A World Message by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 29, 1913

A World Message

By Editor

How the work of God has grown in our comprehension! Repeatedly we have had to enlarge our vision and revise our plans and methods to meet the growing demands of the message of truth. When we realized years ago that the threefold message of Revelation 14 was meeting its fulfilment in this movement, we failed to comprehend the full significance of a message that was to go to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. Some of the old pioneers tell of the meager ideas that they had, and how the vision of a world-wide movement gradually unfolded to them.

But this Conference gathering, above any which has ever preceded it, bears witness to the fulfilment of the prophetic forecast. In the representatives of our world-wide work the ends of the earth are brought together. In the Conference assembly of three thousand people, are men and women from India, Korea, Burma, China, Japan, from the various sections of the African continent, from the great European field, from the West Indies, from Central America, Mexico, and the states of South America, from Australasia and the islands of the sea. And every missionary has a testimony of victory.

Difficulties are reported without number. Mountain-like obstacles have hedged up the way. Our workers have had to cope with unknown tongues, with strange social systems, with orders of castes, with pestilence, famine, and disease. Some of their associates have fallen in death, but they have closed up the ranks and pressed forward. A truly noble and heroic band of workers are the men and women who have gone out into the regions beyond to carry to those in darkness the glad news of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Saviour. Surely they are deserving of our hearty support. Recreant would we be to our trust were they left without the necessary means to provide proper food and shelter and raiment for their temporal needs as they press the battle to the gate. We who are left to abide by the stuff must furnish the sinews of war whereby our representatives may go forth equipped for the battle.

The earnest appeals of our missionaries as contained in this number of the REVIEW and as printed in the Bulletin, should arouse us to renewed earnestness. We begin to see the revealings of God's power; we shall live to see, before the work closes, his great salvation extended to the ends of the earth. Let us be true to the trust committed to us.