Voices of the Advent by D. T. Taylor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 24, 1877

Voices of the Advent.

By D. T. Taylor

COLLECTED BY D. T. TAYLOR.

“The news of his coming I hear, And join in the catholic cry; O Jesus, in triumph appear, Appear in the clouds of the sky.” —C. Wesley.

“The sum of all human longings, all Christian hope, all divine promise, (is) in the cry, Come, Lord Jesus.”—Prof. John Peter Lange.

“The Christians of the earliest age were always looking forward. Christ’s coming was the controlling and encouraging thought of their daily life.”—Howard Crosby, D. D. LL. D.

“The conviction that the time is short deepens in our souls. The sure word of prophecy leaves little room to doubt this: The Lord is at hand.”—Rev. Henry Grattan Guinness.

“We are living in the very age toward which all eyes have been directed as those of the closing days of the church’s conflict, as long ago as the time of Luther.”—Rev. Samuel Garratt.

“I believe he is yonder getting his guest-chamber ready, and the moment it is ready, those clouds shall roll away and he shall come, and we shall be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. So there may be some in this audience who may never taste death.”—Dwight L. Moody.

“The Scriptures teach the church to look to the coming of the Lord as the day of her completeness and triumph. It will be our Jubilee year.”—Rev. John Hall, D. D.

“I would as soon relinquish all hope of salvation and of Heaven and immortality, as give up the expectation of seeing the Saviour in person on earth, just as his disciples last saw him near Bethany. Surrender the second advent of the Messiah? NEVER! It is THE one sublime event.”—Rev. G. W. Bosworth, D. D.

“Let it be constantly borne in mind in the investigation of the whole subject, that, according to divine arrangement, the advent precedes the millennium, and the beginning of the millennium rapidly succeeds the end of this age, and the terrific judgments that accompany and succeed the advent.”—Dr. J. T. Barclay.

“In the Scriptures, the constant note, the continually occurring exhortation, is to be prepared for the Lord’s coming.”—Dean Henry Alford.

“How many editors or preachers are writing or speaking of the second coming of Christ? It is a solemn and sublime truth; it was the constant utterance of Paul, and yet these good and wise men let it alone. Truly religious people are asleep in relation to the momentous fact that he is coming.”—Rev. George R. Kramer.

“The Lord himself is coming personally the second time to earth—not at death, but at the harvest time, the end of the world. This is the good hope, the blessed hope, the hope that purifies, the hope of the church, the Scripture hope, and the great incentive to holy watching.”—Rev. S. J. Austin.

“And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure. I can preach nothing else. The power of this hope, the coming of Christ has never seemed so real until now. I can think of nothing else. It is buried into my entire being.”—Rev. Edwin Davis.

“Many that are looking at me may never die; we are near the end of this dispensation. The coming of the Lord in the clouds to take his church to be with himself is the Christian’s hope. Oh, to be ready! In the Master’s name I tell you, be ready. I charge you to prepare for his coming.”—Henry Varley. (1875).

“It is impossible to imagine anything more delightful than the prospect of the promised return of our most blessed Saviour. But do we all desire it? Are we all looking out with loving hearts, longing for the appearance of our beloved Redeemer?”—Rev. E. Hoare.

“I am afraid we cannot hope for much better times until the Lord Jesus Christ comes a second time. Often do I cheer myself with the thought of his coming. The shout shall be heard, Allelujah! allelujah! the Lord God omnipotent reigneth! For that day do I look; it is to the bright horizon of that second coming that I turn my eyes.”—Rev. Charles Spurgeon.

“Some people are greatly frightened when the second coming of Christ is mentioned, or when it is deduced from prophecy that the great event is soon to occur. A Christian should be suspicious of himself if he feels afraid of that glorious day.”—Rev. Dr. Robinson.

“No man can be blind to the truth that the return of the Lord is the great hope of his church—that towards this glorious fact our minds are to be continually turned. In the thought of it is our highest joy.”—Rev. W. H. Atkin.

“Prophetic students in England, now wake up and cry aloud, The Lord is at hand. Pamphlets are issuing forth from the press, sermons are being preached, lectures delivered, all declaring that Jesus is at hand. Never in all our experience did we see so much stir, so much looking out, such a general conviction that the day of salvation is not far off. One pamphlet on the “Eastern Question viewed in the light of Prophecy,” has reached a sale of one hundred thousand copies in a few weeks.”—Rev. William Kellaway.