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THE END IS NEAR

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 23, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 4.

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THE END IS NEAR.

By D. C. Carlton

A MESSAGE to the human race Is coming from the East. The hand of God is on the wall, As at Belshazzar’s feast. The Lion and the Unicorn Have loosed the dogs of war. In China’s fury-fettered land We hear the cannon’s roar.
The slumb’ring Asiatic hosts Have waked as from the dead, And spirit born of prophecy Re-echoes in their tread. By minarets of far Cathay, By banners tipped with gold, By voices from the mighty past, The end of earth is told.
An angel’s hand is o’er the sea; Aloft the vial is born. We stand within the mystic light That ushers in the morn. Behind us lie the silent years, Some lit with deeds sublime, Some lost to us forever on The distant shores of time.
God grant that men may read between The lines we read to-day, And that the light of love divine May guide them on their way. God help the living souls on earth, And keep the spirit fed. To-morrow may be called to life The cities of the dead.
Oroville, Cal. D. C. CARLTON.