Perilous Times

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 10, 1900

A DESPATCH from Dallas, Texas, under date of December 25, says: “This has been a bloody Christmas for Dallas, and the coroner has been kept busy. Six men have been shot since last night, three fatally. Newspaper reports from over the State announce thirty-one affrays in which guns or knives were used, with fatal results in most cases.” This is but an index to the violence of these times. Does it look as tho the millennium was dawning? God says, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.” 2 Tim. 3:1. Observe that the text says perilous times shall come “in the last days,” and not a millennium of righteousness. God knew beforehand what would be the condition of things, and He told it as it would be. And are not these times becoming indeed “perilous”? Lynchings, and murders, and robberies, and wars, and rumors of wars, all show the increasing perils of these times. The very last of the last days are right here. Everything shows it. Not one or two things merely testify to it in an obscure way, but multiplied evidences testify positively to the fact that the great and final day is right at hand. Get ready for it, and then do all in your power to carry the message to others, and help them to get ready.