Have You the New Year-Book?
By S. N. Curtiss
THE denominational Year-book is always valuable, always a publication which our people appreciate, and always a necessity to many. But the Year-book for 1905 is by far the best one yet issued. It is different in many respects from former issues. It not only contains the official directories prepared by the statistical secretary of the General Conference, but it also gives the most valuable compilation of historical data ever published with reference to the rise and progress of this denomination and the institutions and organizations connected therewith. Most of the various questions which arise in your mind as to when this or that denominational event occurred are answered in this chronological summary. There is appended a list of the sessions of the General Conference, giving date held and place of meeting; also a list of the presidents and secretaries of the General Conference, and their terms of service. And last, but not least, is a very brief statement of the “Fundamental Principles of Seventh-day Adventists.” This is not given as a creed, but is simply a condensed presentation of the principal features of our faith. The historical facts alone are worth the price of the Year-book to every one of our people who desires to be posted on these matters. An edition of five thousand copies of this book has been published, and a good brother, whose judgment we greatly respect, says, “I can hardly understand why my safe, sane friend could publish five thousand Year-books. . . . We will do what we can, but it seems to me that you will have about four thousand to throw at the birds.” Inasmuch as we have sold, within the first month, almost two thousand copies, it will be seen that there will not be four thousand “to throw at the birds.” Now what do our eighty thousand Sabbath-keepers say about the remaining three thousand copies? Do you want them? I think you do, and will order every copy.