A Good Time Coming

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 24, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 20.

A Good Time Coming

THERE is a good time coming; for Christ is coming. God and right and truth are eternal. His good time may not come in our way, but it will come in His—the better way. Many are looking for it simply because somebody has predicted it and they are wishing for it. They are in the condition of expectation expressed by the following homely doggerel:

"When the bimeby time once gets in view, When the bimeby time gets roun', We'll hev free trade and tariff, too; Hard times won't trouble me or you, An' Sunday'll last the hull week through, When the bimeby time comes roun'. "When the bimeby time comes roun', O, I long to hear the soun'! So I'm sittin' an' a-mopin', An' a-gropin' an' a-hopin', Till the bimeby time comes roun'."

And many will be disappointed. "God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." More than "sincerity," so called, is needed. The times demand, the soon coming rewards and punishments of the last days demand, the eternal verities of His Word. If the appointed watchman will not give the message of God for the time, let the people turn from them and their theories, and search for themselves. "The foolishness of God is wiser than men." "God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." His Word is a light to the feet of the humble. Christ is talking to the world through that Word to-day. Who will follow His voice, and find the good, great, and eternal inheritance which lies beyond earth's plague-spot of evil?