Not Ashamed of the Adventist Name
By Editor
A gentleman writes us from Radersburg, Mont., under date of April 2, as follows: "Please discontinue SIGNS OF THE TIMES to my address. I have no use whatever for a paper that is ashamed of the name of its religious denomination. If ever I become a Seventh-day Adventist, I shall not be ashamed to own it. J. M. TULL." Now that is a straightforward letter, even if the charge is not true. The SIGNS OF THE TIMES is owned and conducted by Seventh-day Adventists, but it is not published to exploit the name of the Seventh-day Adventists. It is not published to build up a denomination. Those things are incidental. It is published, first of all, to preach God's word, to hold up the light of the entire Gospel of Jesus Christ, to help to restore the breaches which have been made in God's law, and present before the world the unpopular truth of the second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The restoration of the breach in God's law means the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath. Preaching of the near coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is responsible for the term, Adventist, and the two together make Seventh-day Adventist. The name simply emphasizes those truths which the paper has made equally prominent with all others, and always, of course, seemingly more prominent because of the fact that so little is said of them in other publications; but we are not ashamed of the truth, nor the name which grows out of the truth. We thank Mr. Tull for his letter. We are not so solicitous of his becoming a Seventh-day Adventist in name, but we do hope that he will accept of the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ in all its fulness. The rest will care for itself. We shall then welcome him as a coworker to push forward God's message.