Words of Warning | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 31, 1863

Words of Warning.

ThE Alliance and Visitor truly remarks, "The events of centuries have been crowded into a year. The hand of God should be recognized in these remarkable events."

The Living Age has said, "Old things are about to pass away, and we know not what shall be the new. All faces gather blackness, and men's hearts fail them for fear of what is coming on the earth."

The Christian Luminary says, "Signs are seen in the heavens and on earth, which plainly teach us the fact that the coming of the Son of man draweth nigh." Another Journal has stated, "The world is now just about 6,000 years old; it is well to be ready for whatever event may occur."

The Christian Review has recorded as follows: "A silent, rapid, irresistible preparation has been making—what will it be? The battle of Armageddon? The Millennium? preceded by the coming of the Son of man in the clouds of heaven? Nothing in the prophecies withholds his coming, that I have seen, if I have read Peter and Daniel and John aright."

Rev. Charles Beecher, referring the present vast "Pneumatic or spiritual movement to the category of Rev. xvi, 14, says, 'They incur the almost certain stigma of false Christs which should precede his coming.'"

Prof. George Bush has said, "If we take the ground of good reason, we must believe that the present age is one expressly foretold in prophecy, and that it is just opening upon the crowning eonsummation of all prophetic declaration."

Dr. Edward Beecher writes, "The point of prophetic chronology at which the world has now arrived is the interval between the sounding of the sixth and seventh trumpets."

Archdeacon Brown, of England, has said, "That he was strongly impressed with the conviction that our lot had fallen under the solemn period emphatically designated by Daniel as 'the time of the end.'"

President Hitchcock, of Amherst, has stated, "In a very short time, far shorter than we imagine, all the scenes of futurity will be to us a thrilling reality!"

Daniel Eddy, of Lowell, has also said, "Time has grown old; six thousand years encircle its weary brow, and with inconceivable rapidity it rushes on to its eternal sepulchre. The great events connected with the winding up of all things are near, are but a step before us, even 'when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and every eye shall see him!'"

"O, all ye lukewarm churches, followers of the world and its fashions, how is it that ye do not discern the 'signs of the times,' nor take heed to the 'sure word of prophecy?' for, truly, you all 'shall see him!'"

"Vain worldling; heedless youth; profane swearer; sensual, groveling pleasure-seekers, you, also, 'shall see him!' Proud, haughty man of ambition or of wealth, covetous lovers of this world, heaping up treasures for the last days, you, too, 'shall see him!'"

"Vain and giddy triflers, followers of the fashions and frivolities of the day, you, also, 'shall see him!'"

"Ye who turn aside from Christ, from truth and duty, from mercy and humanity's calls, you, also, 'shall see him!'"

"Careless, worldly-minded professor, having a form of godliness, turning your back on Christ, and absorbed in earth's pursuits, take heed, for you also 'shall see him!' for all betoken, as in the days of Noah and Lot, —in striking fulfillment of prophecy, —the sad condition of a ruined world, and its hastening doom!"

"Yes, reader, you too 'shall see him!'—the living, and the righteous dead 'shall see him!'—the wise and foolish virgins 'shall see him!'—those who put far away the evil day 'shall see him!'—scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites 'shall see him!'—all perverters of God's word 'shall see him!' and 'all kindreds of the earth' 'shall wail because of him!'—for sudden destruction cometh upon them, and they shall not escape."——Voice of the Prophets.