How to Get a Minister by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 28, 1907

How to Get a Minister

By Editor

“CAN’T we have a minister here? My neighbors, friends, and relatives must be told the meaning of these terrible earthquakes, storms, famines, and floods. They must also know the whole system of truth of which the second coming of Christ is one part.”

No doubt these oft-repeated petitions for help voice the longings of your own heart as they have thousands of others. But for lack of men and means the larger share of these pleas have been refused.

But we are going to refuse them no longer. A minister has been secured for you. A minister of more than thirty years of experience in successful work, who has raised up whole churches without an assistant; who has the record in one conference where he has worked of having brought one out of every twenty of the entire membership to a knowledge of the third angel’s message; one who not only speaks the message with power in public, but who goes to the homes and, by the aid of photographs, Bible studies, charts, and stories, makes it clear to every member of the family.

This minister delights in pioneer work, no matter how difficult the field. There is nothing he loves better than to take some great event about which people are talking and show its meaning, and then to lead the inquirer to the consideration of connected truth.

He is a great worker in places where there are few, if any, opportunities for public preaching. With an assistant or two he often makes one hundred, two hundred, three hundred, and sometimes four hundred visits in a single week in one locality, and he has kept it up for a year at a stretch.

Perhaps you have begun to wonder who this remarkable minister is, and if he is not beginning to break down under such labors. Answering the last question first, will say, No, indeed, he is not breaking down. He never looked better in his life. In fact, he told us recently that he would never feel satisfied until he was preaching

A Hundred Thousand Sermons

and making a like number of missionary visits

Each Week

And now you have recognized his name. You well know that no flesh-and-blood minister, nor any group of such ministers, could do such work, and that we are talking about

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Our Pioneer Missionary Periodical

You also know that all we have said is true, in fact that we have referred to only a few of the characteristics of that wonderful paper whose very name, The Signs of the Times, is sufficient to arrest the attention of every thinking man and woman who hears it pronounced.

And however good it has been in the past, it is going to be still better in the future. Beginning May 1 and continuing for at least six months, every number will be a special number, for each will contain a Bible study, an article, or a short sermon, making absolutely clear and plain some vital phase of the third angel’s message. This series will be connected, so that those who follow them will have the advantage of a regular tent effort. Yet each article will be so complete in itself that even the person reading them out of their order can not fail to see their truth and beauty.

Surely this is the time for us all to greatly increase the weekly visits of our able, veteran minister. Let us look over the names of our friends and relatives and see that they receive his visits for at least the six months mentioned? And would it not be better yet to send him for a year?

Here is the cost:— Five or more to one address for one year...............Each $1.00 Five or more to one address for six months.............“ .50 Four or more to single names and addresses for six months........“ 1.00 One or more to single names and addresses for six months........“ .75

The following are some of the topics that will be considered in the twenty-six special numbers of the Signs of the Times beginning May 1, 1907: The Bible, Prophecy, The Coming of the Lord, Our Sacrifice and Priest, The Signs of the Times, The Law and the Gospel, Man and His Destiny, Spiritual Gifts, Election, Predestination and Free Will, The Great Threefold Message, The Church, Bible Temperance, The Sabbath the Test of the Ages, The Great Federation Movement, Religious Liberty, The Outpouring of the Spirit.

The regular departments of the paper will be kept up during this period the same as usual, and special attention will be given to the “Outlook Department,” calling attention to current events and

what they mean in the light of prophecy.

As the time for these special numbers to begin is almost here, we earnestly hope you will send in your order at once. Let us concentrate upon this item of missionary work, and see that our every neighbor, friend, and relative has the opportunity of listening to a first-class course of lectures from our experienced pioneer minister, the Signs of the Times.

Address your tract society, or the Signs of the Times, Mountain View, Cal.