There is a solution to this problem and it is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood: We need a revival of the genuine message of righteousness by faith as the Lord sent it to us; and the 1888 message is a good place to begin.
1. If, as it is widely affirmed, we as a people have enjoyed a genuine and thorough revival of the 1888 message since the 1920s, why hasn’t the work of God been finished in our time? The books, Movement of Destiny, Through Crisis to Victory, The Faith That Saves, and By Faith Alone, all clearly proclaim that in the 1920s and in our present decades “righteousness by faith” has enjoyed virtual “unanimity” of acceptance. “I have never heard a worker or a laymember in America, Europe, or anywhere else—express opposition to the message of righteousness by faith.”—Through Crisis to Victory, page 232. This claim of virtual “unanimity” of acceptance of “righteousness by faith” since the 1920s is in contrast to the doubtful reception of eighty years ago. Surely this more recent acceptance, if true, ought to accomplish in forty years what Ellen G. White said the acceptance of the 1888 message would have accomplished in four years! See 1893 General Conference Bulletin, page 419.