Christ Is Coming | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 20, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 21.

Christ Is Coming.

HE has said so in His word. He has told us that there would be signs of His coming. Line after line of prophecy has He given in His word, and the very last predictions are in process of fulfilment. He told us that there would be signs of His coming in the physical, social, political, and religious worlds, and they are all before us. The creation groans for her coming King. The old earth quakes under the burden of the curse. Wild storms sweep over her surface and pestilence follows plague.

In the social world the long-talked-of brotherhood of man is as far distant as ever. The rich are growing richer. Poverty is pinching the millions in lands of plenty. The gulf which separates the "classes" and the "masses" grows ever broader. Thousands of schemes are proposed and thousands are rejected by every one but their projectors. Oftentimes the poor are their own worst enemies in the combinations they form, and the intemperate and prodigal lives they live.

On the other hand, with thousands of sufferers for the necessities of life under the very shadow of the mansion of the rich, the Dives of the twentieth century piles up his colossal fortunes into the hundreds of millions. It can not go on much longer. In the political world thrones are trembling in the balance; governments slumber on hidden mines of dynamite; nations are living in hourly expectation of great calamities, and their hearts are failing them for fear of the things coming on the earth. Socialism, Nihilism, and Anarchism hold the nations in dread, and uneasy rest the heads who wear the crowns. Preparations for war proceed in colossal degrees, and at the same time men are predicting peace, when there is no peace.

And all are fulfilling prophecy, and saying, "Christ is coming."