The World's Peril by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Assn. · Washington, D.C. · Dec 31, 1903

The World's Peril

By Editor

Editorial

The World's Peril

WE are drawing near to the end. It is evident that the climax of the great controversy between Christ and Satan is just at hand. The forces of evil are even now being marshaled for the final conflict. There is abundant evidence of this in the intensity with which the powers of darkness are now working. The power which has held in check the outbreaking of sin is being more and more cast aside, and unrestrained passion is more fully revealing itself. These are days of violence. A form of godliness is not sufficient to withstand the fierce assaults of temptation, and many nominal professors of religion are betraying their trusts, and joining the ranks of the criminals. Organized capital is growing more unscrupulous in its methods, and organized labor is becoming a law unto itself. The prospect looks forbidding, even to those who are inclined to take the most hopeful view of the world's future. But what is the real truth of the situation? In the light of God's Word it is evident that the world has now been brought to the very verge of ruin as the result of sin. We are just entering upon the time when “the earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.” The real meaning of sin will soon be seen in the downfall of the world. The fall of Babylon of old and of the Roman republic are types of this downfall. This is the world's peril, and the danger is a real one.

The World's Need

IN this dark hour of peril the world needs the light and truth of this closing message. Although there is no salvation for the world as a whole from the fearful results of rebellion and disobedience, yet every individual who will believe the truth and obey the truth may be delivered in the day of the world's downfall; “for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape, as Jehovah hath said.” This message makes clear the picture of these times as given in the prophetic word, so that men may understand where we are in the current of history. This message unmasks the deceptions of the day, that men may see that there is no salvation in the many proposed ways of escape which are mere human inventions. This message discloses the plans of Satan in his supreme effort to deceive the world, and shows how he will seek to sweep the multitude to destruction by working under a false cloak of religion. In this message is found the only hope for a lost world in this the last generation before the ushering in of the great day of the Lord. How great, then, is the responsibility which rests upon those who have a knowledge of this message! How diligent should be our efforts to make known this message of salvation! Let no one make the mistake of trying to save the people by some other means than the giving of this plain message. The message of salvation which the Lord has ordained to meet the peril of the world in this last generation is the only means of salvation, and nothing else can be successfully substituted for it. The world to-day is in perishing need of this third angel's message in its fulness and power. O that every Seventh-day Adventist might realize this, and give himself and his all to the world-wide proclamation of the one and only saving message for this time! Now is the time.