A Silent God and a Sinning World

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 19, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 32.

A Silent God and a Sinning World.

"Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence." Ps. 50:3.

GOD is silent—man is saying, No God. This is the character of the age. God is graciously gathering, by the Holy Spirit, out of every nation, kindred, and tongue—from high and low, rich and poor. But the characteristic feature of the age is apostasy working, 2 Thess. 2:7, the devil ruling, Eph. 2:2; 1 John 5:19, war and bloodshed spreading everywhere—those who love the Lord Jesus despised, and sharing his rejection and scorn—hated and persecuted by the terrible usurper in ten thousand forms. Utterly vain are men's dreams of peace apart from the mind and revelation of God—vain the Christian's hope, however beautiful, pious, and benevolent it may seem, if God has not held it out in his Word as his true hope. Oh, for the simplicity of the child to receive the truth and to walk in the mind of God, to be filled with his Spirit, watch his dealings, and thus ever be aiming at his glory in the carrying out of his plans, and not carried away by our fancies!—Sel.