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SIGNS OF THE TIMES

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 6, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 18, No. 10.

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SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

By Editor

"THE N. Y. Observer finds in the events that are transpiring in the world evident signs of the approaching millennium. After reviewing the indications of the religious progress in the East, it says of England and France:
“"Both of them will yet co-operate in opening up a highway through Syria into the heart of Asia. It is in vain for the politics of the world to set up against the will of God and the ways of providence. There is a system in the divine administration of the world that embraces the revolutions of empires, the setting up of one, the downfall of another. The Jews are turning their eyes toward the land of their fathers. Believers in the false prophet are frantic in the evidences of an approaching catastrophe. China and India are yearly becoming more accessible and placable. These are signs of the times. Do they not promise a new and glorious day at hand? There are those who see in the signs of the times, the dark, portentous signs that appear in our own and other lands, the most convincing proofs that the day of the Lord is at hand. The great tribulation has come. Hosts are gathering to battle. Europe will in all probability be convulsed with war before the year is over. The western continent now trembles under the march of armies more numerous than ever trod its soil before. These are looked upon as harbingers of a coming crisis in the world's history. Let us be ready. Watch and pray."'
The above is given to show that the present state of the world, and the ominous events now transpiring, are attracting the attention of others besides professed Adventists. We would be as willing as any others to read in these things, portents of good to the world, be it a temporal millennium or any other blessing, did the word of God sustain such a view. But when its utterances are all to the contrary, we would not deceive ourselves, nor endeavor to mislead others by promising them such things. It is, however, significant that the signs of the times are so portentous as to arrest the attention of all.