testimony, we are warned by the infallible Word that, as the end of the age approaches,

the times will be "perilous"; that they will be marked with a turning away from the truth,

and a being turned to fables (II Tim. 3:, 4:).

If this were all, we should become unnerved, and our efforts would die. But we look

beyond earth's long, dark, night and hail the coming day. Here, therefore, in the opening

pages of yet another year's witness, we "Set forward . . . . . toward the sunrising".