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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jan 19, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 3.

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Conducted by the Department of Circulation of the Review and Herald Publishing Association

A New Tract

An Appeal to Clergy

Open Letter From Seventh-day Adventist Ministers

Sunday Observance Crusade

THE Open Letter recently sent to the Protestant ministers of Washington, D. C., has been printed in tract form in response to the urgent request of many of the workers who have read the copy of the letter printed in the Washington Post, and in the REVIEW of January 12.

The object of this open letter was to reveal to the ministers of Washington the fact that, according to the Bible, “Sabbath observance” means the keeping of the seventh day of the week, that the Sunday crusade they are proposing to inaugurate is not Christian, and to call their attention to what the Bible says on the subject of the Lord’s day and the breach in God’s law. These points are presented in a manner so logical, concise, and conclusive as to render the positions taken unanswerable. The publishing of this letter in the Post has demonstrated its effectiveness in that it has created a lively interest in the Sabbath question, where before it appeared there was no interest whatever. The same matter, circulated in tract form, will do a similar work. It will be one of the best tracts ever published on the Sabbath question; and being an open letter addressed to a definite body of ministers during a special Sunday enforcement campaign, it will command the attention of the people better than an ordinary Sabbath tract void of a special issue.

The spirit of the letter is Christian and highly commendable. It will strongly appeal to the people, and will bring conviction. If justice is done to the world to-day, and reasonable service rendered to the Lord of the Sabbath by the readers of the REVIEW, fifty million copies of this tract will be circulated in the near future. Every church should make a generous order for these tracts at once, and organize for its circulation. It will be on sale by all publishing houses and State Tract Societies at the following rates: $3.75 a thousand; 40 cents a hundred; ½ cent a copy.