God's Watchmen by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 19, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 50.

God's Watchmen.

By Editor

In our studies in the prophecy of Daniel, we have found that God had lessons for the king of Babylon to learn, and through the king of Babylon all the other rulers of the earth. Supposing God's watchmen had learned these lessons themselves, had come to understand that it is God who reveals secrets, it is God who lays the foundation of all true education; and suppose these mighty men—priests and bishops and court preachers—had proclaimed to these rulers these mighty truths revealed by Daniel. Would not the history of this world in many cases have been changed? Would not these rulers have listened, and taken to heart the great messages? Would their kingdoms and States have been molded after different plans if they had but seen the responsibility that rested upon them, and had come to recognize, even as Nebuchadnezzar was brought to recognize—idolater tho he was—that there was One above who was taking account of all their doings? These, reader, are not theories with which we are dealing; they are great eternal facts out of which God would have us learn great and eternal lessons.