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THE END IS NEAR

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 18, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 16

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THE END IS NEAR.

By Joseph D. Needham

Clouds and darkness gathering o'er us, Awful tidings with them bear; Scenes of misery spread before us— Death, and pestilence, and war; All in one loud, piercing chorus, Tell us that the end is near!
Hearts of men within them failing For the coming woes they fear; All their efforts unavailing— No propitious signs appear; Sin increasing, crime prevailing, Tell us that the end is near!
Selfishness is all abounding; Gold the idol everywhere, Worshipped by a host confounding, Gold for all that's good or fair; Crowds the mammon-god surrounding, Tells us that the end is near.
Formal godliness increasing, Power denied and forms held dear, Church and fashion coalescing, Forming now the character; Rites so popular and pleasing, Tell us that the end is near.
War, the heaviest curse of nations, Running on its dread career; While the mass its desolation, Listless or applauding, hear— War, with its abominations, Tells us that the end is near!
Sinner, wouldst thou in the glory share Of that message thou dost hear? Wouldst thou have the hope before thee, Told by priest and king and seer? O believe redemption's story; Look to Christ! the end is near!
JOSEPH D. NEEDHAM.
Parkersburg, W. Va.