p. 3 | A Call to Earnest Action

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 13, 1908

A Call to Earnest Action

INTELLIGENT observers of the present trend of events must recognize that we are facing a crisis. The authority of the Bible is being denied; the fundamental principles of the gospel are being subverted; the doctrines which have differentiated Christianity from other religions have been discredited until religion is being reduced to the plane of good citizenship; and with all the rest, more earnest efforts are being put forth than ever before to unite religion and the government, and to secure to the church the power of the state for the enforcement of religious observances. In all this we can plainly see the fulfilment of prophecy; but there is also a responsibility resting upon those who know the truth, to make known the message for this time. The situation now ought to stir the blood and quicken the pulse of those who have long been looking for these very things, and ought to arouse the church to earnest action. Doors now open may soon be closed, and opportunities which are now allowed to pass unimproved may never come again. Let every one do his duty.