SEE THE DAY APPROACHING.
By Editor
THE collapsing condition of the public conscience as displayed in the increasing amount of murder, suicide and general corruption proves that the public influence of the church is collapsing for want of a radical return to primitive simplicity, purity and power. And as physical conditions always follow the spiritual in its ascent or descent, and thereby indicate the true spiritual state, we are warranted in looking for physical trouble to follow this public moral decay. Flood, flame, explosion, railway wreck, war and catastrophe of every kind are sure enough seen, yet the people are not awakened or warned thereby. These things are a plain warning to the righteous. "The WISE shall understand, but the wicked shall not understand." "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." A good heart makes a wise head. We are divinely told to "exhort one another, so much the more as YE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING." Real spirituality will surely see it ere it comes. God says again, "Ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief." In conclusion let us quote the inspired warning:— 'Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness [literally overeating and drinking], and the cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell upon the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'—Pentecost Herald.