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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 8, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 45.

OUR SPECIAL NO. 4

By Editor

Is the last of the series. We are glad for the good words which have come to us from all over the field for our first number. We are writing this before there is time to receive word from the second number. But allowing us to judge,—and we have lived with these Specials for weeks,—we believe that the last number is the best of all. Let us name to our readers some of the excellent articles which that number will contain:

1. A Spirit-filled Church. It is not a long article, but it is a splendid one, clear, scintillating, powerful, by W. A. Spicer, one who, as he looks out over the great mission field, feels the need of a spirit-filled church, and his article echoes his soul's cry.

2. The Requisite Conditions of a Spirit-filled Church. What is necessary on the church's part if she is to receive the Spirit-filling; and the truth in this is also shown by one who feels a great burden for the world's need, a great longing that the baptism of the Spirit shall come upon the children of God in these last days. It is written by the President of the General Conference, Pastor A. G. Daniells.

3. Spiritual Gifts, by J. N. Loughborough. We know that there are those who will deny the gifts; we know that Mormonism has set up its counterfeit, we know that Satan is trying to discredit the blessed gifts of the Spirit in a dozen different ways, just as He did of old. Nevertheless it is still true that Christ gave gifts to His church to remain even to the end. You certainly will be interested in this short paper by one who has given more than two-score years study to the question.

4. The Great Apostasy, and Spiritual Gifts, by Prof. W. W. Prescott, editor of the Review and Herald. This article shows the reasons why spiritual gifts are not now manifested in the church as they were in the beginning. The great apostasy, the mystery of iniquity, came in, took away the very longing for the truth; and that is set forth in this article. We are sure you will miss much if you miss what is said on this phase of the subject.

5. This is the climatic article of the subject of the sanctuary treated in past numbers. It is entitled, The Ark of God the Great Center of the Sanctuary Service, written by John Orr Corliss.

6. The Seal of God, by Roderick S. Owen, the closing article on the great Sabbath question, carried from the third number over into this. It is natural for every human being who has possessions to think that they are genuine and that they are his by the stamp of authority. Of how much more importance is it to be among those who are sealed with the seal of the living God, for His kingdom is for all eternity. This is also an important article; it explains the prophecies of Rev. 7:1-3 and Ezekiel 9.

7. God's Last Great Protest, by A. O. Tait. Surely one understanding the conditions of the world at the present time and the efforts that men are making to nullify God's law, ought to be grateful to know that God has given one vital, tremendous protest in His Word against every effort of this kind, and this article sets forth that protest.

8. Our Preparation for the End, by Mrs. E. G. White, showing the work that is necessary on our part if we would stand before the Son of Man when He comes.

9. The Church Restored and Triumphant, the climax of all the ages of earth's travail and sorrow, the one thing for which the children of God have longed and hoped through all the sorrow, sin, and suffering of the past.

Besides, we have our Home department, bright, hopeful, instructive; a poem on Isa. 26:20, how God will keep His children when "There gathers o'er the world the stormcloud's wrath," by Frances E. Bolton; and another beautiful poem by Mrs. Stuttle, "The Church Triumphant." It seems to us that the last number is worth the price of all the four, and the editor wishes that it could have a circulation of ten million in the United States alone. You want them and you want your friends to have them. Help us to circulate them.