PESSIMISTS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 11, 1891

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 17, No. 19.

PESSIMISTS.

NOAH was a pessimist to the antediluvian world; Moses was a pessimist to Pharaoh in Egypt, and to the rebellious Israelites; Samuel was a pessimist, and his very first prediction foretold the downfall of the aged Eli and his godless family; Jeremiah was a pessimist, constantly foretelling evil and danger; Jonah was a pessimist, who disturbed the peace of the city, crying, "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be destroyed;" Nahum was a pessimist, crying, "Woe to the bloody city!" Micaiah was a pessimist when he foretold the overthrow of Ahab, the guilty king, who complained that he never prophesied any good of him; the Saviour was a pessimist, for he foretold the overthrow of Jerusalem, and the calamities that were to come upon the world. The apostles, Peter, James, John, and Jude, were all pessimists, for they were constantly foretelling perilous times, departure from the faith, and the coming judgment upon the godless world. The great preachers and poets of the ages have been pessimists, for they were ever warning men of present evil and coming wrath, of predicted calamities and judgments overhanging the godless and profane.—Sel.