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The Final Event

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 28, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 8, No. 17.

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The Final Event.

By Editor

OVER the signature of "Zeta," the Christian Chronicle has the following article under the above head. It is good orthodox doctrine.
"Depend upon it, dear reader, we live in eventful times. Prophecy is now in a state of fulfillment, that the future history of the world, should it long continue, must be uninspired. The last page of Revelation is now open before us, and we wait with an assured confidence yet with the most intense anxiety, for the accomplishment of what is there written—for the final event of time—for the great and terrible day of the Lord.
"In the language of Bonar, 'we are living in an age of the world when every hill is passed up which the church had to climb ere it came in full sight of the plain, along which shall come the Son of man in his chariot of glory.' Standing upon our watch-tower, we are looking out amid the darkness of the night for the first streaks of morn; with ears intent we are waiting to catch the first blast of the trumpet; with eyes uplifted, we are gazing upon the gathering brightness; and with impatient longing, our hearts cry out, 'Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly.'
"Every circumstance in the providential government of God indicates the near approach of some great event. The signs of the times are significant and portentous. Who knows but the present convulsions among the nations, the casting down of the thrones, the overthrow which Popery has had, where, for centuries, it has been dominant—the fulfillment of prophecy in relation to the coming of scoffers—and the sad falling away in the piety and moral power of the church—who knows but these are the fearful forerunners, the dreadful harbingers, of that glorious day that is to witness the perfect redemption of God's people, and the purification of a sin-cursed earth?
"But whether these be the Lord's appointed signs or not, resting upon the sure word of prophecy, and animated by the blessed hope of the gospel, we still look for the day of his coming.
"In the events of that day we are individually and deeply interested. Our eternal destiny hangs upon its decisions. May we all be ready to welcome its dawn!
"O, that each, in the day of His coming, may say, I have fought my way through; I have finished the work thou didst give me to do. O, that each from his Lord, may receive the glad word, Well and faithfully done; Enter into my joy, and set down on my throne."