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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 3, 1903

The Call of the Hour

By W. A. S.

IN a letter from South America, Brother A. R. Ogden voices the need of the work in Chile. He says:—

What is needed, as it appears to me, is not so much talented speakers, but humble, consecrated men to go all through these countries, scattering the literature, talking and praying with the people, and teaching in a simple way the truths for this time.

Is it not the need in every community, the world over? The call of the hour is one to which all the rank and file of believers may respond. Every one who knows enough to believe this truth can tell somebody else what he knows. The events of the day are impressing thoughtful minds with a sense of an impending crisis. While the public laborers are presenting the message to crowds, the time calls for a rising up of all believers in a special effort to tell friends and neighbors that Jesus is quickly coming. The simple lines of prophecy will be as a new revelation to those who have never studied God's Word.

This is the service that is to swell into the “loud cry” that shall ring through every land, and quickly warn the world. “Servants of God, with their faces lighted up and shining with holy consecration, will hasten from place to place to proclaim the message from heaven. By thousands of voices, all over the earth, the warnings will be given.” W. A. S.