S. H. BONFOEY by S. H. Bonfoey

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 28, 1870

S. H. BONFOEY

By S. H. Bonfoey

Signs.

At a gathering not long since, numbering between twenty and thirty adults, only two or three of whom were not “professors,” I was grieved, (not surprised) that neither the name of Jesus, nor even the subject of religion was once heard, except at the blessing asked upon the meals.

Yet I mistake. In remarking upon the rain which was then falling, one said with all the credulity imaginable, that “the rooster crowed upon the roost the evening previous, which was a “sure sign” of rain. Yes, another said, and “the colts ran about the field, which was another.”

Said I, If Christ thought it strange that the people of his time on earth could read the “signs of the weather,” and not of “the times,” I do not know what he would think to hear such obscure signs as these interpreted, yet those making the interpretation remain in total darkness as to the present “signs of the times.”

Whether the application was so close as to call up a serious reflection, I know not. But let us of the “remnant” reflect.