A Talk With Our Readers
By Editor
We do not wish to spend one part of the year to tell you what we will publish in the other part, nor one half of the paper to inform you what is in the other half. But we do wish to tell of a six-month series of our journal. Six months of present truth! Six months of God's message to the world for this time! Six months in which will be met by positive truth the great errors which are afloat in the world at the present time, and which are destroying millions of souls! Does it not appeal to you? Does it not appeal to you for your friends, your relatives, those for whom you feel a real burden? Does it not appeal to you also for the unwarned souls around you, for some souls in heathen lands whom you might reach by contributing papers containing this message? Nay, more, does not the study of these things appeal to your own heart, that you may become better acquainted with the Lord and His message for this time? But you ask, What is this series? Read the prospectus on the next page. 1. In the first place, the series will begin November 1, and close April 25—twenty-five numbers. 2. In the second place, there will be twenty-five articles from the pen of Mrs. E. G. White, articles on living Christian experience, such as "Watchfulness and Prayer," "Christian Homes and How to Help Make Them," "Temperance Reform from a Bible Standpoint," "A Lesson from Noah's Time," "The Character of the Law of God," "The Permanence of Truth," "Value of Bible Study," "Christ and the Law," "Right Methods of Education," "The Power of Love," and others of the same kind, of most excellent instruction for these very times. 3. A study of the book of Revelation, covering from chapter one to the close of chapter eleven, bringing out the great thoughts of the purpose of the book, the prophecies of the Seven Churches, the Seven Seals, the Seven Trumpets, and the Two Witnesses. In connection with this study there will be a diagram which will present the great drama of the book so as to make it more easily understood, and which will enable the earnest student to get a much better and more comprehensive idea of this seven-fold letter. 4. Twenty-five Bible readings, on great Bible themes. In fact, in these general topics and studies will be included the great truths of the message for our time. 5. In addition to this there will be eight or more articles on The Coming of the Master, treating of that coming in all its various phases, by C. L. Taylor. 6. There will be eight or more articles on the Sabbath Question in its various phases, by Elder R. A. Underwood. We should understand a question which is before the world both religiously and politically. 7. There are six or more articles on Man's Nature, by such strong writers as G. W. Rine and Earle A. Rowell. How important is this subject in view of the claims of Spiritualism, Christian Science, and other cults. 8. There are four articles on the signs which God has hung out in the heavens, by Elder R. S. Owen. There will be many others on the unmistakable meanings of occurrences in church and state. 9. There are eight or more articles on Religious Liberty, by one of the strongest religious liberty workers in this country, William M. Healey. There will be others noting the progress made on both sides of the question. 10. There will be one special feature connected with this series shown in a very striking cartoon by Maybell of the great black hand that is stretched out over the nations with its five restless, grasping fingers like the tentacles of a devil-fish, which are gathering souls for destruction. These five digits of the great black hand are Greed, War, Apostasy, Spiritism, Tradition. There will be from three to five articles on each one of these, showing their use by Satan in these last days; and this setting forth of the evils which the world must face is worth more than the whole series will cost. 11. There will be news from the great countries of earth. What are they? Among the very greatest empires in earth is England. Then the nations of Europe. Japan is a problem in the international arithmetic. China is another. Restless, seething India is another. There will be not less than a dozen or thirteen Outlook articles from such men as Prof. F. W. Field of Japan, Dr. A. C. Selmon of China, Mr. John Vuilleumier, editor of Les Signes des Temps, of Gland, Switzerland, Mr. W. T. Bartlett, editor of the Present Truth, of London, Mr. George F. Enoch of India, from Constantinople Mr. C. Voigt. These are one and all men on the ground, men who see conditions with their own eyes, who listen with their own ears; and our readers can depend upon the reports which they give of conditions in these countries which are factors in the world's progress or retrogression. 12. The interesting story on Shiloh will continue through twenty-three numbers of this series, every one of which brings out some new phases and throws new side-lights on the work of our Lord. 13. There will be not less than fifteen interesting mission articles of various foreign missions. As a people we have entered nearly all of the great mission fields of the world. You wish to hear from them. 14. There will be beside the story, not less than ten articles on Temperance and the Home. 15. Throughout the entire series there will be the Bible Band, beginning anew next year, and there will be twenty-five Question Corner departments. 16. In addition to all these there will be the editorials, and the notes which are written on various topics, doctrinal, practical, and always Biblical throughout the entire series. We believe that it will be one of the best series which we have ever published,9preachers of righteousness that will bring souls to the truth as it is in Jesus. There will be something in every paper which will be of interest to every reader if he is interested at all in religious matters. The articles on the Revelation will be specially illustrated, as will many other articles. In every way we can commend the series to our readers, friends, and coworkers. Political parties of all sorts are entering upon eager, enthusiastic propaganda to win men to things which perish with the using. Surely the Christian should not be less enthusiastic in heralding abroad the everlasting Good Tidings to the souls who are waiting. 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