The Coming Revolution

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 9, 1873

The Coming Revolution.

AMID the teeming corruption of the present day, and the bold front and arrogant predictions of skepticism and infidelity, it may seem strange to assert that the next notable phase of society is to be a religious one. Such, however, we expect it will be; and the anomaly finds explanation only in the fact that the religious element is not to be of the pure and holy kind brought to view in the Scriptures of truth, but one that will give free play to, and even stimulate, some of the worst passions of the human heart. An element of this kind is the only one possible, in the present condition and tendency of the moral and religious world. And while a phase even of this kind may appear to some improbable, others clearly see indications of its approach, predicting from signs in the political and religious world, what the student of prophecy predicts from the record of the word. As a case in point, we cite the following: The Evans (Colorado) Journal says:—

“There has been considerable stir in St. Louis over the Sabbath question. The religious community is thoroughly discussing the subject, and long meetings continue to be held. This is one of the questions on which Christianity and infidelity will meet in conflict, until one or the other shall go to the wall. The result we predict will be that the Christian sentiment will be thoroughly aroused, and the United States become Christian in a sense and to a degree not hitherto thought of.”