p. 16 | Perilous Times Are Here

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 8, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 45.

Perilous Times Are Here

The "Literary Digest," quoting from the Springfield Republican, gives an account from an eyewitness of wholesale corruption in army affairs in the Philippines, by which the government and private soldiers are fearfully swindled. But the same things are at home in our large cities. These things should emphasize to the Christian the truthfulness and importance of the prophecies of God's Word, which declare not only that these things shall be among professed Christians, but the cause of them: "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, . . . truce-breakers; . . . having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." See 2 Tim. 3:1-5. We are in the last days; the "perilous times" are here.