A great Missions Number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES will be published under date of October 30 and November 6. This will be a double number (32 pages), and will cover the great field of missionary effort during the past century, telling what has been accomplished and what still remains to be done, together with a strong appeal to the people to finish the work in this generation. It will be the brightest and best missionary journal ever published by any denomination. It will contain reports from men who are in mission fields and who speak of their personal experience. Its illustrations will be fresh and its appearance attractive. It will be a number that every one, whether Christian or infidel, will be glad to read and study. It will be a number that will surprise every one, showing as it will the mighty advance steps being taken in missionary effort. Here are a few of the good things it will contain: - A Century of Missions, or the great work that has been accomplished during the past century by missionary effort.
- The Open Doors before God's People, by Dr. A. T. Pierson, editor of the "Missionary Review of the World."
- The Preparation for a Quick Work.
- Progressive Work in Preparing for Christ's Coming.
- Power of the Word to Save Souls from Sin.
- The Gospel to the World in This Generation.
- There Shall Be Delay No Longer, the closing of God's work.
- Christianity, a Life, in contradistinction to other great religions.
- A Personal Saviour.
- The Latter Rain—The Outpouring of the Spirit.
- Messages from the Nations—Burma, Malacca, Philippines, China, Japan, Africa,—from Egypt to the Cape of Good Hope,—Syria, Turkey, Russia, Korea, South America, and Oceanica. Under this head will be published brief statements from missionaries in all parts of the world, together with pleas that they will make for their respective fields.
Portraits of Missionaries
On two pages opening opposite each other there will be portraits of pioneer missionaries, from Carey and Judson down, 32 in all, with a brief sketch of each, stating when and where they were born, in what country they labored, when they died, etc. No journal ever published has ever gathered together such an array of facts as this. These portraits will be arranged as a border to each page, and these two pages alone will be well worth the price of the paper. On another page there will appear engravings showing the great missionary fields of the world, the population of each, etc. These will be arranged in the order of size of population, China with its four hundred millions taking the lead. On the opposite page will be diagrams and statistics showing the amount of money expended for liquor, tobacco, and other things of like nature, intoxicating liquor taking the lead with an expenditure of one billion, seven hundred million dollars per year; and down in one corner a little spot showing the amount spent for missionary efforts: namely, about seven million dollars. These two pages will be very striking and will tell the story at a glance. Everybody Interested in Missions
Not only Christians of all denominations, but infidels and atheists, are anxious to know what progress is being made in the matter of carrying out the commission of the great Teacher recorded in Mark 16:15, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." This special Missions Number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES will undertake to tell the story in a brief, pointed, and interesting way. The subscription price for the Missions Special (double number) is 10 cents per copy. Five or more copies mailed direct from the SIGNS OF THE TIMES office to names and addresses furnished, 8 cents per copy. Address Signs of the Times, Mountain View, Cal.