in its infancy. Five thousand years hence, our descendants may be
looking back on us as foolish barbarians, in comparison with what
they know: just as we look back upon the ignorance of people a
thousand years ago. And yet I believe that the end of this world, in
the real Scripture sense of the word "world," is coming very quickly
and very truly--The end of this system of society, of these present
ways in religion, and money-making, and conducting ourselves in all
the affairs of life, which we English people have got into nowadays.
The end of it is coming. It cannot last much longer; for it is
destroying itself. It will not last much longer; for Christ and not
the devil is the King of the earth. As St. Paul said to his people,
so say I to you, "The night is far spent, the day is at hand."

These may seem strange words, but almost every one is saying them, in
his own way. One large party among religious people in these days is
complaining that Christ has left His Church, and that the cause of
Christianity will be ruined and lost, unless some great change takes
place. Another large party of religious people say, that the
prophecies are on the point of being all fulfilled that the 1260
days, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, are just coining to an end;
and that Christ is coming with His saints, to reign openly upon earth
for a thousand years. The wisest philosophers and historians of late
years have been all foretelling a great and tremendous change in
England, and throughout all Europe; and in the meantime,
manufacturers and landlords, tradesmen and farmers, artisans and
labourers, all say, that there MUST be a change and will be a change.
I believe they are all right, every one of them. They put it in
their words; I think it better to put it in the Scripture words, and
say boldly, "Jesus Christ, the King of the earth, is coming."