Important Issues

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 27, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 13.

Important Issues.—If men could only be made to sense the meaning of the issues that are before the world to-day, they could not rest for a moment until they knew they were standing securely with the right. Prophecy makes it perfectly plain that the coming of Christ is right at hand—“even at the doors.” Prophecy makes it perfectly plain that God is now scanning the records of the “book of life” in order to gather out every name that is prepared and worthy to have a part in the first resurrection, and to live eternally with Christ, and the angels, and all the redeemed host. The Word of God makes it perfectly plain that every wicked thing shall come to an end, and that every one who shall persist in clinging to his wickedness will be destroyed when Christ lays off His work as Mediator and High Priest, and takes up His robes of kingly authority. It is an established fact that these momentous events are pending, and any one who wishes may know it for a positive surety. The evidence in favor of it is as clear and as susceptible of demonstration as the problems of mathematics. Why is it that more persons are not awake to these things? Let none of us in these solemnly, yet joyfully important times make the mistakes that are eternal.