Omens of His Coming

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 27, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 42.

Omens of His Coming

It is not any one sign which has taken place or is now before us which shows that the coming of the Lord is imminent. There are very few things which are occurring of which, considered singly, it can not be said, “This hath already been.” The great evidence is the culmination of line upon line of prophecy, and the concurrent testimony of many predicted signs which clearly point out these times in which we live as the last days. All these things are focused upon this generation.

There are in the body great nerve ganglia, centers of impulse and action in various parts, of great influence at various times; but all these smaller concentrations and subcenters receive power from, and respond to, the great center, the brain, the focal dynamo of all life-impulse and action. Even so it is in this cosmos of the ages. There have been great centers of disturbance and action all along the ages. Signs of the inward impulses have been manifest outwardly.

Sometimes it has seemed from the local single disturbance alone that creation would go to wreck and humanity would perish; but the rolling time swept the generations past that center, and fears were dissipated. But now all the impulses and signs of the ages are appearing, duplicating, reduplicating, with stronger power and greater scope, till the evidences of the end of the age and the second coming of Christ are hung out everywhere. The great nerves of the ages, the ganglia of time, are bringing the world in this constant impulse nearer to the great center, the coming of the Head of the Church, the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed is he that will hear and read.

In the great strike in Stockholm one admirable thing was done by both the government and the strikers, and that was, to prohibit the sale of liquor. Through the influence of the temperance society, the strikers themselves prohibited the consumption of liquors by their members. It is to be hoped that the government can be induced to continue prohibition that has worked so well in strikes. But we shall probably see San Francisco’s experience repeated,—after several weeks of admirable temperance regime, a falling back to the utter folly of liquor-selling and drunkenness.