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Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ereestimated at 15,000 In 1900 they numbered 3,500,000. In 1800 only one fifth of the human family had the Bible in lan-guages they could read. In 1900 nine tenths of the people of the worldhad the Word of God in languages and dialects known to them. Since 1900 the missionary movement has remarkably in-creased in extent and activity. It is estimated that now thereare about 22,000 foreign missionaries in the fields, with manythousands of trained native evangelists and helpers. The prophecy is fulfilling before our eyes. It is not theconversion of the world that Christs words foretold, but theevangelization of the world; and when all the world has heardthe gospel of the kingdom, then shall the end come. Another prophecy — that of Rev. 14: 6-14 — shows thatthe closing phase of this world-wide missionary movement isto be the proclamation of the special gospel message of prep-aration for the coming of the Lord, calling all men to wor-ship God and keep His commandments; and warning them
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THE SUNSET HOUR The work that centuries might have doneMust crowd the hour of setting sun. The Meaning of Present-Day Conditions 115 against following the traditions of men that make void theWord of God. With the coming of this generation there has come justsuch a message, in the rise and progress of the advent move-ment, the burden of the message being expressed in the verylanguage of the prophecy—Tear God, and give glory toHim; for the hour of His judgment is come/ Rev. 14:7.And the movement is spreading rapidly to every nation,and kindred, and tongue, and people. Thus in vision theprophet on Patmos heard the message given; and when itswarning cry had reached all nations, he saw Christ comingin the clouds of heaven to reap the harvest of the earth. *Even at the Doors Of the beginning of the special signs of the last days, Christsaid: *When these things begin to come to pass, then look up,and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.Luke 21:28. But of the time when thes

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