p. 16 | A Happy New Year! by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 24, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 50.

A Happy New Year!

By Editor

THIS is our last number of the year. Our next issue will be dated January 7. The year has been a troublous one, and the waves are still rolling high. Uncertainty still reigns. How true are the Master's words spoken for this time, "distress of nations, with perplexity"! We hope before our next paper is issued, however, that there will be peace in the old world, that the efforts of England and France will have poured oil upon the troubled waters, and that the winds of strife will still be held by the angels of God, until His work is done. Out of this, we hope there will come more freedom of religion, more liberty to the oppressed. But even then it is not for long. The strong trend of everything in this world is downward. There is but one power that can lift above the storm and the darkness and the sin, and that is the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which the world is rejecting. But there is happiness in Him. And in Him in right doing, in holy living, in helping to make other hearts glad, we wish all our readers for 1913 "A Happy New Year."