VERY SIGNIFICANT by D. A. Robinson

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 6, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 19

VERY SIGNIFICANT.

By D. A. Robinson

BY ELD. D. A. ROBINSON.

The following from the Boston Journal concerning the banks of New York in 1879, is eminently worthy of being regarded with careful thought by every S. D. Adventist who has means to invest in bank stock. This condition is not peculiar to New York alone, but it fairly represents the uncertain and unsettled condition of our financial basis as a nation.

The Journal speaks as follows:—

“The report of the Bank Superintendent of New York shows that the savings banks in that State have lost $13,748,419.00 in deposits the past year, and 34,533 depositors. The total transactions of the year are 12 per cent less than those of the previous year.” This is certainly a good comment on the words of Christ in Luke 21:26: “Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.” Why have nearly fourteen million dollars in a single State been withdrawn from its banks? Because thirty-four thousand depositors felt that there was no safety in leaving it there. This picture causes unrest to the worldling, and he wildly turns this way and that to find relief.

Amid all this, there is one redeeming feature to the believer in present truth. Has he means to invest? A most magnificent opportunity presents itself. Stock in the third angel’s message will never decline, and it will pay immense dividends in a little while, in the kingdom of glory. Reader, do you really believe this message?