Reading the Signs of the Times
Dr. R. Coyle, of the First Presbyterian Church of this city, confessed in his prayer on last Sunday morning that as a nation we have sinned, we have broken God's law, desecrated his sabbath, and prayed that we might be able to read the signs of the times which God is writing in our country and throughout the world. The confession is true; the prayer is worthy. But if a great part of the word of God, the sure word of prophecy, were heeded, if the signs which Christ has written there, and which all elements of good and evil are now fulfilling, were heeded, there would be no difficulty about reading the signs now. It would be seen that the law broken is the moral law of God, and that the Sabbath "desecrated" is the only one ever made sacred,—the seventh day.