This period is big with events. Fraught with history, it repeats the past and portends much for the future.
The Scriptural metaphors—of the woman in travail, the great red dragon that stood ready to devour the child as soon as it was born, and the husbandmen that said, "This is the heir; come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours,"— are type and shadow of this hour.
A mother's love touches the heart of God, and should it not appeal to human sympathy? Can a mother tell her child one tithe of the agonies that gave her birth? Can this child conceive of that anguish, until she herself is a mother?
