The Intensity of the Age and Transpiring Events.
By Editor
THESE days are filled with intensity. Mighty events are shaping themselves. Men everywhere are wondering with perplexed forebodings what will be the outcome of it all. Many good and influential men and women have been working to secure peace among the nations; but in spite of their efforts the nations are driving madly on into greater and still greater war preparations. Over half a billion dollars more a year is being spent on war now than was being spent ten years ago. Official, and particularly municipal, corruption is increasing so rapidly that it is alarming to all thoughtful people. The strife between the great combines of capital and the combines of labor is becoming more and more bitter and intense. Great earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and other convulsions and phenomena in nature are causing men to tremble and fear. These things and many others that might be mentioned are all the subject of prophecy and will be carefully considered in these columns during the next six months. This journal has always made a special study of the prophecies, but we have come into the unfolding of events that makes the present particularly interesting and important. The one great event that is even now at the very doors is shown to be a certainty by the fulfilling of prophecy right in these very days. It is the one event that should fill every soul with joy and gladness and remove the gloom that is cast by the outlook that is before the world. The foregoing indicates just one of the leading features of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES for the next six months. Many other important themes will be presented. Every believer in these mighty truths should work with us now as never in the past to place those soul-stirring and joyous facts of Bible truth before the world. Many subscriptions will expire during the next few weeks. No one should allow himself to miss a single number. Our missionary societies, and especially our young people, should be more than ever vigilant and active in these thrilling days.