The Evangelical Alliance.
THE Christian at Work sees “visions of peace” in the late meeting of the Alliance. The following extract is a bold prophecy of the “good time coming,” the current song of the present age—in Scripture language marked as a cry of “peace and safety,” just before “sudden destruction”:— “When pastor Fische of France and Doctor Christlieb of Prussia shook hands in the presence of the Evangelical Alliance, we saw a lion come in from one side of the platform, and a lamb from the other side of the platform, and lie down together, shaggy mane and white fleece intermingling. We see one wing of the angel of the Apocalypse. The great flight is about to begin. Let earth and Heaven lift now a great shout anticipative. The tide is rising. Let the owls of the night drop with leaden wing into the caverns. The day breaketh.” It might not be amiss for the editor to read the third chapter of Joel, and then note the present state of the nations, and see if he could not find a remarkable fulfilling of that prophecy. But as long as religious editors and teachers ignore the study of the “sure word of prophecy,” so long will they make such misapplications of facts. And so “the day of the Lord” approaches, the watchmen sleep, the alarm is feebly sounded, and the terrible day comes as a “thief in the night.” Who properly feels the burden of the world’s condition? Still the question comes, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”