THE DRAGON VOICE by Wm. Pepper

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 16, 1876

THE DRAGON VOICE.

By Wm. Pepper

The student of prophecy cannot fail to discern in the signs of the times that the time is not far distant when the image to the beast will be set up.

As straws show the direction of the wind, so does the following, which I find in the Carlenville Democrat, show the tendency of the times in regard to the Sunday question:—

“The religious question has come up in a new form in Boston. A little girl attendant upon one of the schools in that city, which are kept open on Saturday until noon, was arraigned before the Police Court recently under the compulsory education act for habitually absenting herself from school on that day. Upon the trial, it appeared that the girl was of Jewish parentage, and her father appearing in her defense stated that she was kept at home to attend divine service. The police justice was unable, however, to find any exemption on that account in the law, and sentenced the girl to three months in the Reformatory. It is not likely that the girl’s parents will submit without testing the question.”

Yes the question will be tested, and the faith of those who profess to be God’s commandment-keepers will be tested. Who will endure to the end? Whose faith will prove sufficient for the trying, testing scenes which are before us?

Let us have faith and courage in the Lord; for if God be for us, who can be against us? If we are only faithful in the profession to which we have been called, “I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Wm. Pepper.