p. 16 | A Correction by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 15, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 27.

A Correction.

By Editor

In the SIGNS of January 21 one of our special contributors quoted Miss Frances E. Willard as looking for a time when "the world will progress until time and space will be practically annihilated," when we shall "know each other's thoughts by telepathy," when "we shall have control of the weather and everything else," shall teach the lower animals to talk, communicate with the stars, navigate the air and the depths of the sea, and much more, all of which is to come through the world's progression. Concerning this expression of her opinion, and our contributor's adverse comments thereon, Miss Willard writes:—

"It seems to me you are more than half right; I ought to have guarded what I said with greater care. All in the world that I meant was that the present whirligig of inventive development seems to indicate as possible a degree of mastery over nature such as we have never dreamed. Almost everything I have written is based on the Gospel, and I think that in this fantasy of mine I made a regrettable mistake in not making it more apparent it was simply a sort of dream. Indeed, it was not written originally for publication, but for a friend who brought it to my notice, and you know we are sometimes short for copy, so I let it go in."

This part of Miss Willard's note we gladly insert, for we would not willingly misrepresent any one, nor make any one an "offender for a word." We are glad to know that these are not her real sentiments, and that her belief is in the Gospel.

And yet the good time is coming, the misery, the pain, the dying and the death, the limitation of god-like powers by the entrance of sin, will all give place to the glorious liberty of the sons of God, a freedom more glorious than words can paint. But it will not be accomplished by human invention, human science, or human wisdom; it will be by the regenerating power of God in Jesus Christ. "The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this." Already has man robbed God of the glory due to his name, but "the lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of man shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day." Then he that glorieth, shall glory in the Lord. Till that time all creation, sick and groaning, waits the great Physician and Deliverer.