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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 29, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 17, No. 11.

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Bro. D. W. Canright writes from Kinderhook, Mich.: "It is remarkable how professors and infidels all agree in opposing present truth. Not long since one of the brethren was preaching on the signs of the times, the falling of the stars, &c. After preaching he gave liberty for any to speak that wished to. An infidel Dr. got up and explained how it happened that the stars fell at that time. He said it took place according to nature, and consequently there was nothing in it. A Baptist minister who was present, responded, Amen. He said that was right; and that if the falling of the stars in 1833 was a fulfillment of Matt. xxiv, then it had been fulfilled a great many times since its prediction by the falling of meteors."
REMARKS.—The attempt is made to dispose of the darkening of the sun in 1780 in a similar manner. That can constitute no sign of the end, it is said, because many such events have taken place, in different ages of the world. But the fact that that darkening was connected with particular events, takes it completely out of the hands of our opponents. "Immediately after the tribulation of those days" (the 1260 years of Papal persecution), or as another Evangelist has it, "In those days, after that tribulation," the sun shall be darkened, &c. The tribulation was shortened by the rise of the Reformation, the time arrived for the accomplishment of that prediction and it was fulfilled. Now it matters not if the sun has been darkened a thousand times in past ages of the world, that darkening which was to constitute a sign of the end was to take place at that time, and there it did take place; and being expressly foretold as a sign of the end, no sophistry can explain it away. So with the falling of the stars. The phenomenon of Nov., 1833 was the most remarkable of any of that kind on record. It was foretold in connection with the darkening of the sun and moon. And so we find it following right on in that great series of events by which nature herself seems, as it were, to have been appointed to herald forth to mankind the approaching restitution of all things. Infidels and professors may strike hands to explain these things away; scoffers may scoff at our hope; but the glorious day is coming, redemption is nigh. Let sinners tremble; let the saints rejoice.—ED.