The Rising Note of Opposition by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 6, 1906

The Rising Note of Opposition

By W. A. S.

Not only the rising note of inquiry bears witness to the fulfilment of last-day prophecies, but the rising note of opposition as well. This latter is a testimony to the fact that the enemy of truth sees that the advent message is winning victories in all the world.

Letters from widely separated fields bring these reports. In lower Central America opposition by a Catholic priest is taken as a model for a crusade by others. In Burma, led by the highest church dignitaries, the cry is raised against the third angel's message. The progress of the Sabbath truth in East Bengal leads to intemperate denunciation by excited assemblies. In Singapore a non-Christian editor—a Mohammedan—rebukes the denominations for their bitter onslaught upon our work because hearts there are receiving the hope of Christ's soon coming. In Portugal the reaping of the first-fruits of the message is signalized by the translation and circulation of well-known American attacks upon the truth. Invariably these attacks give the greater publicity to the truth, and the cry of the message is raised to a louder note.

“The seventh day is the Sabbath.” The Lord himself says it; and the more men agitate the question of the Sabbath, the more emphatically the truth is pressed upon the attention of inquirers.

The coming of the Lord is “even at the door;” and the more men scoff at the “blessed hope” or oppose the message announcing it, the plainer it becomes to hearts loving his appearing that the Spirit of truth is with the advent movement.

W. A. S.