The Judgment Hastens by J. Cross, D. D.

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 27, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 13.

The Judgment Hastens.

By J. Cross, D. D.

AWAKE, awake, ye heralds of my God, and let the warning thrill the drowsy world—"Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come!" The omens are everywhere—natural omens, and political omens, and ecclesiastical omens—omens commercial, and omens mechanical, and omens scientific and literary—omens in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath—in the air, and on the sea; The Moslem trembles for his approaching doom and the hoary Mystagogue of the seven hills reels blindly toward the brink of the unsounded gulf; and men's hearts are failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth; and falling thrones, and dissolving empires, and revolution threatening all rule, and anarchy with crimsoned hands and clotted hair shrieking through the visioned future,—all are heralding Him "who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom."—J. Cross, D. D.