Blind Watchmen by London Christian

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 22, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 20.

Blind Watchmen

By London Christian

It is a terrible calamity for a country when Isaiah's words concerning Israel's prophets can be applied to it: "His watchmen are blind, they are all ignorant (of the condition of things around them); they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping (margin—dreaming, talking in their sleep), lying down, loving to slumber." Is not a great deal of our pulpit oratory, when compared with the terrible facts of life, like that of men dreaming and talking in their sleep?