TESTIMONY to the truth respecting the nearness of the end of all things is sometimes borne where it might be least expected. Some even among Roman Catholics fail not to discern the signs of these times, and proclaim them to their people. Let the truth be spoken, no matter where, no matter by whom. Let the people know that “Signs portend that Jesus’ coming
Is near at hand.” Father McDavitt, of Washington, in a recent sermon is reported to have said:— “The inspired writer, in his prophetic eye, over eighteen centuries ago, foretold the signs which would mark the approaching dissolution of the world. Wars and rumors of wars were foretold, rivers of blood should flow, the stars fall from their places in the heavens, the earth tremble, the sun withdraw its light, and the machinery of nature be thrown out of joint. But a few short years ago we had a civil war in our midst, in which torrents of fratricidal blood were shed; and now we have two of the greatest nations in christendom struggling in deadly grapple, and all the world holds its breath at the horror of the slaughter. Rumors come to us that a greater and bloodier war is threatened; that all Europe will soon be plunged in one great sanguinary maelstrom. Already we have had earthquakes or tremblings of the earth of which the prophets speak; and pestilence and famine, the natural consequences of war, will follow, and fill up the catalogue of signs which shall denote the pending collapse of all things.”