Review of the Paper Man and the Kingdom
By Editor
We have received a copy of a paper entitled Man, flying at its masthead this motto:— “Those who can read the signs of the times, read in them that the kingdom of MAN is at hand.—Professor Clifford.” Prof. C. is in this about six thousand years behind the times. We have had the “kingdom of man,” ever since man set up for himself as knowing his own interests better than God knew them, and it has been a kingdom of blunders, misrule, selfishness, caprice, lust, darkness, tyranny and suffering. We are sick of it. We want no more “kingdom of man;” we want the “kingdom of God;” and if we did not believe that kingdom near, we should despair. But, thank God, to all those who are looking up, not down, the signs do plainly show that kingdom near. And so we wait with ever brightening hope.