Is the Message Going to the World? by J. W. Watt

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 18, 1912

Is the Message Going to the World?

By J. W. Watt

J. W. WATT

IN the year 1874, the year when the writer began to keep the Sabbath, we sent our first missionary to the foreign field. At that time we had but one publishing house, one sanitarium, and one college. We had no Sabbath-school Quarterly, and no subscription books for the canvasser to sell. As a people, we were few in number and financially poor. But we were a praying people, and almost every one was a missionary worker watching for opportunities to get his neighbors interested in the truth, and following up the interest when it was once created.

God has certainly had a care for his own work, and has caused it to prosper.

How thankful we should be as we look out upon the field to-day, and see the work established in nearly all the countries of the world! Now we have many publishing houses, many colleges, academies, church-schools, and many sanitariums.

The message is making great progress, judging from reports given in our papers. The loud cry will soon be an actual experience; the work will be done, and we shall be at home. Let us all be faithful, and work hard to give the message, that the work may soon be finished, and the Lord come.

Indiana, Pa.