Heralds for a Brighter Day

This book is about people—five people, to be exact—whose earthly careers have been completed but whose lives continue to witness to succeeding generations of sincere seekers for truth. All five of them may be considered extraordinary in a sense, for they occupied key positions in the vanguard of a very significant movement in world Christianity during the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth—a body now often designated as the Church of God reformation.

Daniel S. Warner, Enoch E. Byrum, Frederick G. Smith, Herbert M. Riggle, and Nora S. Hunter are five of many, many more who might have been chosen to represent the active leadership in this movement whose history stretches over three-quarters of a century and whose adherents have never been tabulated. These have been chosen, not because they were the most outstanding proclaimers of this brighter day for the people of God, nor even because they were the first to state specific aspects of this insight, but because their lives are representative of a host of others who have taken the lead in this movement for restoring the unity of the corporate witness of the saints.