Editorial by Editor

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

Editorial

By Editor

A New Order of Things

A NEW aspect is coming rapidly over the face of affairs in the world and in the church. We are in a day of rapid changes. Events are shaping for the final conflict. The world has entered the rapids above the falls. A new power has been springing up from beneath and taking hold on all the world's agencies of evil; and on the other hand, a new power and light from above have been coming into the hearts of those who were alive in the cause of God. Of this new order of things the proclamation that “there shall be delay no longer,” and the reorganization that has come, have been the signal in the work of God. The future of this work can not be judged by the past. The facts and figures of previous undertakings furnish no basis on which to estimate the possibilities before us. We know that the work will be finished quickly and cut short in righteousness. To some it has appeared that the past few years have been indicative of a retrogression and falling off in the work; but viewed in the true light, these years have furnished stirring evidence that the final stage of the contest has been reached, and that the end is at hand. Soon, under the divine command, Go forward, God's servants will lighten the world with the final glory of the message. L. A. S.