p. 107 | The Triumph

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 30, 1864

The Triumph

The Triumph.—It will surely come, for God has promised it. When it does, such a shout of triumph will swell up from earth to Heaven as never did before. It will be the world's great Jubilee. No war shall darken its peaceful sunlight, no sorrow, no pain, no tears, no death, no curse—but the Sabbath of rest—the new earth, the new heaven—the final restoration—the fullness of ages. It is the triumph of the Lion of the tribe of Judah. It is a triumph that the angels sing of—its contemplation fills Heaven with joy—and the glory of it, if properly presented to the race as an object of hope, would move the fallen ones toward Heaven as no other theme can. It is a view of redemption completed—Christ its author and finisher. The race moves, ah! is rushing to this both dreadful and glorious consummation.

Sin's long typic week is nearly at its close—the world's Saturday night is upon us, and the latter day draws nigh. "The fig tree is being shaken of a mighty wind,"—the mystic sea of nations is seething and boiling in every part,—governments stagger like drunken men, and they will, till they are swept to destruction by that heated breath that shall issue from the burning throne.