Power of the Advent Doctrine

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 20, 1879

Power of the Advent Doctrine.

WHILE many express a fear that the rising interest in the doctrine of the Lord’s coming will paralyze Christian effort, facts rise up on every hand to dissipate the fear. The Christian Herald thus speaks of Mr. Varley, the eminent Evangelist:—

“As regards his characteristics as a preacher, which are so well known to many, he has a remarkable gift in the expounding of Holy Scripture, and ever aims to understand, and clearly to make known, what the mind of the Spirit is. He is also a fervent believer in the speedy coming of the Lord, and it is the deep impression which this truth has made upon his mind that has led him almost to deem ‘the world as his parish.’ No one can be in his company long without feeling that his belief in the speedy Advent of Christ is one of the deepest convictions of his nature, and the effect of this belief upon him is that it gives a solemn, yet gladsome, glow of feeling to all his words upon any subject.”