THE DEMAND OF THE TIMES.
By Editor
EVERY one is well aware that the world is in the midst of most thrilling events. There are distress and perplexity among the nations of the earth, and there are storms by land and sea. There are difficulties that threaten the whole fabric of society. These things are filling the minds of men with fear and dread. The Word of God has foretold that such would be the case. He who is familiar with his Bible knows just what all these distressing things mean. He knows that they are the tokens by which the Lord designs that we may know that the end of all things is at hand. The outlook from the human standpoint is indeed very dark, but from the standpoint of the Word of God everything is bright and glorious, because there is nothing clearer than the great fact that the resurrection day and the coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven are right at hand. Knowing these things, our souls should be thrilled with the importance of spreading this knowledge to the ends of the earth. The great mission of this paper is to give this truth to the world. It is the design of its publishers to thus place a medium in the hands of the friends of truth everywhere, through which they can rapidly communicate these great soul-stirring truths to their neighbors, in fact, to every one they can possibly reach. From time to time we feel impressed with the importance of getting out special numbers that will give a forcible setting forth of the great themes of these times. The special World's Outlook number that we are now preparing for publication this fall will, we believe, be the very best issue of the SIGNS that has ever come from our press; and, being the very best, it will be the most important. Therefore it is necessary that every lover of truth do all within his power to place it in the hands of the people. Our opportunities for laboring for souls will soon be past, and while the hearts of multitudes of men are being filled with perplexity because of the things they see going on in the earth, we should embrace every opportunity to tell them the meaning of all these things. This World's Outlook number will be one of the best assistants in this direction that has ever been issued, and we trust that the friends of the SIGNS everywhere will organize and work to the end of circulating hundreds of thousands of copies. For further particulars concerning it, for suggestions in regard to circulating it, etc., etc., address SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. T.