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OUR MONITORS

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 26, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 8, No. 9.

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OUR MONITORS.

By Editor

It is reported of one anciently that he employed a servant to come into his room and remind him that he was mortal. This circumstance has suggested to our mind that we are not only mortal; but there are events just before us that will bring it to the test, and we have our monitors of these events if we will but listen to their admonitions. "Coming events cast their shadows before." The judgments of God are preceded by a warning. The people in the days of Noah and of Lot were taken unawares only because they were willfully asleep. They "knew not" only because they would not know. And it is not because the people of the present day have no chance to know of its approach that the great day of the Lord will overtake them "as a thief."
The voice of Prophecy has declared that the great day of the Lord is near and hasteth greatly; and many are the signs that admonish us that that declaration is hasting to its fulfillment. As anciently the servant reminded his master of his mortality, so do the signs of the times admonish us in plainer language than that of words that the great day of the Lord is close at hand.
The evidences of prophecy fulfilled, the hand-writing that has been given on the walls of heaven, the "anger" and the "perplexity" of the nations, the mighty struggles of despotism, tyranny and slavery to bind their chains more firmly upon their victims, the seeming departure, in a measure, of the restraining grace of God, the waxing worse and worse of evil men and seducers, the development of those who have the "form of godliness but deny the power," the "perilous times" both to saint and sinner, the restless, feverish anxiety in the minds of men, and the failing of their hearts for fear—all these clustering like a body-guard around the sure word of prophecy, point unmistakably to the coming consummation. Happy they who take heed and escape for their life. "Ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief."