A Real Feast by O. A. Olsen

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 18, 1915

A Real Feast

By O. A. Olsen

[The following little article, expressing his appreciation of the REVIEW AND HERALD, was mailed from Chicago the day Elder O. A. Olsen was taken ill. This is probably the last he ever wrote for publication.—ED.]

YES, I have enjoyed a real feast, a spiritual feast, reading the last number (No. 4, 1915) of the good old REVIEW. From beginning to end, it was a real feast to my soul.

The general articles are right to the point, dealing with important questions and developments that call for careful study by all interested in the momentous events now taking place in our world.

Then follow those encouraging reports of the progress of the work from the world-wide field. Elder A. G. Daniells tells of his visit to New Zealand in 1886, and his recent visit after twenty-eight years. The work there is moving onward to victory.

Then follow the encouraging reports from the missions in South and West Africa, from India and South America, and also from the homeland, all so cheering. The Tsungwesi Mission reports twenty persons baptized, gathered from the heathen. Like encouraging reports are given from other fields.

The Home department is filled with most excellent, instructive matter, and so also is the Educational department.

The blessings of the weekly visits of the good old REVIEW AND HERALD cannot be expressed in words. I cannot understand how any Seventh-day Adventist reading the English language can do without it. Those who for any reason are deprived of its weekly visits are suffering a great loss. It was in 1858 that the REVIEW first entered my father's home, and it continued to be his delight the rest of his life; and when our home was established in 1868, it was one of the first guests that we entertained. It has followed us as we have moved from place to place, and when, for any reason, it does not arrive on the expected day, it is greatly missed. There is no other paper that can take its place. All ought to have it. O. A. OLSEN.