A New Fulness of Time by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 9, 1913

“A New Fulness of Time”

By W. A. S.

ALONG with the opening up of all countries and the multiplication of facilities for rapidly carrying the gospel message to all, the Spirit of God is manifestly preparing the hearts of the people for this time. All missionaries bear witness to changing conditions. Secretary Paton, of the American Board of Foreign Missions, said a few years ago:—

“Within five years the missionary situation of the world has been so transformed as to be hardly recognizable by those who studied the problem in the previous period. There has been nothing like this in history since the preparation of the Roman Empire for the advent of Christ. We are in a new fulness of time.”

And the great World’s Missionary Congress, held in Edinburgh in 1910, declared its united conviction in a message addressed to all Christendom:—

“The next ten years will, in all probability, constitute the turning-point in human history, and may be of more critical importance in determining the spiritual evolution of mankind than many centuries of ordinary experience.”

We have entered the time of crisis in the history of the world and of the work of God in the earth.

W. A. S.