Zech. 8: 3. Speeding o’er the willing earth; — Dan. 2: 35, 44. Earth, whose Sabbath glories rise, — Isa. 40: 1, 9. Crowned with more than Paradise; — Ps. 67: 6. Sacred be the impending veil! — 1 Cor. 15: 12. Mortal sense and thought must fail, — 1 John 3: 2. Yet the awful hour is nigh, — Luke 21: 31. We shall see thee, eye to eye. — Rev. 1: 7. Be our souls in peace possessed, — 2 Thess. 3: 5. While we seek thy promised rest, — Heb. 4: 9. And from every heart and home, — 2 Tim. 4: 8. Breathe the prayer, “O Jesus, come!” — Rev. 22: 20. Haste to set the captive free, — Isa. 49: 9. All creation groans for thee, — Rom. 8: 19.

M. E. C.