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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 24, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 52.

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Everlasting Gospel

By Editor

FOR 1903.

MANY other papers and magazines deal with great names, with the opinions of great writers, of world-famed men and women.
The SIGNS OF THE TIMES deals with great and eternally vital subjects to all. We have no great names to present as writers, but we have what is of infinitely more importance, the great truths of God. And the great truths of God presented by weak and unknown men are more than the hypotheses and speculations of the human presented by the mightiest of men. “For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
We do not mean by this that weak men will write for the SIGNS apart from the fact that all men are weak. The greatness and strength of men are rightly measured by their connection with God; and the greatness of their mission and message by the truth that is in the message and the power of God that is in the men. That both truth and power may be manifest in the SIGNS in 1903 is the prayer of its publishers and editors, and we doubt not of many of its readers and friends.
It is not published for profit or fame. It has a mission, namely, to proclaim the

Everlasting Gospel

The great world is sick; and the church of God is torn, wounded, distracted, divided, in need. There are many professed physicians and prophets of peace who have not helped the great sick world, and at the best have healed but slightly the hurt of the daughter of God's people.
All serious hearts feel that a crisis is impending for world and church; feel the need of a remedy; feel that God must be met, and a preparation is needed.
The SIGNS OF THE TIMES believes that the crisis and its character is clearly set forth in the Word of God; that the remedy for earth's ills is found in the everlasting Gospel; that the preparation to meet God is found in the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ, imparted freely through His Spirit to all who will believe.
God wants to restore His church to her primitive simplicity and purity. He stands waiting to bestow upon His children the wisdom and the power of God, when His people are willing to renounce their idols of world-worship, their temples and shrines to tradition, their craving for the human power of civil law as a substitute for the Spirit of God, their hypotheses of “higher criticism” and “science falsely so called” for the eternal truths of the Gospel.
It shall be the mission of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES to do its part in the work of God, to note some of the many signs and evidences of the times which herald the near coming of our Lord; and “as we have been approved of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God which proveth our hearts.”
We believe that there are many thousand souls in this country who wish to read such a paper as this; who prefer truth to creed and the cross of Christ to error and sin; who wish to know just what the Word of God—unshaded, unfettered, unmixed—teaches, what warnings it gives, what comfort and strength, and encouragement it imparts.
We wish our readers and friends to help us in this work. We desire above all things else their earnest prayers; we desire their co-operation in extending the circulation of the paper. Shall we have it for 1903?