From Basis of Millenial Faith by Hamilton

From the New Testament times to the present, the Church of Christ has been a hopeful church. Pessimism has no place in the Christian consciousness. No matter how dark the days or how discouraging the outlook of the world, Christians, who understand the teaching of the Word of God, and believe it to be true, have universally been optimists. Optimists, not because they believed that man was becoming better and better and making the world constantly a better place in which to live, or because they shut their eyes to the evils that surrounded them in the world, but because they knew the God in whom they trusted, and knew that His promises can never fail of fulfillment.

ht: my girl over at the modern nomad….