The Mission of the Signs of the Times
By Editor
“The Signs of the Times” is not published as a money-making scheme. It has a message to give to the world. Even tho’ it meet with loss, it can not fail to be faithful to its mission. We may not always please our subscribers, but as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men; but God, which trieth our hearts.” I Thess. 1:4. To that motto we hope to be faithful. Success is with God. Without Him is failure. There may be seeming triumph without Him; there may be seeming defeat with Him; but they are only seeming. The Crucifixion was not a failure. The sealing of the sepulcher by Rome was not a triumph. The only “true gain is the long gain.” We are not saying this because we apprehend that the SIGNS is going to fail, but to say that the principles of the living Word of God must be upheld in its publication, even tho it should fail. It