unborn millions with our ideas.
Like as David prepared the material for the building of the temple, and
his son Solomon carried forward the same, so the work of this generation
is simply preparatory, and that of the coming will be executive.

Several wars will take place before that of Armageddon, which in their
nature will be fierce and terrible. Still these will all be
preparatory--leading on to the day of decision and the battle final. On
this point many err, and their error has a pernicious influence on the
Church and the world. They interpret the preparatory signs as if they
were final; hence the end with such is too near. A sincere anxiety takes
possession of their soul, which utterly unfits them to judge aright the
signs of the times and tokens of Providence. Thus were a portion of the
Advent Church thrown into confusion the 8th of last July because they had
fixed upon the seventh as the time for the ending of the world. And
human folly and haste will repeat itself again on the 10th of April next,
because another portion of the Advent brethren have fixed upon the 9th of
April as the time of the end. It is a wonder the first did not take the
4th of July instead of the seventh, for then a stranger might think the
end was nigh in some of our cities; or why didn't the other party select
the 1st of April, for no doubt it would have proved a more propitious
day? But thus it is, and will be again before the appointed time of
Heaven comes. Man is a creature of haste and sudden impulse, especially
so in his religious experience. Kings and nations, Churches and sects,
have laboured hard in times past to force the issues of Providence and
give speed and certainty to times and events.

The prophecies affecting our days are clear; so much so, that he who runs
may read, if need be. But an impatient activity urges men on, bedazzling
their eyes, which at once unnerves and unfits them for reading or
judging. "In your patience possess ye your souls," said the blessed
Master to His disciples of old, and not less through them unto us.

"Order is Heaven's first law," it has been said; and surely order
pervades the prophecies. But the pulpits in general over-ride this
order, and are not slow to malign such men as Edward Hine, of London,
England, when the fact is, that his theory of the prophecies and mode of
interpretation are vastly more natural, responsive, and reasonable than
the ill-adjusted, unnatural, and non-resp