1902: A Momentous Year for the Advent Message
By Editor
A MOMENTOUS year is before us,—one in which, more than ever before, it will be essential that we improve every means of grace to keep pace with the forward march of God’s last message to the world, of which it is now said that “there shall be delay no longer.” What will this year be to you? What will it be to you if you lose sight of the pillar of cloud by which God is leading His people? What will it be to you if your interest in this message and this work so far fails that you try to go without that paper which is the exponent of this solemn world-wide movement? Who can afford now to trifle with his destiny? The forward movement which has come to this work will be faithfully reflected week by week in our church organ, the REVIEW AND HERALD. You want the REVIEW because it is the paper which tells you of this work, of what is being done at home and abroad; which keeps you informed of, and in touch with, all the leading interests and features of this message. You want it because it is the organ through which, more than any other, God instructs and admonishes His people. We might speak of the separate departments of the paper, and of the writers who will furnish matter for its columns the coming year. A very attractive picture might be drawn in this way. But it will be sufficient to say that the REVIEW will be the medium through which we shall hear week by week from our foremost laborers in the cause,—men who will bear to us in their utterances a message from God. What Seventh-day Adventists want, and especially want now, is to hear from those whose words are in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. We could speak at indefinite length upon this topic of the importance of our church paper to every Seventh-day Adventist; but we will not take space to say more. But from a conservative estimate, there must be ten thousand Seventh-day Adventists who do not see the REVIEW unless, perchance, it is handed or sent to them occasionally by some neighbor or friend. Ten thousand—think of it! Who will help us in the great and important missionary task of getting our church paper into the homes of these ten thousand who are living, as it were, on the outer borders of the camp?