Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . PHOTO FROM UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N. Y. READY FOR THE CONFLICT For the day of the Lord is near,Joel 3:14. are to be beaten into plowshares, and that the nations willcease from war (Isa. 2:3, 4); but the actual conditions arerepeatedly described in prophecy as warlike and the revelator saw the closing days: The nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come, andthe time of the dead, that they should be judged, and thatThou shouldst give reward unto Thy servants the prophets,and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, small andgreat;
Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . PHOTO FROM UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N. Y. READY FOR THE CONFLICT For the day of the Lord is near,Joel 3:14. are to be beaten into plowshares, and that the nations willcease from war (Isa. 2:3, 4); but the actual conditions arerepeatedly described in prophecy as warlike and the revelator saw the closing days: The nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come, andthe time of the dead, that they should be judged, and thatThou shouldst give reward unto Thy servants the prophets,and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, small andgreat; and shouldst destroy them which destroy the 11 A FAITHFUL AND WISESERVANT Watch therefore: for ye know not what houryour Lord doth some. Matt. 24:42. The Meaning of Present-Day Conditions 109 What we see then among the nations proclaims the ap-proaching end. 2. Signs in the Social World A New Testament prophecj^ of the latter days says: In the last days perilous times shall come. For menshall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, with-out natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, inconti-nent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady,high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of Tim. 3:1-4. The perilous times have come, wnen, as nev^r before,the world is pleasure mad. Unrestrained passion for pleasure, said M. Comte,editor of the French ReUvement Social, writing just before theEuropean war, is bringing a terrible train of evils into modernsociety. Along with it he put the hunt for money withoutregard for means, adding:
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