THE OUTLOOK by T.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 14, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 46.

THE OUTLOOK

By T.

"MEN'S HEARTS FAILING THEM."

The Master made the prediction nearly two thousand years ago that there would be such distress of nations in the last days, and so many calamities coming on the earth, that "men's hearts" would be "failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." See Luke 21: 15-27.

We know from the prophecies that we are in the last days. And, therefore, we should expect to find men everywhere who are filled with gloomy forebodings for the immediate future. It is not the professional "calamity howler" that is making it appear that there are difficulties around and ahead of us. But the actual conditions are such that the most conservative as well as the most hopeful are filled with fear as they meditate upon the days that lie just before us.

Any one who truly knows the Word of God knows from that Word just what is portended by all these conditions that are about us to-day. Just as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even so is He about to destroy this whole evil world.

But in the midst of this world of evil there are thousands of souls who are not partaking of the evil. Their faces are turned steadfastly toward the God of righteousness and truth. Their hearts are not failing them for fear, because they have a knowledge of the fact that Jesus is soon coming. And this thought swells their hearts with the richest joys.

Knowing that the world is rapidly filling with men whose hearts are failing them for fear, every one who knows the Lord Jesus Christ and the joys of looking for His speedy appearing should be full of activity. They should be earnestly working to show to every one the knowledge of the fact that the end of this reign of sin is about reached, and that all the inexpressible and indescribable joys of the great day of the second coming of Christ are about to become a glorious reality.

The man whose heart is failing him because of his fears and perplexities may have those fears turned into joys by being informed that the same Saviour who died to show His fathomless love toward him is about to return in person to rescue him bodily from this world of sin and distress.

Are you a possessor of the definite knowledge that Jesus is coming soon, yes, very soon? And are you exerting all your powers to tell the glorious news to all you can possibly reach? T.