p. 3 | The Hollow Square by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 8, 1908

The Hollow Square

By W. A. S.

A FAVORITE battle formation to meet an attack from superior numbers is that of the hollow square. Shoulder to shoulder and back to back, facing toward four sides, the hollow square is a hard thing for the enemy to break.

By this formation at Waterloo, Wellington met the assaults of the French. Napoleon said of those lines of British troops: “I covered them with artillery; I flooded them with infantry; I deluged them with calvary; but when the smoke of battle was lifted, there stood the red line yet.”

The lines of our own work stretch out four-square to meet the final assaults of the enemy of truth. There are just four leading departments of work,—the evangelistic, the educational, the publishing, and the medical missionary departments.

On one side or the other of this four-square formation every one prepared to engage in the service may find a place. No power of the enemy can break through the united front presented on all sides, as the workers stand loyal and true to the message. Each department of the work, each side of the square, stands not only for itself but for the whole.

Thank God for one great system of truth, four-square and complete, given us in these last days, and for the united advent movement, organized on the very lines of that truth to carry the last message to the world. W. A. S.