HEAR YE, HEAR YE, HEAR YE by Dudley Marvin Canright

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 23, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 12.

“HEAR YE, HEAR YE, HEAR YE.”

By Dudley Marvin Canright

While at Hastings, Mich., I held meetings in the court-house, and during my stay there I observed a fact which I think well illustrates the justice and importance of our proclamation of the Judgment message. At the opening of the court, when the judge is on his bench, the clerks all ready, and everything prepared to open the court, a herald stands up and cries out, “Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye; the circuit court for Eaton County is now open. All you who have business therein give attention, draw near, and you shall be heard.” Justice demands and the law requires that such an announcement be made at the opening of the court so that all persons concerned may be informed of the fact that court is in session, and their cases can now be attended to.

If this is necessary in earthly courts, how reasonable it is to suppose that there will be a similar proclamation when the great Judgment Day shall come, and that the Judge of all the earth shall take his seat on the judgment throne! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

For many thousands of years the Lord has said that the day would come when he would judge every man, and that that day was appointed. See Eccl. 12:14; Acts 17:31. When that appointed day shall come, when the great God shall sit in judgment and the books shall be opened, Dan. 7:9, 10, then there will be a solemn proclamation heralded to the world, announcing that the hour of Judgment has come. This is distinctly stated in Rev. 14:6, 7. “And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God and give glory to him; for the hour of his Judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”

Reader, this solemn announcement was given to the world thirty-two years ago. Have you a case pending in this court? If so, it is time that you attend to it. D. M. CANRIGHT.

Rochester, Mich.