THE AMERICAN SENTINEL by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 8, 1892

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 18, No. 14.

"THE AMERICAN SENTINEL."

By Editor

THE work to which the Sentinel is designed to call special attention is still going forward. There is a constant tendency on the part of our people to slacken their efforts to circulate this paper at times when the enemy is apparently dormant. Herein lies a great mistake. The great foe of religious liberty never sleeps. When he has no pressing measure before Congress or the State Legislatures, he is doing a more insidious work by endeavoring to stir up municipalities, churches, and labor organizations, and to enlist the co-operation of influential individuals in the so-called reform movement.

The purpose of the Sentinel is to warn the people, that they may not be deceived. This work is too often done in a way to indicate that it is merely a temporary one, just to oppose Sunday laws where they threaten the temporal liberties of Seventh-day Adventists. But the object of the paper is one that demands untiring zeal and patience on the part of those whose duty and privilege it is to see that it is put into the hands of the people at large. The truth is not designed merely to save them from personal inconvenience here, but that they may not be deceived to their everlasting destruction.

Many of our people have yet to learn for themselves the precious truths taught in the Sentinel, lest even they be deceived by some shrewd movement with a fair exterior, whose real object they would oppose if laid bare before them. The enemy would deceive if possible "the very elect." Says the testimony of the Spirit: "The Sentinel has been, in God's order, one of the voices sounding the alarm, that the people might hear, and realize their danger, and do the work required at the present time." What more is necessary to say? "The Lord intends that his people shall heed whatever he sends them." Can our words add anything to its importance?