The Spirit of Inquiry by W. A. S.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 28, 1903

The Spirit of Inquiry

By W. A. S.

ONE of the cheering signs of the times is the growth of a spirit of earnest inquiry among multitudes. While the great public may be more than ever wrapped up in worldly affairs, the Spirit of God is manifestly leading many to ask, as in that prophecy of this latter time, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?” The question is repeated, as though to emphasize the earnestness of the plea.

And the answer of the watchman is an encouragement to the inquiring soul: “The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.” This spirit of inquiry is of God, that honest souls may be prepared for the issues of this new time. At the early meetings this year I heard numbers of our brethren and sisters say that there seems to be a reviving of interest to learn about the truth in their neighborhoods. People who heard of it years ago, and decided that they would have none of it, are now inquiring about the reasons of our faith. Many are asking “the way to Zion with their faces thitherward.” We meet it on every side. It is God’s signal to every believer to tell out the stirring truth that the great day of God is at hand. Many a neighbor who before was indifferent will be glad now to have just such simple Bible readings as any Seventh-day Adventist may give. Let us sound the keynote by word and by literature on the right hand and on the left, in season and out of season.

W. A. S.