Giving the Message Through Foreign Newspapers by Walter L. Burgan

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 14, 1915

Giving the Message Through Foreign Newspapers

By Walter L. Burgan

Not only are newspapers in the United States and Canada opening their columns to our ministers and evangelists for the publication of our views of the European war from a prophetic standpoint,

but editors of papers in foreign-speaking lands are gladly printing contributions from our workers on this important subject.

It is very encouraging to hear from workers across the seas who through the agency of the secular press have been heralding the message of the soon-coming Saviour. The fact that they have been successful in having interesting articles on the war published, all of them pointing the reader to the fact that the great day of God is at hand, indicates that these editors realize that the views concerning the second advent of Christ are of more than ordinary importance. It also shows that these same editors, who mold public opinion, are anxious to give to their readers views of the meaning of this terrible slaughter that have more than a human interpretation behind them.

A brother in Quito, a large city in Ecuador, South America, where newspapers are published in the Spanish language, sends this encouraging word:—

“Undoubtedly it will interest you to know that the best daily paper in Quito has shown itself favorable to the extent of publishing an article in full on the subject ‘Armageddon,’ without any change with the exception of substituting a few words in order to make better Spanish.”

Another worker, in one of the large cities in Peru, South America, also has met with success in getting a long report published as to the Biblical side of the war.

A brother in Portugal has met with excellent success in giving the message through the newspapers. In a recent letter he says:—

“I have already sent you six copies of a Portuguese daily paper, which has published many articles of mine. The titles are: ‘The Destruction of Turkey According to the Prophecies;’ ‘The Last Universal War — Curious Indications of the Prophecies;’ ‘The Fall of the Universal Kingdoms — What the Prophecies Say;’ ‘The Place of the Last Universal War;’ ‘Spiritualism in the Light of the Bible;’ ‘Universal Peace.’

“We have learned of several that have read the articles, and have come to our meetings. At present we are not allowed to hold meetings at night. Very few are able to come in the daytime, except on Sunday, when quite a number come out. I expect to keep on trying this way to teach the truth.”

Thus we see the Lord guiding his servants in various parts of the earth in taking advantage of this important avenue for spreading the truth for this time. Let others use this medium to tell the world of the nearness of the Lord’s return while such excellent opportunities are offered.

WALTER L. BURGAN.