Our Slogan by Matilda Erickson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 14, 1916

Our Slogan

By Matilda Erickson

A Morning Watch Calendar for Every Seventh-day Adventist

A Morning Watch Circle

Not long ago a friend said to me: “I think the Morning Watch is the most important work that the Missionary Volunteer Department is doing. You can never know how the observance of the Morning Watch is influencing the lives of young people who come within the circle of my observation.”

Numerous letters have come in this year (and in fact every year) saying: “The verse for the day always seems to fit my needs exactly.” Workers have found the texts as grouped in the Morning Watch Calendar just the help needed when called on to give studies or to conduct worship. Many timid young Christians have found the Calendar a friend to suggest to them good thoughts for the social meeting. In these and other reasons lies hidden the secret of the marvelous growth of the Morning Watch circle. Each year a larger number of us find the little Calendar so helpful to daily living that we would not be without it.

In 1908 the General Conference Missionary

Volunteer Department sent out the first Morning Watch Calendar. It was printed in the English language only, and about six thousand copies were sold. But in recent years, aside from a large English edition printed in this country, which has reached a circulation of 55,000, England and Australia have printed for their own use. For 1917 Australia is planning an edition of 20,000. Now the Calendar may also be obtained in German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Yes, the Morning Watch circle has grown till Christians in all lands are enjoying its benefits.

If you are not a member of the Morning Watch circle, will you not join it now? Come and let us learn together how to begin the day with God. Spurgeon says: “He who rusheth from his bed to his business, and waiteth not to worship, is . . . as unwise as though he dashed into battle without arms or armor. Be it ours to bathe in the softly flowing river of God before the heat of the wilderness and the burdens of the day begin to oppress us.” Then shall we not thank God for the Morning Watch, which is leading thousands of Christians, young and old, to begin the day with God?

The Calendar for 1917 is based on the Psalms, and is brimful of choice selections from that matchless collection of sacred Hebrew songs. Your tract society will send you one of these Calendars for five cents. Get it, and let it remind you daily of your morning appointment with God, that in quiet communion with him you may learn the secret of living the victorious life.

MATILDA ERICKSON.