for centuries had been regarded as ‘‘sealed’’ books—
books that were beyond comprehension.
Students of prophecy find in this very fact a
fulfillment of the prophecy of Daniel that in the
time of the end ‘‘many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall be increased.” Thus the increase
o. knowledge in science and invention has been
accompanied with an increase of knowledge and
understanding of the portions of the Bible that
were written with particular application to our day.
India is well equipped for printing
Fifteen distinctly different lines of prophecy in
the books of Daniel and The Revelation point to
our day as ‘the time of the end,” “the end of the
age.”
Jesus’ last command to His followers on earth
was: ‘Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptiz-
ing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe
all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of
the world.” Matthew 28: 19, 20.
Jesus connected His promise of a return with a
teaching that there would be an end of the world.
When asked by His followers what would be a sign
of His coming and of the end of the world, He said:
“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not
since the beginning of the world to this time, no,
nor ever shall be. ... Immediately after the
tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened,
and the moon shall not give her light, and the
stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the
heavens shall be shaken: and then shall appear
the sign of the Son of Man in heaven: and then shall
all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall
see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven
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with power and great glory. . . . Verily I say
unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all
these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall
pass away, but My words shall not pass away.”
Matthew 24: 21, 29, 30, 34, 35.
Any history of the latter part of the eighteenth
century carries the account of the great Dark Day
of May 19, 1780, and how the moon appeared the
following night with the color of blood. There are
still living on the earth men and women who recall
the falling of the stars on the night of November 13,
1833. This was a terrestrial phenomenon astronomers
have never been able to fully explain from a scientific
viewpoint.
These are literal fulfillments of Jesus’ own proph-
-ecy. He said that the generation who saw these
things should not pass away before He would return.
The book of The Revelation shows that “in the
time of the end” there will arise a “remnant”
people, keeping the commandments of God and
having the testimony of Jesus. It teaches that
their work will be to sound a clarion cry to the entire
world to return to a faithful observance of all the
laws of God and to make preparation for the immi-
nent return of Jesus, which He himself, on many
occasions, promised would take place. This work
is to be done within the lifetime of our generation.
SPECIFICATIONS FULFILLED
HE only group today who comply in every de-
tail with the prophetic word as to what this
“remnant” will be is the Seventh-day Adventist
Church. Its phenomenal growth in the past eighty
years has astonished all who are familiar with its
activities. It is this organization that has attempted
the greatest publicity project the world has ever
known—rthat of carrying the message of God for this
time to the whole world in one generation.
Some things begin small and get bigger. Others
begin larger and get smaller. The Seventh-day
Adventist movement is in the class that began small.
The first general meeting of believers who later
were organized as Seventh-day Adventists took
place April 20, 21, 1848, at Rocky Hill, near Middle-
town, Connecticut. There (Continued on page 30)
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