CONCERNING THE PROSPERITY OF IT.
By Editor
No issue of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES has ever met with more general favor than the World's Outlook Number. From all parts of the land the friends of the paper are writing us of their unqualified appreciation of its value, and their success in circulating it. The first edition of 200,000 is already exhausted, and the second edition is now being called upon to meet the steady stream of orders that is coming in every day. This second edition bears the December date, so that it will have every appearance of an up-to-date paper for all the rest of this month, and in reality it will be thoroughly up to date for a number of months to come. We know that all the friends of this important paper, and the still more important work that it represents, will recognize the inestimable importance of the matter that this Outlook Number contains, and that they will keep right on pushing it all this winter. The value of it in January, February, and March will be even greater than it has been in November and December. The condition of things in the world to-day is rapidly growing worse, and is causing the bravest hearts to tremble. All may not acknowledge this, but we know that it is so. God's Word tells us plainly that in this time "men's hearts" will be "failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." No matter how giddy the world may be, and no matter how much men may say that they take no stock in such things, yet we know the truth of it all, because the Word of God so plainly tells all about it. Now every one who knows these things ought to go forth with a full sense of the responsibility that rests upon him, and do all that he can to comfort and help those who are suffering heart failure because of the terrible things that all can see are coming upon the earth. Are you considering this matter as much as you should? And are you exercising your influence all that you can to circulate as many as possible of this World's Outlook SIGNS? Those who are in the field working for it write us that they never saw the time when men were so eager as now to read on these important themes. Workers who ordered a few copies at first have ordered two or three times since, and their orders are getting larger all the time. If all appreciated the importance of this work as strongly as do the few, if all would work as faithfully as these few, more than a million of the papers would already have been circulated, and the papers would be still going out in a vastly immense procession. A small part of the day of probation is still left to us in which to work. Now is our great opportunity. Are we seizing the moments as they go by, and using them in winning souls to Christ? T.