Forward in Britain by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 30, 1906

Forward in Britain

By W. A. S.

THE same word of progress meets us in Great Britain, at the opening of the British Union Conference in London.

A little time ago the message came by the spirit of prophecy that the time for the enlargement and growth of God's people had come. True to this word there has been a rise and growth in this work within a short time, as plainly to be seen as though a visible hand from heaven had moved the lines of our work forward.

The progress in the British Union in the first six months of this year is almost as great as the growth for the whole of last year. And that year shows a marked forward movement. The Union was organized four years ago. Then the field was divided, and the work placed on an organized and systematic basis after the plan of union organization. In these four years the actual growth in membership and churches has been equal to the growth in all the twenty-three years preceding.

Such facts show that a new power, and a new time have come in the work of God. The time for the enlargement has come, and we see it. It is the word from all lands.

The school in London has been training workers who are greatly strengthening the forces in the field in all this United Kingdom. The staff of laborers, really a small one, is so much larger than only a few years ago that all hearts are greatly cheered.

The literature is being circulated vigorously by workers and people. Their weekly paper, Present Truth, has had an average weekly sale throughout the year of 21,320 copies. The British Good Health has had a sale of 40,208 monthly. The value of the total sales of the publishing house has been over fourteen thousand dollars more than in the previous year.

The time has simply come when the third angel's message is to go to all the world, and that without delay. In all Europe our work is stirring with the new power coming down from above and taking hold of every agency surrendered to God. It is magnificent to see it. The forces of the enemy are marshaling. We hear of new Sunday movements in Great Britain and on the Continent. The enemy is astir. But at every point God is giving victory to the truth.

W. A. S. London.