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The Approaching Storm

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 3, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 9.

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The Approaching Storm

DID you notice the statement in last week’s issue in the article by Elder McReynolds, made by a Kansas clergyman who is championing the cause of Sunday, with reference to people who observe the seventh day? These people who “will not keep the Christian sabbath unless forced to do so,” says this Sunday advocate, can be easily compelled to conform to the Sunday-keeping practise of the majority. “If we [first-day observers] would say we will not sell anything to them, we will not buy anything from them, we will not work for them or hire them to work for us, the thing could be wiped out, and all the world would keep the Christian sabbath.” (Italics ours.)
In this utterance we hear the very language of the prophecy of Revelation 13, whose fulfilment in this nation we have long expected. What more vivid reminder do we need that this prophecy will be fulfilled, and that its fulfilment is even now in sight? Ought this not to set us to thinking, and to acting as well? How long should we sit merely listening to the mutterings of the approaching storm?