Widespread Apprehension About the Future

The present is a time of overwhelming interest to all living.
Rulers and statesmen, men who occupy positions of trust and
authority, thinking 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 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, 537 (c. 1914).
The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society,
the alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast approaching
events of the greatest magnitude. The agencies of evil are
combining their forces and consolidating. They are strengthening
for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take
place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid
ones.—Testimonies for the Church 9:11 (1909).
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Troublous Times Soon to Come
The time of trouble, which is to increase until the end, is very
near at hand. We have no time to lose. The world is stirred with
the spirit of war. The prophecies of the eleventh of Daniel have
almost reached their final fulfillment.—The Review and Herald,
November 24, 1904.
The time of trouble—trouble such as was not since there was
a nation [Daniel 12:1]—is right upon us, and we are like the
sleeping virgins. We are to awake and ask the Lord Jesus to place
underneath us His everlasting arms, and carry us through the time
of trial before us.—Manuscript Releases 3:305 (1906).
The world is becoming more and more lawless. Soon great
trouble will arise among the nations—trouble that will not cease
until Jesus comes.—The Review and Herald, February 11, 1904.
We are on the very verge of the time of trouble,
and perplexities that are scarcely dreamed of are before
us.—Testimonies for the Church 9:43 (1909).
We are standing on the threshold of the crisis of the
ages. In quick succession the judgments of God will follow
one another—fire, and flood, and earthquake, with war and
bloodshed.—Prophets and Kings, 278 (c. 1914).
There are stormy times before us, but let us not utter one word
of unbelief or discouragement.—Christian Service, 136 (1905).