Preparing for Christ’s Coming
By Thos. Hamilton
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: We are living in an interesting time. The signs of the times indicate, too plainly to be misunderstood, that the world is fast hasting to its final doom. The mighty nations of earth are in commotion, reeling and struggling to39maintain an existence. The political world is convulsed. Empires are crumbling, and the nations are being shaken. To the statesman the future seems fraught with mighty revolutions which shall turn and overturn and usher in a new era. But to the child of God these are but tokens of the speedy coming of his Lord. He has no cause of fear or dismay; and although perils may thicken around him, he fears no evil, for his God is with him, his stay and his staff they comfort him. Dear brethren, Jesus is coming; he will not tarry long. Are we ready? Can we cry, Come Lord Jesus! oh, come quickly! What a great privilege we have of speaking to each other through the Review. It brings to my mind the word of the Lord by the prophet: "Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts in that day, when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son, that serveth him." Dear brethren and sisters, shall we not toil on a little longer? Here is the patience of the saints. Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Yours striving to overcome.
THOS. HAMILTON.
West Green Lake, Wis., Dec. 19, 1861.