p. 5 | The Day of Judgment

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 10, 1911

The Day of Judgment

WRITING from Beyrout, Syria, to the Sunday School Times on Matt. 25: 32, George M. Mackie, D.D., says:

The thought of the great assemblage for judgment and its reversal of human decisions and dignities, and of the time and place appointed for that assemblage, enters deeply into the religious life of the East. Rabbinical Jews bowed down with age and infirmity come to Jerusalem to die, not merely that their dust may mingle with that of their fathers, but from the traditional belief that the day of judgment will be in the valley of Jehoshaphat beside Jerusalem, and the Jew who is not buried there will have to roll and wrestle his way underground in order to be found in his place and receive his portion on that day! Among the Moslems God is constantly spoken of as the Judge of the worlds—this and the next. Friday is called by them Assembly Day, from a tradition that the completed life of the human race will be judged on the same day on which Adam was created. Time will end on its opening note.