The Church, Its Organization, Order, and Discipline
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The Church, Its Organization, Order, and Discipline.
By John Norton Loughborough
DURING the years 1900 and 1901 there was published in the REVIEW AND HERALD a series of twenty-seven articles on “The Church: Its Organization, Order, and Discipline.” In the fall of 1901 these articles, together with a copy of the first address on organization ever issued by our people, were revised and prepared for publication in a pamphlet of twenty-eight chapters. This matter was submitted to the Pacific Press for publication. It was passed upon favorably by the book committee, but was returned to me with a statement that as the articles had been so recently printed in the REVIEW, they feared there would not be sufficient demand for the pamphlet to warrant the printing of the articles in pamphlet form. That was five years ago. During the last year several of the conference presidents have applied to me, asking that those articles might be put in pamphlet form so as to be circulated among our churches. In one conference my copy of the articles was borrowed and studied for several weeks. Only yesterday I received inquiries from another conference president for just the information contained in those articles, and wishing to know where it could be obtained. I now call the attention of our conference presidents and leading brethren to this question: Do you think there would now be a demand on the subject that would warrant the issuing of a small edition of that manuscript in a pamphlet that could be afforded through the mails for fifteen or twenty cents a copy? I presume the Pacific Press would venture an edition of two or three thousand copies, if it was thought there would be a demand for them. Please drop a card to me at Mountain View, Cal., stating your opinion in this matter.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.