Your ShelfYour Projects

A Moving Panorama

17%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 24, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 52.

Read the full edition

A Moving Panorama

By William A. Spicer

It is a wonderful picture that is spread before us week by week in the reports from the fields. It is a moving panorama of the rapid progress of that message of “the everlasting gospel” that is to end with the coming of the Lord.
When John in the Revelation described it, he saw it under the symbol of the three angels flying with the solemn warning to “every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” The pages of the REVIEW, in descriptions by pen and camera, give us a view in modern times of the same work that the revelator beheld in vision.
Who that really knows this truth can hope to keep pace with the message without watching the hand of God revealed in power as the closing work moves onward? And it is in these pages week by week that the reports are spread before us. These reports from all the four quarters of the earth, from Catholic, heathen, and Protestant lands, are awe-inspiring records of the work that God is doing in the third angel’s message.
We put a few of these pages together, as in the Thanksgiving number, and people of the world are astonished to see to what an extent this work has grown in the hands of a small people. But we ourselves have these reports coming fresh and new fifty-two times a year. Let them not become a common thing. Twenty years ago the reports were coming from but a few places. Now they pour in from every land. Brethren, God is doing what he has promised—finishing the work in this generation.
Those who do not see the REVIEW, and thus miss the week-by-week panorama of the closing work, are missing much. Rouse every soul to the importance of keeping watch of the swiftlychanging scenes in the progress of the message. When prophets were shown the closing work in vision, their souls were stirred. We who live when the things long foretold are being fulfilled must never forget that we are seeing the hand of the Lord at work in these reports of progress. W. A. S.