OUR OBJECT by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 15, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 50.

OUR OBJECT.

By Editor

This paper is published for a definite purpose. While behind it, supporting it, stands a religious denomination and organization, the object of the paper is not to build up a particular sect. It is not to multiply converts to a denomination. Its one great object is to preach the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ for this present hour, and so to win souls. The preaching of the Word of truth, the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ, the sounding forth of God’s message for this generation, that is our part; the effect which this message will have upon those who read and hear and see, rests with them and God. He is anxious to save every one, in proof of which Christ died for every one, and His Spirit calls for every one. But the human choice and will are free. That responsibility rests with you, to whom the message comes.

You are to take the message; you are to compare it with the Word of God; you are to take the awful responsibility of accepting or rejecting it if it be found in harmony with the standard, the Word. As children of a common Father, as brothers and sisters of “one blood,” as sinful, dying creatures, needing justification and salvation, may we not plead with you to examine, in the light of heaven, and weigh in the balances of God’s sanctuary, that which we in this paper lay before you? And may the Spirit of truth guide you into the truth as it is in Christ Jesus.