Almost Fulfilled by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 14, 1907

Almost Fulfilled

By W. A. S.

In a report from Turkey some time ago was a point of the deepest significance to us who are watching for the fulfilment of the closing verses of Daniel 11. Brother C. D. McMoody wrote from Constantinople:—

Within the past few months quite a company of people from the Transcaucasus district have come to Ismidt,—old Nicomedia,—bringing all they possess with them. Some of them possess considerable wealth. When asked if they were going to settle in Ismidt, they replied that they would settle nowhere at present permanently. They stated that they had come to be prepared to go with their leader when he left Constantinople to go to Jerusalem.

We know by the sure word of prophecy what is involved in such a move as the Moslem people themselves are apprehending. When they begin to get their possessions in shape for the crisis, it is surely high time for us to put into missionary service that which the Lord has given us.

Just before us is the week of prayer, the season of special prayer for the work of God and of special giving for missions. The spreading out of the work in the great fields keep the Mission treasury in continual need of being replenished. The calls come for help here, a worker is to be added yonder, a forward step is to be taken there; and every week the Mission Board has to return answers to the fields based upon the fact that present operations consume present income. We may therefore depend upon it that there is a world-wide prayer circle asking the Lord to greatly enlarge the gifts for missions at this coming week-of-prayer season.

Let us get our possessions ready for the crisis that we also know is at hand.

In one of the week-of-prayer readings, three years ago, was the following paragraph by Sister White:—

The judgments of God are in the land. The wars and rumors of wars, the destruction by fire and flood, say clearly that the time of trouble, which is to increase until the end, is very near at hand. We have no time to lose. The world is stirred with the spirit of war. The prophecies of the eleventh chapter of Daniel have almost reached their final fulfilment.

In these three years we have seen multiplied evidences that the world is hastening on to the final crisis. The situation calls for a determined consecration of effort and of means to the closing work. W. A. S.