An Illustrated Family Journal & Pure and Elevating
By Editor
VOLUME 25 ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1899
It is but proper that we should set before those whose patronage we seek, a portion at least of what we shall, the Lord willing, present through the SIGNS OF THE TIMES in the year to come. We therefore call your attention to the following:—
Departments
1. General Articles. In this department will be set forth the various phases of the blessed Gospel of Christ and the vitally important doctrines of Christianity.
2. Missions. Here will be found a survey of the great foreign mission fields of earth, the needs of the great submerged and suppressed masses in the large cities of civilization, and what is being done by earnest godly men and women.
3. The Outlook will take note of the great movements among the nations of earth, religious, social, and political. In connection with these movements will be set forth the predictions of God's Word throwing light upon these very things which otherwise are dark and perplexing.
4. The Home department will be filled with such instruction and reading as will tend to make home happy and arouse an interest in the homeless ones of earth.
5. The Question Corner will answer all suitable and proper questions on Bible themes likely to be of general or special interest to our readers.
6. The International Sabbath-School and Sunday-School Lessons will be treated in the simplest, most direct form to bring out the meaning of the Scriptures. They will be valuable Bible lessons. The former will deal with the wonderful subject, "The Life of Christ." The lesson scriptures will be printed from the Revised Version.
7. Our News and Notes page will, from week to week, present a careful digest of the world's history, as set forth in its most important events.
8. Editorially the SIGNS will endeavor to be true to its Scripture motto: "As we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts." It will preach the whole Gospel—"the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth"—to all men, of all races, of all creeds and religions. In the Gospel is the righteousness of God revealed. Here alone can men find the righteousness approved by God's eternal law. That Gospel, "the mystery of God," is the remedy for all earthly ills, physical, moral and spiritual. The SIGNS will lift up to the world Jesus Christ, Creator, Redeemer, Friend.
Contributors
The following ministers of God, among other writers of experience and excellence, will contribute to the columns of the SIGNS during the year 1899:—
Uriah Smith, author of "Thoughts on Daniel and Revelation," "Looking unto Jesus," etc., ten or more articles on the Sacrifice, Priesthood, and Kingship of Christ.
Alonzo C. Jones, author of "Two Republics," "Rights of the People," "Great Empires of Prophecy," etc., ten or more articles on Church and State in this Country.
Albion F. Ballenger, whom God has been specially blessing in evangelical work, ten or more articles on The Holy Spirit and Its Work.
John O. Corliss, ten or more articles on Life in Jesus Christ, the Nature of Man, and Modern Spiritualism.
Prof. P. C. Magan, ten or more articles on the Parallels in the Closing Years of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
George E. Fifield, ten or more articles on the Sabbath in its various phases, True and False Reform, etc., a subject of vital interest.
Francis M. Wilcox, ten or more articles on the Coming of the Lord and what it means to the world.
Mrs. E. G. White, one of the founders of the SIGNS; Dr. E. J. Waggoner and Prof. W. W. Prescott, of London, England; Mrs. S. M. I. Henry, for so many years at the head of evangelical work in the W. C. T. U.; Frances E. Bolton, who has in the Lord sang some sweet songs in the SIGNS in the past, and many other good writers, will contribute to our columns in the year to come.
Each issue will contain from three to six illustrations.
From four to six special numbers will be issued during the year, beautifully illustrated and dealing with subjects appropriate to the season of year when the paper is issued.
Other special announcements will be made from time to time.
This only will we say further: The SIGNS OF THE TIMES will, by the blessing of God, be better the coming year than it has ever been. There will be no truer exponent of Christ and His cause among the periodicals of the world.
