Not All Asleep

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 26, 1914

THERE are some in this world who see the approach of earth's culmination in the signs which God has hung out in earth, sea, and sky. In one of our exchanges appear the following striking utterances over the signature of Geo. A. Carroll:—

In spite of the warning voice of the prophetic word, in spite of the ominous voice of the signs of the times, the world is slumbering on the brink of one of the greatest events that shall ever transpire in the history of this planet. The governments of the world are unconsciously preparing for a momentous change; the deep mutterings of the coming tempest of war which shall sweep over the nations are already heard, and the heart of man is filled with fear, lest the pent-up billows of jealousy and wrath shall suddenly burst forth with resistless fury, sweeping nations and kingdoms into the dark abyss of anarchy and destruction. The maudlin cry of "peace and safety," the declaration that "the world is growing better," and that "all things continue as they were from the creation," are sternly contradicted by the rapid fulfillment of the prophetic word, while the voice of true science repeats the solemn truth and casts the shadow of great and eventful change over all the earth.

Now is the time to heed the warning of the prophetic word: "Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction." Micah 2: 10.

Those who are looking for peace and safety and rest in this present world are truly pinning their faith to a false hope; and the fact that such a hope exists and is being made so much of is in itself a sign of the end.