Help That Helps Most by E. R. Palmer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 7, 1906

Help That Helps Most

By E. R. Palmer

DURING the past few days our hearts have been deeply touched by the liberal responses of our people in donating to the relief of needy institutions on the Pacific Coast, and even more by their great activity in circulating the special literature prepared to let the people know the meaning of these stirring events.

Soon after the earthquake I was sent on a mission to the headquarters of our work in Washington, D. C., and had the privilege of seeing the new home of the REVIEW AND HERALD, which has been recently built.

During the past few days we have also received letters from the Southern Publishing Association, telling of their recent move from the city of Nashville to a suburban locality.

Thus it has been forced upon my mind that although the Pacific Press has recently suffered severely from a great calamity, these other publishing houses are also in need of help; and indeed the Pacific Press needs another kind of help worse than it needs money. All these publishing houses need a larger, stronger force of men and women who are willing to consecrate their lives without reserve to the circulation of the splendid literature which has been prepared to tell the world that Jesus is soon coming, that this old earth is soon to be destroyed, and that now is the time to prepare to meet God.

While the judgments of God are in the land, is not this an opportune time for our people everywhere to inquire diligently as to how they may best spend the few remaining days of probationary time? Are there not hundreds of our people now engaged in the common work and commerce of the world, who should be using their talents more directly for God and his cause?

There are hundreds of agents whom God has blessed in the work of circulating our books. There are hundreds of our sisters who can sell books and papers in their respective neighborhoods. There are hundreds and thousands of our people who have never entered the service, and yet God has given them talents with which they could glorify him. And now that we have given liberally of our means to meet a local need, and as we have consecrated a little time to the distribution of special literature, is it not the opportune moment for us to consider seriously whether there is not a greater help that we can render and a greater consecration that we can make? If God's people would arouse all over this land and consecrate their time and their talents to the spreading of this message as published in the printed page, that would be a gift and a consecration which would bring mighty results.

May the Lord grant that the day will soon dawn when such a consecration will be made. E. R. PALMER, Sec. Gen. Conf. Pub. Dept.