The Barren Fig-tree

Wrote the apostle John to his fellow Christians: "Little children, it is the last time …." He here refers to a period that set in with the advent of Christ and that will stretch itself out to Christ's second com­ing. Another designation of this period is the term "New Dispensation". So we are living in the last time and, judging from certain signs to which I purpose to call your attention in this writing, in the last season of this time. There is the fig-tree -- the church -- set forth, by...