A Special Message by William Ambrose Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 2, 1907

A Special Message

By William Ambrose Spicer

WHAT a testimony to the special truths of the third angel’s message we have in the announcement of the twenty-six special numbers of the Signs of the Times.

And a glance at the topics to be considered in this series shows that each number will truly be a special, presenting truths in a setting that will be new to those who have not been Bible students from the point of view of this last message. It is a marvelous revelation of truth that the Lord has caused to shine forth from his Holy Word for the closing generation of men.

When did the call to spread this definite message ever come to us with so abundant a provision for material with which to work? No idlers can stand in the market-place of truth to-day, saying, as in the parable, “No man has hired us.” The commission and the implements of service are fairly thrust upon us, for it is the eleventh hour in the vineyard of the Lord.

With the events now taking place in the world, communities where before there was little interest are ready to hear such a message as our missionary periodicals bear. This word comes from many quarters. Over soil that may have seemed dry and barren in the past let the seeds of truth be sown; for the time of the latter rain for the ripening of the harvest has come.

With the twenty-six special Signs beginning May 1, the College View publishing house announcing the same series of doctrinal truths in the German, Danish, and Swedish papers, with the Watchman giving the trumpet a certain sound, and the Bible Training School filling in its part, the periodical work gives promise of special activity this season. W. A. S.