Growth of the Review Subscription List
By Editor
We wish to share with the many friends of the REVIEW the satisfaction which we enjoy in view of the rapid growth of our subscription list since the opening of the general missionary campaign last October. The actual net increase in the size of our edition during the six months ending with the issue for May 4 was 4,300 copies, an average of over 150 copies a week. To supply our regular list and to meet the special demand we shall print an edition of twenty-one thousand each week while the report of the General Conference is appearing. We take this occasion to express again our appreciation of the earnest and faithful efforts of our fellow workers in the field who have co-operated with us in the campaign to place the REVIEW in every Sabbath-keeping family in the United States. We believe that we are nearer the realization of that purpose than ever before in the recent history of this paper. It was certainly a happy idea—the suggestion that the delegates to the General Conference from the conferences in this country should bring gifts with them for the Washington work and for the Mission treasury. The presidents of union and State conferences and other leaders in the field have responded heartily, as is shown by their most encouraging letters, and the brethren and sisters in the churches are providing the gifts with loyal liberality. There is every reason to expect that the total of these donations will be a goodly sum, and the help will be most timely. We hope that this movement will make it possible to go forward immediately with the erection of the other buildings required in the establishment of the denominational headquarters in Washington, and also relieve the strain upon the Mission Board due to a depleted treasury. For such results as these we should be deeply thankful. In due time we shall give a full report of this “surprise party,” in which we know that our readers take a most hearty interest.