Enlargement of the Review Office.
By R. F. COTTRELL
I am glad to hear the call for more room. It speaks of progress in the work. I hail it as an omen of good—of advancement in the work, its speedy termination, and the near approach of the time of resting. From what I saw when at the General Conference in March last, I am satisfied that additional room is needed. The presses must be kept at work, and room is wanted for labor in some departments of the work, and for storing in order the finished work. When our Office was being built, some thought it a denial of our faith in the nearness of the advent. A good brother of some wealth presented me with this objection. I told him in reply that I saw it in a light exactly to the contrary. We believed that there was a great work to be done, and we had but little time in which to do it; therefore we wanted all the facilities of a good Office under our own control, and power presses to prosecute the work with speed. He must have got his mind on the rest and forgotten the work—forgotten that thousands were to be enlightened and saved by our efforts in a short period of time—forgotten that “This life to toil is given,
And he improves it best,
Who seeks by patient labor,
To enter into rest.”
It will not harm our people, but do them good, to engage in this work. Some know nothing, or next to nothing, of sacrificing in the cause of God. It will be a privilege to show our love for the cause of God, and our interest in the salvation of men, by using our means, which otherwise must soon perish unprofitably, to spread the truth—the saving truth of the last message. It is an opportunity to exemplify our faith in the closing work of probation, prove our confidence in God, and send on our treasures before us to a place of safe deposit, thus saving them from the final conflagration. For one I want stock in the enterprise. R. F. COTTRELL.