The Progress of the Advent Movement
A missionary talk, greatly appreciated and to be long remembered, was given by Elder A. G. Daniels, the president of the S. D. A. General Conference, in the Mountain View church, the evening of November 9. The talk lasted for two hours, and it was as interesting at its close as at its beginning. It was of striking interest throut. The speaker told how this work of the great Threefold Message had developed from an insignificant beginning in New England, about fifty years ago, till now it had in its mighty life-expansiveness swept out to all parts of the world, so that at the present time there is not an important sea-coast town in the commercial world, not a country of importance, that has not been entered by the representatives of this great, closing message for which the SIGNS OF THE TIMES stands. For years in some of the dark countries of earth, as Russia, for instance, the workers wrought in much difficulty, holding meetings in the darkness of midnight, suffering mob violence, official tyranny, and political exile, yet gaining thousands. To-day there is perfect freedom in Russia, and the whole field is organized into conferences or mission fields, the members of which number over three thousand. Where Sabbath-keeping Christians were exiled the seed was sown and companies of believers have been raised up for God. Thus the work moves on. This note gives only one item of many of its wonderful progress.