The Review for 1909 by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 31, 1908

The Review for 1909

By Editor

THE coming year promises to be of great interest to those who are watching both national and international affairs in their relation to the fulfilment of prophecy and the setting up of the everlasting kingdom.

In this country there are movements launched and activities in operation which indicate the approach of stirring times in the religious field. The concerted effort on the part of several powerful organizations to persuade Congress to pass a Sunday law; the quickened zeal of the Roman Church to make America a Catholic country; the organization of the Lord’s Day Alliance in order to combine all the forces favorable to the enforcement of Sunday observance; and the formation of one great American church by combining thirty or more denominations in the Federal Council of Churches, bring us face to face with a situation fraught with peculiar interest. Never in this country has there been such a federation of forces with the avowed purpose of promoting moral reform by legislative enactment. Their work will need watching.

The recent campaign of publicity in behalf of occultism in its various phases, — a revival of Spiritualism,— and the new interpretation given to hypnotism as a healing agency, call for the presentation of the truth upon these subjects.

Many significant developments in the Old World invite the attention of the thoughtful student of present-day affairs.

Of supreme importance, however, is this advent movement and its world-wide progress, and it is only in their relation to this movement that all these other agencies and events can be rightly understood and estimated.

THE REVIEW will continue to stand for this advent message as against all efforts to pervert or to hinder it, and will seek to interpret correctly the work of these organizations and combinations which will act an important part in bringing on the final crisis. Every Seventh-day Adventist ought to be a reader of the REVIEW. We fail to see how any one can be intelligent concerning this advent movement in any other way. We hope our circle of readers may be largely increased during the year 1909.