p. 136 | In 1910-1911 by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 1, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 9.

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In 1910-1911

By Editor

OUR Special Series is about ended. What have we to offer when it is over? What is our plan for the coming months?

A paper better still—more instructive, more helpful, more soul-winning.

Listen to what we have to say and to give:

First, what one book of the sixty-six books of the Bible could we least afford to lose?

It must be that book which contains the most of the revelation of God’s Will, Plan, Purpose, Prophecies, Promises, concerning Man, his present and future.

The ideal of such a book would be that it was a summary of all the other books, and that it should come the very last in the Bible.

There is just such a book as this—fuller of the revelation of God, more comprehensive in its scope, richer and fuller in its prophecies and promises, than any other of the wonderful parts of the Bible.

That book is a Summary of all the Good Things in the other books, and it closes the marvelous Canon of Scripture.

Its name in Greek is “The Apocalypse.” It means the Revelation, the Disclosure, of Jesus Christ.

Do you know of the exceeding Richness of its Mines?

Have your eyes seen of its shining Hoard of spiritual Wealth?

Have you drunk at its Fountains?

Have you heard its Songs of Victory?

Have you studied this Divine Drama of the Ages?

It has its stage, its scenery, its settings; it has its plan, its plots; it has its heroes, its heroines; it has its kings and warriors; it has its romance, its marriage, its glorious, eternal hereafter.

We can not tell you its worth, its riches, its glories, in this little talk.

But we are going to try to tell you about it in the year to come, to reveal to our readers somewhat of its meaning,—the very fulness of God’s Truth and Message for this time.

We believe these articles alone will be worth far more than the price of the paper in the year to come.

But this is not all: Listen:

We will tell you of God’s love in Jesus Christ ever, preaching as God shall give us His Spirit the everlasting Gospel in the excellent articles on practical Godliness, by Mrs. E. G. White and others.

We will give you the blessed Life of the Master in story form, but not the less real tho it does come to us in a new and more sympathetic way.

We will give you great and mighty Truths and Lessons of the great pre-advent Reformation under Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, and Zechariah.

We will give you a fine series of articles on the Sanctuary question, the great study of Man’s Sin and Saviour, which meets the seductive theories of self-salvation so growingly prevalent.

We will give you a series of articles on the Coming of the Blessed Master; what that coming means to the sin-sad world, and what our Lord wants it to mean to you.

We will give you a series of studies on the great Sabbath question in both its negative and its positive phases, and its place in the great doctrine of Religious Liberty.

We will give you the great Truth, the Only Truth, which will effectually meet the mighty on-sweep of the dark wave of Spiritism, now engulfing the world,—the Truth as to Man’s Nature and Destiny.

We will give you the Only Truth which can give true Hope to the sinner and Comfort to those called upon to lay loved ones in the cold grave or to go themselves down into the Dark Valley—Life in Christ.

We will give you the great present truth of the Bible regarding the Outpouring of God’s Spirit in these days and its blessed manifestations in division of Spiritual Gifts to every one of God’s children.

We will give you the meaning of the great prophecies in the study of the book of the Revelation and the pre-advent studies as they have never been given before.

We will give you the great principles of true Religious and Civil Liberty, over which the world is agitated.

We will give you the meaning of Higher Criticism, and show how the Modern Infidelity is entering Church and World in the garb of Christianity.

We will show you how the great Black Hand of the father of lies is stretched out over the nations with its five mighty, restless, nervous, grasping digits of Autocratic Traditionalism, Religious Infidelity, Spiritism, War, and Greed, to gather in and crush the people of earth.

We will give you the ominous Signs of the Times as they weekly occur and multiply, in their Scripture setting, showing that the coming of the King draweth nigh.

We will tell you of the great Mission Fields, of their needs, and of the Victories of the Cross.

We will give you fifty live, strong Bible Readings on present, practical truth.

We will answer 300 questions more or less (314 last year) on Bible and history for our readers.

We will conduct a happy, hopeful, instructive journey with Our Bible Band through the vales and over and among the mountains of the blessed Book.

Much more we will give as God helps. O will not you, brother, sister, friend, help us in giving it to the great multitude who wait in their darkness and need? They desire to know Christ and His truth. God has made us their debtors. Help us to spread abroad these great and saving truths for this time.