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Letting the People Know

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 17, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 53.

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Letting the People Know

By W. A. S.

FROM all parts of the world we receive the word that many who have heard about Seventh-day Adventist teaching in the past, and perhaps did not give serious thought to it, are turning to our people to make inquiry concerning Bible truth. We learn of people searching in towns to find where Seventh-day Adventists hold their meetings, in one or two instances to be evidently guided most providentially to our brethren.
Does not this situation emphasize anew the importance of advertising the place of meetings on leaflets and periodicals that may be scattered freely in any town where public services are held? If such literature is stamped neatly with a small rubber stamp, giving the place and hour of the meeting, it will surely be the best kind of advertising for the public service. Many are doing this with good results in connection with campaigns for placing periodical extras or leaflets in the homes of the people.
Sometimes we find even a church building with no notice board indicating that it is a Seventh-day Adventist Church. Is not this a mistake in such times as these, when the spirit of inquiry is abroad? We have rejoiced at the splendid progress of our work in Korea.
We were led into that field by two Koreans, who, while passing along a street in a Japanese city, stopped to study out the notice board on a little chapel announcing Seventh-day Adventist services. A beckoning hand at the door motioned for them to come in, and soon thereafter the first Korean converts were baptized by lantern light. On their return to Korea our work for that field was begun, and soon the message was spreading, as Professor Field wrote us at the time of his first visit, “like a prairie fire.”
These are earnest days, the spirit of inquiry is all abroad in the land. To Seventh-day Adventists God has committed the message for the hour; let us help the people to come in contact with it. W. A. S.