“Howbeit He Meaneth not So.” Isa. 10: 7.
By G. W. Burnham
An article in a recent number of the New York Herald, on the present political aspects of Europe, contains the following sentences: “The terrible time predicted of ‘wars and rumors of wars’ filling the whole earth, would really seem to be upon us. The nations are angry, and the harvest of the world is rapidly ripening.” When from merely a political standpoint, able writers are thus impressed by the grand coincidence of the eventful scenes which they describe, with the divine predictions uttered eighteen centuries ago, we, certainly, who “take heed to the sure word” of God ought to cling thereunto more earnestly, and may lift up with increased clearness and joy the expecting eye. Those angry war-preparing and war-clashing powers may be as ignorant of, and, if they knew it, as little inclined to fulfill Jehovah’s purpose and “charge” as was the proud, boasting Assyrian more than twenty-five hundred years ago; yet that purpose shall stand, growing brighter through all the confusion of wars and commotions, until his “whole work on Mount Zion shall be accomplished,” and his down-trodden people there find long-looked-for eternal rest! Hail the glad future of that chosen place of rest, glory, beauty and endless joy! It is the place of His throne who “shall be as the light of the morning when the sun riseth, even as a morning without clouds.” The last preparations are rapidly progressing. In the insatiable ambition of bloody rulers with their gathered and gathering hosts, we have but to note clearer tokens of that calm, peaceful, eternal day. Hail, thou just and spotless One! Conquering Jesus, hail and welcome to thy throne! Let us patiently wait, brethren, with our loins girded and our lamps burning, for “He hath said, and he will do it, he hath commanded, and will make it good.”—G. W. BURNHAM, in Advent Herald.