ARE WE NEAR THE END OF THE AGE?
Are we void of light as to our proximity to a new era, to begin at the close of this age of sin and death? Can we not understand when the glorious times of restitution are nearing? If Peter and Paul could talk about having entered “the last days” over one thousand eight hundred years ago, are we not living in the concluding part of the last days? If Paul could locate the return of Christ after the development and career of the man of sin, who has already passed into his decline, may we not look for Christ soon? If the numerous chains of prophecy, presenting the rise and fall of successive kingdoms on earth, have all been fulfilled, is not the heavenly kingdom about due? If, in spite of all these considerations, men scoffingly say, “Where is the promise of his coming?” is not that a new evidence that we are in the last days? Are not the minor jots and tittles of prophecy already in process of fulfillment? Are we not among the peculiar perils of the “last days”? Is not the world now “as it was in the days of Noah”? Is not the symbolic Euphrates drying up? Are not the spirits of demons already doing their work? Then where are we? Shall we be deterred from looking these great facts in the face by allusions to past mistakes? Will human mistakes change the grand fact that the prophetic programme proclaims the end upon us?—American Wesleyan.