We Wish There Were More by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 7, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 48.

We Wish There Were More

By Editor

We Wish There Were More.— We wanted to say very much more than we have said in these special issues of the SIGNS. We wanted to present a little of the teaching of the Bible on Spiritual Gifts, or the gifts of the Spirit, as set forth in Rom. 12:3-6; 1 Corinthians 12, and Eph. 4:1-13. We wanted to show you, as the Bible clearly teaches, that these gifts were bestowed upon the church till Christ came; that many of them have been lost through apostasy; but that prophecy declares that all these gifts will be restored, so that the church will "come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ." This is evidently the Lord's intention, as His apostle James counsels us to "let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." The church was not perfect in its early history, but the design was that it should be perfected (Col. 1:22); "that He might present the church to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish" (Eph. 5:27); "fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners" (Song of Solomon 6:10).