OUR ABLE MINISTER by S. H. Lane

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 13, 1900

“OUR ABLE MINISTER.”

By S. H. Lane

Our able minister, the Signs of the Times, has for several months been on the outlook. He has traveled very extensively throughout the world, and his jottings of passing events are truly marvelous. His observations extend throughout the various divisions of the earth, and he has recorded his memorandum in the World's Outlook Number, which is now on the market.

He has been on the lookout in the great European field. He has fathomed the condition of the nations; has determined the feelings of the masses to that extent that he has noted very minutely the general tendencies of nations, and the sure end of the issues now prominent in the world.

He has looked over the great American prophetic field; has delineated in glowing terms the great prophecy of Revelation 13; has noticed the general trend of our affairs; and has presented the outlook in such a fascinating way that his readers will not only be entertained, but deeply interested.

He has surveyed the great papal arena; has noticed the condition of the papacy at the time when its decline reached its lowest ebb; has further noticed how rapidly it has recovered from its severe attack, and has told what the end of its recovery will be.

This minister has had his finger upon the pulse of Protestantism, and has marked the throbs toward the papacy, and detected its present disposition to yield to papal designs.

He has traveled throughout the great gospel territory, and has discovered what the gospel is doing for those who follow it, and has told what it will do for those who will fully accept it and carry out its principles. He has portrayed how Christianity will triumph over sin and unbelief, darkness and error; and told in a thrilling way how the soon-coming King will regenerate the earth, and will restore the

lost dominion, in which the people of God shall eternally dwell.

He has observed the conflict of the invading nations in China, and has seen, and will discuss, the successive steps that will eventually lead to the great battle of Armageddon.

He has viewed the last century, and has noticed the wonderful development of the arts and sciences, and the marvelous progress of all the nations of the world in material things. He has noted the effect of the influences of the great American Republic in all the world in the decades of the past, as also the results of Protestantism, Catholicism, and the Oriental religions, and has turned the search-light of truth upon so-called Christian science, the higher criticism, Spiritualism, and every other “ism” that leads to death and destruction.

This number of the Signs will come to you burdened, as only a minister of the gospel can be, with the importance of the times in which we are living. This issue is beautifully illustrated—not with the illustrations usually found in newspapers, but with those fully equal to any in the choicest books of the best authors.

This minister will visit you one hundred times for the small sum of five cents each visit, and perhaps you can make some arrangement through his chief agent, your State tract society, to discount even that low price.

Our brethren and sisters should sell this paper everywhere. It is what the people need, and will supply their souls with meat in due season, and calm their fearful forebodings as they look into the dark and frowning future. Will not you do all you can in placing these Signs in the hands of the people? Give them away if you choose, but better, sell them extensively.

If you have not already ordered a good supply, do so, from your tract society. If we all, with willing hearts and faithful hands, do what we can in distributing this number, we may, and in all probability shall, meet some in the kingdom of God who will date from our efforts in distributing this wonderful World's Outlook Number, their first knowledge of the truth which sanctified them.

S. H. LANE.