Call to a Prophetic Conference by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 19, 1914

Call to a Prophetic Conference

By Editor

TWELVE prominent ministers, representing various denominations, have issued a call for a prophetic conference, to be held at the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, Ill., February 24-27. The call expresses the conviction that "the times demand another testimony to the doctrine of the premillennial coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." It declares that—

the occasion will be used for students of prophecy to give prominence to neglected truths; to employ the true principles of Scripture interpretation; to warn against present-day apostasy; to awaken slumbering Christians; to present the most majestic of all motives for world-wide evangelism; to call attention to the doctrine of "last things" as a bulwark against the skepticism of modern theology; and to bring into closer fellowship all those who "love his appearing."

In publishing this call of the conference, the Sunday School Times of January 17 declares:—

There are evidences of a quickening interest in the subject which was the great "blessed hope" of New Testament Christians, and which is the blessedest hope held out to this earth since our Lord ascended and sent us his Holy Spirit,—the hope of his personal return. The subject is being treated again in recent books, some of which are shortly to be reviewed in these columns; and Bible conferences held in different parts of our country, without conscious co-operation, have been presenting afresh the Scriptural truth of Christ's coming. And now comes a formal call to a conference intended to bring together those who would unite in prayerful and reverent consideration of this great hope of the ages.

The conviction that events of a startling character are soon to take place is taking fast hold upon the minds of thousands throughout the world. This we believe is in God's order. It affords to this people the opportunity to present to those whose minds are thus awakened the prophecies of the Scriptures of Truth relating to these times in which we live. God is awakening the world to listen to his message of truth for this generation. Let us recognize his opening providence, and sow the seed as he prepares the soil for its reception.