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The World Awakening

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 24, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 54.

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“The World Awakening”

By W. H. Smith, M. D.

ALMOST daily we hear people talking of the end of the world. Many times recently I have been asked if the present war does not mean more to this world than any that has taken place, and if it is not the last one. In a Chicago paper, Dr. Felix Adler expresses the belief that this present conflict is only a prelude to a greater one. Certainly now is the time for our people to awaken to the needs of the special field in which to drop the seeds of truth. God has prepared the ground, and men's hearts are being stirred to the very depths.
I was forcibly impressed last Sunday evening with the stirring address on “Turkey and the Eastern Question,” by Elder O. O. Bernstein, in the Keith Memorial Building, Minneapolis. The audience was intensely interested. The night was rainy and rather disagreeable, and in view of the fact that the lecture had not been very well advertised, I expected to find a small attendance. To my surprise I could find no seat downstairs, and with difficulty I found one in the gallery.
About six hundred persons listened most attentively. Then the people by invitation came to the front for tracts on current questions, and I shall not soon forget how they crowded about, eight and ten deep, in their anxiety even reaching over the heads of others to get the words of truth on the printed page.
As the result of an invitation for a volunteer to pay for the meeting place, the next evening a man (unknown to Elder Bernstein) said he would send a check in the morning. A leading pastor's wife was decidedly enthusiastic, and was much disappointed because her husband could not be present. I believe the time is coming when the world will help bear the expense of carrying this message rapidly to all the cities, and to the world.
W. H. SMITH, M. D.