Cutting It Short by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 13, 1907

Cutting It Short

By Editor

THIS denomination has great cause to rejoice in the fact that God is opening the door for the admittance of his last warning message into countries that have long been sealed. Our workers in Peru report the organization of the first church of Seventh-day Adventists in that difficult field, and the word comes also that in Bavaria, where fines and imprisonments have been suffered by our people for holding meetings, liberty of public worship is now granted us. These, with other marked evidences of God’s guiding hand and direct oversight of the work, should cause a deeper spirit of devotion to the work on our part, and a greater liberality toward the needy fields and institutions that are appealing for help. It means something to us that God has set his all-powerful hand to the work to “cut it short.” Our lack of faith may lead some of us to declare it a physical impossibility to proclaim this message to the world in this generation. Nevertheless the Word declares, “The Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.” Rom. 9:28. It is evident that the Lord will surprise some of his own servants by closing his work before their plans are near completion. That is the signification of “cutting it short.” Therefore it behooves us to throw our energies and our means into the work of this closing message now, that both we and they may be of actual service in bringing the work to that condition where God will say, “It is finished.”