The Signs of the Times for the Year to Come
By Editor
In our next issue but one, the SIGNS will enter upon a new plan in the publishing of the great Gospel message. Instead of making each number a symposium upon some one subject, it will carry these subjects through the year in serial articles and in book study. Some of the books which will be especially covered in these studies are the Revelation, the book of Zechariah, the book of Haggai. These books are of remarkable interest. They are not dull, dry essays dealing with dead issues. Each and all of them contain living, present truth for this day, and our readers will miss much indeed if they disconnect from the paper now. Besides these books, some of the great living subjects will be covered in serial articles, like the Sabbath, some of the great prophetic lines, the Lord's coming, the signs of the times, the great subject of Christ's priesthood, life in Christ, and His coming kingdom. Our story, "Shiloh: the Man of Sorrows," has already begun. How do our readers like it? It will grow in interest as the weeks go by. In these days when there are so many voices calling away from God's Word, we appeal to our readers who love the old Book to aid us in every way they can in giving its mighty truths wider circulation. Our Bible Band will continue through the year. Questions of paramount interest will be answered in the Question Corner; and the signs of the times daily and weekly occurring, almost every one of which are answers of the elements in the earth to the prophetic Word, will be faithfully chronicled. The aim of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES will not be to please. It would become more popular by so doing, but we do not believe that our readers wish that; "but as we are allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts." We shall endeavor as best lies in our power to be true to our mission, true to our motto, true to the Gospel. We would make the paper in the year to come, by His grace, a great soul-saving agency; and so again we appeal to our readers and friends to give it the widest circulation possible. The times demand it, and we believe that the worth of the paper in the year to come will not disappoint those who unite with us to increase its field of usefulness.