We need not vacantly stare on passing events, as those who know not where they are and whither they are going. We should accurately know our bearings. We should fully understand the direct tendency of all the principles now at work. We should be well aware of the vortex toward which all the tributary streams are rapidly flowing on. The dams by which man sedulously seeks to stem the torrent of human wretchedness, must soon give way before the overwhelming force thereof.
Men dream of a golden age; they promise themselves a millennium of the arts and sciences but, O! how utterly vain are all those thoughts, dreams and promises. Faith can see the clouds gathering thickly around the world’s horizon. Judgment is coming – the day of wrath is at hand. The door of salvation will soon be shut. The “strong delusion” will soon set in, with terrible intensity. How needful, then, it is to raise a warning voice – to seek, by faithful testimony, to counteract man’s pitiable self-complacency. True, in so doing, we shall be exposed to the charge which Ahab brought against Micaiah, of always prophesying evil; but no matter for that. Let us prophesy what the Word of God prophesies, and let us do this simply for the purpose of “persuading men.”
As we see that dreadful day of judgment almost upon this poor world, may we be more faithful in warning men to flee from the wrath to come. We who are Christians will be taken home to be with the Lord first, But does not the doom of the lost arouse us? Can we be satisfied to be saved, and never utter a warning to “them that are lost?” Christians awake!