The advent doctrine has been proclaimed more extensively than many
are aware, and quite sufficiently to
fulfill the predictions of the Scriptures
concerning it. It was symbolized by
an angel flying through heaven. Answering to the symbol, men, on the
earth, were impelled by the Lord to
go forth and proclaim the coming of
his kingdom. This completed the figure. This message was to go to every
nation, kindred, tongue, and people.
A new awakening, a great revival, followed the proclamation of the advent
doctrine wherever it went, which
called upon men Lo repent and prepare
to meet their God. Statistics inform
us that to every station where missionaries were laboring, the message was
sent; so the sound thereof was heard
the world around, directing the
thoughts of men to the truth that the
hour of God's judgment had come.
These facts are among the important
former things to be remembered. They
are full of significance. When the
time is ripe for a new movement in the
development of God's work, a new
epoch to be introduced, and the agents
appear, and the work of the Spirit is
manifest among them, men ought to
know the time sufficiently to give due
attention to the work in which heaven
is enlisted. In the annals of him who
is not slack concerning his promises,
in whose methods one day is as a.
thousand years, and a thousand years
as one day, these events will all have
their place. More on this point hereafter.
One hundred and five years have already passed since the "time of the
end" began; seventy years since the
stars fell, and the last generation began; fifty-nine years since the seventh
angel sounded, the temple of God was
opened in lieaven, and the cleansing
of the sanctuary was entered upon.
We are living in the most solemn and
important time the world has ever
seen. " It is high time to awake out of
sleep: for now is our salvation nearer
than when we believed." Rom. 13: 11.
Uriah Smith
(Review and Herald, January 20, 1903, p. 4)
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