Missionary Notes by D. W. R.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Feb 9, 1905

Missionary Notes

By D. W. R.

(From Our Circulating Department)

“AN APPEAL TO CLERGY,” the eight-page tract containing the Open Letter recently sent to the Protestant ministers of Washington, D. C., contains a short, concise, and convincing presentation of the Sabbath; and being an appeal to the ministers of Washington at the time they were inaugurating a campaign for better Sunday observance, the people regard it worthy of their attention, and give it a careful reading.

The publishing of the Open Letter in the papers of Washington has created an excellent interest in the Sabbath question. Every week since it first appeared, the papers have contained articles on some phase of the Sabbath.

The people are responding nobly in the circulation of this appeal. A number of our large churches have ordered five thousand copies, as they say, “to begin with.” Many individuals and small churches have sent in orders for one or two thousand. Nearly all the orders received are for hundreds of copies.

Within a few days after the tract was announced, orders had been received for one hundred and fifty thousand copies; and at the present time twenty thousand of these tracts are being printed daily. This should be kept up for a long time, and hundreds of thousands of copies put in circulation, and this work followed up with our large publications.

On account of the expiration of a large number of subscriptions at the close of the year, January is usually the month when the largest number of subscriptions to the REVIEW are received; but January, 1905, records the largest number of subscriptions ever received. Yet there were a large number of expirations for which no renewals were made. It is hoped many of these will soon renew their subscription. D. W. R.