Good Things It Will Contain
By Editor
A CENTURY OF MISSIONS, or the great work that has been accomplished during the past century by missionary effort. The Bible has been given to the world in all of its various languages; every nook and corner of the earth has been entered by the missionary, all of which has been predicted by the prophets as something that shall take place, "and then shall the end come." THE OPEN DOORS BEFORE GOD'S PEOPLE, by Dr. A. T. Pierson, editor of the Missionary Review of the World, showing the great opportunities in these times for missionary effort, and how God is going before His workers to lead them in preparing for the world's great harvest. THE PREPARATION FOR A QUICK WORK, showing how that since the ground has been prepared, as set forth in preceding articles, the closing work can be accomplished in a very short space of time. PROGRESSIVE WORK OF GOD IN PREPARING FOR CHRIST'S COMING, the majestic workings of God in preparing the way step by step for the grand consummation. THE POWER OF THE WORD TO SAVE SOULS FROM SIN. THE GOSPEL TO THE WORLD IN THIS GENERATION, or the inscription on the banner of this people, which has become the great war-cry of the present hour. THERE SHALL BE DELAY NO LONGER, the closing of God's work. CHRISTIANITY, A LIFE, in contradistinction to other great religions, and to the view of Christianity as a system of ethics. A PERSONAL SAVIOUR, the salvation and regeneration of the individual, rather than the salvation of the nation by ethics or politics. THE LATTER RAIN—THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT. Brief statistical matter in regard to missions, making the paper valuable as a work of reference. MESSAGES FROM THE NATIONS—Burma, Malacca, the Philippines, China, Japan, Africa,— from Egypt, to the Cape of Good Hope, —Syria, Turkey, Russia, Korea, South America, and Oceanica. Under this head will be published brief statements from missionaries in all parts of the world, together with appeals that they will make for their respective fields. We hope that, in harmony with God's own prophetic word, these appeals will reach and touch hearts so that they will bring abundantly of their means to assist in finishing this great work in this generation. We have been very successful in securing engravings that are not only attractive but which tell the story most emphatically. We will mention only a few of them: 1. A full-page cover drawing, by Mr. Charles Mente, illustrating Christ sending forth His disciples two by two into the dark world. 2. Illustration, by Mr. Mente, representing Christ standing at the door knocking. 3. A drawing of the heads of various tribes representing the great, needy world. 4. Portraits of the great pioneer missionaries of Christendom, from John Eliot, the apostle among the Indians, to John Paton, of Oceanica. 5. Photographs of various people and scenes from different mission fields of the world. 6. Various other drawings, such as initial letters and typical and symbolical borders. 7. Song and music, "The Bugle Call of Missions." As before stated, this paper will be beautifully illustrated. On two pages opening opposite each other we shall have portraits of all the great missionaries from Carey and Judson down,—32 in all,—with a brief history of each one, stating when and where they were born, the field they worked in as missionaries, what was accomplished under their labors, and when they died. These portraits will be arranged as a border to each page, and these two pages alone will be worth the price of the paper. Everybody Interested in Missions
Not only Christians of all denominations, but infidels and atheists, are anxious to know what progress is being made in the matter of carrying out the commission of the great Teacher recorded in Mark1316:15: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." This Special Missions Number of the SIGNS will undertake to tell the story in a brief, pointed, and interesting way, and every person of whatever persuasion should have the privilege of reading it. Immediately following this great Missions Number there will be