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God Provides These Opportunities—A crisis is right upon us.
We must now by the Holy Spirit’s power proclaim the great truths for
these last days. It will not be long before everyone will have heard the
warning and made his decision. Then shall the end come.... God is the
great Master Worker, and by His providence He prepares the way for
His work to be accomplished. He provides opportunities, opens up
lines of influence, and channels of working. If His people are watching
the indications of His providence, and stand ready to co-operate with
Him, they will see a great work accomplished.—
Testimonies For The
Church 6:24
(1900).
National Crisis Brings Religious Awakening—Today men and
nations are being tested by the plummet in the hand of Him who makes
no mistake....
Today the signs of the times declare that we are standing on the
threshold of great and solemn events. Everything in our world is in
agitation. Before our eyes is fulfilling the Saviour’s prophecy of the
events to precede His coming: “Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of
wars.... Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers
places.”
The present is a time of overwhelming interest to all living. Rulers
and statesmen, men who occupy positions of trust and authority, think-
ing men and women of all classes, have their attention fixed upon the
events taking place about us. They are watching the relations that exist
among the nations. They observe the intensity that is taking possession
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of every earthly element, and they recognize that something great and
decisive is about to take place,—that the world is on the verge of a
stupendous crisis.—
Prophets and Kings, 536, 537
(1916).
Our Duty in the Moment of Respite—Angels are now restrain-
ing the winds of strife, until the world shall be warned of its coming
doom; but a storm is gathering, ready to burst upon the earth, and
when God shall bid His angels loose the winds, there will be such a
scene of strife as no pen can picture....
A moment of respite has been graciously given us of God. Every
power lent us of heaven is to be used in doing the work assigned us by
the Lord for those who are perishing in ignorance....