THE PROSPECTS OF THE CAUSE.
By S. N. Haskell
There never were such indications that the special providence of God is going before us, as now. Italy, down-trodden by the Man of Sin, is furnishing such evidences of the reigning of Omnipotence as we see nowhere else. Entire churches are embracing the truth and standing firm, while their ministers are led in chains to the jail, confined in convents, and their lives are threatened, because of teaching the Sabbath of the Lord. Four companies are now witnesses to the perpetuity of the law of God in the very shadow of the temple of him who thought to change times and laws. Egypt also, the birth-place of Moses, and the nation that cradled our Saviour and guarded him from Herod’s wrath, is testifying to the truthfulness of the Saviour’s words, “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled.” Direct communication from Greece shows that there are Sabbath-keepers there. The isles of the Mediterranean send forth the Macedonian cry, “Come over and help us.” The Baltic Sea has the living preacher of present truth upon its waters. The Hollanders say, “Give us help;” and thus we might say of Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and many other places that have not been visited by the living preacher. Russian representatives in our own land send forth a cry for help which should move the hardest heart. Where are our brethren to whom God has intrusted talents of means and ability? One would think some of us believed in a temporal millennium. These openings are the voice of God, bidding us arise in the strength of the Author and Finisher of our faith, and show our anxiety to have a part in the closing work upon earth, ere the night cometh in which no man can work.