The Outlook by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 23, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 33.

The Outlook

By Editor

THIS world is not nearly so great as it was a few years ago. The marvelous inventions of men have almost banished time and space. The cable pierced the ocean with its messages between nation and nation, between men and men on land; now the wireless speaks through the air to man on land and on the floating carriers of the mighty deep. The monorail with its hundred or two hundred miles an hour bids fair to supplant the ordinary railway, and the ship of the air is a reality. Wherever there is a railway and telegraph office, that place is in touch with the world.

But the meager news notes are not satisfactory. Often they are highly colored, grossly misleading, or merest guesswork. We long for first-hand information from reliable men on the ground. What are conditions in Turkey under the new régime? What is the meaning of the late papal encyclical which has stirred Germany so much? How are affairs shaping in China, whom so many nations are trying to despoil? Japan, India, Spain, England, Europe—what about them all?

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES will give to its readers accurate reports from all these lands. For instance we have now waiting for publication the following from our own correspondents:

Conditions in England, by Mr. W. T. Bartlett, editor of the Present Truth, London. See our Outlook department.

"Turkey: Conditions in the East," by Mr. C. Voigt, of Constantinople, which will appear next week. The following week, "The Borromeo Encyclical" of the pope, by Mr. Guy Dail, of Hamburg, a paper containing large quotations from the encyclical, showing the attitude of the Vatican toward Protestantism in the words of the pope himself. This will be followed by "The Pope's Recent Encyclical," by Mr. Jean Vuilleumier, of Gland, Switzerland, editor of Les Signes des Temps, discussing the nature of the encyclical and the response of Protestantism. Then we shall have a monthly letter from China by Dr. A. C. Selmon.

In India we have Mr. S. A. Wellman and Mr. Geo. F. Enoch, both experienced writers and observers.

In Japan, Mr. F. W. Field, so well known to our readers.

In Washington, D. C., the nation's capital, Prof. M. E. Olsen.

And these are not all. This is but a part along the outlook side of the great world, the record of events fulfilling prophecy and shaping the destiny of a world.

Then there are the Bible teachings, in which we shall not shun to declare the whole counsel of God. Now is the time to subscribe.

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