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Missionary Literature and Week of Prayer

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 1, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 1.

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Missionary Literature and Week of Prayer

By Editor

A NOTE from C. H. Jones, general manager of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, says of the Signs of the Times weekly: "The subscription list of our good old pioneer missionary paper is rapidly increasing. During the last month nearly five thousand names have been added to the list. Before the close of 1914, we hope to see the list run up to fifty thousand." This is an encouraging report. We hope that our brethren and sisters throughout the field will rally to the support of this excellent journal. The long evenings for the next few months afford excellent opportunities for study and reading. Many would appreciate the Signs if it could be sent to them. Our churches should take clubs of this paper, sending copies to interested readers, and following up this work with personal correspondence. There are wonderful possibilities in the faithful use of our missionary literature.
FROM all sections of the country good reports are coming in as to the excellent results attending the week of prayer. In many places the services of the week took on a decided revival character, sinners were converted, backsliders reclaimed, and many rich blessings enjoyed by the entire church. Eighteen were baptized in the Takoma Park church last Sabbath. From Elder G. F. Watson, president of the Southwestern Union Conference, a good report comes of the meetings held in Keene, Tex. Brother Watson says: "It was my privilege to spend the week of prayer at Keene. Two meetings were held each day. In the forenoon we met with the students in the academy chapel, and in the evening with the church. Our gifts were not large, which we regret very much, but in spite of all the enemy could do, our God made bare his arm to save. Near the closing hours of the Sabbath we had the blessed privilege of baptizing forty-one persons. To the Lord be all the praise." These reports, we are sure, might be duplicated by many of our workers. The Lord is indeed making bare his arm in behalf of his people. He is waiting to be gracious, and if his church will but respond to the invitations and leadings of the Holy Spirit, he will clothe them with his blessed power for labor and service.