Untitled article by William Ambrose Spicer

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

By Asiatic Cable

By William Ambrose Spicer

Who that knows this message can fail to see that the cable news from Asia is day by day and week by week a call to us to press with the advent message into that vast continent where half the world is living and dying?

The granting of reforms in Turkey, the effort to establish a constitutional government, should certainly lead us to pray earnestly that out of the changes inaugurated may come a wider measure of religious liberty for our workers in that great country. History is in the making, and it may be doors are opening where before our way was barred.

The uprising in Persia, setting the land in turmoil, and causing much loss of life, reminds us that we have never yet entered that land, with its eleven millions. The years of peace which we have thus far not improved may possibly be not quite yet ended, but it is high time we were there with the last warning message. Two young men have volunteered for work in Persia; but there must be increased giving for missions all around before the Mission Board can finance new enterprises.

India is astir, and all observers feel that stormy times are ahead. If only a few more years of measurable tranquillity can be given us, we should set into that stronghold of heathenism scores of workers before the storm breaks. We have touched but six or seven of the hundred leading languages of India.

In the far East there is comparative quiet, and now is our time to work; for all the news from China and the East shows that these years of peace are fast passing, and the heathen are waking up.

Half the world lies in Asia, and Asia is astir. The Lord's commission tells us definitely to send the witnesses into all parts of that great continent. Let us pray for it, and give for it, and work toward it unceasingly. W. A. S.