PROPHECY FULFILLED.—SIGNS OF THE END.
By Chas. B. Reynolds
On every hand the signs of the end multiply. The prophet Isaiah warns us: “Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever [margin, latter day], that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord.” Isa. 30:8, 9. This is everywhere fulfilled by professed Christians’ coming to our ministers and urging them to stop preaching so much about the law. “Just preach practical sermons,” say they, “preach Jesus, and let the law, especially the Sabbath, alone.” But now we find it is authoritatively declared. We copy the following item from The Living Issue, of Mar. 27, 1877: “At Walsall, England, it has been decided to exclude the ten commandments from the religious teaching in the board schools, on the ground that difficulties would arise in explaining the fourth and seventh commandments to children. The passage from the New Testament has been substituted, running, ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,’” etc. We are nearing the end. Lord help us to be in earnest in self-sacrificing efforts to spread the light of present truth, that we can consistently pray, “Thy kingdom come.” How much we need a mission in England! May the Lord open the way.