p. 48 | Peace and Safety by M. E. Cornell

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 11, 1865

Peace and Safety.

By M. E. Cornell

WHO can fail to see the fulfillment of prophecy in the cry of "Peace and safety," and that "all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation?" Not only do they declare that "all things continue as they were," but that all things will continue without end. As we draw near to the end, we see the masses are more and more influenced by the siren song of "peace" when in fact there is no peace, but sudden destruction is upon them. The following extract from the "London Spectator" gives the popular sentiment of one-half of the world:

European writers, whatever their subject, politics or society, now tacitly assume that the human race is to progress forever, or to state their latent idea more strictly, is to advance steadily for an indefinite period toward a nobler life and a higher civilization. The idea of a fixed term to history, which so greatly influenced the Middle Ages, has utterly disappeared; the semi-religious belief in a cataclysm to occur at a distant but visible date, though still entertained, has ceased to be professed by anybody but Dr. Cumming, and does not influence him. The reverie of the politician is no longer of the coming overturn of things—an idea never absent from the great minds of the first four centuries—but of a coming millenium, when all mankind shall be allied, and the motive force of the European, and the subtle brow of the Arab, and the deft hand of the Mongol, shall all be employed together in making the earth more lovely and more convenient for its people.

M. E. CORNELL.