Perilous Times—Our Own Days.
"Only open your ears, and you will hear from the camp of the world the infernal war-cry, 'Away with Jesus and the doctrine of his cross!' Phenomena, such as those which meet us in the present day, were never before seen in the world in such anti-christian atrocity and massiveness. The traitor Judas is again visible on the stage, full of deadly hatred to God, in a thousand colossal antitypes; and if there is one doctrine of the Holy Scriptures which finds in the present day its tangible confirmation, it is that of the existence of a ruler of darkness, and of a kingdom of infernal powers. It is now that the prophetic expression in the Revelation is fulfilled, 'The devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.' The pentecost of hell is being accomplished, and it pours out its spirit over mankind like a shower of fire and brimstone and its shield bearers and apostles shoot up from the earth, like the fungus, in a night."—Krummacher's Suffering Saviour.