A Forward Move by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Oct 1, 1903

A Forward Move

By Editor

It is certain that this whole people have been greatly stirred as they have recognized the marked providence of God in the circumstances connected with the removal of our headquarters to this city. We continue to receive letters in which the writers express themselves as greatly rejoiced and encouraged by these recent developments in our work, and we are confident that the Lord will fully meet the expectations which he himself has aroused in the hearts of the people.

The following paragraph dealing with this matter appeared in the Signs of the Times of September 9. We heartily reciprocate the good wishes of our pioneer paper, and have learned with much satisfaction of the recent large increase in its list of regular readers.

The “good old Review,” comes to us now from Washington, D. C., instead of Battle Creek, Mich. Perhaps some of its many friends, who are wont to indulge a little sentimentality over the olden days, and the good that has been, will heave a temporary sigh because of the change. But it is now time for God’s people to go forward, instead of stopping to look backward. We sincerely believe that there has been the best of evidence that the move is of the Lord. We have now what we ought to have had years ago, a strong publication representing our message at the nation’s capital. And the delay, which is not to our credit, has been overruled for good in getting our leading church paper, and the headquarters of our work in this country where the powers that be can be more fully made to realize that there is a power in the last message of mercy to this perishing world, and that there is a divine force in the warning against the worship of “the beast and his image.” God never yet had a message of special import to a nation that was not forcibly presented at the seat of the government. Even the enemy has been shrewd enough to make use of this fact, and both the Catholics and the National Reformers have been allowed strongly to entrench themselves in the capital city in advance of the message of warning. Now that the most heroic effort is called for in order to establish the truth at this strategic point, to what would we naturally look as the strongest possible agent but to the “good old REVIEW”? May the Lord bless it in its new environment, and renew its youth like the eagle’s. May he abundantly bless the editors and managers, that they may “prosper and be in health,” physically and spiritually, that they may make their charge a power for good, such as the city of Washington never has known.