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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 31, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 43.

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Our Priceless Paper

By E. Hilliard

MUCH has been said relative to the value of our church paper, the REVIEW AND HERALD. It is highly appreciated by those who are making thorough work in preparing to meet their soon-coming Lord. It is priceless to those who are spiritually minded and are anxiously laboring for the salvation of their relatives and friends. Never since its first issue have the people of God needed it more than just now. In these days of peril we need to read its Spirit-filled columns, that we may keep pace with the message it bears, and be prepared for that joyful meeting when its readers shall be gathered home.
We deeply regret that so many Seventh-day Adventist families are content to do without it. The articles from the pen of the aged pioneers in the third angel’s message are soul inspiring. We have reached a time that we have been looking forward to for years,—the loud cry of the message. The writer remembers hearing Elder Harrison Grant, one of our pioneer ministers, say, more than thirty years ago, “The time is coming when the Seventh-day Adventists’ places of worship will be the crowded houses.” Today, while he sleeps in Jesus, his words are being fulfilled. The Portland and Pittsburgh meetings as reported in the REVIEW stir every fiber of our being. The terrible scenes of carnage and bloodshed on the European continent are stirring the entire world. The very last prophecies are fulfilling, and the people are awakening as never before in the history of our work. In St. Paul, Minn., the people are writing to the editors of the daily papers, saying that they are perplexed, and asking, “What are we coming to? Is the entire world going mad?”
Now, just now, is the opportune moment to labor for those who are being awakened by the perils of these last days. Why not send the REVIEW for six months or a year to your brother, sister, or friend, who, perhaps, is imperceptibly backsliding for lack of spiritual food?
In the near future conditions will quickly change, and it will be too late to labor for our acquaintances. In the past, all great spiritual awakenings have been followed by persecution. It was so after the day of Pentecost. We are now entering upon a greater pentecost, and we know that a relentless persecution will surely follow. Let us faithfully endeavor to place the REVIEW in every home we possibly can.
E. HILLIARD.