Our Church Paper by W. J. STONE

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jan 12, 1905

Our Church Paper

By W. J. STONE

The Review and Herald

We should never lose sight of the fact that the REVIEW AND HERALD is our church paper, and no other periodical printed by the denomination can take its place.

How I wish every Seventh-day Adventist in the world appreciated the value of the REVIEW enough to subscribe for it, and to read carefully its contents each week. But some will say, “We are not able to take the REVIEW. We have not the money to spare to pay for it.” Is this really true? Do not all our brethren and sisters get the necessaries of life, or those things which they feel that they need most?—Certainly they do. And if they felt that the REVIEW was one of the most important necessities, it would be among the first procured.

Now, is it not one of the most important necessities in our lives that we meet the mind of God in his great plan and work for this time? Is it not our first duty to seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness? Is not the matter of our spiritual life and growth of the first and greatest importance? Should not that come before our temporal necessities? Listen to the words of Christ: “The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment,” Luke 12:23. Then the things that pertain to our spiritual good are of first importance; and, could we all realize this, the REVIEW would be in every home; for it is the best medium in the denomination to assist in encouraging and building up and establishing its readers in the faith.

I believe it to be a truth, that those who take the REVIEW and read its contents weekly, will never apostatize from the faith. It brings to them from week to week the news of the advancement

of the work in all parts of the world. It gives the latest fulfilment of prophecy in the development of the message. It gives the trumpet a certain sound in exposing the many heresies that are arising on every hand, and points us to the sure word which is to be our guide and safety. No one can be an up-to-date Adventist, and well informed in the progress of the message, unless he is located at the headquarters of the work, or is a reader of the REVIEW.

Will not those who are readers of our good church paper, and who know its value, become active workers for it, and assist in placing it in the home of every Seventh-day Adventist in the United States within the next few weeks? Why should we not do this, and thereby do a good work by saving many who otherwise might apostatize?

W. J. STONE.