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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 14, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 46.

WHY?

By Editor

Why should we issue and circulate the World's Outlook Number of the "Signs of the Times"?

"We" is used not as representing the editors, or publishers, but all who love the paper and are interested in it and the truths it publishes. Here are some reasons why it should be circulated:—

1. It is packed full of precious saving truth of God.

2. Not a single soul who can read and who is seeking the way to Christ need be disappointed if he looks to this paper for information. The paper preaches the Gospel.

3. It solemnly warns against the great dangers and perils which menace this generation.

4. It is opportune. As never before, at the close of this important century, at the portals of the new, men, stirred up by the Spirit of God, are inquiring and anxious at the future. Now is the time to answer these inquiries. Next year it may be too late. The Outlook Number gives God's replies to the questions His Spirit is stirring men to ask. Do not put off the time. Recognize this time, "not as fools, but as wise, buying up the opportunity, because the days are evil."

5. It is cheap. Never was more or better truth, apart from the Scriptures, furnished at less expense. The paper, which will cost but four cents a copy in hundred or more lots, contains enough in reading matter and illustration to make a book worth $1.00.

6. Election will soon be out of the way. In the reaction which follows, men will, in the disappointment or disappointing success, long for better things. Give them the opportunity to obtain them.

There is a text which we often give to sinners, but it relates to God's work of ministry. Let it apply now: "BEHOLD, NOW IS THE ACCEPTABLE TIME."